Outstanding Lead Actor Nominations:

Michael Park (Jack Snyder; ATWT)

Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer; GH)

Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aituro; GL)

Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott; Y&R)

Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin; Y&R) - WINNER

Pre-Nominations

Thorsten Kaye (Zach Slater)

Michael E. Knight (Tad Martin)

Grayson McCouch (Dusty Donovan)

John McCook (Eric Forrester)

Jack Wagner (Nick Marone)

Stephen Nichols (Stephen Johnson)

Peter Reckell (Bo Brady)

Steve Burton (Jason Morgan)

Ron Raines (Alan Spaulding)

Michael Easton (John McBain)

Trevor St. John (Todd Manning)

Galen Gering (Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald)

Outstanding Lead Actress Nominations:

Maura West (Carly Tenney; ATWT) - WINNER

Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer; GL)

Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne; GL)

Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Abbott; Y&R)

Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor; Y&R)

Pre-Nominations

Bobbie Eakes (Krystal Chandler)

Alicia Minshew (Kendall Hart)

Martha Byrne (Lily Snyder)

Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester)

Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan)

Kristian Alfonso (Hope Brady)

Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady)

Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis)

Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos)

Kassie DePaiva (Blair Manning)

Bree Williamson (Jessica Buchanan)

Lindsay Hartley (Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald)

Juliet Mills (Tabitha Lenox)

Edited June 16, 200718 yr by Toups

Kim Zimmer & Peter Bergman will win. Although, I'd like to see Maura West pull off a win.

I am FURIOUS that Kassie and Trevor didn't get nominations!!!!!

Kim Zimmer will win because of an excellent theory that I posted awhile back from another soap.

Here's hoping Peter and Maura take it.

My Rankings:

Maura West (Carly Tenney; ATWT)

Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer; GL

Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Abbott; Y&R)

Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne; GL)

Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor; Y&R)

My Rankings:

Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott; Y&R)

Michael Park (Jack Snyder; ATWT)

Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin; Y&R)

Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer; GH)

Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aituro; GL)

Both categories have pathetic choices…

The should be a rule that LEAD actors/actresses have at least 100 episodes a year. This isn’t too much considering each show has about 255 episodes a year…

Royally pissed that neither Susa Flannery nor Nancy Lee Grahn made the list still Michelle Stafford who did nothing ally year and Jeanne Cooper who’s always good but was merely supporting show up there.

Shocked to learn Chrystall Chappel und Christina LeBlanc were apparently lead as well - and I totally missed it.

Keeping my fingers crossed for Peter Bergman who deserves another Emmy. He was spectacular last year. Don't care for lead actress since the real contenders are missing...

What did Susan Flannery do? I'm so tired of her. Slezak did nothing and gracefully took her name out, why can't other actors do the same.

Christian and Michelle.

I don't think that La Zimmer can repeat, the cancer storyline was awful. JC CC or MW don't have the material.

I won't even go into how many talented actresses got the shaft by not being nominated.

Christian and Michelle.

I don't think that La Zimmer can repeat, the cancer storyline was awful. JC CC or MW don't have the material.

We keep on disagreeing today.

Here was the theory somebody posted on "La Envelope" on why Zimmer will win.

Lots of folks are thinking Kim Zimmer is on her way to winning what would be her fifth career Emmy, come June 2007, for her Reva Shayne Lewis on Guiding Light.

I'm in agreement. But not because of anything to do with the quality of La Zimmer's work. It's not because who we think ougta land in the winners' circle is a yearly subjective view. That goes without saying. No matter how strongly any individual thinks and feels.

My thoughts are tied to history. And I've noticed something. It is worth sharing.

I recently took a look at multiple Emmy champs. These are the soaps' performers with a minimum of three acting Emmys. And what I see is that, at some point, each honored recipient prevailed with back-to-back victories. Yep, two consecutive years of winning.

Let's consider the following:

1. Helen Gallagher. She was the first to reach three victories when she won her last in 1988 for the next-to-final season of ABC's landmark Ryan's Hope. As matriarch Maeve Ryan, co-owner of an Irish pub, the Tony-winning Gallagher made Emmy history winning best actress for the first eligible season of her series (1976)—a feat that was never before, or ever since, been accomplished. Gallagher backed that first victory with Emmy number-two in 1977.

2) David Canary and 3) Justin Deas. Canary won Emmy number-one, as twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on All My Children, in 1986. His second was in 1988, and he prevailed with his third of a career five in 1989. Deas is in the same boat. His first (in his supporting-actor race) was as Tom Hughes on As the World Turns (1984). He won two consecutive years and matched Canary with 1988 and 1989 prizes as corrupt D.A. Keith Timmons on Santa Barbara. Hell, Deas went further by winning back-to-back prizes—as supporting followed by lead (numbers-four and five of a career six)—for his current Buzz Cooper on GL in 1994 and 1995.

4) Erika Slezak. The winningest of serial leads, now with a total of six, won her fourth Emmy—as Victoria Lord on One Life to Live—in 1995. Number-five was one year later in 1996.

