[1] Nominees were announced on Sunday March 31, 2013, and subsequent voting was undertaken by former Youth in Film Award/Young Artist Award winners, from 1979 to 2011.
[2] Winners were announced on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at the annual ceremony and banquet luncheon in the Empire Ballroom of the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, California.
[7][8] Following the death of Young Artist Association president and founder, Maureen Dragone on February 8, 2013, it was announced that the 34th Annual ceremony would also feature a memorial tribute in her honor.
[5][9][10] Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Young Artist Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.
– CW Network ★ Charlotte White – Private Practice – ABC ★ Brock Ciarlelli – The Middle – ABC ★ Frederique Dufort – Unité 9 – Radio Canada (TV) ★ Martin Holden Weiner – Mad Men – AMC ★ (tie) Addison Holley – My Babysitter's a Vampire – Disney Channel ★ (tie) Kiernan Shipka – Mad Men – AMC ★ Rory and Declan McTigue – Boardwalk Empire – HBO ★ Daniel Polo – The Young and the Restless – CBS ★ Samantha Bailey – The Young and the Restless – CBS ★ Brooklyn Rae Silzer – General Hospital – ABC ★ The Neighbors – ABC ★ Charlie Tahan – Frankenweenie – Walt Disney Pictures ★ (tie) Zach Callison – Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess – Walt Disney Pictures ★ (tie) Jake Sim – The Magic Hockey Skates – Amberwood Entertainment ★ Caitlin Carmichael – Doc McStuffins – Disney Channel ★ (tie) Ryan Hartwig – The Aggression Scale – Anchor Bay Entertainment ★ (tie) Brandon Tyler Russell – Smitty – Tri Coast Studios ★ Jordan Van Vranken – After the Wizard – Breaking Glass Pictures ★ Luke Broyles – Up in Arms – Wild Monkey Productions ★ Ariel Fournier – Beyond the Spotlight – Talent GPS ★ Matthew Nardozzi – Lyle the Crocodile – Orlando Repertory Theatre, Florida ★ Camden Angelis – Mary Poppins – Cadillac Theatre, Chicago ★ Melissa Joan Hart – Clarissa Darling in the Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina Spellman in ABC's Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ★ Barbara Gasser, Journalist – "Rote Nasen" ("Clown Doctors") ★ Nova: Hunting the Elements with David Pogue – PBS