Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 12th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1985 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1984). Two new categories were added: Outstanding Young Man in a Daytime Drama Series and Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series. Seven awards were given in all. An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is an American television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards (for film) and the Grammy Awards (for music).