"Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "War Horse" and the documentary "Buck" were among the films nominated for the 26th Genesis Awards by the Human Society of the United States, the HSUS announced on Tuesday.
The Genesis Awards honor films with animal-friendly themes and creative portrayals of animal protection. (In the case of "Planet of the Apes," that means a film in which apes engage in a violent revolt against mistreatment.)
In the feature film category, "Apes" and "War Horse" were nominated alongside "Dolphin Tale" and the animated film "Rio."
"Buck" will compete in the Feature Documentary category against "One Lucky Elephant" and the IMAX 3D doc "Born to Be Wild."
The most famous 2011 film to feature an animal, "The Artist," was not nominated.
The HSUS also nominated a number of television shows, news programs, magazines, newspapers and online journalism.
The television series "The Glades" and "Hawaii Five-O" were the only nominees in the Dramatic Series category, while nominees for the Sid Caesar Comedy Award included "The Colbert Report," "The Cleveland Show" and "Melissa & Joey."
The Genesis Awards will take place on March 24 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and will be hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba. A one-hour version will air on Animal Planet in May.
The nominations:
FEATURE FILM
DOLPHIN TALE Alcon Entertainment
RIO Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment
WAR HORSE DreamWorks SKG
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
BORN TO BE WILD 3D Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
BUCK Sundance Selects, Cedar Creek Productions
ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT Crossover Productions, Sandbar Pictures
SID CAESAR COMEDY AWARD
THE CLEVELAND SHOW Ain’t Nothin’ But Mutton Bustin’, FOX
THE COLBERT REPORT multiple issues Comedy Central
MELISSA & JOEY Toledo’s Next Top Model ABC Family
DRAMATIC SERIES
THE GLADES Swamp Thing A&E
HAWAII FIVE-0 Lapa’au CBS
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE Dangerous Crossroads: Human Animal vs. Wild Animal Nickelodeon
SID THE SCIENCE KID Save the Stump! PBS Kids
TV NEWSMAGAZINE
20/20 egg farm cruelty ABC
ANDERSON COOPER 360 multiple issues CNN
E:60 cockfighting ESPN
ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL multiple issues HLN
NATIONAL NEWS
ABC WORLD NEWS WITH DIANE SAWYER egg farm cruelty
CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC multiple issues
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS multiple issues
LOCAL NEWS FEATURE
KHOU-TV (Houston) multiple issues
KPHO-TV (Phoenix) CBS 5 Investigates Canned Hunts
KTLA NEWS AT 10 (Los Angeles) multiple issues
WPMI-TV (Mobile) Alabama’s Blood Sport andTraining to Fight
LOCAL NEWS SERIES
KTNV-TV (Las Vegas) LOLAA Kennel
WOIO-TV19 ACTION NEWS (Cleveland) Torture at the E6 Cattle Ranch
MORNING NEWS SHOW
SUNDAY MORNING BATS! from Barry Petersen CBS
TODAY multiple issues from Jill Rappaport NBC
TODAY Online Puppy Salesfrom Lisa Myers NBC
TALK SHOW
THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW multiple issues
THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW vegan cooking
THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW vegan challenge
TV DOCUMENTARY/SPECIALS
GORDON RAMSAY:SHARK BAIT BBC America
MADONNA OF THE MILLS HBO2
NATURE Broken Tail: A Tiger’s Last Journey PBS
REALITY SERIES
ANIMAL PLANET INVESTIGATES: CAPTIVE HUNTING EXPOSED
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE Blood Ivory and Making a Killing Nat Geo Wild
IT’S ME OR THE DOG Bone Of Contention Animal Planet
VANGUARD Tiger Farms Current TV
BRIGITTE BARDOT INTERNATIONAL
KOPI LUWAK / ETHICAL CONSUMERISM Carte Blanche M-Net South Africa
THE MEDAN CONNECTION Carte Blanche M-Net South Africa
OUTSTANDING WRITTEN WORD
MAGAZINE
MOTHER JONES The Cruelest Show on Earth by Deborah Nelson
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC multiple articles Editor in Chief, Chris Johns
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE multiple articles Editor in Chief, Susan Casey
VANITY FAIR Agony and Ivory by Alex Shoumatoff
SERIES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER Janet Patton
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Chris Adams
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Philip Walzer
ONLINE AWARD
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