38th Daytime Emmy Awards


The 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, June 19, 2011, at the Las Vegas Hilton, and were televised on CBS. The Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented two days earlier on June 17 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
The televised ceremony was hosted by Wayne Brady. The Pre-Nominations were announced on February 25, and the final nominations were announced May 11, 2011. At the event, Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek both received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nominations and winners

The following is a partial list of nominees and winners. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special awards

New Approaches - Daytime Entertainment
What If... An All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital
Outstanding Achievement for a Casting Director For A Drama Series
  • General Hospital
  • * Casting Director: Mark Teschner
  • Outstanding Original Song for a Drama Series
  • General Hospital - "Bad For You"
  • *Composer & Lyricist: Rick Krizman
  • Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime
  • Venice: The Series
  • *Executive Producers: Crystal Chappell, Kim Turrisi
  • *Supervising Producer: Maria Macina
  • Outstanding Sound Editing - Live Action and Animation

    • Thomas McGurk, Dave Howe, Sam Gray and Michael McAuliffe
    • Joe Franco, Jeff Malinowski and Matt Longoria
    • Gordon Sproule, Jeff Davis and Johnny Ludgate
    • Paulette Victor-Lifton, Matthew Thomas Hall, Jimmy Lifton, Ian Nyeste, Michael Petak, D.J. Lynch, Aran Tanchum, Dominick Certo and Lawrence Reyes
    • Joe Pleiman and Patrick Downie

    Outstanding Music Direction and Composition

    Outstanding Animated Program">Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program">Outstanding Animated Program

    Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program">Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program">Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program

    Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special

    • Meredith Layne
    • Aaron Drown
    • Meredith Layne

    Outstanding Writing in Animation

    • Bob Roth, Bill Motz and Brandon Sawyer
    • John N. Huss, Ryan Raddatz, Tom Martin, Carla Filisha, Jack Ferraiolo and Eric Ledgin
    • P. Kevin Strader, Gentry Menzel, David Steven Cohen, Peter K. Hirsch and Jonathan Greenberg
    • Marsha F. Griffin, Joseph Kuhr, Nicole Dubuc, Steven Melching and Duane Capizzi
    • Tom Sheppard, Gene Grillo and Dan Serafin
    • Elise Allen, Joseph Purdy and Craig Bartlett

    Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program

    Outstanding Special Class Animated Program

    Lifetime Achievement Awards

    Special tributes

    The Oprah Winfrey Show