To accommodate the 600 people who planned to attend, the Fourth Annual Genesis Awards moved to the larger Beverly Hilton hotel, where we held a lunch-time ceremony for our suddenly burgeoning audience. Likewise, the ceremony's date was moved to February 1990 to facilitate a calendar-year judging process, hence the apparent "skipping" of the year 1989.

The larger audience coincided with a larger number of awards. An all-time high of 27 awards were presented by celebrities such as Bea Arthur, Lindsay Wagner, Rue McClanahan and Sid Caesar. Winners included the feature film The Bear, the hit sitcom Roseanne, TV news anchor Bree Walker, CNN, commentator Charles Kuralt, and Newsweek magazine.

The guest of honor was Tom Regan, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of The Case for Animal Rights, and organizer of the first national March for the Animals on June 10, 1990, in Washington, D.C.

Most Memorable Moment:

Not so much a memorable moment, but a notable trend: the sheer quantity and quality of entries—evidence that the media have begun embracing animal issues like never before.

Winners:

Feature Film: Gorillas in the Mist

Foreign Film: The Bear

Film Classic: Born Free

Feature Film Short: Elephant Diary

Television Dramatic Series: L.A. Law, NBC

Television Comedy Series: Roseanne, ABC

Television Family Series: Peaceable Kingdom, CBS

Television Children's Special: Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story, CBS

Television Documentary: Greed and Wildlife: Poaching in America

Television Documentary Series: National Geographic Explorer

Television Daytime Drama: General Hospital, ABC

Television Newsmagazine: 48 Hours with Dan Rather, CBS

Television Newsmagazine: West 57th Street, CBS

Television Commentator, Local: Michael Tuck, KGTV, San Diego

Television Commentator, Network: Charles Kuralt, Sunday Morning, CBS

Television News Series: Bree Walker, Action News, KCBS, Los Angeles

Television Special Recognition: CNN

Television News Forum: Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC

Radio Commentator: Andrew Ward, NPR

Radio Talk Show Host: Warren Eckstein, The Pet Show, KABC, Los Angeles

Doris Day Music Award: "Spirit of the Forest"

Periodical: Newsweek

Cartoonist: Berke Breathed

Syndicated Columnist: Michael Killian

Columnist: Jack Smith, Los Angeles Times

Feature Article: Robert W. Gibson, Los Angeles Times

Newspaper Commentary: Meg Greenfield, The Washington Post