The 10th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, June 8, 1983, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1982). Unlike previous years, the ceremony was not telecast, although NBC had the option to do so.

Winners in each category are in bold.

• All My Children
• Days of Our Lives
• General Hospital
• One Life to Live
• The Young and the Restless

• Peter Bergman (Cliff Warner, All My Children)
• James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, All My Children)
• Stuart Damon (Alan Quartermaine, General Hospital)
• Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)
• Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan, One Life to Live)

• Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
• Dorothy Lyman (Opal Cortlandt, All My Children)
• Leslie Charleson (Monica Quartermaine, General Hospital)
• Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord, One Life to Live)
• Robin Strasser (Dorian Lord, One Life to Live)

• Darnell Williams (Jesse Hubbard, All My Children)
• Howard E. Rollins, Jr. (Ed Hardy, Another World)
• David Lewis (Edward Quartermaine, General Hospital)
• John Stamos (Blackie Parrish, General Hospital)
• Anthony D. Call (Herb Callison, One Life to Live)
• Al Freeman, Jr. (Ed Hall, One Life to Live)

• Kim Delaney (Jenny Gardner, All My Children)
• Eileen Herlie (Myrtle Fargate, All My Children)
• Marcy Walker (Liza Colby, All My Children)
• Robin Mattson (Heather Webber, General Hospital)
• Brynn Thayer (Jenny Wolek, One Life to Live)
• Louise Shaffer (Rae Woodward, Ryan's Hope)

• All My Children
• General Hospital
• One Life to Live
• Ryan's Hope

• All My Children
• General Hospital
• One Life to Live

• The $25,000 Pyramid - A Bob-Sande Stewart Production for CBS
• The Price Is Right - A Mark Goodson Production for CBS
• Family Feud - A Mark Goodson Production for ABC (Syn. by Viacom)

• Betty White (Just Men!)
• Dick Clark (The $25,000 Pyramid)
• Richard Dawson (Family Feud)

• William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and Gerard Baldwin (The Smurfs)
• Robert Keeshan and Jim Hirschfeld (Captain Kangaroo)

• "Daytime Emmy Awards". Internet Movie Database.