Young Artist Awards 2005 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 26th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, presented by the Young Artist Foundation

Young Artist Award

The Young Artist Award is an accolade bestowed by the Young Artist Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to recognize and award excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.The Young Artist...

, honored excellence of young performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film and television for the year 2004, and took place on April 30, 2005 at the Sportsmen's Lodge

Sportsmen's Lodge

The Sportsmen's Lodge is a hotel located on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California. Operating under various names since the 1880s, the Sportsmen's Lodge is a San Fernando Valley landmark and remains a popular spot for celebrations, dinners and public events...

in Studio City, Los Angeles, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

Established in 1978, The Young Artist Foundation was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.

Best Performance in a Feature Film

Leading Young Actor
- Liam Aiken
  Liam Aiken
  Liam Padraic Aiken is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books....
  
  for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is an adaptation of the The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, being the first three books in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket...
- Jamie Bell
  Jamie Bell
  Andrew James Matfin "Jamie" Bell is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Billy Elliot , King Kong , Hallam Foe , Jumper , Defiance , The Eagle and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn .- Early life :Bell was born in Billingham, in the Borough of...
  
  for Undertow
- Rory Culkin
  Rory Culkin
  Rory Hugh Culkin is an American actor and is the younger brother of actors Macaulay Culkin and Kieran Culkin.-Personal life:...
  
  for Mean Creek
  Mean Creek
  Mean Creek is a 2004 independent film produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham, written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin and Josh Peck. The film concerns a group of teenagers and young adults who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, troubled bully...
- Freddie Highmore
  Freddie Highmore
  Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Finding Neverland, Five Children and It, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur and the Invisibles, August Rush, The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Toast.-Early life:Highmore was...
  
  for Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...
- Bobby Preston
  Bobby Preston
  Robert Thomas Preston AKA: Bobby Preston-Weiss is an American actor.-Filmography:# Motocross Kids .... Skeeter# The Hunted .... Boy at Airport# Rose Red TV series ......
  
  for Motocross Kids
  Motocross Kids
  Motocross Kids a.k.a. Moto X Kids is a 2004 film directed by Richard Gabai, distributed by Tag Entertainment.-Cast:* Josh Hutcherson as TJ* Bobby Preston as Skeeter* Lorenzo Lamas as Evan Reed* Phyllis Diller as Lou* Alexa Nikolas as Katie...

Leading Young Actress
- Emily Browning
  Emily Browning
  Emily Jane Browning is an Australian film actress and fashion model, known for her roles as Violet Baudelaire in Brad Silberling's 2004 film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Anna Ivers in the 2009 film The Uninvited, as Babydoll in Zack Snyder's 2011 action thriller Sucker...
  
  for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is an adaptation of the The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, being the first three books in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket...
- Dakota Fanning
  Dakota Fanning
  Hannah Dakota Fanning , better known as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web...
  
  for Man on Fire
  Man on Fire (2004 film)
  Man on Fire is a 2004 American thriller film, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. Another film based on the same novel was also filmed in 1987....
- Emmy Rossum
  Emmy Rossum
  Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first starred in a string of movies including Songcatcher , An American Rhapsody, and Passionada . However, it was her role in Mystic River that garnered her wider recognition...
  
  for The Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)
  The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux....
- Carly Schroeder
  Carly Schroeder
  Carly Brook Schroeder is an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Serena Baldwin, the daughter of Scotty Baldwin and Lucy Coe in the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles. She also had a recurring role on the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire...
  
  for Mean Creek
  Mean Creek
  Mean Creek is a 2004 independent film produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham, written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin and Josh Peck. The film concerns a group of teenagers and young adults who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, troubled bully...
- Alexa Vega
  Alexa Vega
  Alexa Ellesse Vega is an American actress, singer and pianist. She is best known for playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids film series and Shilo Wallace in the movie Repo! the Genetic Opera. In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & The...
  
