Among the impressive group of nominees for the 74th Emmy Awards are former President Barack Obama and award-winning Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o.
The 39-year-old actress and 44th US President will be up against three other equally prominent competitors in the Outstanding Narrator category.
The three other nominees are; W. Kamau Bell for We Need to Talk About Cosby, David Attenborough for The Mating Game: In Plain Sight, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War.
In celebration, Lupita posted an old video from her time as a cast member of the Discovery+ series Serengeti II on her Instagram account.
Lupita shared footage of herself scouting out the African plains to publicly convey her pleasure over being nominated for the award. She also included a little note in the description of her post.
“We are nominated for an Emmy!!! Thank you
@televisionacad for recognizing my narration of Serengeti II in today’s
nominations, I love being part of a show that inspires me to get
outtttsiiiideee wherever I am!” Lupita wrote.
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After winning the nomination for narrating the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks, it was said that Obama would be adding another accomplishment to his résumé.
Obama has received two Grammy nominations for best spoken-word albums (Dreams from My Father (2006) and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2008)), but this is his first nomination for a primetime Emmy.
Along with international celebrities Kareem Abdul, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Angela Bassett, and David Attenborough, the actress from 12 Years a Slave was nominated in the Outstanding Narrator Category in 2020.
According to reports, Lupita was the first woman from Africa to narrate a documentary for Go Discovery in 2019. The docuseries, shot in Tanzania’s largest national park, chronicled the wonderful and terrifying stories
of animals.
The Emmy-winning filmmakers Simon Fuller and John Downer, who also
directed the six-part series, produced it and had the Oscar winner narrate it.
Lupita claimed that despite having been on many Safaris throughout her life, the magnificence of Africa’s largely unexplored plains left her speechless.
