Former President Barack Obama received the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Award for outstanding narrator Sunday evening at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live, winning in a field that also included actor Tom Hanks.

Obama was nominated for the Indian Ocean episode of the Netflix documentary series “Our Oceans,” and Hanks for the Andes episode of the NBC documentary series “The Americas.”

Obama’s win was his third in the category, tying the record first set by Keith David in 2016 and matched by David Attenborough in 2020. Two of David’s victories came for outstanding voice-over performance. That category was separated into outstanding narrator and outstanding character voice-over performance in 2014.

Obama had also won each of the previous two times he was nominated in the category, winning for the

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