Rules & Fees
Eligibility Period
Entries produced between January 1 and December 31 2022 are eligible for entry into the awards.
General Eligibility
All work entered into shots Awards: Americas 2023 should have aired/first appeared online no earlier than 1 January 2022. To classify as being from ‘The Americas’, the work should have been developed through an agency based in North America, South America or Canada.
Where there is no agency, but the idea was developed in-house by the brand, the in-house dept should be based in North America, South America or Canada. If there was no agency or in-house creative dept, the production company should be based in North America, South America or Canada. If there was no agency or in-house creative dept or production company… are you sure you’re entering the correct awards show?
Entry Fees
EARLY BIRD - DEADLINE: January 6 2023
1-4 Entries $295/entry
5+ Entries $250.75/entry (15% discount)
NORMAL ENTRY - DEADLINE: February 10 2023
1-4 Entries $355/entry
5+ Entries $301.75/entry (15% discount)
Payment must be received for all entries before they will be approved for judging.
Payment can be made securely online by credit card at time of submission.
Payment by bank transfer for larger numbers of entries can be made - Please contact us.
Judging
This year the shots Awards has altered its judging system and the way in which it correlates results for certain categories. From 2022 we will have jury heads for different categories, or groups of categories, and they and their fellow jury members will decide both the shortlisted work and, after a period of online deliberation, the eventual winners.
Further to this, points will be allocated to shortlisted and winning work, and the respective companies involved in making that work, to ascertain the winners of the company and people categories [listed below], with the company/person gaining the greatest number of points announced as the winner.
The points allocation is as follows:
- Shortlisted work: 1 point
- Bronze winning work: 3 points
- Silver winning work: 5 points
- Gold winning work: 8 points
- Grand Prix winner: 10 points
The categories for which the above points system is employed:
- Director of the Year
- VFX Company of the Year
- Agency of the Year
- Editing House
- Editor of the Year
- Production Co of the Year
- Audio Company of the Year
