Category: Awards

The 2021 AVN Award Nominees

And here we go with the granddaddy awards show – the one they call The Oscars of Porn. On January 23, 2021 the porn world will virtually gather to celebrate the work done by members of the adult film community. And we’re here to bring you our annual annotated guide.

Hats off to this year’s nominating committee, no errors that we found!

This is not the exhaustive list of nominees – it’s just a subset of the performers and titles in categories that we track in the database.  The full list of nominees can be found at the AVN Awards site.

(Disclosure: we’re voters again this year. Please, no wagering.)

Our breakdowns of the nominees:

Grand Reel

All-Girl Performer of the Year

Best Actor – Featurette

Best Actress – Featurette

Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene

Best All-Girl Movie or Anthology

Best Anal Movie or Anthology

Best Anal Sex Scene

Best Art Direction

Best BDSM Movie or Anthology

Best Blowbang Scene

Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene

Best Cinematography

Best Curve Appeal Movie or Anthology

Best Directing – Comedy

Best Directing – Drama

Best Directing – Foreign Production

Best Directing – Non-Narrative Production

Best Directing – Site/Network Content

Best Double Penetration Sex Scene

Best Editing

Best Episodic Movie or Anthology

Best Featurette

Best Female Mixed-Age Movie or Anthology

Best Foreign Production

Best Foreign-Shot All-Girl Sex Scene

Best Foreign-Shot Anal Sex Scene

Best Foreign-Shot Boy/Girl Sex Scene

Best Foreign-Shot Group Sex Scene

Best Gangbang Scene

Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene

Best Gonzo/Wall-to-Wall Movie or Anthology

Best Gonzo/Wall-to-Wall Series or Site

Best Group Sex Movie or Anthology

Best Group Sex Scene

Best Ingenue Movie or Anthology

Best Leading Actor

Best Leading Actress

Best Makeup

Best Male Newcomer

Best MILF Movie or Anthology

Best New Foreign Starlet

Best New Starlet

Best Niche Movie or Anthology

Best Non-Sex Performance

Best Oral Movie or Anthology

Best Oral Sex Scene

Best POV Sex Scene

Best Quarantine Sex Scene

Best Screenplay – Comedy

Best Screenplay – Drama

Best Solo/Tease Performance

Best Soundtrack

Best Special Effects

Best Squirting Movie or Anthology

Best Star Showcase

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Taboo Relations Movie or Anthology

Best Three-Way Sex Scene – B/B/G

Best Three-Way Sex Scene: G/G/B

Best Transgender Group Sex Scene

Best Transgender Movie or Anthology

Best Transgender One-on-One Sex Scene

Best Virtual Reality Sex Scene

Clever Title of the Year

Director of the Year

Female Foreign Performer of the Year

Female Performer of the Year

Mainstream Venture of the Year

Male Foreign Performer of the Year

Male Performer of the Year

MILF Performer of the Year

Most Outrageous Sex Scene

Niche Performer of the Year

Transgender Performer of the Year

The 2020 XRCO Nominations

Because 2020, the XRCO Committee put together a great video announcing their 2020 Slate of Nominees which you can see over at their AVN Stars page.

It features an impressive roster of stars – past and present – reading off the nominations for the coming year. Here are some of the stars: Alex Coal. Alexandria Silk, Angela White, Aria Khaide, Ariana Marie, Britney Amber, Cherry Kiss, Dani Daniels, Dee Siren, Ember Snow, Evan Stone, Felicia Fox, Gianna Dior, Jada Kai, Jillian Janson, Joanna Angel, Katie Morgan, Kelly Shibari, Kenzie Madison, Lauren Phillips, Lexi Luna, Luc Wylder, Mike Horner, Miles Long, Porno Dan Leal, Richard Pacheco, Shelby Paris, Tanya Tate, Val Dodds, Will Ryder…

(As an aside, we would have liked to have seen a bit more representation in the talent – I don’t want to throw around #XRCOSoWhite but it might have been nice to have some Black and Trans talent involved in the nomination presentation. Maybe we can do better in the awards presentation?)

