Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator
Category since 2014
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The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator is awarded to one individual each year.
| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Narrator |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
| Currently held by | Barack Obama, Our Oceans (2025) |
| Website | emmys |
In 2014, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance was separated into two categories – Outstanding Narrator and Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.[1] Rules hold that the "submission must be performed/read as a traditional narration and may not be audio lifted from an on-camera performance or interview. If the narration is performed in the first person as a character rather than the narrator, even if credited as narrator, it should be submitted in the character voice-over category."[2]
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations
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1990s
| Year | Narrator | Program | Network |
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| 1994 (46th) | |||
| Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming[3][4][note 1][note 2] | |||
| David Marshall Grant | The Legend of Billy the Kid | Disney | |
2010s
2020s
Performers with multiple wins
Total include wins for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.
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Performers with multiple nominations
Total include nominations for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.
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Notes
- This program was nominated as Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming. As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
- In 2020, the TV Academy rescinded a win in this category for the Disney Channel special George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, narrated by George Stevens Jr. The program was a re-edit of the 1985 BBC documentary D-Day to Berlin, in violation of a rule that "a program that is a foreign acquisition without benefit of a domestic co-production cannot be re-introduced into eligibility in a current awards year, even though it may have been modified with new footage, sound track, musical score, etc."