Daytime Emmy Awards

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.

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A Daytime Emmy Award

The first daytime-themed Emmy awards were given out at the primetime ceremony in 1972, when The Doctors and General Hospital were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama. That year, The Doctors won the first Best Show Daytime Emmy. In addition, the award for Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in a Daytime Drama was given to Mary Fickett from All My Children. A previous category "Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming" was added once in 1968 with individuals like Days of Our Lives star MacDonald Carey nominated. Due to voting rules of the time judges could opt to either award One or no Emmy statuette - and in the end they decided that no one nominated was deserving of the golden statue. This snub outraged then Another World writer Agnes Nixon, causing her to write in the New York Times - "...after viewing the recent fiasco of the Emmy awards, it may well be considered a mark of distiction to have been ingnored by this group." ^[1]

Longtime General Hospital star John Beradino became a leading voice to have daytime talent honored with special recognition for their work. The first separate awards show made just for daytime programming was broadcast in 1974 from the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center in New York. The hosts that year were Barbara Walters and Peter Marshall. The gala is now usually held at nearby Radio City Music Hall, with occasional broadcasts at Madison Square Garden. The 2006 Emmys are being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles (the first time they have ever been held outside of New York), where the Academy Awards are presented.[2]

Originally, the show was aired during the daytime hours, but in 1991 the awards were moved to a nighttime broadcast. In recent years, the Daytime Emmy Awards have seen its ratings decline, necessitating the move from three hours of televised content to two. Still, the award broadcast is guaranteed to draw in a fairly high percentage of viewers, and many special events have aired before the live telecast in an attempt to grab households tuning in for the awards. When NBC hosted the awards shows, they would routinely air special one-off episodes of their soap operas, such as Another World: Summer Desire.

For most of the last decade the show has been produced by one of own its Lifetime Achievement honorees -- Dick Clark.

Since 2002 the awards telecast has regularly featured as Special Fan Award in categories like Favorite Couple or Favorite Villain. These awards are voted for by soap fans online at CBS.

Primetime Emmys

Primetime Emmys are awarded in the following categories:

Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show
Outstanding Talk Show
Outstanding Special Class Special
Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series
Outstanding Children's Series
Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special
Outstanding Service Show
Outstanding Special Class
Outstanding Children's Animated Program
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
Directing For A Game/Audience Participation Show
- Directing For A Drama Series
- Directing For A Talk Show
- Directing For A Service Show
- Directing For A Children's Series
- Directing For A Children/Youth/Family Special
- Directing For A Special Class Program
Performance
- Lead Actor In A Drama Series
- Lead Actress In A Drama Series
- Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
- Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
- Younger Actor In A Drama Series
- Younger Actress In A Drama Series
- Performer In A Children's Series
- Performer In A Children/Youth/Famliy Special
- Performer In An Animated Program
- Game Show Host
- Talk Show Host
- Service Show Host
Writing
- Writing For A Drama Series
- Writing For A Children's Series
- Writing For A Children/Youth/Family Special
- Writing For A Special Class Special

Creative Arts Emmys

Art direction
- Art Direction- Set Decoration- Scenic Design
- Art Direction- Set Decoration- Scenic Design For A Drama Series
Casting For A Drama Series
Costumes
- Costume Design For A Series
- Costume Design For A Drama Series
Editing
- Single Camera Editing For A Series
- Multiple Camera Editing For A Series
- Multiple Camera Editing For A Drama Series
Hairstyling
- Hairstyling For A Series
- Hairstyling For A Drama Series
Lighting Direction
- Lighting Direction For A Series
- Lighting Direction For A Drama Series
Main Title Design
Makeup
- Makeup
- Makeup For A Drama Series
Music
- Music Direction and Composition
- Music Direction and Composition For A Drama Series
- Original Song
Sound Editing and Mixing
- Sound Editing For A Series
- Sound Editing For A Drama Series
- Sound Mixing For A Series
- Sound Mixing For A Drama Series
Technical Direction
- Single Camera Photography- Video or Electronic
- Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video For A Series
- Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video For A Drama Series

Primetime Emmys

See Emmy Awards.

List of Daytime Emmy Awards

Sources

^ Eckhardt Nixon, Agnes. “They’re Happy to Be Hooked”. The New York Times. Jul 7 1968:D13.