Nature lover Sir David Attenborough broke the record for the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy award on Friday after he received the recognition for his work on the documentary, Secret Lives of Orangutans.
Now 99 years old, Attenborough beat the previous winner Dick Van Dyke, who set his own record at 98 in 2024.
Attenborough did not attend the 52nd annual event in California.
In his early 90s, Attenborough won three Emmy Awards in a row in the Outstanding Narrator category, taking the trophy in 2018 for Blue Planet II, in 2019 for Our Planet, and in 2020 for Seven Worlds, One Planet.
He was also nominated in the category in four of the past five years.
Secret Life of Orangutans
Secret Lives of Orangutans, which was recorded in Indonesia, follows the lives of a group of apes living in the jungles of Sumatra.
Rated 7.3 stars on IMDb, the documentary follows “a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough.”