shots Awards 2012: TVC of the Year shortlist 2nd October 2012 News of the shots Awards continues apace and after yesterday's unveiling of the Director of the Year shortlist comes the second category announcement, the TV Commercial of the Year shortlist and, by extension, the shots Audience Award. To paraphrase Lloyd Grossman; we deliberated, cogitated and ruminated and were still unable to get the list down to a nice, even 10. So, below, you will find 11 of the best commercials to appear on shots between issues 132 and 138 ; a list that we gladly hand over to our panel of judges [see bottom of page] to further whittle so that only one winner remains. Who that winner might be is open to debate. It's an extremelly strong field but purely based on numerical advantage, Rattling Stick's Ringan Ledwidge must be a strong contender having directed three of the spots (Barnardo's, The Guardian and Nike) but, as the saying goes, it's anyone's game. As well as this being decided by our panel of judges, this category is also the basis of our Audience Award . Anyone from - or indeed not from - the industry can vote for their favourite spot via Twitter. The commercial with the most votes at the closing date (05 November) will, in traditional fashion, be crowned the winner. Votes should be sent to @shotsAwards with the name of the spot and the hashtag #voteshots and entrants can only vote once. Of course, the actual