Daytime Emmy Awards in Las Vegas

The 2010 Daytime Emmy Awards was held last night at the Las Vegas Hilton. Regis Philbin hosted the event, his jokes about "how nice it must be to win something" becoming more and more tiresome as the evening progressed.

In true awards show style, glamorous presenters delivered hastily memorized jokes with bad comic timing. Holding the Daytime Emmys' in sin city however, did provide acts by Las Vegas entertainers such as Blue Man Group, Lion King Cast and Cirque de Soleil.

Aside from the regular stable of awards, there was also a tribute to Dick Clarke and American Bandstand which allowed for a musical medley from former Bandstand performers, such as Chubby Checker, Marie Osmond and the Spinners.

The Daytime Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Agnes Nixon by Susan Lucci, who stars as Erica Kane in Nixon's, All MY Children. Agnes Nixon is known as the Queen of Daytime for her success in creating/writing soap operas such as All My Children, which this year celebrates 40 years on the air, and One Life to Live.

Cancelled Daytime Soap Opera, As the World Turns received a minute long tribute of clips from the soap opera that first aired in 1956. While actors from Guiding Light, another recently cancelled soap opera still had nominees in some of the categories, it was As the World Turns evening as the soap opera took awards for both Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Lead Actress.

Nominees and (winner in bold) appear below.

Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team

All My Children

The Bold and The Beautiful

As The World Turns

The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Supporting Actor

Billy Miller as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless

Bradford Anderson as Damian Spinelli on General Hospital

Jonathan Jackson as Lucky Spencer on General Hospital

Ricky Paull Goldin as Jake Martin on All My Children

Brian Kerwin as Charlie Banks on One Life to Live

Outstanding Supporting Actress

Beth Chamberlin as Beth Raines Spaulding on Guiding Light

Julie Pinson as Janet Snyder on As The World Turns

Carolyn Hennesy as Diane Miller on General Hospital

Arianne Zucker as Nicole Walker on Days of our Lives

Bree Williamson as Jessica Brennan on One Life to Live

Outstanding Younger Actor

Drew Tyler Bell as Thomas Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful

Drew Garrett as Michael Corinthos III on General Hospital

Dylan Patton as Will Horton on Days of our Lives

Scott Clifton as Schuyler Joplin on One Life to Live

Zack Conroy as James Spaulding on Guiding Light

Outstanding Younger Actress

Christel Khalil as Lily Winters on The Young and the Restless

Marnie Schulenburg as Alison Stewart on As The World Turns

Molly Burnett as Melanie Layton on Days of our Lives

Shelley Hennig as Stephanie Johnson on Days of our Lives

Julie Berman as Lulu Spencer on General Hospital