Barack Obama is in the middle of EGOT.
The former president accepted the Emmy Awards on Saturday and won two Grammy Awards.
Obama won the Best Narrator Emmy Award for his work in the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.
This five-part show featuring national parks around the world was produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.
He was the biggest name in a category filled with high-profile nominees handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.
Barack Obama is the second president to win an Emmy Award. Dwight D. Eisenhower won a special Emmy Award in 1956.
Barack Obama previously won a Grammy Award for audiobook readings of two of his memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “A Promised Land.” Michelle Obama won a Grammy for reading an audiobook in 2020.
EGOT refers to a special category of Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar-, and Tony-winning entertainers. So far he has achieved 17.
