2004 Genesis Awards Winners
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This is a listing of winners from the 2004 Genesis Awards. The text describing the reasons for an award are edited from the Humane Society's press release.[1]
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[edit] Film
Feature Film: "Legally Blonde 2" (MGM)
For placing an animal advocacy message at the heart of a mainstream Hollywood movie.
Feature Film Animated: "Finding Nemo" (A Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film)
For going where few animated features have gone before to the depths of the sea to portray fish as feeling creatures.
Student Award: "Remembering Bob" by Maria Brenner, University of Southern California
For a film that says a great deal about our attitude to animals used for food.
[edit] Television
Comedy Series: "Everybody Loves Raymond" (CBS)
For a script about the double standards shown toward the fate of an injured little bird, compared to a turkey that is nothing more than a Thanksgiving feast.
National News Feature: CBS News With Dan Rather "Food Fight"
For illustrating the power of the consumer in driving the trend toward improving the conditions of animals raised for 'fast food,' and for showing the humane community that its efforts to reach a caring public have not been in vain.
Cable Documentary: "Hunting in America" (National Geographic Channel)
For a look at hunting from the growing number of women joining the country¹s 13 million licensed sport hunters to those vigorously campaigning against the killing of defenseless animals.
Cable Documentary Series: National Geographic Ultimate Explorer (MSNBC)
For venturing into dangerous locations to investigate critical global animal issues.
PBS Documentary: National Geographic Special: "In Search Of The Jaguar"
For providing a rare window into the threatened world of the South American Jaguar.
Reality Programming: "Cell Dogs" (Animal Planet)
For an inspiring series focusing on an extraordinary prison program, teaming unwanted shelter dogs with death row inmates.
Children's Programming Series: "Braceface" (ABC Family)
For an ongoing commitment to educating and entertaining young audiences about a range of important animal issues.
Children's Programming Television Movie: "Bike Squad" (Showtime)
For presenting serious animal cruelty issues to children with an engaging story about the rarely acknowledged crime of stealing and selling dogs to laboratories for research.
Local News Series: (Shared) KIRO-TV (Seattle) "Downer Cows"
For a series of reports about the cruelty of dragging Œdowner cows¹ injured cattle who cannot walk to slaughter for human consumption.
Local News Series: (Shared) KGO-TV (Bay Area) "Foie Gras Fight"
For an expose of the California foie gras industry, featuring footage of the practice of force-feeding geese and ducks.
Local News Feature: KARE-TV (Minnesota) "Dolittle Delusion"
For a damning portrait of an exotic cat breeder.
Local PBS Series: Life & Times "Paw Project" KCET (Los Angeles)
For a report on the effects of domestic and wild cat de-clawing.
Brigitte Bardot International: Biker Jens: A Life On The Edge (Denmark/Norway)
For a reality series in which a dare-devil tough guy discovers first-hand that bullfighting is a cruel and unfair contest.
[edit] Music
Doris Day Music Award Classic: "Born Free" Music by John Barry, lyrics by Don Black. Title song from the 1966 Movie, "Born Free."
For a joyous marriage of music and lyric that is both timeless and timely in its celebration of animals who deserve to live freely in the wild.
[edit] Print
Newspaper Magazine Feature: Los Angeles Times Magazine "Plenty to Squawk About" by Mira Tweti
For an examination of the exotic bird trade.
Series of Newspaper Articles: The Charlotte Observer 3-part series ³Death At The Pound² by Scott Dodd and Michelle Couch
For a 3-part series seeking ways to reduce the staggering number of dogs and cats ending up at its local shelter.
Artistic Achievement: X-Men Unlimited ³Can They Suffer?² by Chuck Austen, Marvel Comics
For expanding the X-Men message of empathy toward living beings from this planet and beyond to include the most abused species of all animals.
Cartoon: Bizarro by Dan Piraro
For creating over two dozen cartoons that dare to touch upon animal issues with an incisive wit that cuts to the quick.
