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 | Barack Obama, Working: What We Do All Day (2023) |
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator is a special prize given each year to a person who does an amazing job telling a story in a TV show or documentary. Think of it like the voice that guides you through a nature documentary or a historical series!
This award started in 2014. Before that, it was part of a bigger award called "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance." But then, the Emmy Awards decided to split that award into two:
- Outstanding Narrator: This is for people who tell a story in a traditional way, like a storyteller. Their voice helps explain what's happening on screen.
- Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance: This is for actors who use their voice to play a specific character, like a cartoon character or a talking animal.
The rules for the Outstanding Narrator award are clear: the voice must be a true narration. It can't be someone just talking on camera or from an interview. If the person is acting as a character, even if they are called a "narrator," their work should be entered into the character voice-over category instead.
Below, you'll find a list of the talented people who have won or been nominated for this award. The winners are easy to spot because their names and the shows they narrated are highlighted in gold. The years listed are when the Emmy Awards ceremony took place.
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Award Winners and Nominees
This section shows the narrators who have been recognized for their excellent work.
2010s Narrators
| Year | Narrator | Program | Episode | Network |
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| 2014 (66th) |
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| Jeremy Irons | Game of Lions | Nat Geo Wild | ||
| Daniel Craig | One Life | Nat Geo Wild | ||
| 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 Wild | ||
| 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 Wild | ||
| 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 Wild | |
| 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 Wild | |
| 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 Narrators
| Year | Narrator | Program | Episode | 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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| David Attenborough | Planet Earth III | "Human" | BBC America | |
| Angela Bassett | Queens | "African Queens" | Nat Geo | |
| 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" | Investigation Discovery | |
Narrators with Multiple Wins
Some narrators have won this award more than once! This list includes wins from the older "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" category too, before it was split.
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Narrators with Multiple Nominations
Many talented narrators have been nominated for this award multiple times. This list also includes nominations from the older "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" category.
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