Kal Penn will host the Audie Awards, set for March 4, which honor work in audiobooks and spoken-word leisure.
Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the many finalists for the 2022 Audie Awards, which acknowledge work in audiobooks and spoken-word leisure.
Cynthia Erivo, Dave Grohl, John Lithgow, Jamie Foxx, Outlander star Sam Heughan and Ron, Clint and Bryce Dallas Howard are also among the many nominees for the awards. Winners shall be revealed March 4 in 25 classes by the Audio Publishers Affiliation at a ceremony hosted by Kal Penn and livestreamed on the group’s web site.
Obama is nominated for audiobook of the 12 months for his work on his memoir A Promised Land. The previous president will compete with Foo Fighters’ Grohl for his ebook The Storyteller, Andy Weir (The Martian) for his ebook Challenge Hail Mary and actor William DeMeritt (The Flight Attendant) for the audiobook model of Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water. Obama additionally landed a nom for greatest narration by the creator.
Winfrey is cited within the enterprise/private improvement class alongside Bruce D. Perry for his or her work on What Occurred to You?, which they wrote and narrated.
Heughan is nominated together with Graham McTavish for his or her narration work on their ebook Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Journey Like No Different, within the historical past/biography class.
The Howard brothers are nominated for greatest autobiography/memoir for the narration of their ebook The Boys, alongside Ron’s daughter Bryce Dallas. Foxx can also be nominated in the identical class for his ebook Act Like You Acquired Some Sense.
Elsewhere, Erivo will compete for greatest feminine narrator for her work on Patti Callahan’s Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale, whereas Miranda and Lithgow are among the many finalists for greatest male narrator for his or her work on Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World and Amor Towles’ The Didomenico Fragment, respectively.
A full checklist of finalists will be discovered right here.