"General Hospital" wins big at Daytime Emmys 2012

 LOS ANGELES, June 23 (Xinhua) -- ABC's "General Hospital" won its record 11th Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series here Saturday together with other four trophies¹, becoming the biggest winner of the night.

Anthony Geary, who has been the leading actor in "General Hospital" off and on for more than 30 years, picked up his seventh Daytime Emmy Award, setting a record for an actor.

"It's a good way for 'General Hospital' to start," Geary said when receiving the Best Actor trophy², the first for the ABC drama of the night at the broadcast ceremony held at Beverly Hilton hotel.

"General Hospital" led with 23 nominations³ at this 39th annual edition of the award.

"We have 23 nominations, which is pretty amazing since we were almost cancelled in favor of a surefire ratings bonanza⁴ 'Celebrity⁵ Boob Jobs Gone Wrong,' I think it was," Geary told the cheering crowd.

Jonathan Jackson, also from the daytime television drama, took home his second supporting actor trophy. He said, "It has been 19 years since I started as Lucky Spencer and I feel just about the same as I did when I was 11 years old." He will appear on primetime later this year on ABC's highly anticipated sitcom⁶ "Nashville."

Nancy Lee Grahn won her first Daytime Emmy, the Supporting Actress, for her work on "General Hospital".

The show also won the Best Directing Team award.

"General Hospital" has been credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest-running drama in television in American history after "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns." The TV soap premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963 and has almost always aired at 3 p.m. Eastern time (2000 GMT) since its debut⁷.

Another big winner went to Heather Tom of CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful." She became the first to win Daytime Emmys in three categories, namely Best Younger Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress. Tom, now a darling of daytime television, has been acting⁸ on soap operas since she was 15 and has won millions of fans.

NBC's "Days of Our Lives" won the award for Best Writing Team. 21-year-old Chandler Massey from the drama won Best Younger Actor in a Drama Series. While 24-year-old Christel Khalil from CBS' "The Young and the Restless" won her first Best Younger Actress in a Drama Series after being nominated for the fourth year.

Bill Geddie, the executive producer of ABC's talk show-entertainment "The View," received his Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions as a writer, producer and director in his more than 30-year television career.

Awards also include the Outstanding Talk Show -- Entertainment to syndicated "Live With Regis and Kelly," the Outstanding Morning Program to NBC's "Today" show and others.

The Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast from 2:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. during the 2011 calendar year.

This time, ABC picked up a total of 56 nominations with PBS closing in behind with 51. "General Hospital," which will live to see its 50th anniversary, received 23 nominations. "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" each picked up 11.

The ceremony paid tribute to "All My Children," which ended its nearly 42-year run on ABC on Sept. 23 last year and "One Life to Live," the second ABC daytime drama cancelled last year.

1 trophies   

n.（为竞赛获胜者颁发的）奖品( trophy的名词复数 )；奖杯；（尤指狩猎或战争中获得的）纪念品；（用于比赛或赛跑名称）奖

参考例句：

• His football trophies were prominently displayed in the kitchen. 他的足球奖杯陈列在厨房里显眼的位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hunter kept the lion's skin and head as trophies. 这猎人保存狮子的皮和头作为纪念品。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 trophy   

n.优胜旗，奖品，奖杯，战胜品，纪念品

参考例句：

• The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
• He hung the lion's head as a trophy.他把那狮子头挂起来作为狩猎纪念品。

3 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

4 bonanza   

n.富矿带，幸运，带来好运的事

参考例句：

• Bargain hunters enjoyed a real bonanza today.到处买便宜货的人今天真是交了好运。
• What a bonanza for the winning ticket holders!对于手持胜券的人来说，这是多好的运气啊。

5 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

6 sitcom   

n.情景喜剧，（广播、电视的）系列幽默剧

参考例句：

• This sitcom is produced in cooperation with Hong Kong TV.这部连续剧是同香港电视台联合制作的。
• I heard that a new sitcom is coming out next season.我听说下一季会推出一个新的情境喜剧。

7 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

8 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。