Daytime Emmy Winners: Y&R and Days Lead Soap Pack, GH Named Best Drama
The 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were handed out on Sunday evening at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, and NBC’s Days of Our Lives and CBS’ The Young and the Restless led the soap opera pack with six total wins each, including trophies picked up at the Creative Arts ceremony.
ABC’s General Hospital — this year’s Best Drama winner — and CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful followed with five total wins apiece.
Y&R had entered this year’s Daytime Emmys with the most nominations of any soap (25). GH and B&B each started out with 23 nods, while Days had 22.
TVLine has denoted Sunday’s winners in major daytime drama, talk and other categories below:
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital — WINNER
The Young and the Restless
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, General Hospital)
Gina Tognoni (Phyllis, The Young and the Restless) — WINNER
Heather Tom (Katie, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Jess Walton (Jill, The Young and the Restless)
Laura Wright (Carly, General Hospital)
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless)
Scott Clifton (Liam, The Bold and the Beautiful) — WINNER
Billy Flynn (Chad, Days of Our Lives)
Vincent Irizarry (Deimos, Days of Our Lives)
Kristoff St. John (Neil, The Young and the Restless)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Stacy Haiduk (Patty, The Young and the Restless)
Finola Hughes (Anna, General Hospital)
Anna Maria Horsford (Vivian, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Kate Mansi (Abigail, Days of Our Lives) — WINNER
Kelly Sullivan (Sage, The Young and the Restless)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
John Aniston (Victor, Days of Our Lives)
Steve Burton (Dylan, The Young and the Restless) — WINNER
Chad Duell (Michael, General Hospital)
Jeffrey Vincent Parise (Carlos/Joe, General Hospital)
James Reynolds (Abe, Days of Our Lives)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina, General Hospital) — WINNER
Reign Edwards (Nicole, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Hunter King (Summer, The Young and the Restless)
Chloe Lanier (Nelle, General Hospital)
Alyvia Alyn Lind (Faith, The Young and the Restless)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Bryan Craig (Morgan, General Hospital) — WINNER
Pierson Fodé (Thomas, The Bold and the Beautiful)
James Lastovic (Joey, Days of Our Lives)
Tequan Richmond (TJ, General Hospital)
Anthony Turpel (R.J., The Bold and the Beautiful)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES WRITING TEAM
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless — WINNER
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES DIRECTING TEAM
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital — WINNER
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Game Show Host
Wayne Brady, Let’s Make a Deal
Craig Ferguson, Celebrity Name Game
Steve Harvey, Family Feud — WINNER
Pat Sajak, Wheel of Fortune
Alex Trebek, Jeopardy
Outstanding Game Show
Celebrity Name Game
Family Feud
Jeopardy — WINNER
Let’s Make a Deal
The Price Is Right
Outstanding Morning Program
CBS Sunday Morning
CBS This Morning
Good Morning America — WINNER
Today
Outstanding Entertainment News Program
Access Hollywood
E! News
ET — WINNER
Extra
Inside Edition
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Hosts
The Chew
The Dr. Oz Show
Steve Harvey — WINNER
Larry King Now
The Kitchen
On-Contact
Outstanding Informative Talk Show
The Dr. Oz Show — WINNER
The Chew
Steve Harvey
Larry King Now
The Kitchen
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Hosts
The Wendy Williams Show
The View
Harry
The Real
Live With Kelly
The Talk — WINNER
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show
The View
The Ellen DeGeneres Show — WINNER
Maury
Live With Kelly
The Talk
Other winners announced on Sunday…
Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series
Jim O’Heir, The Bold and the Beautiful
Outstanding Culinary Program
Eat the World With Emeril Lagasse
LOL. Steve Burton wins an award? Talk about a low bar. This is why no one takes the daytime Emmys seriously.
He’s smiling in the photo! I’ve never seen him smile!
Probably a construct of George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic wizards.
And just what is wrong with Steve Burton. He’s an excellent actor and he’s been on two award winning daytime shows. He has a great fan base. If you can’t say something nice, maybe you should not say anything at all.
Of course he won! You want serious , you got it, you want emotion, you got it! He’s great!
Sorry your pick didn’t win.
I hope Craig Ferguson and Celebrity Name Game both win. It was a great show that didn’t deserve to be canceled.
I love GH but Kristina is one of the most boring characters, whiny and obnoxious.
I think Chloe Lanier should’ve won
I agree. Lexi did not do that much
Lexi put basically all her scenes last year into her reel and they really weren’t good. She overacts alot! But soaps don’t seem to award subtle which is just part of their decline
I completely agree. I always fast forward when she’s on. I really liked Lindsey Morgan (now Raven on The 100) as Kristina. Lexi Ainsworth as Kristina comes across as immature and younger than her younger sister Molly.
Agreed, she’s hard to watch.
Glad to see TPIR lose to Jeopardy for Outstanding Game Show. There’s a reason why Drew Carey is by far the worst game show host ever.
seriously Victor dool did not win who decides this stuff anyway
Agree 100%
On other shows its the same thing all the time I’m sorry I have been watching the young and restless since I have been 16 years now I’m 74 and still watching. Also Steve Harvey is another great show. I’m not crazy for jeopardy .
Steve Burton is such an unbelievably BAD actor. The Emmys have become a complete joke.
Matter of opinion. He’s great in character and as a person.
I just want to watch this to see Tamar Braxton make a scene if The Real wins.
these are such a joke now….really…steve burton….i miss the good old days of soaps
I wish this was on tv. I would’ve watched.
If GH is the best daytime drama, I shudder to think how bad the others are. (25+ yr viewer, mob/Sonny hater for 20+ yrs)
Chuck Pratt and Jill Farren Phillips cost Y&R this award. The storylines were unbelievable and the personalities of the characters were all changed.
Chuck Pratt and Jill Farren Phillips cost Y&R this award. The storylines were unbelievable and the personalities of the characters were all changed. Thank goodness they are gone
Steve Burton won? Seriously? Did the ghosts of Hedda Hopper & Joan Crawford fix this? (I’m really missing “Feud” already, FYI.)
Billy Flynn was robbed plain and simple. To Scott Clifton of all people… It really is about ‘who you know’
Ditto!
None of the acting winners with the exception of Gina are good actors
So glad to see Steve Burton as a winner. He was great as Jason on GH and loved him as Dylan on Y&R. Laura Wright got robbed!!!
You Variety people must be total morons! For every category where “Days of Our Lives” was nominated or won, you listed the show as being on CBS! Days of Our Lives is and has been on NBC for over 50 years. And you’re supposed to be the leading entertainment publication? Not likely.
You’re on TVLine.com, Plato. And we know Days is on NBC.
*snicker*
Yea for General Hospital. I was hoping for Nancy or Laura, but after watching the reels Gina was great also, even though I don’t watch Y&R. Tough category. I watched it on facebook live, but I will say wish it was on TV so Mary Hart would have been cut short. Gee, her rambling went on forever, I wanted someone to take a hook to her. Oh well – congrats to all the winners.
Bryan Craig’s acting was pretty bad too.
Congratulations to Lexi Ainsworth. I hate to say it but I wish GH had not won. It makes them feel that their choppy, redundant writing is good.
Can you please tell me how I might view the whole 2017 primetime emmy awards ceremony that aired on some facebook channel I know nothing about on April 30th. I look foward to watching the primetime awards annually & I cannot find them anywhere this year. Please let me know how I can view them. Thanks. View them not read about them.
I wanted anybody other than Nancy Lee Graun!!!! Her posts on Twitter are beyond VICIOUS. I have to walk away when she has a scene.