But for those of you who like our annotated list, here you go. There are a few more categories offered which you can read over the the XRCO Site.

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Comedy

Best Director (Features)

Best Director (Non-Features)

Best Director: Parody

Best Director: Web

Best Gonzo Movie

Best Parody

Best Release

Female Performer of the Year

Girl/Girl Performer of the Year

Male Performer of the Year

MILF Performer of the Year

Trans Performer of the Year

New Starlet of the Year

New Stud

Orgasmic Analist of the Year

Orgasmic Oralist of the Year

Star Showcase

Superslut of the Year

Teen Dream

Unsung Siren of the Year

Unsung Swordsman of the Year

All in the Family Theme

The 2020 Spank Bank Award Nominations

The time for the 10th Annual Spank Bank Awards nominations ceremony is now upon us. Upon her retirement from the industry, show host for life Missy Martinez has had her title changed to Host Emeritus and has passed along the torch along to her former long-time ASSistant and co-host / trophy girl for life Charlotte Sartre, who was on hand to announce the vast array of nominations, only this time from a very different, much more secluded and/or private location.

After Missy’s announcement, the ‘ceremony’ cut away to Charlotte being interrupted making either an OnlyFans video of her fisting her own ass OR practicing her taxidermy methods on herself…..or both. She quickly composed herself and got the ball rolling by announcing the top 15 performers in nominations for this year via video chat. Charlotte then introduced her good friend and fellow ‘Toilet Baby’ Lydia Black along with PAWG extraordinaire and fellow butt slut Lisey Sweet as the new trophy girls. Charlotte pulled Lydia on screen, slapped her face, spit in her mouth, and told her to “get on with it”, at which time Lydia and Lisey then alternated in reading the list of categories and nominees while toasting one and all with glasses of all three ladies piss.

Leading the way this year (once again) is the amazing Adriana Chechik, along with Angela White, Jane Wilde, and Whitney Wright with 21 total nominations each. Adria Rae was 5th with 20 nominations, followed by Avi Love, Casey Calvert, Charlotte Sartre, Chloe Cherry, Haley Reed, Lexi Lore, Lisey Sweet, and Paige Owens with 19 nominations apiece. Anna de Ville, Emily Willis, Keira Croft, and Kenzie Reeves rounded out the top 15 with 18 nominations each.

The Spank Bank Awards were founded on the idea of giving recognition to the performers in the adult industry who may (or may not) receive the accolades they so richly deserve from some of the other awards shows through the utilization of a plethora of irreverent, all inclusive, good-natured fun categories. Once again, this year’s list includes a record number of major categories for female performers, as well as those for the directors and male talent within the industry. And, as usual, there are plenty of ‘technical’ awards as well (to be given out on the red carpet before the awards ceremony) giving kudos on a wide variety of subjects.

Winners will be announced as soon as we wring every last piece of social media traffic out of this… so in about a week or so. :-)

Follow @iafdcom and @Gabriel_Lan on Twitter for details and to get the heads up on the big reveal.  Use the hashtag #spankbankawards20

The Spank Bank Awards would like to thank the following notable adult film connoisseurs, aficionados, and critics for being a part of this year’s nominations committee: @TheDonJuanXXX, @RikGraves, @TheRealCyber5, @My_Fav_Pornstar, @mutantmo , @pornoissuer, and @TRPWL

And now… the big list!

