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The following videos were received as nominees in Round 3.

Round 3 - 35/35

Submission 1

Name: Honey
Video: Not Enough
Song/Artist: Not Enough by Our Lady Peace
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: So Much For Invincible...
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Relationship, Best Drama
Summary: Sam & Dean Winchester (Supernatural). Dealing with the aftermath of the 'big secret' revealed. Can their bond withstand the overwhelming odds against them? Contains clips from Season 1 up until Season 2's "Playthings". File size: 35MB

Submission 2

Name: SpikesPet
Video: Miss You
Song/Artist: Miss You by Aalyiah
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: Crystal's Space
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Ensemble, Best Angst
Summary: This is a Tribute Video to a few of the loved and lost characters on Buffy and Angel!

Submission 3

Name: Starrylizard
Video: The Heist
Song/Artist: Hey Puchuko by Royal Crown Review
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Music Use, Most Humorous, Best Alternative
Summary: The notorious Winchester Boys escape from jail, but will they be able to pull off one final great bank heist and escape with their riches?

Submission 4

Name: mnallison02
Video: It's Been Awhile
Song/Artist: It's Been Awhile by Staind
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Blow Me Away Videos
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Character
Summary: A Dean centered video about his life, losses, and struggles along the way. The song is unedited so there are curse words.

Submission 5

Name: IrishTwilight
Video: Supernatural: Home
Song/Artist: Home by Daughtry
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: YouTube Channel
Categories: Best Music Use, Best POV, Best Character
Summary: A vid for the episode What Is and What Should Never Be. Dean is attacked by a djinn and trapped in a dream where the wish that his mom and Jess never died has come true.

Submission 6

Name: Victoria
Video: Just A Girl
Song/Artist: Just A Girl by No Doubt
Fandom: Angel
Site Name: In Sleep He Sang To Me
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Character, Most Humorous
Summary: Episodic to "Harm's Way". Harmony just wants to matter. Meanwhile, she is framed for the murder of an important Wolfram & Hart client.

Submission 7

Name: Yusagi
Video: Break Me
Song/Artist: Break Me, Shake Me by Savage Garden
Fandom: Heroes
Site Name: Tainted Wishes Awards
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Action, Best Ensemble
Summary: Spoilers up to episode 12. Its a general action tribute to all the characters--their views on how their powers affect them and those around them, even those like Mohinder, who have no power themselves.

Submission 8

Name: Drusilla
Video: Heartbreaker
Song/Artist: Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Site Name: Drusilla Video Awards
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Action, Best Character
Summary: Spike, Spike, Spike: he's a heartbreaker!

Submission 9

Name: Swamy
Video: The Girl That Belongs To Fairytales
Song/Artist: Love Song Requiem by Trading Yesterday
Fandom: Dark Angel
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Relationship, Best Angst, Best Character
Summary: A video about Alec's torment for losing Rachel.

Submission 10

Name: Dooski
Video: In Your Head
Song/Artist: Zombie by Cranberries
Fandom: Dark Angel
Site Name: thedooski
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best POV
Summary: Alec-centric vid showing the haunting memories that he keeps to himself. The filesize is 41MB.

Submission 11

Name: We'reDoomed
Video: Edge Of Faith
Song/Artist: It's All Over by Three Days Grace
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: HammerPixVideo
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Drama, Best Character
Summary: Faith constructed character study based on Buffy/Angel episodes.

Submission 12

Name: Buanann
Video: Here We Are
Song/Artist: Here We Are by Breaking Benjamin
Fandom: Dark Angel
Site Name: Endless Questions
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Character
Summary: An episodic of 'Barrisford Agenda'.

Submission 13

Name: DecadentDream
Video: Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
Song/Artist: Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking by Snow Patrol
Fandom: Heroes
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Character, Best POV
Summary: This vid displays a portrait of a serial killer. Gabriel Sylar is thirsty for power, he wants to be seen as special. He has a different way of viewing the world, slightly askew and distorted, with the self-imposed ability that he can "fix things". This video shows his origins (where he is transformed from the reserved watchmaker to a dangerous power-hungry villain), his battles (to obtain powers and overcome his captors) and his skill (at hiding his own identity & weilding the powers he has gained with undeniable confidence).

Submission 14

Name: Artanis
Video: Turn Back Time
Song/Artist: Turn Back Time by Aqua
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Relationship, Best Alternative
Summary: They have strange on and off relationship, and every night they have the same dream, Buffy/Spike AU.

Submission 15

Name: Andrea
Video: Siva
Song/Artist: Siva by Smashing Pumpkins
Fandom: Angel
Site Name: Buffy And Angel Art
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Character, Best Drama
Summary: Illyria causes havoc with team Angel.

Submission 16

Name: Kimberly
Video: Beautiful Freak
Song/Artist: Beautiful Freak by Janet Robin
Fandom: Angel & Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Site Name: Dreams And Memories
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Relationship, Best POV
Summary: A sweet video about Bangel's relationship mostly told from Buffy's POV.

Submission 17

Name: Kristian
Video: Season 2 Overview
Song/Artist: The Final Fight score by Rob Duncan
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Breathe No More
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Drama
Summary: An overview/recap of Season 2.

Submission 18

Name: Laura
Video: Lexanity
Song/Artist: Flag Pole Sitta by Harvey Danger
Fandom: Smallville
Site Name: Atomic Dreams
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Character
Summary: Video featuring Lex Luthor. Lex has gone quite insane, and everyone is out to get him. (Warnings: sensual imagery, violence, mental abuse)

Submission 19

Name: hay1ock
Video: In Loving Memory
Song/Artist: In Loving Memory by Alterbridge
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Something Wicked
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best Drama
Summary: Dean has lost a lot. Has he finally lost everything? Spoilers: Clips up to All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1. Details: 22mb, wmv, 5min44

Submission 20

Name: Yolanda
Video: Chasing Cars
Song/Artist: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
Fandom: X-Files
Site Name: Yolanda's World
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best POV
Summary: The ins and outs of the X-Files, through the relationship of the two agents.

