The 49th Annual Daytime Emmys

[Daniel Avery]

The nominations have been announced for this year's Daytime Emmys.

Outstanding Daytime Series
Beyond Salem (Peacock)
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)
General Hospital (ABC)
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Lead Actress in a Daytime Series
Marci Miller as Abigail DiMera, Days
Mishael Morgan as Amanda Sinclair, Y&R
Cynthia Watros as Nina Reeves, GH
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos, GH
Arianne Zucker as Nicole Walker, Days

Lead Actor in a Daytime Series
Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott, Y&R
Eric Martsolf as Brady Black, Days
John McCook as Eric Forrester, B&B
James Reynolds as Abe Carver, Days
Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott, Y&R

Supporting Actress in a Daytime Series
Kimberlin Brown as Sheila Carter, B&B
Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis, GH
Stacy Haiduk as Kristen DiMera, Days
Melissa Ordway as Abby Newman, Y&R
Kelly Thiebaud as Dr. Britt Westbourne, GH

Supporting Actor in a Daytime Series
Bryton James as Devon Hamilton, Y&R
Jeff Kober as Cyrus Renault, GH
Aaron D. Spears as Justin Barber, B&B
James Patrick Stuart as Valentin Cassadine, GH
Jordi Vilasuso as Ray Rosales, Y&R

Younger Actor/Actress in a Daytime Series
Lindsay Arnold as Allie Horton, Days
Nicholas Chavez as Spencer Cassadine, GH
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Faith Newman, Y&R
William Lipton as Cameron Webber, GH
Sydney Mikayla as Trina Robinson, GH

Writing Team
Beyond Salem
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

Directing Team
Beyond Salem
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

Guest Performer in a Daytime Series
Robert Gossett as Marshall Ashford, GH
Ted King as Jack Finnegan, B&B
Michael Lowry as Dr. Clay Snyder, Days
Naomi Matsuda as Dr. Li Finnegan, B&B
Ptosha Storey as Naya Benedict, Y&R

Emmys will be awarded June 24 on CBS.

 

[ChrisSumner]

Melissa Ordway is a horrific actress who ruined the show with her excessive screentime last year. How did she get nominated?! In fact that entire Supporting Actress category is a joke. It needs to be between Kimberlin Brown and Nancy Lee Grahn. Lead Actress is a little better. I like Marci Miller and feel most deserved their nomination, but Cynthia Watros needs to run away with it. Supporting actor is a joke, Beyond Salem's nominations are a joke as well. Younger Actor is actually very strong. I'd be happy with any of the GH actors winning.

 

[Monzo]

I love that moment when you read the nominations for the first time and think: what, so undeserved! I had that feeling with Mishael Morgan, John McCook, Melissa Ordway, Jordi Vilasuso and every guest performer except Robert Gossett.

Where is Genie Francis? Jeff Kober sure is nominated for the Laura & Cyrus showdowm, so it's amazing Genie Francis didn't make it. She was definitely stronger than most GH-nominated actresses this year.

Arianne Zucker is an actress who works hard on herself and has gotten a lot better over the years, so (although not the strongest nomination) she's someone I root for. On my list of favorites are also Kelly Thiebaud, Jeff Kober, Sydney Mikayla and Kimberlin Brown. It's hard to believe this is only Kimberlin Brown's second nomination.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I'm okay with Melissa Ordway. I just think the role of Abby is rather cursed in the same way a lot of legacy characters are/were, where their linkages to other characters are used to involve them in plotlines, but no effort is given to make them a stand-alone character. Every soap has one of those, though.

If Beyond Salem ends up winning any of the awards they're nominated for, prepare for a lot of belly-aching. The show was only five episodes! I don't understand why it wasn't grouped in with those other web-soaps I don't watch.

I'm rooting for Kimberlin Brown all the way, but SupActress has several worthy candidates. I hear so many good things about Marci Miller but I want Cynthia Watros to win Lead Actress anyway. Poor chick keeps getting cheated out of daughters...let's give her an Emmy to have something to put to bed at night.

I'm torn on the Young Performers Category. Sidney Mikayla was just so consistently good--a natural who made it look easy. But Nicholas Chavez came in and made such strides in his acting so quickly that it gave me some of the same vibes I had when watching Anne Heche back when she was hired on Another World at his age. Either one is worthy; this is a year in which I wish they had kept the separate male and female categories just so both Chavez and Mikayla could get a trophy.

 

[AndyB2008]

I love that moment when you read the nominations for the first time and think: what, so undeserved! I had that feeling with Mishael Morgan, John McCook, Melissa Ordway, Jordi Vilasuso and every guest performer except Robert Gossett.

Where is Genie Francis? Jeff Kober sure is nominated for the Laura & Cyrus showdowm, so it's amazing Genie Francis didn't make it. She was definitely stronger than most GH-nominated actresses this year.