Areola of the Gods

Airtight Angel of the Year

Amazing Anal Artist of the Year

Jane Wilde
Nominations co-leader Jane Wilde in Dogfart’s Blacks On Blondes: Jane Wilde

America’s Porn Sweetheart

ATM Machine

ATOGM Girl of the Year

Amazing multiple nominee Anna de Ville in legalporno.com’s Legal Porno SZ2128

Baroness of Licking Lady Ass

Big Dick Adventurist of the Year

Best ‘After’ Hair

Best All Around Porn Goddess

Beautiful multiple nominee Brett Rossi in tushy.com’s My Dirty Secret

Best Body Built For Sin

Best Booty

Best Breasts

Best Eyes

Delightful multiple nominee Whitney Wright in Evil Angel’s Anal Antics

Best Legs

Best Lips

Best Live Performance

Best ‘O’ Face

Adorable multiple nominee Kenzie Reeves in xempire.com’s Tag

Best Piercing

Best Smile

Best Spitter / Drooler

Amazing multiple nominee Avi Love in VogoV.com’s Anal Temptation

Best Supporting Mattress Actress

Best Swallower

Best Vocals

Bewitching Brunette of the Year

Nominations co-leader Angela White in Elegant Angel’s Busty Housewives 8

Blowbang / Bukkake Badass of the Year

Bondage Artiste of the Year

Breathtaking Blonde of the Year

Exquisite multiple nominee Kenna James in vixen.com’s Traveling Together

Buxom Beauty of the Year

Cock Worshipper of the Year (Best Whore Knees)

Contessa of Cum

Cosplay Queen

Stunning multiple nominee Haley Reed in VRCosplay’s Captain Marvel A XXX Parody

Countess of Contortionism

Creampied Cutie of the Year

Cuckold Queen of the Year

Cumfartist of the Year

Spank Bank Awards Host Charlotte Sartre in CherryPimp’s.com’s Gorgeous Babes Chloe Cherry and Charlotte Sartre Live

Customs/Clips Specialist of the Year

Daisy Chain Darling of the Year

Deepest Throat

Dick Demigod of the Year (Male Performer of the Year)

Dirty Cheerleader of the Year

Charming multiple nominee Emma Starletto in Girlfriend Films’ Cheer Squad Sleepovers 32

Doctoral Degree in Dildology

Downward Doggystyle

DP Dynamo of the Year

Empress of Nipple Paradise

Electrifying multiple nominee Lexi Lore in Brazzers Network’s Size Equal Stamina

Energizer Fuck Bunny

European Enchantress of the Year

Excellence in Muff Maintenance (Best Groomed Bush)

Exhiliratng multiple nominee Keira Croft in Jules Jordan Video’s Manuel’s Maximum Penetration 9

Fabulous Footjob Artisan of the Year

Facial Cum Target of the Year

Fantastic Face Sitter of the Year

Fetish Virtuoso of the Year

The incomparable Casey Calvert in Wicked Pictures’ He Loves Me In Collars and Cuffs

Finger Banging Phenom of the Year

Fucking Nerd of the Year

Full Nelson Wunderkind

Fun Sized (Spinner of the Year)

Sensational multiple nominee Naomi Swann on properytsex.com’s Personal Thank You

Gangbanged Girl of the Year

Gloryhole Guru of the Year

Golden Shower Goddess of the Year

Group / Orgy Maestro of the Year

Magnificent multiple nominee Riley Reid in Evil Angel’s I Am Riley

Guru of Gonzo (Director of the Year – Gonzo)

Hand Job Heroine of the Year

Hardest Working Ho in Ho Biz

Horny Housewife of the Year

IBTC Khaleesi

Charming multiple nominee Zoe Bloom in xempire.com’s All Anal Super Cutie

Indestructible Butthole Superstar

Instagram Girl of the Year

Latina Starlet of the Year

Lesbian Thesbian of the Year

Life Sized Human Hand Puppet (Best Fistee)

Sultry multiple nominee Kira Noir in Brazzers Network’s Dirty Double Dare

Magnificent MILF of the Year

Master of Debauchery (Director of the Year – Web)

Master of Filth (Director of the Year – Body of Work)

Master of Missionary

Marvelous multiple nominee Cherie DeVille in mylf.com’s Caught In A Bind

Masterful Masseusse of the Year

Masturbator of the Year

Mattress Actress of the Year

Minstrel of Smut (Director of the Year- Plot Driven)

