SOD Awards 2003 was a GREAT night for GH and I do recommend this show. This is a 3 hour tape. I also included the episode of Soap Center as they did a special on AMC, then Soaptalk for the GH 40th Anniversary special, then the 3 hr SOD award show.
From soapzone post: Outstanding Supporting Actress Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis) prepared an eloquent speech (referring to GH fans as a force to be reckoned with.....
Outstanding Supporting Actor Steve Burton (Jason) cracked me up when he mocked the female voice-over which had been detailing the strangest factual tidbits about the winners on their way to the podium, like, debuted on Oklahoma, is an avid bowler, learned to drive at Sears. His: digs surfing and met wife at GH. His comedic riff: sports Chia pet hair and cuts his own hair with Flow-bee. He provided the additional riff on co-presenter Kiko Ellsworth's (Jamal, PC) offstage suggestion to thank the fans, which Burton had already DONE!, Are you a vampire, too? Okay, cool.
Outstanding Lead Actor Maurice Benard (Sonny) played it serious, with his most heartfelt, verging on tearful, appreciation for the fans, toward the end, those who have given him such unbelievable support.
Best Return went, not surprisingly, to Vanessa Marcil (ex-Brenda), who read her requisite list, but really got the laughs earlier when she off-the-cuff shared that of course, now I gotta pee! A notable mention in her Who's Who list of thanks, movie star Steve Burton.
Favorite Plot Twist as voted in by online fans: Sonny and Alexis have sex, pretty blunt, as Grahn noticed, but the rest of her and Benard's onstage antics had them kidding around about the fun, his appeal, her thanking his wife Paula for the opportunity, him thanking Grahn for her constant outstanding work with him, a kiss on the cheek and they're off.
Outstanding Drama went to GH, shocking the entire audience and Lisa Rinna's gigantoid brown flower into an implosion. Executive producer Jill Farren
Phelps ..... trying to fit all her thanks under a time crunch [they ran out, so for the leading actress and drama, the presenters just read names instead of attached clips], but not before kidding with her attending cast that they promised to stand with her onstage if they won, so Burton, Marcil, co-presenters Rick Hearst (Ric) and Cynthia Preston (Faith), and musical act Wally Kurth (Ned) ran up there to support their boss.
Outstanding Lead Actor
Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital)
Outstanding Lead Actress
Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actor
Steve Burton (Jason, General Hospital)
Outstanding Supporting Actress
Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, General Hospital)
Outstanding Younger Lead Actor
Kyle Lowder (Brady, Days of Our Lives)
Outstanding Younger Lead Actress
Rebecca Budig (Greenlee, All My Children)
Outstanding Newcomer
Melissa Archer (Natalie, One Life to Live)
Favorite Return
Vanessa Marcil (Brenda, General Hospital)
Favorite Couple
Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives
Favorite Show
General Hospital
The SOAPnet Outstanding Plot Twist Award
General Hospital Sonny and Alexis have Sex