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XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: Best Performers and Personalities

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And now our annual annotated list of the XBiz Award Nominees for The 2015 XBiz Awards to be held in Los Angeles on January 15, 2015. Special thanks to Videotramp Reviewer and IAFD Editor Jamie for getting the data entered…

Best New Starlet

Crossover Star of the Year

Female Performer of the Year

Foreign Female Performer of the Year

Foreign Male Performer of the Year

Girl/Girl Performer of the Year

Male Performer of the Year

MILF Performer of the Year

Transsexual Performer of the Year

XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: Best Releases

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All-Black Release of the Year

All-Girl Release of the Year

All-Sex Release of the Year

Amateur Release of the Year

Asian-Themed Release of the Year

BDSM Release of the Year

Couples-Themed Release of the Year

European Feature Release of the Year

European Non-Feature Release of the Year

Feature Movie of the Year

Feminist Porn Release of the Year

Fetish Release of the Year

Gonzo Release of the Year

Interracial Release of the Year

Latin-Themed Release of the Year

Parody Release of the Year: Comedy

Parody Release of the Year: Drama

Pro-Am Release of the Year

Specialty Release of the Year

Transsexual Release of the Year

Vignette Release of the Year

XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: An Introduction and Errata

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So begins awards season, and so begins our coverage of same with our annotated lists of nominees; annotated by virtue of we link to the people and titles that have garnered nominations this season.

In reviewing these lists, we are shocked by their scope  and magnitude, and we also manage to find some errors along the way. Statistically speaking, the percentage is infetesimal – but to our data-obsessed minds, they’re still erroneous.

So, the errata:

Best Scene, Couples Themed Release, Siri and Steven St. Croix get the nod for Rekindling the Flame when that scene does not actually exist and St. Croix isn’t in the movie.  Siri is paired with Richie Calhoun.

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Best Scene, Feature Movie: Stoya and Rocco get the nod for carnal capering in Voracious Season Two, Vol 4 … but their scene was actually in Volume 3.

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So really, two errors in 800+ nominations isn’t so bad… unless you’re Richie Calhoun, I guess….

And now some stats.  Assuming the database summed things correctly, the most honored performers are:

  1. James Deen, 9 noms
  2. Xander Corvus, 9 noms
  3. Carter Cruise, 7 noms
  4. Steven St. Croix, 6 noms
  5. Tommy Gunn, 6 noms
  6. Tommy Pistol, 6 noms
  7. Seth Gamble, 5 noms
  8. Tyler Nixon, 5 noms
  9. Skin Diamond, 5 noms
  10. Annika Albrite, 5 noms

And the movies leading the pack are:

  1. Wetwork, 14 noms
  2. Apocalypse X, 13 noms
  3. Second Chances, 12 noms
  4. Aftermath, 12 noms
  5. Voracious: Season Two, Volume Four, 11 noms
  6. Killers, 10 noms
  7. American Hustle XXX: A Parody, 10 noms
  8. Gardener, 9 noms
  9. Not Jersey Boys XXX: A Porn Musical, 9 noms
  10. Snow White XXX: An Axel Braun Parody, 8 noms
  11. Sexual Liberation Of Anna Lee, 8 noms

We’ll be rolling out a half dozen or so posts over the next couple hours (so as to not flood y’all) breaking things down.

Exxxotica New Jersey 2014

Exxxotica: NJ

Well it took more than a week to decompress and sort through the photos but here’s the obligatory report on my seventh Exxxotica, the first in New Jersey that I attended. It was by far the busiest one which surprised me considering the limited accessibility of the location. The New Jersey Convention Center & Expo is in an industrial park area with limited public transit and no retail within a mile radius. You pretty much have to have a car to attend and stay around unlike Exxxoticas Chicago and Florida. I guess having a city of nine million nearby plus the megalopolis known as the East Coast helps with the attendance.

