Melanie Griffith, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Tippi Hedren, and Antonio Banderas at the 24th Annual Genesis Awards photo: hsus.org
Every year, the Humane Society honors various media outlets for raising awareness and spotlighting animals issues at the Genesis Awards. And this year was no different. Just this past Saturday at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA., Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Pierce Brosnan, Maria Menounos, Kristen Bell, Teri Hatcher, Jon Lovitz, Moby, Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as others, gathered to celebrate animals at the awards ceremony. Here is the complete list of winners from the 24th Annual Genesis Awards:
Genesis Outstanding Documentary Film award-The Cove.
Tying for Outstanding Feature Film were the Academy Award®-winning Up and Hotel For Dogs, both of which offered meaningful messages about the importance of the human-animal bond.
Here’s the full list of winners and nominees:
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TIPPI HEDREN
FEATURE FILM
WIN! (tie) – HOTEL FOR DOGS – Dreamworks Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS – Overture Films, Smokehouse Films
WIN! (tie) – UP – Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
DOCUMENTARY FILM
WIN! – THE COVE – Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, Oceanic Preservation Society
THE END OF THE LINE – Arcane Pictures, Calm Productions, Dartmouth Films
FOOD, INC. – Participant Media, River Road Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures
SID CAESAR COMEDY AWARD
WIN! – FAMILY GUY Dog Gone – FOX TV Animation, Fuzzy Door Productions, 20th Century FOX
MONK Mr. Monk and the Dog – USA Network
SOUTH PARK Whale Whores – Comedy Central
DRAMATIC SERIES
WIN! – BONES The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken – FOX
THE CLOSER multiple episodes – TNT
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
HANDY MANNY Saving the Turtles / A Whale of a Tale – Disney Channel
WIN! – NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE Kids to the Rescue! Helping Homeless Animals – Nickelodeon
TV NEWSMAGAZINE
60 MINUTES Poisoned – CBS
WIN! – ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL multiple segments – HLN
NIGHTLINE multiple segments – ABC
NEWS FEATURE
EYEWITNESS NEWS AT 4:00 / KABC 7 (Los Angeles) Greyhounds from Guam
WIN! – KCBS / KCAL TV (Los Angeles) Animal Shelter Abuse, Faux Fur Investigation
KHOU-TV (Houston) multiple segments
WKRN-TV News 2 Extra (Nashville) Home for the Holidays
NEWS SERIES
CNN (National) Animal Cruelty–Nicole Lapin Investigates
KTNV-TV (Las Vegas) Las Vegas Zoo: A Hidden Camera Investigation
WIN! – KLAS-TV 8 (Las Vegas) I-Team: Shark Fin Soup
WTVJ-NBC 6 (Miami) The Last Ride
MORNING NEWS SHOW
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING Bye Bye Birdie
WIN! – TODAY multiple segments by Jill Rappaport – NBC
TALK SHOW
WIN! – THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW Eating Animals
author Jonathan Safran Foer – Syndicated
LARRY KING LIVE Alaska’s aerial wolf hunt – CNN
TV DOCUMENTARY
BUFFALO BATTLE – Planet Green
WIN! – DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM – HBO
FUTURE EARTH 100 Heartbeats – MNSBC, Peacock Productions
STAMPEDE TO OBLIVION – KLAS, Las Vegas One
REALITY SERIES
ANIMAL COPS: PHILADELPHIA Puppy Mills Exposed – Animal Planet
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION The Almquist Family – ABC
WIN! – WHALE WARS The Stuff of Nightmares – Animal Planet
TV FILM
WIN! – A DOG NAMED CHRISTMAS – CBS
A DOG YEAR – HBO
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL
WIN! – BEAR SANCTUARY – Animal Planet Europe
THE KINSHASA CONNECTION – Carte Blanche, South African and Dutch TV, Network NL
OUTSTANDING WRITTEN WORD
SERIES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
WIN! – ISTHMUS (Wisconsin) multiple articles by Bill Lueders
TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL (Kansas) multiple articles by James Carlson
NEWSMAGAZINE
NEWSWEEK A (Designer) Dog’s Life by Suzanne Smalley
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Against Meat by Jonathan Safran Foer, and
Watching Whales Watching Us by Charles Siebert
WIN! – TIME The New Age of Extinction and The Real Cost of Cheap Food by Bryan Walsh, and
Abused No More by David Von Drehle
MAGAZINE
MORE Where the Wild Things Are by Jan Goodwin
WIN! – O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE What Are They Thinking? by Eugene Linden,
Wild Things by Rick Bass, and Operation Rescue by Barry Yeoman
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL PRINT
DAILY MAIL (UK) multiple articles by Dr. Danny Penman
WIN! – THE INDEPENDENT (UK) multiple articles by Martin Hickman
THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) multiple articles by Daniel Foggo
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