Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has received a posthumous Creative Arts Emmy Award for his voice performance in the Disney+ series What If...?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Boseman’s wife Taylor Simone Ledward accepted the honour on his behalf during Saturday's ceremony at downtown Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The occasion marked the actor’s first win as well as first Emmy nomination.

Boseman, who played Wakanda King T’Challa aka the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), won the award in the outstanding character voiceover performance category in the What If T'Challa Became a Star-Lord? episode. The character of Star-Lord/ Peter Quill is played by Chris Pratt in MCU.

Ledward said when she learned that her husband was nominated for the award, she started thinking about everything that was going on in their life when an ailing Boseman was recording for the series.

“And what a beautifully aligned moment it really is that one of the last things he would work on would not only be revisiting a character that was so important to him and his career and to the world, but also that it be an exploration of something new, diving into a new potential future — particularly with everything he spoke about purpose and finding the reason that you are here on the planet on this very time,” she said.

“You can't understand your purpose unless you're willing to ask, ‘What if,’ unless you're willing to say, ‘What if the universe is conspiring in my favour, what if it’s me?’ Thank you so much for the honour — Chad would be so honoured, and I’m honoured on his behalf,” she added.

The actor was nominated in the category alongside F Murray Abraham (Moon Knight), Julie Andrews (Bridgerton), Maya Rudolph (Big Mouth), Stanley Tucci (Central Park), Jessica Walter (Archer) and Jeffrey Wright (What If...?).

Boseman passed away in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer at the age of 43. He was previously nominated for a posthumous Oscar for lead actor for his role in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom".

Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

Former US president Barack Obama won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.

Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work in the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama.

Barack Obama was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong'o. He is, however, the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956.

Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs — The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land. Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.

With his latest award, Obama is halfway to an EGOT, which refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.