Image Award Nominees

[All My Shadows]

They should have just given it to Debbi and Darnell, screw the nomination process. Montel (who I love) was on for maybe five episodes?

[DaytimeFan]

Darnell Williams, Kristoff St John (how did HE not get nominated when Eva Marcille, Bryton McClure, Christel Khalil Nia Peeples and Tonya Lee Williams all were?!) James Reynolds and Renee Jones should have been nominated. Those 4 are at least consistently decent actors...what a slap in the face.

[Port Oak Valley]

I think the noms should have looked like this:

Actor

Darnell Williams

James Reynolds

Cornelius Smith Jr.

Lawrence Saint Victor

Texas Battle (or Kristoff St. John depending on if he took his name out or not)

Actress

Debbi Morgan

Renee Jones

Tracy Ross

Nia Peeples

Eva Marcille

[Daphne]

I thought you were kidding about Montell Williams so I looked it up on imdb.com and THERE IT WAS I'm stunned What in the world?

And how did Brooke get a black nephew? How did I miss this??

[SFK]

Her sister Donna managed to have a black baby when she was about five or six years old.

And not for nothin', but why do the soaps cast the biracial characters with black actors and the black characters with biracial actors??

[Daphne]

They view us the same. That's the only explanation that makes sense.

Thanks for the feedback on Donna. The last time I briefly checked in to B+B, Donna and Eric were getting it on. I quickly changed the channel. They kinda remind me of Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner.

[bandbfan]

Everybody calls Obama black even though he's only half-black. And by everybody I mean black and white both.

[allatwitter]

It's not like daytime has a large pool of minority actors and actresses. Clearly they start at CBS, the network with the greater minority presence, and fill in the rest after that.

[Quent]

TLM for Best Actress? WTH? She's been on maybe 15 times. What about the woman who plays Bonnie McKechnie on ATWT? She's great.

[SFK]

Exactly, yet yes and no... Obama and Halle Berry for example, though biracial and raised by white people, identify as black given their upbringing and physical characteristics. I'm biracial, and I always identify as such. My upbringing and social interactions have been so even that I feel uncomfortable identifying myself as one or the other. I simply will not chose, and the "world" hasn't chosen for me b/c my look is ambiguous. I'm just saying that I find it a little odd that they tend to cast black as biracial and vice versa b/c to me it just seems silly at times. A Debbi Morgan and a Darnell Williams do not a Jason Olive make. And yes, I know genetics are a wacky unpredictable kinda thing, but I know that, not so sure that Joe Blow EP/network exec does (or cares ).

I have made a lot of race-related posts today, and I hope that I'm not coming across as some kind of militant. It's just that I love great acting (great actors!) and great storytelling, I am so *hungry* for REAL, gritty stuff in daytime, and it just so happens that stories about characters of different ethnicities is one of many of daytime's weak points.

I think acting awards for daytime stars will become more and more of a joke as the seasoned vets will year by year be replaced by the MWM (Models Who Memorize). I don't think that the majority of the "actors" on daytime deserve to be awarded for anything. Their paychecks are enough reward.

[R Sinclair]

Soaps just need to create stronger, more defined roles for capable black actors, and then the Image Awards wouldn't be filled with all of this tomfoolery.

I mean, really?

[All My Shadows]

Not really. Besides Y&R, what is there? ATWT sometimes has Bonnie and even less that Derek dude. B&B has Marcus and very seldom the police officer. GL has Remy, and I don't really watch much anymore, so maybe there's more. Didn't he get married to some chick not too long ago? AMC has more black people on contract than ATWT, B&B, and GL all have together.

[nassaunew]

Not only black actors are nominated, though...all persons of color have an opportunity to be nominated - Nia Peeples is of Asian/mixed descent, and she is nominated.

[sheilaforever]

The nominees just show the lack of diversity on daytime: Tonya Lee Williams and Dan Martin are very good actors but they were hardly on. But this basically applies to ALL nominees except for those of AMC' and Y&R's BlandiLily...

[Rakesh]

LMAO That caption is hilarious.

No Darnell Williams? WTF?!