Miss Congeniality

Lovely multiple nominee Emily Willis in xempire.com’s Super Cute Anal Gapers

Mistress of the Strap On

Most Adorable Sexual Deviant

Most Awe Inspiring Gape

Most Beautiful Seductress

Heart stopping multiple nominee Lacy Lennon in Juicy Entertainment’s 5K Porn 2

Most Comprehensive Utilization of All Orifices

Most Luscious Labia

Most Photogenic Nymphomaniac

Most Talented Tongue (Best Girl/Girl Kisser of the Year)

Alluring multiple nominee Alina Lopez in twistysnetworks’ Seeing Double

Most Underrated Fucker

Most Underrated Smut Siren

Most Voluptuous Vixen

My (Wet) Dream Girl

Enchanting multiple nominee Adria Rae in wankz.com’s Champagne Room 3: The Dream Team

Naughty Babysitter of the Year

Newcummer of the Year

Oral Authority of the Year

PAWG of the Year

Spank Bank Awards Trophy Girl Lisey Sweet in MILFVR.com’s Analize This

Phenomenonal Pussy of the Year

Porn’s ‘It’ Girl

POV Perfectionist of the Year

Prettiest Girl In Porn

Drop dead gorgeous multiple nominee Gianna Dior in vixen.com’s Whatever He Wants

Prettiest ‘Whore Mouth’

Pretty In Pink (Prettiest Pussy)

Pretty In Pink II (Prettiest Butthole)

Princess of the Piledriver

Delightful multiple nominee Anastasia Rose in legalporno.com’s Anastasia Discovers Black Feeling IV296

Puppeteer of the Year (Best Hands/Fister)

Queen of Cunnilingus (Girl/Girl Star of the Year)

Ravishing Redhead of the Year

Bewitching multiple nominee Maya Kendrick in Evil Angel’s Fucked Up Anal Fantasies

Reverse Cowgirl Connoisseur of the Year

Rough Sex Specialist

Royal Majesty of the Stripper Pole

Sage of 69

Lovable multiple nominee Abigail Mac in Digital Playground’s Hot Nights Cold Blood

Seductive Schoolgirl of the Year

Sensational Scissorist

Sensational Step Sister / Step Daughter of the Year

Servile Sub of the Year

Sharing Is Caring (Cumswapping Cutie of the Year)

Enthralling multiple nominee Paige Owens in VogV.om’s Amazing Anal Penetration

Silky Smooth (Best Bald Beaver)

Size Queen

Sloppy Head Savant of the Year

Sovereign Dom of the Year

Spit Roasted Superstar of the Year

Lovely multiple nominee Kenzie Taylor in Devil’s Films’ Cuck ‘Em All 4

Spooning Specialist

Stiff Actor of the Year

Super Squirter of the Year

Inimitable multiple nominee Adriana Chechik in Evil Angel’s Adriana Chechik: The Ultimate Slut 2

Tantalizing Tall Drink of Water

Tattooed Temptress of the Year

The Dirtiest Player in the Game

The Dirty Little Slut of the Year (Female Performer of the Year)

The Girl Next Door…. Only Dirtier

Breathtaking multiple nominee Hazel Moore in ftvgirls.com’s FTV Girls: Hazel

The Most Fapped To Girl of the Year

The Sexiest Woman Alive

The Total Package

Ravishing multiple nominee Maddy O’Reilly in badoink.com’s Happy Analversary

Three Kielbasas in a Corridor (Triple Anal Performer of the Year)

Threesome Savant of the Year

Tiniest Vag

Tortured Fuck Doll of the Year

Two Hot Dogs in a Hallway (Double Anal Performer of the Year)

Spank Bank Awards Trophy Girl Lydia Black in legalporno’s Lydia Black Discovers Black Feeling IV298

Two Peas in a Pod (Double Vaginal Performer of the Year)

Undisputed Twitter Champion of the Year

VR Star of the Year

Wonderful multiple nominee Chloe Cherry in xempires’s We Have History

AVN 2020

Two weeks along with a bout of the AVN flu have passed and I still feel fatigue from thinking about the show. Must be because of all the “lived experiences” that happened in the frenzy of that week.

