The 2005 Media Boy Poll is now open. Vote for your favorites by sending an e-mail to v...@aftipoll.co.uk . Voting will end on January 20, 2006 at 11:59PM Pacific time.
The complete list of nominees will follow, but first please review the rules for eligibility and voting. You can also see the list, the rules, and the address to mail a ballot at this website: http://aftipoll.co.uk/ . I might also ask that, before voting, you review the list of nominees so as to ensure that your memories of the year gone by are completely refreshed.
There are two rules for eligibility: A performer must have been:
1. a part of a production (either in the movies, TV, music, or theatre) that had first run original status in any part of 2005, and 2. 17 years of age or younger in any part of 2005.
Here are the rules for voting:
1. Fans should submit 5 performers' (or fewer) names from the list of nominees to the email address available when voting commences. Voters are encouraged to vote for the performers who they feel made the most significant impact in the media in 2005 by way of outstanding performances, significant contributions, and other brilliant and memorable achievements. Please feel free to vote for whomever you choose, but note that the AFTI Poll is not a popularity or "beauty contest", but is rather a Poll to help determine the performer who is most deserving of this honor based on his talents and accomplishments, as voted by you, the fans.
2. When voting, list your top five choices from the list of nominees below, making note of your #1 choice, #2 choice, and so on. Please make your choice obvious as to your #1 choice, #2 choice, all the way to your #5 choice. You may not vote for the same star more than once; such ballots will be discarded and the star will receive no points. Ballots with more than 5 choices will be sent back untabulated for prioritization.
Your choices will receive points as follows: your #1 choice will be assigned 5 points, your #2 choice will be assigned 4 points, your #3 choice will be assigned 3 points, your #4 choice will be assigned 2 points, your #5 choice will be assigned 1 point.
Fewer than 5 votes will be weighted less - the number of names you submit will be the point value of your #1 vote and it will count down from there.
Votes with performers' names deemed ineligible will be sent back once to be modified.
3. Everyone may vote only once . Please be fair and vote only one time. We will be taking extreme measures to detect anyone, or organized campaigns, attempting to "stuff the ballot-box". If an individual is believed to be voting more than once or involved with a campaign intended to "stuff the ballot-box", all votes from that user will be discarded .
4. In the event that two or more performers are tied for 1st place because they accumulated the same number of points at the Poll's end, the tie will be broken based on the following: - The performer with the most overall votes will be declared the winner. - If the performers are still tied after applying tie-breaker 1 above, the performer who accumulated the most 1st place votes will be declared the winner. - If the performers are still tied after applying tie-breakers 1 & 2 above, a tie for 1st place will be declared. - A tie for any other position in the Poll than 1st place will remain a tie; no tie-breaking criteria will be applied.
5. The Committee's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Results will be published shortly after the Poll closes, once all votes have been counted and validated.
And now...(drum roll please, Frankie)...
NOMINEES FOR THE 2005 AFTI MEDIA BOY POLL List dated: Tuesday 10th January 2006 17:06:55 PST
A