Arianne Zucker is an actress who works hard on herself and has gotten a lot better over the years, so (although not the strongest nomination) she's someone I root for. On my list of favorites are also Kelly Thiebaud, Jeff Kober, Sydney Mikayla and Kimberlin Brown. It's hard to believe this is only Kimberlin Brown's second nomination.

Kelly Thibaud is such a good actress, given she pretended to be Chris Willis and Costandia 'Cozi' Costi, lipsynching to their vocals in the videos of David Guetta's Love Is Gone and Baby When The Lights Go Out.

David did credit those singers thankfully - well he would have had to anyway after the Martha Wash case.

 

[Monzo]

Some background information:

There are some actors who were expected to be in the running, including B&B’s Scott Clifton (Liam) and Rena Sofer (Quinn), DAYS’s Bill Hayes (Doug), GH’s Maurice Benard (Sonny) and Genie Francis (Laura), and Y&R’s Sharon Case (Sharon) and Camryn Grimes (Mariah), all of whom did submit this year. Another omission that surprised many observers was Finola Hughes (Anna, GH), who made the Lead Actress cut the last two years, but this year, she chose not to submit.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Fun fact: In the early days of the Emmy Awards (1950s), the blue-ribbon panels had the option not to choose a winner. They would review the submissions, and if none of the work really impressed the judges they would decide not to give out the award! The record would simply say "No award given." Can you imagine the uproar if they tried that in the modern Emmys?

Some actors snag nominations not as much for their recent work but for their instant name recognition. This is why you often see a lot of the same actors over and over, year after year even when their actual material varies so wildly. It's also why you rarely see an actor get nominated once and then never again; it seems that once you get into that "club" ("Emmy-nominated actor____"), you seemingly keep getting nominated automatically. Tyler Christopher (even at the height of his issues) seemed to be in The Club, as is Jason Thompson, whose Club status transferred when he moved to Y&R. Peter Bergman and Eric Braeden are definitely Club members, as is Finola Hughes, and back in the day we had yearly noms for Kim Zimmer, Erika Slezak, and Susan Flannery on the Lead Actress ballot as if spat out by a Xerox machine. Meanwhile, there are actors who consistently turn in good work but are never nominated because there are only so many slots available in the nominations. It's not totally malicious on the part of the nominating committee, I'm sure--a lot of it is probably just laziness.

In GH's case they had a period where Laura Wright, Maura West, and Finola Hughes were their "go-to" Lead Actress nominations. Yes, they turn out good work, but some years they had lousy stories. Some years they had no real "lead" material. Yet there they were/are. By not submitting, the actor can head off any criticism that they did not have sufficient material, that theirs was a "notoriety" nomination rather than a genuine one. Maybe Hughes decided to make it easier for someone else to "break into the club" (Rebecca Herbst comes to mind, and perhaps Cynthia Watros, who actually DID) by helping clear the path. Genie sort of transcends "the club," but it is sad that she did not get the nomination since she had great material last year.

There are always "glaring omissions" in these things, and there were a lot more to talk about back when we had twelve soaps airing simultaneously. But I don't think anyone can honestly say the Emmys are foolproof. Maybe because so many fools are involved in running them!

 

[DallasFanForever]

The biggest mystery to me regarding the Daytime Emmys was always Susan Lucci. 19 nominations before finally winning in 1999? I’m sorry but it never made any sense to me. I will admit that she did lose to some great actresses that were more deserving in a lot of those cases, but to lose 18 times before finally getting the nod was despicable. Erica deserved better. However, I have to say that those 18 losses made her 1999 acceptance speech well worth the wait. I love how she kept talking as they tried to wind her down, continuing her speech with the music playing in the background. My favorite Daytime Emmy moment.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I was not a regular AMC viewer so I might not be the person to say this, but here goes: she probably should not have been nominated for several of those, but the "Oh, let's see if she will finally win!" contingent likely made sure her name remained in the mix even if the work was not Emmy-worthy---not just because they liked to propagate the "Will she win?" excitement, but because people genuinely liked Lucci as a person and wanted her to get that Emmy one way or the other. It would be better to have her sit out a year when her work was not as good than to go into an Emmy judgment and submitting less-than-Emmy worthy work. It would make the years when her work WAS the best in daytime look all the better and encourage the panels to give her the prize.

People at the time theorized that SL got more 'rewards' from NOT winning the Emmy(s), since it became a yearly soap opera of its own. I mean, people still talk about her "losing streak" as if THAT was some amazing accomplishment. But you have to admit, she "won" either way. I'll never forget that time she hosted SNL when they had all the cast and crew backstage casually carrying around the Emmys they'd won, spoofing her unique situation.

Angela Lansbury has a similar "streak" but she (and the press) seems to have chosen not to dwell on it as much.

 

[Monzo]

Wasn't it odd that Susan Lucci was only nominated twice after her win, even though AMC was 12 more years on the air?

 

[Emelee]

B&B was snubbed badly for many years. It wasn't until Bradley Bell spoke up about it that the jury finally started nominating B&B as well.