  for Sleepover

Supporting Young Actor
- Devon Alan
  Devon Alan
  Devon Alan is an American actor.- Awards :* Young Artists Award, 2005 - Undertow * Young Artists Award, 2004 - It's Better To Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to be Wanted At All - Filmography :...
  
  for Undertow

Supporting Young Actress
- Kallie Flynn Childress
  Kallie Flynn Childress
  Kallie Flynn Childress is an American actress and singer.Childress was born in Chicago, Illinois, but moved out to California briefly with her grandmother. She has acted since the age of 5 and is an accomplished stage actress. She was noticed by the acting/modeling company Barbizon. Her best known...
  
  for Sleepover
- Hannah Pilkes for The Woodsman
  The Woodsman
  The Woodsman is a 2004 drama film directed and co-written by Nicole Kassell, based on Fechter's play of the same name. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison.-Plot:...
- Sarah Steele
  Sarah Steele
  Sarah Jane Steele is an American actress who got her first break into the film industry by beating thousands of young hopeful females for the role of Bernice in the 2004 film, Spanglish.- Life and career :...
  
  for Spanglish
  Spanglish (film)
  Spanglish is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks, and starring Adam Sandler, Paz Vega, and Téa Leoni. It was released in the United States on December 17, 2004 by Columbia Pictures and by Gracie Films, and in other countries over the first several months of...
- Kristen Stewart
  Kristen Stewart
  Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films including Panic Room , Zathura , In the Land of Women , The Messengers , Adventureland and The Runaways .- Early life :Stewart was born and raised in Los...
  
  for Undertow

Young Actor Age Ten or Younger
- Ian Hyland for Spanglish
  Spanglish (film)
  Spanglish is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks, and starring Adam Sandler, Paz Vega, and Téa Leoni. It was released in the United States on December 17, 2004 by Columbia Pictures and by Gracie Films, and in other countries over the first several months of...
- Luke Spill for Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...

Young Actress Age Ten or Younger
- Raquel Castro
  Raquel Castro
  Raquel Castro is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké and Gertrude Steiney , the role for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress...
  
  for Jersey Girl
  Jersey Girl (2004 film)
  Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith...
- Kara and Shelby Hoffman for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is an adaptation of the The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, being the first three books in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket...

Young Ensemble Cast
- Freddie Highmore
  Freddie Highmore
  Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Finding Neverland, Five Children and It, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur and the Invisibles, August Rush, The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Toast.-Early life:Highmore was...
  
  , Joe Prospero
  Joe Prospero
  Joe Prospero is a British actor. His most substantial roles have been as 12-year-old Dillon Phillips, in the 2003–2004 BBC sitcom My Dad's the Prime Minister, and as Edward in the 2001 television adaptation of My Uncle Silas.He appeared in the film Finding Neverland , in which he played...
  
  , Nick Roud
  Nick Roud
  Nick Roud is a British actor. His most recognised role has been in the film Finding Neverland , in which he played George Llewelyn Davies, oldest of the Llewelyn Davies boys, alongside Kate Winslet , Johnny Depp , and Freddie Highmore...
  
  and Luke Spill for Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...
- Josh Hutcherson
  Josh Hutcherson
  Joshua Ryan "Josh" Hutcherson is an American film and television actor. He began working in the early 2000s, appearing in several minor film and television roles...
  
  , Bobby Preston
  Bobby Preston
  Robert Thomas Preston AKA: Bobby Preston-Weiss is an American actor.-Filmography:# Motocross Kids .... Skeeter# The Hunted .... Boy at Airport# Rose Red TV series ......
  
