Barack Obama, Kendrick Lamar and Julie Andrews were among the winners in the first round of this year’s Emmys, presented over the weekend in Los Angeles.

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The Creative Arts Emmy Awards — the precursor to the Primetime Emmy Awards next Sunday, Sept. 14 — saw multiple wins by “Severance,” “The Studio,” “The Penguin” and the SNL 50th-anniversary show.

As the top nominees overall, “Severance” (27 nominations) and “The Studio” (23) stand to add to their totals next week. Both are Apple TV+ shows.

Obama’s award was for narration of Netflix’s “Our Oceans.” He came out atop the stacked field of Sir David Attenborough, Tom Hanks, Idris Elba and Phoebe Waller Bridge. It was the former president’s third Emmy — he won the narrator category for two other Netflix shows, “Our Great Na

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