Adult Entertainment Expo

Photos on Flickr

In reviewing my photos, I can see the mortality of continuing to cover the show. I took much less photos this year, not because the show was smaller (it was only slightly smaller than last year). I had broken my foot in September, and it started swelling again during the show. I was content to have longer conversations with my friends and then allowed random people to stop me from doing what I did best which is take more photos. I even had an assistant for the first time which unintentionally slowed things since everyone tried to flirt with him. This, in turn, led me to see less of my industry friends overall.

  • Abella Danger
  • Adriana Chechik

The most popular people signing were Angela White, Riley Reid, Abella Danger, and Adriana Chechik. I don’t like cutting in line, but I did for the first three because they agreed to it beforehand while the logistics of doing so with Adriana due to the placement of the Evil Angel booth was impossible. If I were to line up to see all of them in a day, it would take a combined 2-4 hours of waiting to see them. They are popular not just for what they do on the screen, but how they interact with the fans. Riley absolutely crushed it by signing for her own booth from opening to closing every day despite a bout of food poisoning on the second day.

  • Riley Reid
  • Angela White

Jules Jordan had the best booth overall in terms of talent and access. Angela had her lines there. The Evil Angel – Manyvids corridor was the most frustrating since it wasn’t navigable whenever Adriana was signing. Having the Manyvids women elevated inside their booths made them inaccessible in general.

AVN Awards

I attended the AVN Awards for the first time in four years. It felt weird going this time as a guest without my camera, but it was fun to catch up with friends that I didn’t talk as much to on the convention floor. There weren’t too many surprises with the winners since I knew many of the voters. Even though we didn’t practice groupthink, there seemed to be a consensus around specific winners in polling the voters.

  • Charlotte Stokely
  • Gianna Dior

Congratulations to Angela for winning Female Performer of the Year for the third straight time and to Charlotte Stokely for repeating as G/G Performer of the Year. Congrats also go to Gianna Dior for winning Best New Starlet.

About Ginger Banks

I used to spend a lot of time on camsites. So when I first met Ginger Banks nearly five years ago in Dallas, I knew her as the girl who cammed from her university library. I’m not sure exactly how we hit it off, but I found her to be more mature and adept at engaging people than the typical camgirl I meet at cons. The years go by, and Ginger became more prominent advocating on issues pertaining to the adult industry. If you have read an article about performer rights or mental health in the past three years, Ginger is likely to be quoted. Why do I bring this up?

Because I photographed her before the con! She was a riot. If you would like to see more of the photoset including the naughty, it’s probably on her onlyfans.

Acknowledgements

I would like to give a shoutout to my boys at IAFD, ADT, and XCritic. I’d also like to thank Mark Spiegler, Miles Long, and Evil Angel for their hospitality that week.

Thank you to Ginger, Paige Owens, Kira Noir, and Jocelyn Sweets for making magic with me.

Our Picks for the 2020 AVN Awards

AVN voting is a horrible process to go through which may be surprising to the casual fan. You can’t just pick your favourites to watch and vote from there, you basically have to watch everything to be at least fair to the nominees since AVN and most other awards I know of use a ranking system to voting.

Watching this much porn makes me want to claw my eyes out. I use a hybrid clinical approach in judging the technical aspects in the production and director categories and an overall feel for the scene and performer categories. When I mean feel, I don’t mean touch myself because porn reviewing is like wine tasting. Not only are there not enough hours in the day, can you properly assess the next item if you already blew your load? This is the reverse There’s Something About Mary dilemma!