  , Alexa Nikolas
  Alexa Nikolas
  Alexa Helen Nikolas is an American actress. Her most notable is that of Nicole Bristow on the Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101, in which she appeared from 2005 to 2006.-Career:...
  
  and Wayne Dalglish for Motocross Kids
  Motocross Kids
  Motocross Kids a.k.a. Moto X Kids is a 2004 film directed by Richard Gabai, distributed by Tag Entertainment.-Cast:* Josh Hutcherson as TJ* Bobby Preston as Skeeter* Lorenzo Lamas as Evan Reed* Phyllis Diller as Lou* Alexa Nikolas as Katie...
- Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
  , Mika Boorem
  Mika Boorem
  Mika Sue Boorem is an American actress who has appeared in the films Blue Crush , Carolina , Sleepover , and Smile ....
  
  , Sean Faris
  Sean Faris
  Sean Hardy Faris is an American model and actor. He is well known for his roles as Jake Tyler in Never Back Down, Kyo Kusanagi in The King of Fighters, and Rick Penning in Forever Strong.-Life and career:...
  
  , Scout Taylor-Compton
  Scout Taylor-Compton
  Scout Taylor-Compton is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in numerous small television roles and in feature films that range from dramas to those in the horror genre....
  
  , Kallie Flynn Childress
  Kallie Flynn Childress
  Kallie Flynn Childress is an American actress and singer.Childress was born in Chicago, Illinois, but moved out to California briefly with her grandmother. She has acted since the age of 5 and is an accomplished stage actress. She was noticed by the acting/modeling company Barbizon. Her best known...
  
  , Brie Larson
  Brie Larson
  Brie Larson is an American actress and pop rock singer/songwriter. She is best known for her roles in United States of Tara, Sleepover, Remember The Daze and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World...
  
  , Evan Peters
  Evan Peters
  Evan Peters is an American actor, best known for his roles as Tate Langdon in American Horror Story, Jesse Varon in the ABC TV series Invasion and as Cooper Day in The Days, also on ABC. He also had a recurring role in Disney Channel's show Phil of the Future as Phil's geeky friend Seth...
  
  , Hunter Parrish
  Hunter Parrish
  Hunter Parrish is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Silas Botwin in Showtime's television series Weeds.-Personal life:...
  
  , Douglas Smith
  Douglas Smith (actor)
  Douglas Alexander Smith is a Canadian-American actor most notable for his work on the HBO series, Big Love as Ben Henrickson, the eldest son of polygamist Bill Henrickson.-Life and career:...
  
  , Katija Pevec
  Katija Pevec
  Katija Mira Pevec is an American actress. She best known for her role as Christina Beardsley in the 2005 film Yours, Mine and Ours.- Career :...
  
  , Eileen April Boylan and Ryan Slattery
  Ryan Slattery
  Ryan Paul Slattery is an American film and television actor, writer, producer, and director. Slattery is most notable for his work in the MGM film Sleepover as Peter, the kind-hearted boy who befriends Yancy, played by Kallie Flynn Childress.- Early Life and Education :Slattery was born in...
  
  for Sleepover

Best Performance in an International Feature Film

Leading Young Performer
- Katie Boland
  Katie Boland
  Katherine Lenora Boland is a Canadian actress.-Career:In her youth, Katie became well known for her roles in the Canadian children's television shows Noddy and The Zack Files...
  
  (Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  ) for Some Things That Stay
- Marc Donato
  Marc Donato
  -Life and career:Donato portrayed the character Derek Haig on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Other roles include those in Doc, Locked in Silence, The Blue Butterfly, and other cartoon voices, recently as Ethan in The Future Is Wild...
  
  (Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  ) for The Blue Butterfly
  The Blue Butterfly (film)
  The Blue Butterfly is a 2004 Canadian drama/adventure film, directed by Léa Pool, produced by Porchlight Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis, distributed by Monterey Media and starring Marc Donato as Pete Carlton, a boy terminally ill with cancer, whose final wish is to find the elusive Blue Morpho...
- Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier , nicknamed JB or Jean-Bapt, is a French actor and singer famous for his role in the 2004 French film, Les Choristes.- Early life :...
  
