WELCOME TO THE ART OF VIDDING AWARDS

- A Multifandom Fan Vid contest -

 We  accept nominations from all TV, Movie & Animated Source

(please check rules for any genre exception)

After  six rounds, there will be a 'Best Of' round.

STATUS

 Round 15 not open yet

Special Theme Round Winners Announced

UPDATES

4.2.2010  New affiliate - why not check them out while you are waiting for the next round to open here ?   The layout will be updated shortly and details of the new  round will be posted.

7.1.10 A little later than I'd hoped (the awards got snowed in...) The Special Theme Round awards are now posted. Congratulations to everyone, we had fun watching these!.  Also please check out our new affiliate - Bound To Happen Awards.   And finally this years contest is open at The Fourth Wall, if you are looking to submit your best vid of 2009. 

Our next Normal round won't open until Mid February, so please don't submit until you see the announcement. ( Aurora I have your entry so I will hang on to that for this forthcoming round).  

23.12.09 Viewers Choice poll has now been added to the Special Theme Round page here. Please vote for your favourite. The Poll will close on 2.01.2010

20.12.09 The special Theme Round is now closed, thank you to everyone who sent in an entry. If you don't see your submission please let me know. I will try to get judges awards up before New Year - A poll for Viewers choice will be posted shortly.

30.11.09 The entries I have received so far are now updated. I hope we get more, so I shall be promoting the competition around the place. If you know any vidders who may be interested please point them this-away!

12.11.09 Although the form works for me, I'm not entirely convinced so I have temporarily set up a 'freedback' form to use.  Any problems please tag.  We've 3 submissions so far which I will update shortly - love to have more :)

9.11.09 Theme layout is up. I would appreciate a tag once you have submitted - I'm checking that the form is working,  - Please spread the news about the competition - You can use the codes below. If we get enough entries I'll make 'vote for' banners for the polls. 

8.11.09 - Special Theme round is Open!!   'Tis the Season'    Send in those Seasonal vids, full details here.  .  I shall be back to put up the new layout and also we have a new affiliate - Check out Destiny's site

23.10.09 I shall have more information on the special round for you all shortly, so please check back later.   To enable better understanding of how we arrive at our decisions check out the FAQ on judging criteria. They are pretty straightforward, if anyone feels they need further clarification on these,  I'll happily answer questions but use the contact email and not the tag board.  And would just like to state the following : The editing program used is irrelevant to us at AvA,  that's why we don't mention it in the rules/entry form  and after this comment won't again. It is the vid we are judging, in our time spent watching vids over the last 6 or 7 years, we've seen masterpieces created by the most basic of programs and disasters from the very sophisticated.   It is a tough competition here and you should carefully consider this when making your submission.   After the next Special Round the Art of Vidding Awards will move to just two normal rounds a year, in Spring and Autumn. More information on that nearer the time.

20.10.09 Finally the winners for Round 14 are announced. Once again the vids in this round were of a very high standard, narrowing these down to just the top two (and sometimes three) for each category  was difficult.  Increasingly we find submissions that may  have previously won a category, miss out even on the Special Awards of Merit. We hope you all feel that this quality of submissions makes the awards even more worth while, just  take  into consideration the intense competition and mind blowing  talent on show here in each round.   We (the judges) enjoy watching each and every entry we receive at the Art of Vidding Awards and hope you will continue to participate in future rounds.   And neatly segued into news about the next round... its a Special theme round  'Holiday Season'  (because it will include more than just Christmas or Yuletide/Hanukkah etc ).  I will be giving more details in the next day or two and just like the decorations going up early in the shops,  the layout at Art of Vidding Awards will be updated around Mid November ready for entries.    

19.10.09 Award banners are nearly finished - I would hope to have them posted tonight or tomorrow.

10.10.09 Finalizing the judging. I will be starting on the awards this weekend,  when I get close to posting them I'll let you all know. Please don't submit yet,  there's plans for a Special Round that I will tell you about when the awards are posted.

30.9.09 Just finished short listing the entries in this round. It's taking a long time but you only have yourselves to blame by submitting such excellent vids.  New award site affiliate, Always Holding On Awards run by Mariana.

19.09.09  Just to tell you about a new competition over at Vision in Video Awards - If you have a vid you think will fit then do submit.  Strawberrybisque is waiting for your vids!

13.09.09 Still in the first phase of judging - this round will probably take a while. In the meantime please check out an new award site affiliate - 'Viva' Visions in Video  Awards - There's an Halloween Special Round currently open.

24.08.09 And Round 14 closes with the last two submissions. We have 36 to judge. I'll update on our progress shortly.

22.08.09 Back from my summer holiday and I have updated all the nominations received so far. If yours is not listed please let me know and also resubmit.  Round closes tomorrow night.

6.8.09 The first batch of nominations are posted - Fifteen so far and thank you to everyone who has sent one in, some interesting fandoms so it's looking good. I will not be updating now for two weeks at least - please tag to let me know if you have sent something in and if your entry is not listed now, please resubmit.  See you all soon.

4.8.09 Well events just conspired to delay the making of awards,  so apologies for the very long wait this round. They are now posted  - Congratulations to all , a very competitive round and a broad range of fandoms.  Round 14 is now open for submissions (read the rules please!) - I will be back in a couple of days to post submissions received so far and update the layout,  but then I will be away until 22nd August. This round will close on the 23rd August so it is best if you can get your entries in as soon as possible.  Please note from the last round -  Asharan that your vid download file appeared to be corrupted as it stopped midplay. Feel free to re-enter in the new round once you've fixed it as it was not judged.

 13.7.09 We've started making awards.  Won't be too long now.

4.7.09  We are in the 2nd phase of judging for this round.  Awards should be up before the end of the month, I'll update again once we start making the banners. Please hold submissions.

9.06.09 Currently downloading the vids for judging . All normal round awards from Rd1 through 6 have been taken offline. You can still see the results in the Archive section, but the award banners are not shown. If anyone has forgotten to save their copy just tag and I'll email it.  Also new Award Site Affiliate:

5.06.09 New Affiliate Lizzie's Award site. Thanks for the Tags Mariana & Lena.

2.06.09 Ok -Round Thirteen is closed with 39 Nominations, please hold further submissions. The last two nominations  are pending tags from Mariana and Lena. I will start download the entries and check for link back codes. We have lots of new vidders, some welcome familiar faces and a great diversity of TV and Movie fandoms -  Looks to be a great round. Thank you everyone for submitting.  Once we start judging we'll have a better idea of when we expect to post awards.

22.05.09 Added two more nominations. I will be away for a week so please keep sending in the vids - I will do the final update when I return so feel free to tag me but I may not be able to reply until then.  Remember the Round Closes on 1st June.

19.5.09 More nominations added (and one correction for Crystal) We're at 22, so that's a great start. Thank you.

17.05.09 - Thank you everyone. The first eighteen nominations are up. The round will close on the 1st June. Any questions please leave a tag.

16.05.09 - Round Thirteen is now open. The big change is that  the AvA's are now a Multi fandom Vidding contest. We will accept any fan vid with source from TV, Movie & Animation fandoms  (there is a note regarding one particular genre in the rules so please read) There have also been changes to the categories that may be awarded and check for the new  code phrase. New Codes for linking are also available and I will take code requests.  Please read the rules before submitting.

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