Not even Susan Flannery was nominated until after Brad Bell spoke up. Her first B&B nomination was in year 2000.

Only Darlene Conley & Ian Buchanan scored nominations before 2000. Both in supporting category.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...ations_received_by_The_Bold_and_the_Beautiful

 

[DallasFanForever]

Not even Susan Flannery was nominated until after Brad Bell spoke up. Her first B&B nomination was in year 2000

Absolutely mind boggling to me and I wasn’t even aware of this to be honest. Susan Flannery was arguably the best actress on daytime from the very beginning of B&B in my opinion.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Wasn't it odd that Susan Lucci was only nominated twice after her win, even though AMC was 12 more years on the air?

Maybe it was a case of she had finally won so the chase was over and let’s move on?

And then of course there was the big mixup in 2002 when she thought she had won again but “Rick” and “Amber” screamed out “Susan Flanneryyyyyyyyyyyy” and someone backstage thought they said Lucci and started playing the AMC theme while poor Susan starts to come out on stage to accept the award.

Ugh

 

[Daniel Avery]

Ugghh, talk about lousy timing!

The Daytime Emmys will be aired on Friday night at 9pm....versus that week's episode of Dynasty.



Sorry, Will: I've done without my weekly Dynasty fix for several weeks, so the decision at the Avery abode is to watch Dynasty. Hopefully all the good stuff happens at the Emmys in the second hour, which I will be able to see.

I wonder if the ceremony will be influenced by this Year's Oscars? The Will Smith/Chris Rock thing got a lot of people talking, and as we know, imitation is the sincerest form of Flannery....er, flattery.

 

[Daniel Avery]

And the *Emmys go to...

Beyond Salem (Peacock)
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)
*General Hospital (ABC)
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Lead Actress in a Daytime Series
Marci Miller as Abigail DiMera, Days
*Mishael Morgan as Amanda Sinclair, Y&R
Cynthia Watros as Nina Reeves, GH
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos, GH
Arianne Zucker as Nicole Walker, Days

Lead Actor in a Daytime Series
Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott, Y&R
Eric Martsolf as Brady Black, Days
*John McCook as Eric Forrester, B&B
James Reynolds as Abe Carver, Days
Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott, Y&R

Supporting Actress in a Daytime Series
Kimberlin Brown as Sheila Carter, B&B
Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis, GH
Stacy Haiduk as Kristen DiMera, Days
Melissa Ordway as Abby Newman, Y&R
*Kelly Thiebaud as Dr. Britt Westbourne, GH

Supporting Actor in a Daytime Series
Bryton James as Devon Hamilton, Y&R
*Jeff Kober as Cyrus Renault, GH
Aaron D. Spears as Justin Barber, B&B
James Patrick Stuart as Valentin Cassadine, GH
Jordi Vilasuso as Ray Rosales, Y&R

Younger Actor/Actress in a Daytime Series
Lindsay Arnold as Allie Horton, Days
*Nicholas Chavez as Spencer Cassadine, GH
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Faith Newman, Y&R
William Lipton as Cameron Webber, GH
Sydney Mikayla as Trina Robinson, GH

Writing Team
Beyond Salem
*Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

Directing Team
Beyond Salem
Days of Our Lives
*General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

Guest Performer in a Daytime Series
Robert Gossett as Marshall Ashford, GH
*Ted King as Jack Finnegan, B&B
Michael Lowry as Dr. Clay Snyder, Days
Naomi Matsuda as Dr. Li Finnegan, B&B
Ptosha Storey as Naya Benedict, Y&R

 

[Monzo]

I'm most happy for Kelly Thiebaud and Jeff Kober. I would have loved it if Kimberlin Brown had won, but she didn't, so I'm happy for my other favorite from this category.

Days winning only one Emmy for best writing team is weird. I think the writing is the weakest part of Days right now. The actors are saving those absurd storylines of recent months and not the writers.

I like John McCook, his acting still doesn't impress me to this day, but since I didn't find any of the nominees particularly strong this year, it's nice that John McCook is being rewarded for his loyalty to B&B.

Mishael Morgan's Amanda is a supporting and not a lead character to me. It feels like the Emmys wanted to make a statement by making Mishael becoming the first black woman to win lead actress. They made their statement and got some news, but her acting wasn't outstanding.

I've enjoyed Ted King more in other roles, but I'm happy he won.

GH is best drama. I agree.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Things seemed to go smoothly, production-wise, which was a great relief. In the second half (the only part I saw), there were no technical gaffes or issues with the music/reels, and hardly any of the stilted dialogue and banter. In years past there were some awful production values, amateurish camera work and cringe-worthy interactions between the presenters. There were times I was embarrassed for them! Unless something happened in the 9pm hour that no one has mentioned yet, they seem to have put on a good show. CBS even let them run over about three or four minutes, which....in years past they would have gotten hasty in the final five minutes and cut off the speeches to finish on time.

I'm a GH loyalist, but I wanted Kimberlin Brown to win so badly.