  (France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  ) for Les Choristes
  The Chorus (2004 film)
  The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
- Andrea Rossi (Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  ) for Le Chavi di Casa
  The Keys to the House
  The Keys to the House is a 2004 dramatic family film telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager...
- Yannick van de Velde (Holland) for In Orange
  In Orange
  In Orange is a 2004 Dutch drama family film.In Orange received a Golden Film after it had sold 100,000 cinema tickets in the Netherlands...
- Yūya Yagira
  Yûya Yagira
  Yuya Yagira is a Japanese actor from Higashiyamato, Tokyo. His portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody Knows won him a Best Actor Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  (Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  ) for Nobody Knows

Best Performance in a Short Film

Will Bell for 17 Inch Cobras
Jillian Clare
Jillian Clare
Jillian Clare is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as pre-teenAbigail "Abby" Deveraux on Days of our Lives and for her lead role as Victoria "Tori" Archer on Miss Behave, a series that the teen actress also produces.-Biography:Born in Portland, Oregon, and named for a...

for Chasing Daylight
Jason Dolley
Jason Dolley
Jason Scott Dolley , is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles on different Disney Channel projects. These include Newton "Newt" Livingston III on Cory in the House, Virgil Fox in Minutemen, Connor Kennedy in Read It and Weep and Pete Ivey in Hatching Pete...

for Chasing Daylight
Madison Ford for Swan Dive

Megan McKinnon
Megan McKinnon
Megan Elizabeth McKinnon is a Canadian teen actress with more than 50 credits to her name.McKinnon was born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. She has appeared in over 40 Independent Films in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Most notable are Samantha's Art, in which she was nominated for a Young...

for Samantha's Art

Hailey Anne Nelson
Hailey Anne Nelson
Hailey Anne Nelson is an American actress.-Career:After commencing her career at age 5 in various stage performances, Nelson starred in the Tim Burton film Big Fish as Jenny , alongside Ewan McGregor, Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, and Miley Cyrus...

for 17 Inch Cobras

Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special

Leading Young Actor
- Cody Arens
  Cody Arens
  Cody Arens is an American teen actor and voice actor. He is the brother of Logan Arens and Skye Arens. He is most notable for the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time television series based on the films and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends and as the role of Liam...
  
  for Plainsong
- Dan Byrd
  Dan Byrd
  Daniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...
  
  for 'Salem's Lot
- David Dorfman
  David Dorfman
  David Dorfman is an American teen actor. His most notable role was as Aidan Keller in the 2002 horror film remake The Ring, and its 2005 sequel The Ring Two. He has also appeared in the 2000 film Panic as Sammy. Some people may remember him as the character "Charles Wallace Murry" in the film...
  
  for A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time (film)
  A Wrinkle in Time is a television film based on the children's fantasy novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle.In 2003, a television adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time was produced by multiple Canadian production companies to be distributed in the United States by Disney. The TV movie was directed...
- Dominic Scott Kay
  Dominic Scott Kay
  Dominic Scott Kay is an American child actor.He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician and actor Scott Kay. He is probably best known for his cameo appearance in the Easter egg scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann...
  
  for Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
- Anton Yelchin
  Anton Yelchin
  Anton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis...
  
  for Jack
  Jack (2004 film)
  Jack is a 2004 drama film written by A. M. Holmes and directed by Lee Rose, released on March 2, 2004. The film is about a boy whose life is torn apart because of his parents divorce. The film stars Anton Yelchin, Erich Anderson, Brent Spiner.-Plot:...