Jake Abel; Go Figure (cast), Threshhold (guest) Dalmar Abuzeid; Degrassi: TNG (guest) Spencer Achtymichuk; The Dead Zone (recurring) Waclaw Adamczyk; The Welts (aka Pregi) (lead) Seth Adkins; The West Wing (guest), Bad News Bears (star) Devon Alan; Blind Justice (guest) Eddie Alderson; One Life to Live (recurring) Reed Alexander; Will & Grace (guest) Hunter Allan; The Young And The Restless (recurring) Andrew James Allen; The Unknown (cast) Adrian Alonso; Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices) (cast) Allen Alvarado; Flight 29 Down (star) John Patrick Amedori; House (guest), Rocky Point (star), Ghost Whisperer (guest) Sean Flynn Amir; Zoey 101 (star) Alan Andersz; The Welts (aka Pregi) (cast) Michael Angarano; Dear Wendy (lead), Sky High (lead), Lords of Dogtown (star) Cody Arens; Arthur Hailey's Detective (cast) Daiki Arioka; Engine (star), J.J.Express (singer) Patrick Aspbury; singer: The Choirboys, Celebrate Oliver! (guest)
B
Brendon Baerg; Yes, Dear (star) Pax Baldwin; The Snow Queen (lead) Taylor Ball; Still Standing (star) Konrad Baumann; Die Wilden Kerle II (star) Shane Baumel; Phil of the Future (guest), King of Queens (guest) Dennis Bendersky; The Suite Life of Zachery and Cody (guest) David Benger; The Squid and the Whale (cast) Jimmy Bennett; Everwood (recurring), Hostage (star) Nick Benson; Summerland (star) Neilen Benvegnu; The Sandlot 2 (star) Luke Benward; Because of Winn Dixie (cast) Sean Berdy; The Sandlot 2 (star) Jeremy Bergman; Kicking & Screaming (star) Loren Berman; Sky High (cast), Zoey 101 (recurring) Greg Bernstein; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, cast) Raban Bieling; Die Wilden Kerle II (star) Alex Black; Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (recurring), ER (guest) Corbin Bleu; Flight 29 Down (star) Jonah Bobo; Zathura (star), Strangers with Candy (cast), The Best Thief in the World (lead) David Bode; Der Schatz der weissen Falken (lead) Taylor Boggan; Summerland (guest), Judging Amy (guest) Philip Bolden; Are We There Yet? (lead) Levi Bonilla; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Asher Book; Zoey 101 (guest), Sylvan commercials, Come Away Home (cast) Devon Bostick; Knights of the South Bronx (cast), Shania: A Life in Eight Albums (cast), Land of the Dead (cast) Cameron Bowen; Malcolm in the Middle (guest) Cayden Boyd; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (star), Cold Case (guest), Close to Home (guest), Night Stalker (guest) Spencer Breslin; Center of the Universe (star) Cameron Bright; Stargate SG-1 (recurring), Ultraviolet (star), Thank You for Smoking (star) Ian Brinnanstool; Kid Billy vs the Kidnappers (star), Veronica Mars (guest) Hayden Bromberg; Everybody Hates Chris (guest), ER (guest) Kody Brown; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Sean Browne; Dear Frankie (star) Daryl Brunt; Canadian Idol 3 Benjamin Bryan; Without a Trace (guest), Everybody Hates Chris (guest), Rodney (guest) Miguel Bua; Heroína (cast) Alex Buck; CSI: Miami (recurring), Beautiful Dreamer (star) Max Burkholder; Fathers and Sons (cast), Love for Rent (cast), The O.C. (guest) Adam Butcher; Saint Ralph(lead) Paul Butcher; Zoey 101 (star), Medical Investigation (guest), Bones (guest), Reeker (cast)
C
Adam Cagley; Complete Savages (guest), The War at Home (guest), Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (guest) Noel Callahan; Romeo! (star) Milton De La Canal; Hermanas (star); Morir en San Hilario (cast) Ridge Canipe; Bad News Bears (star), Walk the Line (cast) Drew Carr; Criminal Minds (guest) Aaron Carter; musician, Supercross (cast), Popstar (lead) Dane Carter; Tom Brown's Schooldays (lead) Dylan Cash; General Hospital (recurring) Brendan Caskey; Mickybo And Me (cast) Michael Cera; Arrested Development (star) Harrison Chad; Tarzan II (voice), Dora the Explorer (voice), Caroline or Change (lead) Andrew Chalmers; Darcy's Wild Life (star) Kyle Chambers; Rebound Dean Charles Chapman; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, cast) Lewis Chase; Oliver Twist (cast) Tylor Chase; Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (recurring) Jake Cherry; Head Cases (star), The Boondocks (guest) Elliott Cho; Kicking & Screaming (star) Dyllan Christopher; Without a Trace (guest), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (guest) Barney Clark; Oliver Twist (lead) Spencer Treat Clark; Loverboy (cast) Charlie Clarke; Mickybo And Me (cast) Hunter Clary; Snow Wonder (star), Transporter 2 (star), Stories