2005 Long Mr. Pointy Award Winner:

Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

2005 Short Mr. Pointy Award Winner

David Lavery, “I Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult (Slayage 13-14).

Nominee:

Greg Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Dallas: Hamilton Books, 2004

Nominees:

James South, "On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7" (Slayage 11-12).

Elizabeth Rambo,  “Lessons” for Season Seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Slayage 13-14).

Patricia Pender, "'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon." Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Ed. Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford. New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 2004: 164-174.

Yael Sherman, "Tracing the Carnival Spirit in BtVS: Feminist Reworkings of the Grotesque." thirdspace 3.2 (March 2004)