Every year, The Genesis Awards pays tribute to the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works that raise public awareness of animal issues.
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"Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait" investigator Gordon Ramsay (with HSUS President & CEO Wayne Pacelle and presenters Tricia Helfer and Owain Yeoman) took home the TV Documentary award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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The Genesis Awards audience was treated to an acceptance video by Stephen Colbert when "The Colbert Report" won the Sid Caesar Comedy Award.
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"TODAY" correspondent Jill Rappaport won the Morning Show award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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Indian media icon Pritish Nandy received the International Humanitarian Award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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The Genesis Awards audience enjoyed an acceptance video by Ellen DeGeneres after "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" won the Talk Show award.
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"Born To Be Wild 3D" producer/writer Drew Fellman (with presenter Sophia Bush and Orangutan Foundation International president Dr. Birute Galdikas) won the Feature Documentary award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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"KTLA News at 10" reporter/producer Lu Parker took home the Local News Feature award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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"Hawaii Five-O" writer Joe Halpin earned the Dramatic Series award. Tim Long/Long Photography
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"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" screenwriters Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa won the Feature Film award. Tim Long/Long Photography
Winners & Nominees
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” triumphed, “The Colbert Report’s” satire hit the right comedic note, and Ellen DeGeneres outshone her talk-show rivals—these were just a few of the major wins in a night that celebrated the many ways that the media can help animals.
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“We paid tribute to an amazing array of works that address animal protection concerns, but the real winners are the animals themselves, who rely on these invaluable voices to speak for them,” says Beverly Kaskey, senior director of The HSUS’s Hollywood Outreach program and executive producer of the annual Genesis Awards.
Here's the full list of nominees and winners:
FEATURE FILM
DOLPHIN TALE Alcon Entertainment
RIO Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios
WINNER: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment
WAR HORSE DreamWorks SKG
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: BORN TO BE WILD 3D Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
BUCK Sundance Selects, Cedar Creek Productions
ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT Crossover Productions, Sandbar Pictures
SID CAESAR COMEDY AWARD
THE CLEVELAND SHOW "Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'" FOX
WINNER: THE COLBERT REPORT multiple issues Comedy Central
MELISSA & JOEY "Toledo's Next Top Model" ABC Family
DRAMATIC SERIES
THE GLADES "Swamp Thing" A&E
WINNER: HAWAII FIVE-O "Lapa'au" CBS
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
WINNER: NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE "Dangerous Crossroads: Human Animal vs. Wild Animal" Nickelodeon
WINNER: SID THE SCIENCE KID "Save the Stump!" PBS Kids
TV NEWSMAGAZINE
WINNER: 20/20 egg farm cruelty ABC
ANDERSON COOPER 360 multiple issues CNN
E:60 cockfighing ESPN
ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL multiple issues HLN
NATIONAL NEWS
ABC WORLD NEWS WITH DIANE SAWYER egg farm cruelty
CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC multiple issues
WINNER: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS multiple issues
LOCAL NEWS FEATURE
KHOU-TV (Houston) multiple issues
KPHO-TV (Phoenix) "CBS 5 Investigates Canned Hunts"
WINNER: KTLA NEWS AT 10 (Los Angeles) multiple issues
WPMI-TV (Mobile) "Alabama's Blood Sport" and "Training to Fight"
LOCAL NEWS SERIES
KTNV-TV (Las Vegas) "LOLAA Kennel"
WINNER: WOIO-TV 19 ACTION NEWS (Cleveland) "Torture at the E6 Cattle Ranch"
MORNING NEWS SHOW
SUNDAY MORNING "BATS!" from Barry Petersen CBS
WINNER: TODAY multiple issues from Jill Rappaport NBC
TODAY "Online Puppy Sales" from Lisa Myers NBC
TALK SHOW
WINNER: THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW multiple issues
THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW vegan cooking
THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW vegan challenge
TV DOCUMENTARY/SPECIALS
WINNER: GORDON RAMSAY: SHARK BAIT BBC America
MADONNA OF THE MILLS HBO Documentary Films
NATURE "Broken Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey" PBS
REALITY SERIES
WINNER: ANIMAL PLANET INVESTIGATES: CAPTIVE HUNTING EXPOSED
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE "Blood Ivory" and "Making a Killing" Nat Geo Wild
IT'S ME OR THE DOG "Bone Of Contention" Animal Planet
VANGUARD "Tiger Farms" Current TV
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL
KOPI LUWAK/ETHICAL CONSUMERISM Carte Blanche M-Net South Africa
WINNER: THE MEDAN CONNECTION Carte Blanche M-Net South Africa
OUTSTANDING WRITTEN WORD
MAGAZINE
MOTHER JONES "The Cruelest Show on Earth" by Deborah Nelson
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC multiple articles Editor in Chief, Chris Johns
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE multiple articles Editor in Chief, Susan Casey
WINNER: VANITY FAIR "Agony and Ivory" by Alex Shoumatoff
SERIES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER Janet Patton
WINNER: MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Chris Adams
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Philip Walzar
ON-LINE AWARD
WINNER: THE ATLANTIC.COM multiple articles on wild horses by Andrew Cohen
LA TIMES.COM multiple issues by Dean Kuipers
NY TIMES.COM multiple issues by Mark Bittman
TIME.COM multiple issues by Krista Mahr, Alexandra Silver, and Bryan Walsh
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL PRINT
WINNER: THE INDEPENDENT (UK) multiple articles by Martin Hickman
SOUTH ASIA magazine (Pakistan) "Importance of Animals in Islam" by Nilofar Ahmed, "Social Justice and Ethics" by Anees Jillani, and a commentary by Syed Rizvi
THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) multiple articles by Daniel Foggo, Simon Parry, and Hannah Ashwell
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE AWARD
WINNER: PRISM "A Call to Compassion from Our Brothers the Animals" by Kendra Langdon Juskus
ST. ANTHONY MESSENGER "Finding Faith in God's Creatures" by B.G. Kelley
THE WYLER AWARD
IAN SOMERHALDER
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AWARD
PRITISH NANDY
