2001 Genesis Awards Winners

This is a listing of winners from the 2001 Genesis Awards.

Film

Feature Film: "Chicken Run" (DreamWorks Pictures)

Television

Network Newsmagazine: "Dateline NBC," for two powerful, sobering exposes -- on puppy mills and on broadtail fur.

Television Dramatic Series: "Family Law" (CBS), for a story featuring a custody battle for a chimpanzee, exploring the arguments against keeping primates as companion animals.

Television Comedy Series: "Popular" (The WB), for a script questioning the eating of cows and the wearing of leather.

Television Talk Show: "Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher" (ABC), for arguments against hunting and declaring that the animals' right to live supersedes a dying child's wish to kill.

Cable Documentary: "Investigative Reports" (A&E), for a look at the perils facing the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park.

Cable Newsmagazine: "CNN & TIME magazine" (CNN), for exposing greyhound racing.

Cable Documentary Series: "Earth Rescue" (Outdoor Life Network), for an overview of elephants in circuses, exposing the capture, transport, training methods and lifestyles they endure.

PBS Documentary: "Nature," for an unprecedented look at the history of elephants held captive for human curiosity and entertainment.

PBS Series: "ITN World News," for exposing some of the worst cases of animal torture around the world.

News Series: KING-TV (Seattle), for a seven-part series revealing the suffering of cows as they are turned into food.

News Feature: KARE-TV (Minneapolis), for revealing the cruelty to horses in the production of Premarin.

Reality Programming: "Wild Rescues" (Animal Planet), for a series of powerful segments spotlighting animals in peril, and those people whose valiant efforts save them.

Children's Programming: "Nick News With Linda Ellerbee." (Nickelodeon), for introducing information on myriad animal issues, presented in a format easily embraced by children.

Children's Programming - Animated: "The Wild Thornberrys" (Nickelodeon), for a sterling season of inspired and clever episodes nurturing a sense of compassion and responsibility.

Cartoonist: "Cathy," for challenging the fur industry's hype with style and wit, and for promoting the adoption of older dogs from shelters.

Print

Periodical: The Atlantic Monthly, for "From the Leash to the Laboratory," which unmasks the trade involving the theft of dogs for sale to laboratories.

pecial Awards

Ark Trust International Award: Daily Express (United Kingdom), for "Terrible Despair of Animals Cut Up in Name of Research," a two-part expose on xenotransplantation.

Brigitte Bardot International Award: (ARTE), for a segment airing in France and Germany that shines the media spotlight on the abuse of U.S. rodeo animals.

References

*cite news |title=Ark Trust Announces Winners of the Fifteenth Annual Genesis Awards! |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/agriculture-forestry/agriculture-animal-farming/6036153-1.html |work=Entertainment Wire |publisher=AllBusiness |date=February 27 2001 |accessdate=2008-03-17