General Hospital and Anthony Geary Set Records at the Daytime Emmy Awards

General Hospital was the big winner at tonight’s Daytime Emmy Awards winning 5 awards including Best Drama Series. The show’s iconic lead actor Anthony Geary who plays Luke (of Luke & Laura lore) took home his record 7th Best Actor Emmy while his onscreen son Jonathan Jackson won his 5th Emmy, this one in the Supporting Actor category. The show also won Best Director and Supporting Actress honors for Nancy Lee Grahn who previously won this award for her work on what I consider the best soap ever, Santa Barbara…. Taking home Best Actress was Heather Tom of The Bold and the Beautiful who now has won four Daytime Emmys, and she’s the first actor to do it in three different acting categories (Lead, Supporting, and Younger Actress). Speaking of the younger actor awards, those went to first time winners Christel Khalil for The Young and the Restless and the brilliant Chandler Massey of Days of Our Lives. Best Writing also went to Days... On the Talk Show front, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa won for a second year Best Hosts for the second year in a row, while their Live show won for the first time. Take a look at all the winners below, and for more on the Daytime Emmys, head here.

2012 Daytime Emmy Award Winners~

Drama Series: General Hospital
Directing: General Hospital
Writing: Days of Our Lives (yay!)
Lead Actor: Anthony Geary (General Hospital)
Lead Actress: Heather Tom (Bold & the Beautiful)
Sup. Actor: Jonathan Jackson (General Hospital)
Sup. Actress: Nancy Lee Grahn (General Hospital)
Younger Actor: Chandler Massey (Days of Our Lives) yay! 
Younger Actress: Christel Khalil (The Young & the Restless)
Talk Show Entertainment: Live with Regis and Kelly
Talk Show Informative: The Dr. Oz Show
Talk Show Hosts: Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa (Live with Regis & Kelly)
Morning Show: The Today Show
Game Show: Jeopardy!
Game Show Host: Todd Newton (Family Game Night)
Culinary Show: Barbecue Addiction w/Bobby Flay
Culinary/Lifestyle Show Host: Sandra Lee (Semi Homemade Cooking)
Legal/Courtroom Show: Last Shot with Judge Gunn

General Hospital, Young & Restless and Days of Our Lives lead the Daytime Emmy nominations

This morning, the nominations for the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced and General Hospital led the way with a big 23 nominations. Next in line were The Young and the Restless with 16 and my personal favorite, Days of Our Lives with 15. Among Days nods were first time bids for long time soap vet Matthew Ashford (Jack) and Shelly Hening (Stephanie) who left the show early last year and now stars on CW’s The Secret Circle. Picking up her 8th nod was Crystal Chappell (Carly) who has since departed the show as well while Molly Burnett (Melanie) grabbed her second nod and breakout star Chandler Massey (Will) whose coming out storyline helped grab him a second consecutive nod. I also have to give a shout out to two of my friends who earned nods for their work on Days: Glen Alen for Makeup and Christopher Whitesell for Writing. Congrats Days folks! … Ok, enough gushing about Days, take a look at all the nominees in the big categories below and for the full list and info on the show, head here.

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

TALK SHOW
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Live With Regis & Kelly
The Talk
The View

TALK SHOW / INFORMATIVE
Anderson
The Dr. Oz Show
The Doctors

TALK SHOW HOST
Anderson Cooper, Anderson
Dr. Oz, The Dr. Oz Show
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, Live
Rachael Ray, The Rachael Ray Show
All of The Doctors

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Maurice Benard, GH
Anthony Geary, GH
John McCook, B&B
Darnell Williams, AMC
Robert S. Woods, OLTL

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Crystal Chappell, Days
Debbie Morgan, AMC
Erika Slezak, OLTL
Heather Tom, B&B
Laura Wright, GH

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradford Anderson, GH
Matthew Ashford, Days
Sean Blakemore, GH
Jonathan Jackson, GH
Jason Thompson, GH

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Claire Egan, AMC
Genie Francis, Y&R
Nancy Lee Grahn, GH
Elizabeth Hendrickson, Y&R
Rebecca Herbst, GH

YOUNGER ACTOR
Eddie Alderson, OLTL
Chad Duell, GH
Chandler Massey, Days
Nathan Parsons, GH

YOUNGER ACTRESS
Molly Burnett, Days
Shelley Hennig, Days
Christel Khalil, Y&R
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, B&B

General Hospital leads the Daytime Emmy Nominations

It was more of the same this morning as General Hospital lead the Daytime Emmy nominations with 21 mentions beating out the other perennial front-runner Young and the Restless with 20. Both shows will compete against last year’s winner  Bold and the Beautiful and the recently cancelled All My Children for top honors. Take a look at all the big nominees below and for more on the show and the whole list of nominees (including American Idol’s Steven Tyler, what?!!) to be hosted by Wayne Brady in June, click here.

Drama Series:
All My Children, Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, Young and the Restless
Lead Actor Drama:
Ricky Paull Goldin (“All My Children”), Michael Park (“As the World Turns”), James Scott (“Days of Our Lives”), Maurice Benard (“General Hospital”), and Christian LeBlanc (“The Young and the Restless”)
Lead Actress Drama:
Alicia Minshew (“All My Children”), Debbi Morgan (“All My Children”), Colleen Zenk (“As the World Turns”), Susan Flannery (‘The Bold and the Beautiful”), Laura Wright (“General Hospital”), and Michelle Stafford (“The Young and the Restless”)
Supporting Actor:
Jonathan Jackson (“General Hospital”), Jason Thompson (“General Hospital”), Brian Kerwin (“One Life to Live”), and Doug Davidson (“The Young and the Restless”)
Supporting Actress:
Melissa Claire Egan (“All My Children”), Julie Pinson (“As the World Turns”), Heather Tom (“The Bold and the Beautiful”), Nancy Lee Grahn (“General Hospital”), Bree Williamson (“One Life to Live”) and Tricia Cast (“The Young and the Restless”)
Outstanding Younger Actor
B&B’s Scott Clifton (Liam)
DAYS’ Chandler Massey (Will)
GH’s Chad Duell (Michael)

Outstanding Younger Actress
AMC’s Brittany Allen (ex-Marissa)
GH’s Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina)
Y&R’s Emily O’Brien (Jana)

Outstanding Directing Team
B&B
GH
OLTL
Y&R

Outstanding Writing Team
ATWT
B&B
DAYS
Y&R

Outstanding Morning Show:
Good Morning America (ABC), Today Show (NBC)
Entertainment Talk Show:
The Ellen Degeneres Show, Live with Regis And Kelly, The View, Rachael Ray
Talk Show/Informative:
Dr. Oz, Doctor Phil, The Doctors
Talk Show Host:
Dr. Oz (Dr. Oz), Regis & Kelly (Live with Regis & Kelly), The Doctors (The Doctors), Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Sherri Shepherd, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg (The View), Rachael Ray (Rachael Ray)
*Ellen Degeneres did not submit herself for this category (She already won it four times.)

James Franco is not a Drag.

James Franco is just an enigma. He’s an incredible actor with Oscar buzz for 127 Hours and great reviews for his role as gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl. He’s also a filmmaker, writer, artist, student and all around crazy guy. Now, he’s getting in touch with his feminine side. Take a look at James in drag below in a photo shoot he did for Candy magazine … and then see his classically handsome mug below… Seriously, he can pull off both looks! I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. This is a guy at home playing James Dean or a pot smoking criminal in Pineapple Express or a psycho on a soap (General Hospital). James may be in drag in this picture, but he’s certainly not a drag!

James Franco before….

And After….