from Nana K.; The Circus Is in Town (star) Raphael Coleman; Nanny McPhee (lead) Ryan Coleman; All That (star) Dean Collins; Jack and Bobby (recurring), The War at Home (star), Yours, Mine and Ours (star) Martin Combes; Papa (lead), Les Enfants (cast) Alexander Conti; Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (star), The Pacifier (cast), Kojak (guest) Leon Cooke; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, lead), Blue Peter (guest), Ready Steady Cook (guest) Ryan Cooley; Degrassi: The Next Generation, Life with Derek (guest) Rory Copus; The Poseidon Adventure (2005) (star) Brady Corbet; Mysterious Skin (star) Brandon Craggs; Bad News Bears (star), Fever Pitch (cast) Noah Crawford; My Name Is Earl (recurring) Rory Culkin; The Chumscrubber (cast)
D
Evan Lee Dahl; Criminal Minds (guest), Zoey 101 (guest) Wayne Dalglish; Judging Amy (guest), Close to Home (guest) Ethan Dampf; American Dreams (star) Jacob Davich; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (star), Fun with Dick and Jane (cast) Jeffrey Davies; Bad News Bears (star) Oliver Davis; Rodney (star), ER (recurring) Thomas Dekker; 7th Heaven (recurring) Dylan Denton; As the World Turns (recurring), Robots: The IMAX Experience (voice) Will Denton; Palindromes (cast), Robots (voice) Timmy Deters; Bad News Bears (star), Kicking and Screaming (star) James Dicker; Spooks (guest) Oskar Dixon; Happy Birthday Peter Pan (voice) Jason Dolley; Complete Savages (star) Marc Donato; Degrassi: TNG (guest) David Dorfman; The Ring Two Devin Douglas Drewitz; The Road That Binds Us (star) Blair Dunlop; Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (cast) Austin Dunn; The Sandlot 2 (cast) Casey Dyer; Doctor Who (guest)
E
Harry Eden; Oliver Twist (lead) Bobby Edner; Commercials Zac Efron; Summerland (recurring), CSI: Miami (guest), The Derby Stallion
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If you have not yet cast your ballot for your favorite actors of 2005, there is no time like the present to do so! Go to http://aftipoll.co.uk/ and peruse the nominees and rules and get your ballot in this week. And tune in right here to AFTI one week from today for the countdown party, halftime show, and all that good stuff. :)
Just for consistency's sake, here is the complete slate of nominees:
NOMINEES FOR THE 2005 AFTI MEDIA BOY POLL List dated: Sunday 15th January 2006 16:06:50 PST
A
Jake Abel; Go Figure (cast), Threshhold (guest) Dalmar Abuzeid; Degrassi: TNG (guest) Spencer Achtymichuk; The Dead Zone (recurring) Waclaw Adamczyk; The Welts (aka Pregi) (lead) Seth Adkins; The West Wing (guest), Bad News Bears (star) Devon Alan; Blind Justice (guest) Eddie Alderson; One Life to Live (recurring) Reed Alexander; Will & Grace (guest) Hunter Allan; The Young And The Restless (recurring) Andrew James Allen; The Unknown (cast) Adrian Alonso; Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices) (cast) Allen Alvarado; Flight 29 Down (star) John Patrick Amedori; House (guest), Rocky Point (star), Ghost Whisperer (guest) Sean Flynn Amir; Zoey 101 (star) Alan Andersz; The Welts (aka Pregi) (cast) Michael Angarano; Dear Wendy (lead), Sky High (lead), Lords of Dogtown (star) Cody Arens; Arthur Hailey's Detective (cast) Daiki Arioka; Engine (star), J.J.Express (singer) Patrick Aspbury; singer: The Choirboys, Celebrate Oliver! (guest)
B
Brendon Baerg; Yes, Dear (star) Pax Baldwin; The Snow Queen (lead) Taylor Ball; Still Standing (star) Konrad Baumann; Die Wilden Kerle II (star) Shane Baumel; Phil of the Future (guest), King of Queens (guest) Dennis Bendersky; The Suite Life of Zachery and Cody (guest) David Benger; The Squid and the Whale (cast) Jimmy Bennett; Everwood (recurring), Hostage (star) Nick Benson; Summerland (star) Neilen Benvegnu; The Sandlot 2 (star) Luke Benward; Because of Winn Dixie (cast) Sean Berdy; The Sandlot 2 (star) Jeremy Bergman; Kicking & Screaming (star) Loren Berman; Sky High (cast), Zoey 101 (recurring) Greg Bernstein; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, cast) Raban Bieling; Die Wilden Kerle II (star) Alex