Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator
Primetime Emmy Awards · 68 nominations across 13 ceremonies · 12 wins
78th Emmys · 2026
- Nominee David Attenborough · A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
- Nominee A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
- Nominee Ocean with David Attenborough
- Nominee Jodie Foster · Breakdown: 1975
- Nominee Werner Herzog · Ghost Elephants
- Nominee Octavia Spencer · Lost Women of Alaska
77th Emmys · 2025
- Winner Barack Obama · Our Oceans
- Nominee David Attenborough · Planet Earth: Asia
- Nominee Idris Elba · Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color
- Nominee Phoebe Waller-Bridge · Octopus!
- Nominee Tom Hanks · The Americas
76th Emmys · 2024
- Winner Angela Bassett · Queens
- Nominee Paul Rudd · Secrets of the Octopus
- Nominee David Attenborough · Planet Earth III
- Nominee Octavia Spencer · Lost Women of Highway 20
- Nominee Morgan Freeman · Life on Our Planet
75th Emmys · 2023
- Winner Barack Obama · Working: What We Do All Day
- Nominee Mahershala Ali · Chimp Empire
- Nominee Pedro Pascal · Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World
- Nominee Angela Bassett · Good Night Oppy
- Nominee Morgan Freeman · Our Universe
74th Emmys · 2022
- Winner Barack Obama · Our Great National Parks
- Nominee Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War
- Nominee David Attenborough · The Mating Game
- Nominee W. Kamau Bell · We Need to Talk About Cosby
- Nominee Lupita Nyong'o · Serengeti II
73rd Emmys · 2021
- Winner Sterling K. Brown · Lincoln: Divided We Stand
- Nominee The Year Earth Changed
- Nominee Anthony Hopkins · Mythic Quest
- Nominee David Attenborough · A Perfect Planet
- Nominee Sigourney Weaver · Secrets of the Whales
72nd Emmys · 2020
- Winner David Attenborough · Seven Worlds, One Planet
- Nominee Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution
- Nominee Angela Bassett · The Imagineering Story
- Nominee Lupita Nyong'o · Serengeti
- Nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor · The Elephant Queen
71st Emmys · 2019
- Winner David Attenborough · Our Planet
- Nominee Angela Bassett · The Flood
- Nominee Liev Schreiber · The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
- Nominee Wonders of Mexico
- Nominee Charles Dance · Savage Kingdom
- Nominee Juliet Stevenson · Queens of Mystery
70th Emmys · 2018
- Winner David Attenborough · Blue Planet II
- Nominee Carl Reiner · If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
- Nominee Charles Dance · Savage Kingdom
- Nominee Liev Schreiber · 24/7
- Nominee Morgan Freeman · March of the Penguins
69th Emmys · 2017
- Winner Meryl Streep · Five Came Back
- Nominee Ewan McGregor · Wild Scotland
- Nominee UConn: The March to Madness
- Nominee Sam Neill · Wild New Zealand
- Nominee Laurence Fishburne · Year Million
- Nominee Liev Schreiber · Muhammad Ali: Only One
68th Emmys · 2016
- Winner Keith David · Jackie Robinson
- Nominee Laurence Fishburne · Roots
- Nominee Adrien Brody · Breakthrough
- Nominee David Attenborough · Life Story
- Nominee Jane the Virgin
67th Emmys · 2015
- Winner Peter Coyote · The Roosevelts
- Nominee Too Cute!
- Nominee Jane the Virgin
- Nominee Miranda Richardson · Operation Orangutan
- Nominee Neil deGrasse Tyson · Hubble's Cosmic Journey
66th Emmys · 2014
- Winner Jeremy Irons · Game of Lions
- Nominee Too Cute!
- Nominee Whoopi Goldberg · Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
- Nominee Jane Lynch · Penguins: Waddle All The Way
- Nominee Daniel Craig · One Life