Angela Bassett Gets First Emmy Win For Outstanding Narrator After Nine Nominations

Angela Bassett is officially a first-time Emmy Award winner after receiving the best narrator at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys.

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The actress was nominated for her work on National Geographic’s Queens.

“It feels good; really, really good,” Bassett stated in her acceptance speech. “Thank you to National Geographic, Wild Star Film, and all the directors — all women — who brought this incredible story, this incredible docuseries centered on the ferocious and magnificent things in the animal kingdom. I couldn’t be more thrilled and more grateful.”

Bassett first said no to the project, telling The Hollywood Reporter in a previous interview, “It was summertime. It was hiatus [for 9-1-1]. It had been a long season. I was looking forward to going on vacation, spending time with the family, and downtime from work because it’s a continuous roller coaster. But they came back around and sent me the sizzle reel and I said, ‘OK, let me put my full attention on this for a moment and see what the project is exactly.” Once I did that, it didn’t pass me by.'

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"Queens," a seven-part series, explores the stories of animal matriarchies around the world and boasts an all-female production team. Bassett shared with *The Hollywood Reporter* that this was "one of the major attractions and standout aspects" of the project.

“We don’t work for these, but we receive them for all the hard work that we do,” Bassett spoke of her win in the Emmy press room. “Of course, it’s not work that you do alone, even though it’s a narration, but there’s a whole team that pursued me and believed in me, fought for me, and worked with me to tell this amazing story of females in the wild kingdom, led by an all-female-led production team team, a first in wildlife documentary filmmaking. So that was pretty inspiring to me in and of itself.”

Bassett has received a total of nine Emmy nominations, including a 2023 nomination for best narrator for her work on Good Night Oppy. She's also now halfway to achieving EGOT status, having received an honorary Academy Award in January this year. Though she was a frontrunner in the narrator category at the Creative Arts Emmys, she was still surprised when her name was announced as the winner.

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