Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series | |
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Current: 50th Daytime Emmy Awards | |
Awarded for | Outstanding Drama Series |
Country | United States |
Presented by | |
First awarded | 1972 |
Currently held by | General Hospital (2024) |
Most awards | General Hospital (17) |
Most nominations | The Young and the Restless (34) |
Website | emmyonline.org/daytime |
The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series is an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was first awarded at the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, held in 1972, when the award was originally called Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama for two years. [1] [2]
The first daytime-themed Emmy Awards were presented in 1974, when this award was renamed Outstanding Drama Series and given in honor of a daytime drama. [2] The awards ceremony was not televised in 1983 and 1984, having been criticized for lack of integrity. [3] [4] The Emmy was named after an "Immy", an affectionate term used to refer to the image orthicon camera tube. [5] The statuette was designed by Louis McManus, who modeled the award after his wife, Dorothy. [5] The Emmy statuette is fifteen inches tall from base to tip. The statuette weighs 5 pounds and is composed of iron, pewter, zinc and gold. [5]
The award was first presented to The Doctors , which first aired in 1963. General Hospital holds the record for the most awards, winning on sixteen occasions. In 2007, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless tied, which was the first tie in this category. The Young and the Restless has also received the most nominations, with a total of thirty-three. ABC has been the most successful network, with a total of twenty-one wins.
As of the 2024 ceremony, General Hospital is the most recent recipient of the award.
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
‡ | Indicates the winner |
Awards | Program |
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17 | General Hospital |
11 | The Young and the Restless |
4 | As the World Turns |
Days of our Lives | |
3 | All My Children |
The Bold and the Beautiful | |
Guiding Light | |
Santa Barbara | |
2 | The Doctors |
Ryan's Hope | |
1 | Another World |
The Edge of Night | |
One Life to Live |
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