5) Jonathan Jackson, 6) Sarah Brown, and 7) Anthony Geary. Triple Emmy champions notably in younger-acting races for General Hospital, Jackson won his second and third younger-actor Emmys in 1998 and 1999—while Brown, who capped off her impressive five-year run as the original Carly Corinthos with a third statue (as 2000's best supporting actress), reaped younger-actress gold two years running (in what was then as many seasons) in 1997 and 1998. In the case of GH's most popular, the golden Geary has five Emmys to his credit—and he reaped numbers-two and -three in 1999 and 2000.

8) Michael E. Knight. One of four performers to register nominations in all three available acting categories, Knight's work as AMC's Tad Martin has thusfar peaked with a third Emmy in 2001. That was for supporting; but more than a decade earlier, Knight landed back-to-back 1986 and 1987 younger-actor trophies.

9) Peter Bergman. Current favorite for a 15th best-actor nomination in 2007, the triple Emmy-winner who plays Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless landed his first two prizes with back-to-back best-actor gold in 1991 and 1992. In 2002, Bergman won his third golden lady.

10) Susan Flannery. Having the distinction of the longest drought between one acting nom and another (25 years!), Flannery first won best actress as Laura Horton on Days of Our Lives in 1975. In 2000 she was back—and scored for her current Stephanie Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. Flannery didn't stop there: she has since won two more, for a total of four, with two-in-a-row in 2002 and 2003.

11) Jennifer Finnigan. To date this former B&B cast member—as Bridget Forrester—is the only performer to have scored three years running. And in as many noms. Younger-actress gold was won by the now-Closer to Home star in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Hopefully this list is full. I have no doubt someone can correct me if there are any mistakes. But in getting back to why Kim Zimmer will win.…

Zimmer now has four Emmy awards: 1985, 1987, 1990, and 2006. If these multiple winners having, at some point, won two years running is a pattern that's contagious and impossible to ignore, so too is the momentum for GL's reigning champ who is embroiled this year in a cancer story. Upon this year's Emmys, Zimmer told TV Guide's Michael Logan she'd take her name out of future Emmy contests (if she won in 2006). Well, Zimmer is free to do that. But if history means anything, she may wanna give it another go and quite possibly become the 12th performer to have one of those periods—not unlike her Emmy contemporaries—of winning two years running before she makes such a move.

We keep on disagreeing today.

that's ok, we agree on the important stuff, Drucilla Winters

I like Zimmer, she is a powerhouse, but the cancer storyline fell so damn flat, it was more about Josh and Cassie than Reva battling cancer.

If Kim Zimmer submits the episode where she was talking to Tom Pelphrey about committing suicide or the party episodes and her sitting in the car afterward - she stands a very good chance. Both episodes were very subdued and layered performances and none of the over the top stuff that she can sometimes fall into. Both were very powerful performances.

As to people not submitting their names, I totally agree that if a person didn't have that much to do then they shouldn't submit their name. But in a year that they were still at the top of their game and were still on a lot and were good then they have just as much right to compete as anyone else.

As a fan I would rather know that my favorite got a nomination based on all the people competing and not just maybe got a nomination based on the fact that someone who deserved it pulled their name out.

And if I was a performer I would feel the same way. I would want to know that I was competing with everyone who deserved to be in the competition.

I do feel that Jeanne Cooper should have put herself in Supporting this year. She deserved a nomination there but not in lead.

As far as some others on the ballot this year, I blame it on the shows for submitting some of them and for the Emmys not having a place for some of them. Genie deserved a nomination but where were they going to put her since the daytime part did away with the Guest award. This year it was greatly needed.

Jeannie got it BACKWARDS. In 2004, she went Supporting, when she was obviously a Lead and lost. Then now, she puts herself in LEAD, when she was SUPPORTING, and well...

What did Susan Flannery do? I'm so tired of her. Slezak did nothing and gracefully took her name out, why can't other actors do the same.

Well there are other leading ladies on OLTL, like Kassie DePavia, Robin Strasser and yes last year Bree Williamson but on B&B there are no other leading ladies, Susan and Katherine are it and yet again Katherine was overlooked.

Susan Flannery had POWER HOUSE performances last December with Betty White and such...so that is what is shocking to me!!

I love Michelle Stafford, so I'm rooting for her. I'm relieved that Michael Easton didn't get a nom, he doesn't deserve it. Extensive airtime does not equal quality, as he has demonstrated. John's not that awesome. I'm surprised Bree Williamson isn't nominated, though.

Well there are other leading ladies on OLTL, like Kassie DePavia, Robin Strasser and yes last year Bree Williamson but on B&B there are no other leading ladies, Susan and Katherine are it and yet again Katherine was overlooked.

Susan Flannery had POWER HOUSE performances last December with Betty White and such...so that is what is shocking to me!!

Colleen Zink Pinter during "Jennifer's death" outdid the work of Flannery's 'Emmy Bait' story. I'm tired of her being placed on a pedastal because she's Susan frickin' Flannery. DEAR LAWD the only one who deserved that honor was Beverlee McKinsey, who was all natural.

IMO Betty White and Alley Mills were far better than Flannery, who just yelled, and made some strange acting choices. I don't know what the hell Susan was thinking there. You don't always have to overshadow your co-stars.

grrr.....arrgh!! Screw the Emmys, NLG totally owned lead actresses this year.