The Sixth Annual Genesis Awards, hosted by Loretta Swit and William Shatner, was held before a dinner-time audience of nearly 1,000 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton, where awards were passed out in 24 categories.

Winners included the family feature film, White Fang, the PBS documentary Diet for a New America, NBC's Quantum Leap, and People magazine. The Doris Day Music Award was presented to composers Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. for their classic composition, "Bless the Beasts and Children."

Celebrity presenters included Peter Falk, Bebe Neuwirth, Walter Matthau and Milton Berle. Three distinguished guests of honor presided over the event: John Paul Jones DeJoria, CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems, Inc., the pioneer of cruelty-free hair-care products; Richard O'Barry, founder/director of The Dolphin Project and crusader against keeping marine mammals in captivity; and Becky Sandstedt, a South St. Paul, Minnesota waitress whose daily video log of routine stockyard abuse led NBC's Expose with Tom Brokaw to produce the Genesis Award-winning segment, "Downers."

For the second consecutive year, the awards ceremony was taped for broadcast on the Discovery Channel.

Most Memorable Moment:

The hit City Slickers won in the Comedy Feature Film category for "putting a face on meat."

Winners:

Comedy Feature Film: City Slickers

Family Feature Film: White Fang

Television Dramatic Series: Quantum Leap, NBC

Television Comedy Series: Sunday Dinner, CBS

Television Family Series, Network: Dinosaurs, ABC

Television Family Series: The New Lassie

Television Documentary, Cable: Wyland

Television Documentary: The Urban Gorilla, TBS

Television Documentary, PBS: Diet for a New America

Television Documentary, Network: Beautiful Killers, ABC

Television Documentary Series, Syndicated: Earth Journal with Dr. Richard Leakey

Television Docudrama: Captain Planet and the Planeteers, TBS

Television Newsmagazine, Daytime: The Home Show, ABC

Television Newsmagazine, Syndicated: Now It Can Be Told

Television Newsmagazine: Expose with Tom Brokaw, NBC

Television News Series: Target 8 News, WFLA, Tampa, Florida

Television News Feature: Prime 9 News, KCAL, Los Angeles

Special Award, Ongoing Commitment: Milli Martinez, KABC Eyewitness News, Los Angeles

Dolly Green Special Achievement: Sue Coe

Doris Day Music Award, Classic: Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkins Jr. for "Bless the Beasts and Children."

Periodical: People

Periodical, Feature Essay: Outside magazine

Periodical, News Feature: National Geographic

Newspaper Article: The Village Voice