With that said, for the sake of transparency, here are some of our picks for the 2020 AVN Awards:

Movies

Best Action/ Thriller: Derelict, Kink/Digital Sin
Best Comedy: Babysitter Auditions 2, BurningAngel/Exile
Best Drama: Adelaide, MissaX
Best Parody: The Gang Makes a Porno: A DP XXX Parody, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Romance: Holding Out & Giving In, Bellesa/Mile High
Best Star Showcase: Angela White: Dark Side, Jules Jordan Video

Joanna Angel and company (Burning Angel) make underrated comedy. Angel has been called the Sarah Silverman of porn, but the problem was I didn’t like Sarah’s neurotic comedy. I didn’t get Angel’s deprecating goofy hipster (ALT!) comedy when she first arrived on the scene, but 15 years go by, and the irreverent satire now seems smart and relevant.

Directing

Best Director – Comedic Production: The Gang Makes a Porno: A DP XXX Parody, Digital Playground/Pulse; Vic Lagina
Best Director – Dramatic Production: Drive, Deeper/Pulse; Kayden Kross
Best Director – Foreign Production: Rebecca, An Indecent Story, Marc Dorcel/Wicked; Alis Locanta
Best Director – Gonzo/Anthology Production: Angela Loves Women 5, AGW Entertainment; Angela White
Best Director – Web Channel/Site: Miles Long, BangBros.com
Director of the Year: Manuel Ferrara

Director of the Year was a toss-up between husband/wife, Manuel and Kayden, the latter picked for Dramatic Production. I just preferred Manu’s RAWer body of work.

If it wasn’t for these award nominations, you would never know many of the directors behind some of the most popular web channels since they don’t go out of the way to promote the directors of their particular scenes. I appreciate Miles Long’s technical proficiency at Bangbros, and he understands the heat of the action without being glossy or abstract.

[Miles also goes out of his way to keep us in the loop of what he’s produced and released. We would love to see more producer/directors credited for their web content. We are curious to the reasoning behind leaving these credits out. – Jeff]

Acting

Best Actor – Featurette: Nathan Bronson, Dibs on Mom, Pure Taboo/AdultTime.com
Best Actress – Featurette: Joanna Angel, Maid of Honor (Dysfunctional Marriage | DVD), Pure Taboo/Pulse
Best Leading Actor: Danny D., Uninvited, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Leading Actress: 4 way tie between Lacy Lennon, Kristen Scott, Angela White, and Whitney Wright
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Pistol, The Gang Makes a Porno: A DP XXX Parody, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Supporting Actress: Nina Hartley, Confessions of a Sinful Nun 2: The Rise of Sister Mona, Sweetheart/Mile High

I think there is some irony that the two best actors in porn, Tommy & Nina, were our picks for best supporting actor and actress. We couldn’t find consensus for Best Leading Actress.

Performing

All-Girl Performer of the Year: Charlotte Stokely
Best Male Newcomer: Alex Jett
Best New Foreign Starlet: Jia Lissa
Best New Starlet: Gianna Dior
Female Foreign Performer of the Year: Anna de Ville
Female Performer of the Year: Angela White
Male Foreign Performer of the Year: Danny D.
Male Performer of the Year: Manuel Ferrara
MILF Performer of the Year: Tie between Cherie DeVille & India Summer
Niche Performer of the Year: Lance Hart
Transgender Performer of the Year: Natalie Mars

Speaking of irony, we chose an American in Anna de Ville as the best “foreign” female performer because she is indeed the best performer outside the United States. We also chose Lance Hart as niche performer of the year, because he does everything and then goes home to (service) a loving wife in Charlotte Sartre.

We picked Gianna Dior out of a competitive field for Best New Starlet just like she would always pick Auburn over Alabama in the Iron Bowl. I believe she would represent the industry well in years to come.

You would think we were Warren Buffet, with tried and true picks like Stokely, Ferrara, and White to repeat as performers of the year. I just like their experience and professionality in putting forth a great scene in such a volatile industry and world today.