Black; Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (recurring), ER (guest) Corbin Bleu; Flight 29 Down (star) Jonah Bobo; Zathura (star), Strangers with Candy (cast), The Best Thief in the World (lead) David Bode; Der Schatz der weissen Falken (lead) Taylor Boggan; Summerland (guest), Judging Amy (guest) Philip Bolden; Are We There Yet? (lead) Levi Bonilla; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Asher Book; Zoey 101 (guest), Sylvan commercials, Come Away Home (cast) Devon Bostick; Knights of the South Bronx (cast), Shania: A Life in Eight Albums (cast), Land of the Dead (cast) Cameron Bowen; Malcolm in the Middle (guest) Cayden Boyd; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (star), Cold Case (guest), Close to Home (guest), Night Stalker (guest) Spencer Breslin; Center of the Universe (star) Cameron Bright; Stargate SG-1 (recurring), Ultraviolet (star), Thank You for Smoking (star) Ian Brinnanstool; Kid Billy vs the Kidnappers (star), Veronica Mars (guest) Hayden Bromberg; Everybody Hates Chris (guest), ER (guest) Kody Brown; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Sean Browne; Dear Frankie (star) Daryl Brunt; Canadian Idol 3 Benjamin Bryan; Without a Trace (guest), Everybody Hates Chris (guest), Rodney (guest) Miguel Bua; Heroína (cast) Alex Buck; CSI: Miami (recurring), Beautiful Dreamer (star) Max Burkholder; Fathers and Sons (cast), Love for Rent (cast), The O.C. (guest) Adam Butcher; Saint Ralph(lead) Paul Butcher; Zoey 101 (star), Medical Investigation (guest), Bones (guest), Reeker (cast)
C
Adam Cagley; Complete Savages (guest), The War at Home (guest), Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (guest) Noel Callahan; Romeo! (star) Milton De La Canal; Hermanas (star); Morir en San Hilario (cast) Ridge Canipe; Bad News Bears (star), Walk the Line (cast) Drew Carr; Criminal Minds (guest) Aaron Carter; musician, Supercross (cast), Popstar (lead) Dane Carter; Tom Brown's Schooldays (lead) Dylan Cash; General Hospital (recurring) Brendan Caskey; Mickybo And Me (cast) Michael Cera; Arrested Development (star) Harrison Chad; Tarzan II (voice), Dora the Explorer (voice), Caroline or Change (lead) Andrew Chalmers; Darcy's Wild Life (star) Kyle Chambers; Rebound Dean Charles Chapman; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, cast) Lewis Chase; Oliver Twist (cast) Tylor Chase; Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (recurring) Jake Cherry; Head Cases (star), The Boondocks (guest) Elliott Cho; Kicking & Screaming (star) Dyllan Christopher; Without a Trace (guest), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (guest) Barney Clark; Oliver Twist (lead) Spencer Treat Clark; Loverboy (cast) Charlie Clarke; Mickybo And Me (cast) Hunter Clary; Snow Wonder (star), Transporter 2 (star), Stories from Nana K.; The Circus Is in Town (star) Raphael Coleman; Nanny McPhee (lead) Ryan Coleman; All That (star) Dean Collins; Jack and Bobby (recurring), The War at Home (star), Yours, Mine and Ours (star) Martin Combes; Papa (lead), Les Enfants (cast) Alexander Conti; Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (star), The Pacifier (cast), Kojak (guest) Leon Cooke; Billy Elliot: The Musical (stage, lead), Blue Peter (guest), Ready Steady Cook (guest) Ryan Cooley; Degrassi: The Next Generation, Life with Derek (guest) Rory Copus; The Poseidon Adventure (2005) (star) Brady Corbet; Mysterious Skin (star) Brandon Craggs; Bad News Bears (star), Fever Pitch (cast) Noah Crawford; My Name Is Earl (recurring) Rory Culkin; The Chumscrubber (cast)
D
Evan Lee Dahl; Criminal Minds (guest), Zoey 101 (guest) Wayne Dalglish; Judging Amy (guest), Close to Home (guest) Ethan Dampf; American Dreams (star) Jacob Davich; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (star), Fun with Dick and Jane (cast) Jeffrey Davies; Bad News Bears (star) Oliver Davis; Rodney (star), ER (recurring) Thomas Dekker; 7th Heaven (recurring) Dylan Denton; As the World Turns (recurring), Robots: The IMAX Experience (voice) Will Denton; Palindromes (cast), Robots (voice) Timmy Deters; Bad News Bears (star), Kicking and Screaming (star) James Dicker; Spooks (guest) Oskar Dixon; Happy Birthday Peter Pan (voice) Jason Dolley; Complete Savages (star) Marc Donato; Degrassi: TNG (guest) David Dorfman; The Ring Two Devin Douglas Drewitz; The Road That Binds Us (star) Blair Dunlop; Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (cast) Austin Dunn; The Sandlot 2 (cast) Casey Dyer; Doctor Who (guest)
