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Every year, the Humane Society of the United States uses the Genesis Awards to honor the film, TV, and print industry for its creative ways of portraying animal welfare.

In this year’s awards, a variety of shows ranging from The Simpsons to Dr. Phil have been nominated.

“Media attention to animal protection issues has come a long way since The Genesis Awards was launched twenty-five years ago,” said Beverly Kaskey, senior director of the Hollywood office of The HSUS and executive producer of The 25th Anniversary Genesis Awards. “The fact that True Blood, a show about vampires, can illustrate the cruelty of dog fighting is a sure sign that a consciousness about animal concerns is permeating popular entertainment and culture like never before.”

Winners of the categories will be announced at the Genesis Awards held Saturday, March 19, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA. Here is the list of nominees.

FEATURE FILM
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – DreamWorks Animation
THE SWITCH – Miramax Films

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM – NightFly Entertainment
OCEANS – Disneynature / Pathe Films

SID CAESAR COMEDY AWARD
THE COLBERT REPORT zoos, bullfighting – Comedy Central
THE DAILY SHOW Big Red Dogs – Comedy Central
THE SIMPSONS The Squirt and the Whale – FOX

DRAMATIC SERIES
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT Inhumane Society – USA Network
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Beef – NBC
TRUE BLOOD Hitting the Ground – HBO

TV NEWSMAGAZINE
ANDERSON COOPER 360 How Safe is Your Food? – CNN
INSIDE EDITION Horse Slaughter – Syndicated
ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHEL multiple issues – HLN
NIGHTLINE Got Milk? – ABC

NEWS FEATURE
CNN NEWS Rescuing the Pelicans
KABC 7 EYEWITNESS NEWS (Los Angeles) Bunny Cruelty
KHOU-TV (Houston) The Dog Factory: Dying to Breed; The Gulf Oil Spill: BP’s Voiceless Victims
KTLA NEWS AT 10 (Los Angeles) Puppy Mills Exclusive Investigation; Dogfighting Investigation; Hatchery Hell – Investigative Report

NEWS SERIES
KHOU-TV (Houston) Cal-Maine Eggs: The Incredible Inedible Lie
KTNV (Channel 13, Las Vegas) Look Puppies!
WOIO TV 19 ACTION NEWS (Cleveland) Ohio Dairy Farm Animal Abuse

MORNING NEWS SHOW
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING Going, Going, Gone / All Aflutter
THE EARLY SHOW Saving the Sharks – CBS
TODAY Abused Thoroughbreds – NBC

TALK SHOW
DR. PHIL Confronting Animal Abuse – Syndicated
LARRY KING LIVE SeaWorld Trainer Death – CNN
THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW all-animal show – Syndicated

TV DOCUMENTARY
FATAL ATTRACTIONS Big Cats – Animal Planet
MY CHILD IS A MONKEY – National Geographic Channel

REALITY SERIES
BLOOD DOLPHINS – Animal Planet
IT’S ME OR THE DOG Bully Breeds – Animal Planet
LAST CHANCE HIGHWAY The Great Escape – Animal Planet

BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL
60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA Natural Born Killers – Nine Network Australia
CARTE BLANCHE Monkey Town – M-Net South Africa

OUTSTANDING WRITTEN WORD
MAGAZINE
CONDE NAST TRAVELER On The Firing Line by Susan Hack
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE The Kingpin by Bryan Christy
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome by Charles Siebert
TIME Inside the Minds of Animals by Jeffrey Kluger

SERIES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
ISTHMUS (Wisconsin) animal research by Bill Lueders
LOS ANGELES TIMES rhino poaching by Robyn Dixon

COLUMNIST
THE ATLANTIC Consider the Turkey by James McWilliams
LOS ANGELES TIMES Where Captives Put on a Show by Steve Lopez

BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL PRINT
DAILY EXPRESS (UK) multiple articles by Bonnie Estridge
DAILY MAIL (UK) multiple articles by Danny Penman
THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) investigative series by Jonathan Calvert, Claire Newell, Solvej Krause and Cecile Schoon
THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) multiple articles by Daniel Foggo

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE AWARD
ADVENTIST REVIEW What are we Really Doing to God’s Creatures? by Sandra Blackmer
CHRISTIANITY TODAY A Feast Fit for the King by Leslie Leyland Fields

THE WYLER AWARD RECIPIENT
KRISTIN DAVIS

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