Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator |
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| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| Currently held by | Angela Bassett, Queens (2024) |
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator is a special award given each year to one person. This award celebrates the best voice-over artist who tells a story in a documentary or TV show. Think of it like the voice that guides you through a nature film or a historical series.
Before 2014, this award was part of a bigger award called "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance." But then, the Emmy Awards decided to split it into two separate categories. One is for "Outstanding Narrator," which is for people who tell a story in a traditional way, like a storyteller. The other is for "Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance," which is for actors who use their voices to play specific characters, like in cartoons.
The rules for the Outstanding Narrator award say that the voice must be a traditional narration. This means it should sound like someone telling a story, not like an actor playing a character. If the voice is part of a character, even if they are called a narrator, it should be entered in the character voice-over category instead.
In the lists below, the winners are shown with a gold background. The other names are nominees, listed in alphabetical order. The years shown are when the Emmy Awards ceremonies happened.
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Winners and Nominations
1990s
| Year | Narrator | Program | Network |
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| 1994 (46th) |
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| David Marshall Grant | The Legend of Billy the Kid | Disney | |
2010s
| Year | Narrator | Program | Episode submission | Network |
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| 2014 (66th) |
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| Jeremy Irons | Game of Lions | Nat Geo | ||
| Daniel Craig | One Life | Nat Geo | ||
| Whoopi Goldberg | Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley | HBO | ||
| Jane Lynch | Penguins: Waddle All the Way | Discovery | ||
| Henry Strozier | Too Cute! | "Holiday Special" | Animal Planet | |
| 2015 (67th) |
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| Peter Coyote | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | "Episode 1: Get Action 1858–1901" | PBS | |
| Anthony Mendez | Jane the Virgin | "Chapter Fourteen" | The CW | |
| Miranda Richardson | Operation Orangutan | Nat Geo | ||
| Henry Strozier | Too Cute! | "Tubby Puppies" | Animal Planet | |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Hubble's Cosmic Journey | Nat Geo | ||
| 2016 (68th) |
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| Keith David | Jackie Robinson | PBS | ||
| David Attenborough | Life Story | "First Steps" | Discovery | |
| Adrien Brody | Breakthrough | "Decoding the Brain" | Nat Geo | |
| Laurence Fishburne | Roots | History | ||
| Anthony Mendez | Jane the Virgin | "Chapter Thirty-Four" | The CW | |
| 2017 (69th) |
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| Meryl Streep | Five Came Back | "The Price of Victory" | Netflix | |
| Laurence Fishburne | Year Million | "Homo Sapien 2.0" | Nat Geo | |
| Ewan McGregor | Wild Scotland | Nat Geo | ||
| Sam Neill | Wild New Zealand | |||
| Liev Schreiber | Muhammad Ali: Only One | HBO | ||
| UConn: The March to Madness | ||||
| 2018 (70th) |
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| David Attenborough | Blue Planet II | "One Ocean" | BBC America | |
| Charles Dance | Savage Kingdom | "Uprising: First Blood" | Nat Geo | |
| Morgan Freeman | March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step | Hulu | ||
| Carl Reiner | If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast | HBO | ||
| Liev Schreiber | 24/7 | "Canelo-Golovkin" | ||
| 2019 (71st) |
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| David Attenborough | Our Planet | "One Planet" | Netflix | |
| Angela Bassett | The Flood | "First Pulse" | Nat Geo | |
| Charles Dance | Savage Kingdom | "Fall of the Queen" | ||
| Anthony Mendez | Wonders of Mexico | PBS | ||
| Liev Schreiber | The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti | HBO | ||
| Juliet Stevenson | Queens of Mystery | "Murder in the Dark: First Chapter" | Acorn TV | |
2020s
| Year | Narrator | Program | Episode submission | Network |
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| 2020 (72nd) |
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| David Attenborough | Seven Worlds, One Planet | "Antarctica" | BBC America | |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution | History | ||
| Angela Bassett | The Imagineering Story | "The Happiest Place on Earth" | Disney+ | |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | The Elephant Queen | Apple TV+ | ||
| Lupita Nyong'o | Serengeti | "Destiny" | Discovery | |
| 2021 (73rd) |
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| Sterling K. Brown | Lincoln: Divided We Stand | "The Dogs of War" | CNN | |
| David Attenborough | A Perfect Planet | "Volcano" | Discovery+ | |
| The Year Earth Changed | Apple TV+ | |||
| Anthony Hopkins | Mythic Quest | "Everlight" | ||
| Sigourney Weaver | Secrets of the Whales | "Ocean Giants" | Disney+ | |
| 2022 (74th) |
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| Barack Obama | Our Great National Parks | "A World of Wonder" | Netflix | |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War | History | ||
| David Attenborough | The Mating Game | "In Plain Sight" | Discovery+ | |
| W. Kamau Bell | We Need to Talk About Cosby | "Part 1" | Showtime | |
| Lupita Nyong'o | Serengeti II | "Intrigue" | Discovery+ | |
| 2023 (75th) |
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| Barack Obama | Working: What We Do All Day | "The Middle" | Netflix | |
| Mahershala Ali | Chimp Empire | "Reckoning" | Netflix | |
| Angela Bassett | Good Night Oppy | Prime Video | ||
| Morgan Freeman | Our Universe | "Chasing Starlight" | Netflix | |
| Pedro Pascal | Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World | "Mountains" | CNN | |
| 2024 (76th) |
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| Angela Bassett | Queens | "African Queens" | Nat Geo | |
| David Attenborough | Planet Earth III | "Human" | BBC America | |
| Morgan Freeman | Life on Our Planet | "Chapter 1: The Rules of Life" | Netflix | |
| Paul Rudd | Secrets of the Octopus | "Masterminds" | Nat Geo | |
| Octavia Spencer | Lost Women of Highway 20 | "Vanished" | ID | |
| 2025 (77th) |
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| David Attenborough | Planet Earth: Asia | "The Frozen North" | BBC America | |
| Idris Elba | Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color | "D-Day" | Nat Geo | |
| Tom Hanks | The Americas | "The Andes" | NBC | |
| Barack Obama | Our Oceans | "Indian Ocean" | Netflix | |
| Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Octopus! | "Part 1" | Prime Video | |
Performers with Multiple Wins
This list includes wins for both "Outstanding Narrator" and the older "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" awards.
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Performers with Multiple Nominations
This list includes nominations for both "Outstanding Narrator" and the older "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" awards.
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Images for kids
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Jeremy Irons was the first winner of this award in 2014.
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Peter Coyote won in 2015.
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Keith David won in 2016.
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Meryl Streep won for 2017.
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Sir David Attenborough won three times in a row from 2018 to 2020.
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Sterling K. Brown won in 2021.
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Former President of the United States Barack Obama won two times in a row in 2022 and 2023.
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Angela Bassett won in 2024.
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