For your consideration: it’s never too early, y’all, to dish Emmys or get your award freak on. Posters on the TheEnvelope.com Daytime Emmys forum do it every day all year round.
So listen up, NATAS members — Emmy voting is around the corner, and it’s time for a healthy reminder of who should be applauded and recognized for their fine work this past year.
Below is my ideal Emmy tally: a mix of fresh faces, usual suspects, and a couple of shockers for fun (hey, we’re not curing cancer here – let’s honour the industry and have fun, too!). For my critics out there, this is not a science — I simply listed as many deserving actors as they came to my mind. If only one-third of this list is nominated, I’ll be happy.
With NATAS revamping the Emmy nomination and voting system as you read this, it is once again possible for more than two nominees from the same show on the final ballot — which I’ve never been against unless, of course, the nods are not justified and instead all about the high school popularity game daytime seems obsessed with.
Anything is possible now that the pre-nominations system has been scrapped; perhaps, unlike last year, the Emmys will actually award deserving winners next year. What a concept!
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
As the World Turns, CBS
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
General Hospital, ABC
One Life to Live, ABC
OUTSTANDING WRITING
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
General Hospital, ABC
One Life to Live, ABC
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
General Hospital, ABC
Guiding Light, CBS
One Life to Live, ABC
The Young and the Restless, CBS
OUTSTANDING CASTING
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
General Hospital, ABC
Guiding Light, CBS
One Life to Live, ABC
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester, B&B)
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan, B&B)
Deidre Hall (Marlena Black, Days)
Beth Ehlers (Harley Cooper/Irna Phillips, GL)
Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer, GL)
Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne, GL)
Erika Slezak (Viki Lord, OLTL)
Robin Strasser (Dorian Lord, OLTL)
Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, Y&R)
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
Jack Wagner (Nick Marone, B&B)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, GH)
Steve Burton (Jason Quartermaine, GH)
Trevor St. John (Todd Manning, OLTL)
Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan, OLTL)
Ben Masters (Julian Crane, Passions)
Joshua Morrow (Nick Newman, Y&R)
Eric Braeden (Victor Newman, Y&R)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Minshew (Kendall Hart, AMC)
Betty White (Ann Douglas, B&B)
Alley Mills (Pamela Douglas, B&B)
Jennifer Gareis (Donna Logan, B&B)
Lesley-Anne Down (Jackie Marone, B&B)
Terri Colombino (Katie Snyder, ATWT)
Gina Tognoni (Dinah Mallet, GL)
Finola Hughes (Anna Devane, GH)
Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine Spencer, GH)
Kimberly McCullough (Dr. Robin Scorpio, GH)
Kathy Brier (Marcie McBain, OLTL)
Catherine Hickland (Lindsay Rappaport, OLTL)
Ilene Kristen (Roxy Balsom, OLTL)
BethAnn Bonner (Talia Sayid, OLTL)
Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla Winters, Y&R)
Jess Walton (Jill Abbott, Y&R)
Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, Y&R)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jacob Young (JR Chandler, AMC)
Trent Dawson (Henry Coleman, ATWT)
Patrick Duffy (Stephen Logan, B&B)
Kyle Lowder (Rick Forrester, B&B)
Jon Hensley (Holden Snyder, ATWT)
Stuart Damon (Alan Quartermaine, GH)
Jason Thompson (Patrick Drake, GH)
Bradley Cole (Jeffrey O’Neil, GL)
Phil Carey (ex-Asa Buchanan, OLTL)
Tuc Watkins (David Buchanan, OLTL)
John Brotherton (Jared Banks, OLTL)
Jerry ver Dorn (Clint Buchanan, OLTL)
Thad Luckinbill (JT Hellstrom, Y&R)
Daniel Goddard (Cane Ashby, Y&R)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER LEAD ACTRESS
Leven Rambin (Lily/Ava Montgomery, AMC)
Alexandra Chando (ex-Maddie Coleman, ATWT)
Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones, GH)
Julie Marie Berman (Lulu Spencer, GH)
Marcy Rylan (Lizzie Spaulding, GL)
Caitlin Van Zandt (Ashlee Wolfe, GL)
Brittany Underwood (Langston Wilde, OLTL)
Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning, OLTL)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER LEAD ACTOR
Van Hansis (Luke Snyder, ATWT)
Jake Silbermann (Noah Mayer, ATWT)
Jay Kenneth Johnson (Philip Kiriakis, Days)
Blake Ferris (Nick Fallon, DAYS)
Scott Clifton (ex-Dillon Quartermaine, GH)
Eddie Alderson (Matthew Buchanan, OLTL)
Michael Graziadei (Daniel Romalotti, Y&R)
POST-IT NOTE TO THE ACADEMY: NEW CATEGORY
Can someone puh-lease create a Special Guest Star category — because you look ridiculous without it and will help take the heat off of the insanely overcrowded supporting acting categories. Also, NATAS members don’t wait until Mimi Torchin, former editor of Soap Opera Weekly, galvanizes you; get on the horn — it’s your industry.
