There is a two-part voting process to find the FMX Award winners. Firstly, a Selection Panel of FMX experts and leading FMX editors, writers and broadcasters from several countries vote to create a shortlist of a maximum five nominations in each category.

Following FMX experts worked on the list for the FMX Awards nominations 2008:

• Jason Moriarty (Headjudge IFMXF, Pro Rider/South Africa)
• Jimmy Verburgh (FMX4Ever/Belgium) 
• Jose Gaspar (fmxnews.com.br/Brazil)
• Jozef Murin (Sony Ericsson FMX/Slovakia)
• Jörg Hotzel (IFMXF - NIGHT of the JUMPs)
• Oliver Franke (Berlinièros Sports Agency)
• Marco Roth (Wrecking Crew, Headjuge IFMXF/Germany)
• Marek Rejman (GSMA,  Gladiator Series/Czech Republic)
• Marko Manthey (IFMXF - NIGHT of the JUMPs)
• Ryan Leba (FMX-Blog - ESPN/USA)
• Soeren Sellmer (IFMXF - NIGHT of the JUMPs)
• Tobias Hannig (forty8.de/Germany)
• Wolfgang Brandt (motoX Magazine/Germany)