Leading Young Actress
- April Mullen for Cavedweller
  Cavedweller (film)
  Cavedweller is a 2004 film directed by Lisa Cholodenko. It stars Kyra Sedgwick and Aidan Quinn. It was nominated for a numerous amount of awards in 2004 and 2005.-Cast:*Kyra Sedgwick as Delia Byrd*Aidan Quinn as Clint Windsor*Sherilyn Fenn as MT...
- Keke Palmer
  Keke Palmer
  Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her performance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. She also starred as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP...
  
  for The Wool Cap
  The Wool Cap
  The Wool Cap is a 2004 American cable television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story....
- Danielle Panabaker
  Danielle Panabaker
  Danielle Nicole Panabaker is an American actress. She was a cast member in the CBS drama Shark, and appeared in the films Mr. Brooks, Sky High, The Crazies and Friday the 13th, among other projects...
  
  for Searching for David's Heart
- Hayden Panettiere
  Hayden Panettiere
  Hayden Leslie Panettiere is an American actress and singer, best known as cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC television series Heroes. She began her acting career by playing Sarah Roberts on One Life to Live , and Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light , before starring at age 10 as Sheryl Yoast in...
  
  for Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise is the 54th Disney Channel Original Movie. It stars Hayden Panettiere, Bill Pullman and Jansen Panettiere, Hayden's real-life younger brother...
- AnnaSophia Robb
  AnnaSophia Robb
  AnnaSophia Robb is an American film and television actress. She gained prominence in 2005 with starring roles in Because of Winn-Dixie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and starred in Bridge to Terabithia , Race to Witch Mountain , and Soul Surfer .-Personal life:Robb was born in Denver,...
  
  for Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
  Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
  An American Girl Holiday is a 2004 television film, based on the American Girl children's books written by Anna Sandor and Valerie Tripp. The film follows young, wealthy Samantha Parkington's adventures with three poor orphan girls. After many trials, the orphans find a permanent home with Samantha...
- Shailene Woodley
  Shailene Woodley
  Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley is known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and for co-starring with George Clooney in the 2011 drama film The Descendants.-Early life:Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California...
  
  for A Place Called Home

Supporting Young Actor
- Alexander Conti
  Alexander Conti
  Alexander Biagio Contini, born 1 September 1993, is a Canadian actor. Alex has worked in film and television since the age of six.-Early life:Conti was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada of Italian and Brazilian heritage....
  
  for When Angels Come to Town
- Zac Efron
  Zac Efron
  Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron is an American actor. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and became known with his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray...
  
  for Miracle Run
  Miracle Run
  Miracle Run is a 2004 Lifetime Television film starring Mary-Louise Parker, Zac Efron, Bubba Lewis, and Aidan Quinn.-Plot:In a flashback, a single mother, Corrine Morgan-Thomas drives her seven year old twin boys Stephen and Philip to the doctor's office and learns that they have autism...
- Brock Everitt-Elwick for The Lost Prince
  The Lost Prince
  The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama serial, produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC and originally broadcast in two episodes on BBC One in January 2003...
- Mick Hazen
  Mick Hazen
  Mick Hazen is an American actor. He starred on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Parker Snyder, the son of the late Hal Munson and Carly Tenney and the adoptive son of Jack Snyder...
  
  for Plainsongs
- Joseph Marrese for Lives of the Saints
- Daniel Williams for The Lost Prince
  The Lost Prince
  The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama serial, produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC and originally broadcast in two episodes on BBC One in January 2003...

Supporting Young Actress
- Olivia Ballantyne for Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
  Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
  An American Girl Holiday is a 2004 television film, based on the American Girl children's books written by Anna Sandor and Valerie Tripp. The film follows young, wealthy Samantha Parkington's adventures with three poor orphan girls. After many trials, the orphans find a permanent home with Samantha...
- Genevieve Buechner
  Genevieve Buechner
  Genevieve Buechner is a Canadian actress. Her stepfather is folk musician Geoff Berner.-Biography:Genevieve Buechner was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to single parent mother Tea Buechner. When her family moved to Vancouver, she took a small course in acting from the Vancouver Youth Theatre...
  
  for Family Sins
- Bianca Collins
  Bianca Collins
  Bianca Suzanne Collins is an American actress. Bianca is currently cast as Lulu in the Teen Nick television series Gigantic....
  
  for Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise is the 54th Disney Channel Original Movie. It stars Hayden Panettiere, Bill Pullman and Jansen Panettiere, Hayden's real-life younger brother...
- Dani Goldman for The Kids Who Saved Summer
- Miriam McDonald
  Miriam McDonald
  Miriam Katherine McDonald is a Canadian actress and occasional dancer. She is best known for playing Emma Nelson on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation.-Career:...
  
  for She's Too Young
  She's Too Young
  She's Too Young is a made-for-TV movie released in 2004, starring Marcia Gay Harden as the mother of a 14 year old daughter who is involved in sexual acts hidden from her parents...

Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama)

Leading Young Actor
- Tyler Hoechlin
  Tyler Hoechlin
  Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor who got his big break starring as Tom Hanks' son in the film Road to Perdition...
  
  for 7th Heaven
  7th Heaven
  7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on the WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007...
- Jamie Johnston
  Jamie Johnston
  James "Jamie" Johnston is a Canadian actor and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his role as Peter Stone on Degrassi: The Next Generation.-Personal life and career:...
  
  for Wild Card
  Wild Card (TV series)
  Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.-Synopsis:...
- Malcolm David Kelley
  Malcolm David Kelley
  Malcolm David Kelley is an American teen actor. He starred in the 2004 film You Got Served as "Li'l Saint". He also appears in the television series Lost as the character Walt Lloyd. A regular cast member in the show's first season , he has appeared only occasionally since due to a dramatic...
  
  for Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
- Logan Lerman
  Logan Lerman
  Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor, known for playing the title role in the 2010 fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. He appeared in commercials in the mid 1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby , and the movies The Butterfly Effect and Hoot...
  
  for Jack & Bobby
  Jack & Bobby
  Jack & Bobby is an American television series that aired on The WB network. It featured two brothers, one of whom would become President of the United States, serving from 2041 to 2049...
- Jesse McCartney
  Jesse McCartney
  Jesse McCartney is an American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career...
  
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  Summerland (TV series)
  Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory , raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident...
- Romeo Miller
  Romeo Miller
  Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. , better known by his stage name Romeo , is an American rapper, actor, basketball player, entrepreneur, and model. He is the son of rapper and entrepreneur Master P and former rapper Sonya C. He is the nephew of rappers C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker and the brother of...
  
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  Romeo!
  Romeo! is an American/Canadian television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2006, totaling 53 episodes. The filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia, while the show takes place in Seattle, Washington....
- Adamo Ruggiero
  Adamo Ruggiero
  Adamo Angelo Ruggiero is an Italian-Canadian actor best known for his role of Marco Del Rossi in Degrassi: The Next Generation.-Career:...
  
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  Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
- Jack DeSena
  Jack DeSena
  Jack DeSena is an American screen and voice actor. He is best known for his work on the sketch comedy series All That, having joined the show's cast at the start of its 7th season in 2001 Jack DeSena (born John Patrick DeSena; December 6, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American screen and...
  
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  All That
  All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC...

Leading Young Actress
- Kay Panabaker
  Kay Panabaker
  Stephanie Kay Panabaker , better known as Kay Panabaker, is an American film and television actress. She is the younger sister of fellow actress Danielle Panabaker.-Early years:...
  
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  Summerland (TV series)
  Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory , raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident...
- Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
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  Darcy's Wild Life
  Darcy's Wild Life is an American-Canadian television series, filmed during 2004-2006, and broadcast on Discovery Kids and the Family Channel. The show revolves around Darcy Fields , the daughter of an eccentric actress who decides to move away from Malibu to raise her daughter in a more normal...
- Scarlett Pomers
  Scarlett Pomers
  Scarlett Noel Pomers is an American actress and singer/songwriter who works in television, film, theatre and music. Her most recognizable roles have been as Naomi Wildman on Star Trek: Voyager and Kira Hart on the television series Reba...
  
