Defying all conventional Emmy Award logic, Jim Ward took away the Emmy prize which, considering he was the least famous and least recognizable name in the batch is no small feat!

Congratulations Jim Ward! Jim Cummings, you’ll just have to show them next time!

Jim Cummings fans will love this new interview from ABC News.

“This year I’m going with either Vanessa or Amy,” Cummings said, summing up his competition. “I think folks go down the line and go: ‘Jim Cummings? I don’t really know who that is. Oh, Joan Rivers, Vanessa Williams, I love her; let’s vote for her.’ You can’t fight that. I understand why they do it.” [SOURCE]

Mark your calendars, set your watch and do whatever else you need to remember that the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be on August 30th, 2009 on the CW. Check your local listings for times.

(I’m reminding your early so you cannot blame me if you forget to watch! )

Will Jim Cummings manage to wrest an Emmy away from the likes of Joan Rivers, Vanessa Williams (the host of the show) or Amy Poehler? Only time will tell.

UPDATE: Jim Cummings’ award will not be televised. Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program will be announced the Saturday before the televised broadcast. Booo!

The Jim Cummings Emmy publicity tour of all media continues with an interview in Newsarama.com today.

This interview delves into his work as Pooh and Tigger touching on the transition from Paul Winchell:

His real breakthrough into lead work came in 1988, when he did his first job as Pooh in Winnie The Pooh Friend-ship: Tigger-ific Tales. As intimated before, Holloway was long gone from this planet, but Paul Winchell was still Tigger at that time. Cummings would first step into the role of Tigger in 1996 with a Pooh Halloween special entitled Boo To You, Too. Things started to get interesting after that.

“I absolutely did know Paul,” says Cummings. “I knew him well during the last years of his life, when he was going back and forth from South Africa, doing research. He was really like Da Vinci. He designed one of the prototypes for one of the first artificial hearts. He was also going back and forth to Africa to try and solve some of the hunger problems there. In fact, how I got the role of Tigger is initially when he would go I would pinch hit for him.”

Indeed. In 1998, on A Winnie The Pooh Thanksgiving special, both Cummings and Winchell are credited on the role of the terrific tiger. By 1999, it was handed over completely to Cummings with The Tigger Movie. From that point on, Cummings would voice both Pooh and Tigger. There’s some controversy over the transition. Rumors said Winchell didn’t take losing the job too well, apparently. Cummings has his own point of view.

“What actually happened is they decided to recast the entire cast,” he says. “They then did some tests and I came in first as Pooh and second on Tigger. Now when Paul was around, he was certainly Tigger. Then in 1999 he apparently decided to retire and I’ve been the voices of Tigger and Pooh since then, full time.”

You can read the article in full here. As always, when the site takes the article down, we’ve kept a copy in our archives.

So when Jim Cummings was nominated for an Emmy this year, I did some research and, from everything I could find, it was his first Emmy nomination.

But in this latest interview with TV Guide, he mentions that this is his third nomination. So, of course, I started digging looking for these past nominations to find out what years they were and what roles they were for. I have come up with a big fat nada.

So I turn to you, the readership. Can you help me find out what these nominations were for and when they were?

I appreciate your help with this!

Talkin’ Tigger With Star Jim Cummings

Some highlights:

On being a little bitter about not being in the Pooh loop:

“You know what? I don’t know what’s in there. They never tell me anything. Honestly, I love Disney, but get a load of this…Winnie the Pooh had his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and they didn’t tell me. I’ve been doing the voice of Winnie the Pooh since 1987 and Disney doesn’t call! As much as you love them, its not like they want to make you the star—they want the character to be the star, which is cool. I understand that. [And] who knows? Maybe they’re afraid I’ll ask for a raise. [Laughs]“

On his favorite characters:

“Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Don Karnage from TaleSpin, and there was a great little guy called Mr. Bumpy on an ABC series called Bump in the Night. It’s the stuff that used to get me kicked out of class, now the joke’s on them.”

As always, you can find the whole article in our News archive after the original site takes the story down.