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TheSoap Opera DigestAwards, originally known as The Soapy Awards when introduced in 1977, was an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest .
The Soapy Awards were an award presented by Soap Opera Digest magazine to the best work on American soap operas from 1977 until 1983. Unlike their successors, the Soap Opera Digest Awards, this accolade lacked a great deal of glamour. The statue itself was a tall geometric crystal and were presented during a television show after winners were announced in the magazine. The original award was designed by the magazine's art director Janis Rogak.
The magazine's editor Ruth J. Gordon, who was founding editor made the very first presentation on The Merv Griffin Show .
The first awards were presented during the Merv Griffin Show to Best Actor Bill Hayes and Best Actress Susan Seaforth Hayes from Days of Our Lives (which also won for 'Favorite Show'). This first award also included a special award for 'Outstanding Achievement in the World of Daytime Drama' to All My Children and One Life to Live 's creator Agnes Nixon.
The 1978 award were presented live during America Live from both New York and Hollywood. The 1979 show was presented on the Thursday Dec. 27, 1979 episode of Dinah and Friends .
In 1980, during the height of Luke and Laura , their portrayers Anthony Geary and Genie Francis won for Best Actor and Best Actress. An award for 'Favorite Performer in a Mature Role' went to All My Children 's Ruth Warrick.
The 1981 show incorporated many of the categories which would become a hallmark of the Soap Opera Digest Awards, such as 'Most Exciting New Actor' (Tristan Rogers, General Hospital ), 'Favorite Villain' (Andre Landzaat, General Hospital), and 'Favorite Villainess' (Robin Mattson, General Hospital). That year, the awards were swept by General Hospital .
In 1984, the awards were replaced by the Soap Opera Digest Awards.
In 1984, the awards evolved into TheSoap Opera Digest Awards, to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award. TheSoap Opera Digest Awards were meant to promote excellence in the soap opera genre and were decided by the fans who read the magazine. The statue itself was made of crystal and in the shape of a heart.
The first Soap Opera Digest Award show aired in 1984, and was featured on national syndicated television and hosted by then husband and wife Catherine Hickland and David Hasselhoff. One of the reasons for the move up was the new-found audience of both Daytime and Prime time soap operas. That year for the first time awards were given to prime time soap operas as well as daytime soaps. This practice was phased out in the 1990s as primetime soap operas began to lose the large appeal they once had.
For the first two years, fans themselves voted on the nominees list as well as the winners. Ballot stuffing and a voting bloc for the 1985 awards led to the side effect where Days of Our Lives swept almost every category. The third awards were changed so that the editors of the magazine chose the nominees and each reader was allowed only one ballot to vote for their favorites. This allowed other shows such as Santa Barbara and Another World to take home trophies. A change in award season from the end of the year to the beginning meant that there was no show in 1987.
In 1992 the awards were broadcast live for the first time; in addition, the award statue (previously a flat crystal heart) was redesigned to be an inch taller. NBC had aired the event ever since it made its way to network television, but the show would no longer be seen on the network after the airing of the 2000 awards. The year 2001 marked the first time that there was no awards ceremony and voting was done entirely online. In 2003 the cable channel SOAPnet broadcast the awards which were hosted by Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway.
In 2001, the award was featured in the episode "The One with Joey's Award" for the show Friends , in which Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) was nominated for a Soapy for his fictional role in Days of Our Lives but does not win. In the episode, Joey says the awards began in 1998, so it's likely not meant to be the same award, but rather a homage.
No awards were given out in 2002 or 2004. The 2005 awards were done entirely through the magazine. Fans could find a ballot in a November issue of Soap Opera Digest and then mail it to the editors. Only one ballot per person was counted. The awards were announced in the magazine in February 2005.[ clarification needed ]
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Mature Role in a Daytime Soap Opera
Former name: Outstanding Actor in a Mature Role in a Prime Time Soap Opera
Former name: Favorite Daytime Super Couple on a Daytime Serial, Favorite Super Couple: Daytime
Former name: Favorite Super Couple on a Prime Time Serial
Former names: Best Love Story: Daytime or Prime Time, Hottest Soap Couple, Hottest Romance
Former names: Outstanding Actor in a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Actor in a Prime Time Serial
Former names: Outstanding Actress in a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Actress in a Prime Time Serial
Former name: Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Soap Opera
Former name: Outstanding Comic Relief Role on a Daytime Serial
Former name: Outstanding Comic Performance by an Actor: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Comic Performance by an Actress: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Daytime Soap
Former name: Outstanding Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Prime Time Show, Outstanding Prime Time Soap
Former names: Exciting New Actress in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding New Actress in a Daytime Serial
Former names: Exiting New Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding New Actor in a Daytime Serial
Former name: Exciting New Actor in a Prime Time Soap Opera
Former name: Exiting New Actress in a Prime Time Soap Opera
Former name: Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role: Prime Time
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Prime Time
Former name Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Daytime
Former name: Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role: Prime Time
Former name: Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role on a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Prime Time
Former name: Outstanding Villain in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Villain in a Daytime Serial
Former name: Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial
Former name: Outstanding Villain in a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Villain in a PrimeTime Serial, Outstanding Villain on a Prime Time Serial
Former name: Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Soap Opera, Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial
Former name: Outstanding Villain
Former name: Outstanding Villainess
Former name: Outstanding Youth Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Youth Actor in a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Young Leading Actor in a Daytime Serial
Former name: Outstanding Youth Actress in a Daytime Soap Opera, Outstanding Youth Actress in a Daytime Serial, Outstanding Young Leading Actress on a Daytime Serial
Former name: Outstanding Younger Lead Actor
Former name: Outstanding Younger Lead Actress
Former name: Outstanding Teen Performer, Favorite Teen Star
Former name: Outstanding Scene Stealer
Former name: Outstanding Female Showstopper
Former name: Outstanding Male Showstopper
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