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  Reba (TV series)
  Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire, which ran from 2001 to 2007. For the show's first five seasons, it ran on The WB, with the show transitioning to The CW in its last year.-Synopsis:...
- Emma Roberts
  Emma Roberts
  Emma Rose Roberts is an American actress, model and singer. She is the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts. Roberts became known for her role as Addie Singer in the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous. She released her debut album, which also served as the show's...
  
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  Unfabulous
  Unfabulous is an American children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon The series is about an "unfabulous" junior high school student, played by Emma Roberts...

Supporting Young Actor
- Noel Callahan
  Noel Callahan
  Noel Callahan is a Canadian actor who is best known for his role as Louis Testaverde-Miller on the hit Nickelodeon show Romeo! He made his acting debut on Stargate SG-1 in 2001. Noel has graduated at St...
  
  for Romeo!
  Romeo!
  Romeo! is an American/Canadian television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2006, totaling 53 episodes. The filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia, while the show takes place in Seattle, Washington....
- Oliver Davis
  Oliver Davis
  Oliver James Davis is an American child actor. He is perhaps best known for originating the role of Alex, the son of Nurse Samantha Taggart, on ER. More recently, Davis portrayed the older son on Rodney....
  
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  Rodney (TV series)
  Rodney is an American television sitcom that was shown on ABC from September 21, 2004, to June 6, 2006. Ric Swartzlander was the creator and executive producer of the comedy series...
- Jason Dolley
  Jason Dolley
  Jason Scott Dolley , is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles on different Disney Channel projects. These include Newton "Newt" Livingston III on Cory in the House, Virgil Fox in Minutemen, Connor Kennedy in Read It and Weep and Pete Ivey in Hatching Pete...
  
  for Complete Savages
  Complete Savages
  Complete Savages is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 2004 to June 2005. It was part of ABC's final TGIF comedy line-up. The show was created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker and executive produced by Mel Gibson...
- Evan Ellingson
  Evan Ellingson
  Evan Taylor Ellingson is an American actor.Ellingson grew up in La Verne, California with his three older brothers.He guest-starred on MAD TV, and then had a regular role on the Fox sitcom Titus. In 2004, Evan was chosen to play Kyle Savage on the Mel Gibson-produced short-lived sitcom Complete...
  
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  Complete Savages
  Complete Savages is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 2004 to June 2005. It was part of ABC's final TGIF comedy line-up. The show was created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker and executive produced by Mel Gibson...
- Aubrey Graham for Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
- Cody Kasch
  Cody Kasch
  -Early life:Kasch was born of Scottish heritage in Santa Monica, California and raised in Ojai, California on a working ranch until he was nearly fourteen, when he moved to Camarillo, California.-Movie career:...
  
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  Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
- J. Dhylan Meyer for Everwood
  Everwood
  Everwood is an American drama television series that initially aired in the United States on The WB. The series is set in the fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado, and was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta,...

Supporting Young Actress
- Danielle Bouffard for DOC
  Doc (TV series)
  Doc is a medical drama/family drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It ran from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on PAX...
- Vivien Cardone
  Vivien Cardone
  Vivien Elisabeth Cardone is an American actress. She is known for her role as Delia Brown on The WB's Everwood.-Early life:...
  
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  Everwood
  Everwood is an American drama television series that initially aired in the United States on The WB. The series is set in the fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado, and was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta,...
- Megan Fox
  Megan Fox
  Megan Denise Fox is an American actress and model. She began her acting career in 2001 with several minor television and film roles, and played a regular role on Hope & Faith. In 2004, she launched her film career with a role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen...
  
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  Hope & Faith
  Hope & Faith is an American sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from September 26, 2003, to May 2, 2006. For its first two seasons the show was part of a revived TGIF comedy block....
- Sarah Ramos
  Sarah Ramos
  Sarah Emily Ramos is an American actress. Her most prominent roles have been as Patty Pryor on the television series American Dreams and Haddie Braverman on the series Parenthood.-Personal life:...
  