The Entire Gallery on Flickr

Friday was busy with the ladies free promotion and so was Saturday. If you wanted to see the ladies without lines, then you go Sunday. I saw a lot of bright and perky friends which I attributed to the later start time of the show (1pm). They were happy to have their photos taken (with one exception), but if you wanted a photo with them then it cost you. I also noticed photobooths for the first time which were a cute novel idea.

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Some thoughts & observations:

  • Arrangement Finders booth was the busiest booth with their placement in the front of the convention, an emcee, and a photobooth. I think the only requirement to take photos with the girls was to signup. Onyx Muse was a delight and presumed I didn’t need to sign up and I didn’t understand how backhanded this was until I found out later that it was  site for sugar daddies and sugar babies. Heh. I didn’t catch her being naughty like Anime Nut did in Chicago but still heard her ordering the guys to, “pull my hair” & “grab my boobs” for their photos. Oh Onyx. Not only are you on the Reggie Cleveland porn roster with your name, you are also now a favourite of mine.
  • Belle Knox was the first person I saw. I found her shy and outwardly very young. I felt awkward and old asking her about school, and she seemed uncomfortable answering.
  • Stoya did not want many photos taken of her outside of the photobooth. At first I was puzzled since I had taken many over the years but I caught her blinking multiple times after each flash that I deduced the hundreds/thousands of strobes that go off a day hurt her eyes. Not only at the signings but when she goes out to dinner. One night, we were at the same restaurant and I noted that the wait staff was more busy asking her for photo ops instead of actually serving her and prefacing the request with, “I’m your biggest fan!”. She told me about a restaurant owner in Japan who met his wife at a Tomoyasu Hotei concert and decorated his restaurant with Hotei memorabilia from the last 20 or 30 years but never described himself as Hotei’s biggest fan. The moral I got then was to turn off the flash with Stoya and always squeal “I’m your biggest fan!” when I see her.
  • Mick Blue told me a story about how he once got cock blocked by a cow in the Alps. You have to hear it directly from him. I don’t remember how this conversation came about but I remember telling him about cow tipping as a kid, which he thought was a dumb idea.
  • Phoenix Marie was dressed as a panda on Sunday. A PANDA! What could be better than a panda until  I found out there was a second panda with Jada Stevens‘s booty. TWO PANDAS!

Mick Blue holding Anikka Albrite Phoenix Marie & Jada Stevens - TWO PANDAS

They Like Us! We’ve Got an XBIZ Award Nom!

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[Boilerplate press release follows]

IAFD.com  has been named an official finalist nominee for the adult industry’s awards event of the year, the 2015 XBIZ Awards, presented by Fleshlight.

We’ve received a nomination in the award category Adult Site of the Year – Fan Site

Nominees for the 2015 XBIZ Awards were selected based on a record 8,000 pre-nominations submitted to XBIZ by members of the industry throughout the world via XBIZ.net.  (We’ll be posting our annotated list of nominees in the next day or two.)

“Yay us!” said webmaster Jeff Vanzetti.  “We’re among some really great sites and it’s nice to be thought of in the same breath as our fellow nominees.”

Scheduled for Jan. 15 in Los Angeles, adult film superstar James Deen is set to host the industry’s largest gala at a cutting-edge venue linked to JW Marriott and The Ritz-Carlton at downtown Los Angeles entertainment complex L.A. Live.

For the complete list of finalist nominees, you can get the whole list over at the XBIZ Awards site.

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About XBIZ

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The Internet Adult Film Database has been tracking bibliographic info on adult movies at its current home since 1999. With information on over 171,000 movies from 1959 through present, the IAFD is the most comprehensive database of its kind. Maintenance is provided by a dozen volunteer editors doing their own research assisted by a variety of sources – industry professionals, fellow researchers and everyday porn fans. Along with movie listings, IAFD has a price search engine and links to over 113,000 movie reviews from the leading review sites on the Net.