Submission 21

Name: Dayln
Video: I Had a Dream
Song/Artist: Whatever (I Had a Dream) by Butthole Surfers
Fandom: Supernatural/Lost
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Drama, Sexiest Video
Summary: Sam had a dream/premonition about Kate and flight 815. So he and Dean try to track her down using the people she knows and the places she's been.

Submission 22

Name: Selena
Video: Fix You
Song/Artist: Fix You by Coldplay
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best Drama
Summary: An emotional video about all the things Sam and Dean have been through together and how they are always there for each other and would do anything for each other. 34MB.

Submission 23

Name: Rhianne
Video: Without You
Song/Artist: Without You by Harry Nilssen
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Hidden Muse
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Drama
Summary: A look at the depth of Dean's grief after John's death in In My Time of Dying.

Submission 24

Name: MadMidgetTwins
Video: Supernatural - And death shall have no dominion
Song/Artist: #3 by Sigur Ros
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: YouTube Channel
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Alternative
Summary: This video is based around the beautiful poem 'And death shall have no dominion' by Dylan Thomas (1936) set to the astonishing music 'Untitled 3' (aka Samskeyti) by Sigur Ros. The video basically is a lead up into season 3, and kind of a summary of...everything.

Submission 25

Name: Guardian
Video: Meds
Song/Artist: Meds by Placebo
Fandom: Angel
Site Name: Breaking The Chain
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Action
Summary: A video about the death of Fred and ressurection of Illyria.

Submission 26

Name: Ferd
Video: World's Finest
Song/Artist: Batman Begins Score by Hans Zimmer
Fandom: Smallville/Batman Begins
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Action, Best Ensemble, Best Alternative
Summary: This is a faux movie trailer for a Superman/Batman crossover "World's Finest" movie using the cast from Smallville and Batman Begins along with a couple villains to stir things up. Music is a custom mix implementing sound effects and sound editing.

Submission 27

Name: Shady
Video: Break Stuff
Song/Artist: Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: Shady Designs
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Action
Summary: Action Video. The Sunnydale and La crews are a violent people! Song contains a lot of swearing.

Submission 28

Name: Ringwench
Video: Fell On Black Days
Song/Artist: Fell On Black Days by Soundgarden
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Villainous Imagination
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Angst, Best Character
Summary: Sam's struggles with his powers, his destiny, and the Yellow-Eyed Demon throughout season two.

Submission 29

Name: Abigail Marissa
Video: All My Life
Song/Artist: All My Life by Foo Fighters
Fandom: Smallville
Site Name: Back In Black Girl
Categories: Best Action, Best Angst, Best Drama
Summary: A fast-paced action episodic video of "Zod", the season 6 premiere of Smallville.

Submission 30

Name: Ar-Feiniel
Video: Blue Horizons I
Song/Artist: Love Cliche by Bran Van 3000
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Site Name: Neurotic Miss Brightside
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best Alternative
Summary: Part 1 (of 5) of Kantayra's wonderful story - 'Blue Horizons'. It covers about 12 and half (more or less) first chapters of this fic. Elizabeth Summers comes from the rich family and has always belonged to the clique of popular and beautiful. But her friends are shallow, her mother is dead and father is a demanding, control-freak prick. She doesn't want that life anymore so she decides to start a new life at the University of New York. She finds many new friends there and takes beloved Tae Kwan Do classes. Unfortunately life isn't sunshine and roses - she fails Art history course and has to take Visual Arts classes instead. She also has some guy issues: she starts dating boring and approved by her father Riley Finn, but her eyes are set on infuriating and intriguing William "Spike" Giles, who shares her passion for Tae Kwan Do. Despite that she continues the relationship with Riley and agrees to go with him to Autumn Formal Dance after which they are supposed to take their relationship to the next level of intimacy...

Submission 31

Name: Lsketch42
Video: It's Over Tonight
Song/Artist: 24 by Jem
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Lsketch42's Supernatural Video Vault
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Character, Best POV
Summary: *S2 Finale spoilers.* The yellow-eyed demon took away everything Dean Winchester loved. He may be living on borrowed time, but he's going to make sure the demon gets his due.

Submission 32

Name: Valerie
Video: My Immortal
Song/Artist: My Immortal by Evanescence
Fandom: Heroes
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Relationship, Best POV, Best Alternative
Summary: Okay, so this is my first completely AU vid and it's a Claire/Isaac, or Claisaac, pairing. It's set in the 'Five Years Gone' universe and it's about how Clare remembers Isaac on the fifth anniversary of his death.

Submission 33

Name: Chad
Video: Runaway
Song/Artist: Runaway by Pink
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Site Name: Bring On The Night
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Character, Best Drama
Summary: An episodic vid of The Becoming 1 and 2, and Anne. It shows Buffy's emotional breakdown at the end of Season 2 and how it forces her to leave town and start over in Los Angeles.

Submission 34

Name: Martouf Marty
Video: Die Another Day
Song/Artist: Die Another Day by Madonna
Fandom: Heroes
Site Name: Pretty Pictures For The Masses
Categories: Best Action, Best Character, Best POV
Summary: A general Peter Petrelli vid - file is 40mbs.

Submission 35

Name: divine_chick
Video: That Kind Of Love
Song/Artist: That Kind Of Love by Alison Krauss
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: Buffy Vids
Categories: Best Ensemble, Best Drama, Best Alternative
Summary: Gunn from Angel series sleeps with Katrina (Warren's girl) when Warren finds out he kills them both.