E
Harry Eden; Oliver Twist (lead) Bobby Edner; Commercials Zac Efron; Summerland (recurring), CSI: Miami (guest), The Derby Stallion (star) Evan Ellingson; Complete Savages (star). Bones (guest) Hunter Elliott; School of Life (cast) Chase Ellison; Mysterious Skin (cast), Malcolm in the Middle (guest), Young and the Restless (recurring) Alfred Enoch; Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (cast) Stephan Enquist; Darkness Wyatt Entrekin; Walk the Line (cast) Josh Eriksson; Numb3rs (guest) Eugenio Esposito; The Greatest Game Ever Played (cast) Cody Estes; Numb3rs (guest) Emmanuel Estrada; Bad News Bears (star) Alex Etel; Millions (lead) Griffin Reilly Evans; The Sandlot 2 (cast)
F
Matthew Fahey; Close to Home (guest) Tamino-Turgay Zum Felde; Der Schatz der weissen Falken (lead) Alejandro Felipe; Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices) (cast) Tom Felton; Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (cast) Tomasso Ferro; L'Estate di mio fratello (star) Logan Fields; Veronica Mars (guest) Sammy Fine; Kicking & Screaming (star), ER (guest, Arrested Development (guest) Josh Flitter; The Greatest Game Ever Played (cast), Phil of the Future (guest) Griffin Frazen; Grounded for Life (star) Jordan Fry; Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (lead)
G
Matteo Gadola; Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti (lead) Kyle Gallner; Judging Amy (guest), Veronica Mars (recurring), Jack & Bobby (recurring) Luis Armand Garcia; George Lopez (star) Luke Garmon; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Jordan Garrett; Thank You for Smoking (cast), Medium (guest) Washington Garzon; Crónicas (cast) Troy Gentile; Bad News Bears (star) Christopher Gerse; Days of Our Lives (recurring), Monk (guest) Billy Gilman; singer/musician Jack Gleeson; Batman Begins (cast) Jake Goldsbie; Degrassi: The Next Generation Hunter Gomez; National Treasure (cast), Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (guest), The Hunter Gomez show (host) Adam Taylor Gordon; Weeds (recurring) Alexander Gould; Weeds (star) Shane Graham; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (cast), The Faith of Joey Rail (star) Rupert Grint; Happy Birthday Peter Pan (voice), Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (star) Chen Guanbo; Bear Hug (lead)
H
Roni Haarakangas; Pelican Man (aka Pelikaanimies) (lead) Shane Haboucha; Everwood (recurring), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (guest), Justice League (voice, guest), Monk (guest), Without a Trace (guest), ER (guest) Niall Hanna; Mickybo And Me (cast) K.C. Harris; Bad News Bears (star) Oskar Hassler; Mutter aus heiterem Himmel (lead) Josh Hayden; Deck the Halls (star), Two for the Money (cast), Fetching Cody (cast), Killer Instinct (cast) Levi Hayes; Oliver Twist (cast) David Henrie; House (guest), That's So Raven (recurring), How I Met Your Mother (star) James Henrie; Ghost Whisperer (guest), Wanted (guest) Florian Heppert; Die Wilden Kerle II (cast) Joshua Herdman; Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (cast) Filip Hess; Oliver Twist (cast) Adam Hicks; The 12 Dogs of Christmas (star) Freddie Highmore; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (star) Ferdinand Falsen Hiis; Hawaii, Oslo (star) G. Lane Hillman; Close to Home (guest) Samuel Hodge; Sugar Creek Gang movies (star) Tyler Hoechlin; 7th Heaven (star) Gus Hoffman; Rebound (star) Masam Holden; Without a Trace (guest), Elizabethtown (cast), Miracle at Sage Creek (cast) Mitch Holleman; Reba (star) Leo Holm; Håkan Bråkan & Josef (star) Joel Homan; Yes, Dear (star) Kanata Hongo; Hinokio: Inter
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