So, OLTL ended up winning the Director's Guild of America Award. The director who received the award was Larry Carpenter.

http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=135094

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DAYTIME SERIALS

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LARRY CARPENTER

One Life To Live -- "Episode #9947"

(ABC)

Mr. Carpenter's Directorial Team:

Associate Director: Teresa Anne Cicala

Stage Managers: Alan P. Needleman, Keith Greer

Production Associate: Anthony Wilkinson

This is Mr. Carpenter's second DGA Award. He won the Outstanding

Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials for One Life to Live

"Episode #8849" in 2003 and was also nominated for that series for

"Episode #9686" in 2006, "Episode #9385" in 2005 and "Episode #8655"

No surprise there.  Congratulations to Mr. Carpenter.

Hooray for OLTL! Larry Carpenter deserves it more than Ellen Wheeler on Guiding Light. The one she submitted was god awful.