2011 Emmy pre-nominations list revealed

Whoa, Emmy!

Y&R’s Eric Braeden’s back in the Emmy race! World Turns’s Van Hansis is out! Y&R’s Stacy Haiduk is running in lead! GH’s Nancy Lee Grahn, like One Life’s Robin Strasser, is back in the supporting game (which is smart because she won’t risk tying with AMC’s Debbi Morgan again). And AMC’s Becky Budig in Lead? Yep!

Thankfully, AMC’s comeback royalty, Julia Barr, is making her name heard! B&B’s Hunter Tylo is gaming for Lead against Susan Flannery and Katherine Kelly Lang [insert laugh track here]! Yeah, good luck with that. But where’s Adam Gregory?

Y&R’s John Driscoll as Supporting Actor? Sad but true. But look — soap icon Tristan Rogers submitted himself in Lead Actor for Y&R! Huh?

And finally — Sean Young, oh my!

Pre-nomination results (the top two vote-getters per category/per show) will be announced on Feb. 25. For now, read below for this exclusive sneak peek in to Emmy watch 2011!

ALL MY CHILDREN
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Rebecca Budig • Susan Lucci • Alicia Minshew
• Debbi Morgan

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• David Canary • Ricky Paull Goldin • Vincent Irizarry
• Michael E. Knight • Michael Nouri • Walt Willey
• Darnell Williams

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Julia Barr • Christina Bennett Lind 
• Melissa Claire Egan • Lindsay Hartley • Jill Larson
• Jamie Luner • Cady McClain • Chrishell Stause

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Trent Garrett • Cornelius Smith, Jr. • Jacob Young

Younger Actress in a Drama Series
• Brittany Allen • Natalie Hall

Younger Actor in a Drama Series
• Finn Wittrock

AS THE WORLD TURNS
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Maura West • Colleen Zenk

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Jon Lindstrom • Michael Park

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Terri Conn (Colombino) • Lesli Kay • Julie Pinson

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Trent Dawson • Eric Sheffer Stevens

Younger Actor in a Drama Series
• Mick Hazen
 
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Susan Flannery • Katherine Kelly Lang • Hunter Tylo

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Don Diamont • Jack Wagner

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Lesley-Anne Down • Adrienne Frantz • Jennifer Gareis
• Robin Riker • Heather Tom

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Patrick Duffy • Rick Hearst 
• Rodney Saulsberry • Aaron D. Spears

Younger Actress in a Drama Series
• Kristolyn Lloyd • Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
• Kim Matula

Younger Actor in a Drama Series
• Scott Clifton • Zack Conroy

DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Kristian Alfonso • Lauren Koslow • Crystal Sabatino
• Alison Sweeney

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• John Aniston • Galen Gering • Peter Reckell 
• James Scott

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Nadia Bjorlin • Peggy McCay • Suzanne Rogers
• Louise Sorel • Arianne Zucker 

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Shawn Christian • Mark Hapka • Jay Johnson
• Eric Martsolf

Younger Actress in a Drama Series
• Camila Banus • Molly Burnett • Shelley Hennig 
• Taylor Spreitler

Younger Actor in a Drama Series
• Casey Deidrick • Chandler Massey

GENERAL HOSPITAL
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Kelly Monaco • Laura Wright

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Maurice Benard • Steve Burton

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Julie Marie Berman • Brianna Brown • Jane Elliot
• Nancy Lee Grahn • Kimberly McCullough 

Younger Actress in a Drama Series
• Emily O'Brien

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Nelson Branco is the managing show writer for CTV's national talk show, The Marilyn Denis Show. Part time, he works as a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, OK!, Entertainment Tonight, etalk Daily, and fab magazine, along with spearheading the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular daytime-TV hub. After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997 with a Radio and Television Arts BA degree, he moved from Toronto to New York in 1998 to take on the roles as senior news editor at Soap Opera Update. Branco first freelanced for Soap Opera Weekly as an intern in 1994, and after leaving Soap Update to help create and launch Bauer Publishing's In Touch Weekly in 2003, the Winnipeg native continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. In addition, Branco has successfully helped create and launch various magazines In Touch Weekly, Hello! Canada and Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop, where he served as its news and entertainment director. Branco was also a producer and an on-air expert on TVTropolis series, Planet Soap.