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  American Dreams
  American Dreams is an American television comedy-drama program broadcast on the NBC television network, produced by Once A Frog and Dick Clark Productions in association with Universal Network Television and NBC Studios...
- Christina Schmidt for Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
- Alia Shawkat
  Alia Shawkat
  Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox series Arrested Development.- Personal life :...
  
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Young Actor Age Ten or Younger
- Zane Huett
  Zane Huett
  Zane Alexander Huett is an American child actor.Zane is most famous for his featured role on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives playing the role of Parker Scavo, the younger son of Lynette and Tom Scavo. He plays the youngest Scavo boy, yet is older by six months than the actors Brent...
  
  for Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
- Matthew Josten for Rodney
  Rodney (TV series)
  Rodney is an American television sitcom that was shown on ABC from September 21, 2004, to June 6, 2006. Ric Swartzlander was the creator and executive producer of the comedy series...
- Frankie Ryan Manriquez
  Frankie Ryan Manriquez
  Frankie Ryan Manriquez is an American former actor. He is best known for his role as Wayne in Higglytown Heroes and William in That's So Raven....
  
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  Life With Bonnie
  Life with Bonnie is an ABC television sitcom that originally aired from 2002 to 2004. The show outlined the life of character Bonnie Malloy, who juggled her personal life and a TV talk show position. The series was created by Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake, and produced by Miss Hunt's company, Bob &...

Young Actress Age Ten or Younger
- Taylor Atelian
  Taylor Atelian
  Taylor Marie Atelian is an American teen actress. She was born in Santa Barbara, California.Taylor Atelian played Ruby, the older daughter of James Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith on the ABC sitcom According to Jim. Taylor Atelian appeared in Brad Paisley's "Celebrity" music video, along with...
  
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  According to Jim
  According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.-Synopsis:Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father...
- Billi Bruno
  Billi Bruno
  Sarah Bruno , better known as Billi Bruno, is an American teen actress who was born in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her portrayal of James Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith's second child and youngest daughter, Gracie, on the ABC sitcom According to Jim...
  
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  According to Jim
  According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.-Synopsis:Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father...
- Darcy Rose Byrnes
  Darcy Rose Byrnes
  Darcy Rose Byrnes is an American child actress and singer. She is most famous for her role in the soap opera The Young and the Restless where she portrayed Abby Carlton from 2003 to 2008, she also appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful...
  
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  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
- Conchita Campbell
  Conchita Campbell
  Conchita Elizabeth Campbell is a Canadian actress.-Biography:Campbell was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known for her role as Maia Skouris on the hit USA channel miniseries and show The 4400, on which she portrays a child who's been missing for decades and returns unaged and with...
  
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  The 4400
  The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie...
- Dee Dee Davis
  Dee Dee Davis
  Dee Dee Davis is an American teen actress. She is of African American, Puerto Rican, Native American,and German ancestry. She is best known for her role as Bryanna "Baby Girl" Thomkins on The Bernie Mac Show. She also guest starred in Strong Medicine, House and The Game...
  
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  The Bernie Mac Show
  The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom featuring comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana and Vanessa. The show aired for five seasons , concluding with a half-hour series finale on Fox....
- Jodelle Ferland
  Jodelle Ferland
  Jodelle Micah Ferland is a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Sharon and Alessa in the 2006 horror film Silent Hill, Mary Jensen in the 2004 miniseries Kingdom Hospital and her portrayal of Bree Tanner in the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.-Life and career:Ferland was born in Nanaimo,...
  
  for Kingdom Hospital
  Kingdom Hospital
  Kingdom Hospital is a thirteen-episode television miniseries based on Lars von Trier's The Kingdom , which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television...
- Kali Majors
  Kali Majors
  Kali Majors is the sister of young actor Austin Majors. Her first role was as Young Bettie Liva in the American soap opera Passions. She has also appeared on the series NCIS, Days of our Lives, and Strong Medicine, among others. She has also appeared in the 2008 film Baby Blues.-External links:...
  
  for ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

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