31st Daytime Emmy Awards
The 31st Daytime Emmy Awards, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2003, was held on May 21, 2004[1] at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Vanessa Marcil hosted. Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented on May 15, 2004.[2] As of 2013, it is the last Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony to have aired on NBC. The nominees were announced on May 4, 2004.[3]
| 31st Daytime Emmy Awards | |
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| Date | 
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| Location | Radio City Music Hall, New York City | 
| Presented by | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | 
| Hosted by | Vanessa Marcil | 
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | NBC | 
Nominations and winners
    
The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:[4]
Outstanding Drama Series
    
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
    
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
    
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
    
Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show
    
Outstanding Game Show Host
    
Outstanding Talk Show
    
Outstanding Talk Show Host
    
Outstanding Service Show
    
Outstanding Service Show Host
    
Outstanding Special Class Series
    
- Animal Rescue with Alex Paen
 - A Baby Story
 - Judge Judy
 - Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
 - When I Was a Girl
 
Outstanding Children's Animated Program
    
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
    
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
    
Outstanding Music Direction and Composition
    
- Richard Wolf (Static Shock)
 - Mike Renzi, Glen Daum, Stephen Lawrence, Tony Geiss, Dave Conner, and Danny Epstein (Sesame Street)
 - Paul Jacobs, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, Thomas Z. Shepard, Fred Newman, Sharon Lerner, and Chris Cardillo (Between the Lions)
 - Michael Rubin and Nick Balaban (Blue's Clues)
 - Van Dyke Parks and Kevin Kiner (Stuart Little: The Animated Series)
 - Peter Michael Escovedo (The Wayne Brady Show)
 
Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program
    
- Joe Alaskey (Duck Dodgers, Duck Dodgers)
 - Nancy Cartwright, (Rufus, Kim Possible)
 - Walter Cronkite (Benjamin Franklin, Liberty's Kids)
 - John Ritter (Clifford, Clifford the Big Red Dog)
 - Henry Winkler (Norville, Clifford's Puppy Days)
 
Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series
    
Outstanding Children's Series
    
- Assignment Discovery
 - Between the Lions
 - Jeff Corwin Unleashed
 - Operation Junkyard
 - Scout's Safari
 - ZOOM
 
Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series
    
- Kevin Clash (Elmo, Sesame Street)
 - Jeff Corwin (Himself, Jeff Corwin Unleashed)
 - David Rudman (Cookie Monster, Sesame Street)
 - Lynne Thigpen (Luna, Bear in the Big Blue House)
 - Michelle Trachtenberg (Host/Narrator, Truth or Scare)
 
Lifetime Achievement Award
    
The Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to 10 veteran soap opera performers in recognition of their many years of service to the genre:
- Rachel Ames (Audrey Hardy, General Hospital, 1964–2007, 2009, 2013, 2015)
 - John Clarke (Mickey Horton, Days of our Lives, 1965–2004)
 - Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless, 1973–2013)
 - Eileen Fulton (Lisa Grimaldi, As the World Turns, 1960–1964, 1966–1983, 1984–2010)
 - Don Hastings (Bob Hughes, As the World Turns, 1960–2010)
 - Anna Lee* (Lila Quartermaine, General Hospital, 1978–2003)
 - Ray MacDonnell (Joe Martin, All My Children, 1970–2010, 2011, 2013)
 - Frances Reid (Alice Horton, Days of our Lives, 1965-2007)
 - Helen Wagner (Nancy Hughes, As the World Turns, 1956-2010)
 - Ruth Warrick (Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, All My Children, 1970-2005)
 
* - Anna Lee died a week before the awards ceremony and was honored with a brief moment during the telecast. Her award was accepted on her behalf by her son, actor Jeffrey Byron.
References
    
- "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners for the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 21, 2004.
 - "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners for the 31st Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 15, 2004.
 - "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announced for the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 4, 2004.
 - "The Thirty-First Annual Daytime Emmy Awards". Soap Central. United States. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
 
External links
    
- "IMDb: 31st Daytime Emmy Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
 - "CBS Daytime: 31st Daytime Emmy Awards". CBS. Archived from the original on 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2007-03-20.