It's official—animal issues are hot!
Proving that animal-protection issues are getting the attention they deserve, this year's Genesis Awards is proud to announce a phenomenal 53 nominations in 18 news and entertainment media categories! This unprecedented bounty of animal-friendly coverage has enabled the Genesis Awards to announce multiple nominations for the first time in its 21-year history—a sure sign that animal-protection concerns are hot! The winners will be presented on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at a star-studded gala ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The only event of its kind honoring the major news and entertainment media for showcasing animal-protection issues, the Genesis Awards is the annual barometer for measuring how far we have come in advancing the cause of animals. Debuting in 1986 with a group of 14 modest wins and no feature film, the upcoming 21st Genesis Awards boasts a total of nine nominations in three different feature film categories alone. They include Charlotte's Web, Hoot and Eight Below in Family Feature Film; Open Season, Over the Hedge and the Academy Award-winning Happy Feet in Animated Family Feature Film; and Fast Food Nation, Mountain Patrol: Kekexli, and Our Daily Bread in the Feature Film category.
"There's no doubt that animal issues are of increasing concern and relevance," says Beverly Kaskey, director of The Hollywood Office of The HSUS and producer of the Genesis Awards. "The fact that they can figure seamlessly in entertainment as diverse as The Simpsons, Fast Food Nation, CSI, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, proves that animal-protection has penetrated popular culture."
For the full list of 21st Genesis Awards nominees, see below.
FEATURE FILM
FAST FOOD NATION - Fox Searchlight Pictures
MOUNTAIN PATROL: KEKEXILI - National Geographic World Films
OUR DAILY BREAD - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Film Produktion
FAMILY FEATURE FILM
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - Paramount Pictures/Walden Media
EIGHT BELOW - Walt Disney Pictures
HOOT - New Line Cinema/Walden Media
FAMILY FEATURE FILM - ANIMATED
HAPPY FEET - Warner Bros. Pictures
OPEN SEASON - Sony Pictures Animation
OVER THE HEDGE - DreamWorks Animation
SID CAESAR COMEDY AWARD
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART The Deer Hurter - Comedy Central
LEWIS BLACK: RED WHITE AND SCREWED - HBO
THE SIMPSONS Million Dollar Abie - FOX
DRAMATIC SERIES
BONES The Woman in Limbo - FOX
CSI:Crime Scene Investigation Loco Motives - CBS
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Appa's Lost Days - Nickelodeon
DARCY'S WILDLIFE Love in the Time of Kennel Cough - Discovery Kids on NBC
THAT'S SO RAVEN Fur Better or Worse - Disney Channel
TALK SHOW
LARRY KING LIVE - CNN
NAOMI'S NEW MORNING - Hallmark Channel
TV NEWSMAGAZINE
60 MINUTES - The Orphanage, Shooting Tigers, Global Warning! - CBS
ANDERSON COOPER 360 multiple segments - CNN
PRIMER IMPACTO Indignante Abuso - Univision Network
PRIMETIME Just Us Chickens - ABC
REALITY PROGRAMMING
ANIMAL PLANET HEROES PHOENIX The Dog House - Animal Planet
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION The DeAeth Family - ABC
NATIONAL NEWS
ABC NEWS NOW
CBS EVENING NEWS
CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC
CABLE DOCUMENTARY
DEALING DOGS - HBO
JANE GOODALL'S HEROES - Animal Planet
SAVING A SPECIES: THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE - Animal Planet
PBS DOCUMENTARY
CHIMPANZEES: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY - Nature
A LIFE AMONG WHALES
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU: OCEAN ADVENTURES Sharks at Risk
LOCAL NEWS FEATURE
FOX 5 NEWS WTTG-TV (Washington, D.C.) Animal Underworld and Sold for Slaughter
FOX 25 NEWS (Boston/New England) Dog Fighting in New England
WFOR-CBS 4 News (Miami) multiple segments
LOCAL NEWS SERIESKGO-TV (Bay Area)
greyhound hare coursingKHOU-TV (Houston)
America's Dirty Little SecretWTVJ-TV/NBC 6(Miami)
Puppy Heartbreak
LOCAL NEWSMAGAZINE
LIFE & TIMES Animal Cops - KCET
STUDIO 2 puppy mills - KCBS
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL - TV/FILM
50/50 (South Africa) Hunters Becomes Hunted
CARTE BLANCHE (South Africa) The Thukela Elephants
POM: LE POULAIN (Belgium) - Ring Productions
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL - PRINT
LIZ JONES (U.K.) multiple articles - Daily Mail, The Evening Standard
SOUTHASIA (Pakistan) multiple articles
THE SUNDAY TIMES (U.K.) series of articles by Daniel Foggo
OUTSTANDING WRITTEN WORD
BOSS HOG by Jeff Tietz - Rolling Stone
AN ELEPHANT CRACKUP by Charles Siebert - The New York Times Magazine
GALLOPING SCARED by Kurt Brungardt - Vanity Fair
WHAT'S A DOG WORTH? by Jesse Katz - Los Angeles magazine
WHO BELONGS IN THE ZOO? by Michael D. Lemonick - TIME
Updated Feb. 28, 2007
