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18th AVN Awards
The 18th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 8, 2001 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 77 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 1999 and Sept. 30, 2000. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Adult film star Jenna Jameson hosted the show for the second time. The year's biggest winner was ''Dark Angels'' with six awards, including best Video Feature and Best Director—Video for ''Nic Andrews'', however, ''Watchers'' won for Best Film while capturing three additional trophies. Other multiple winners included: ''Les Vampyres'' with five awards, ''Dream Quest'' with four and ''Raw'' and ''West Side'' each with three. Winners and nominees The nominees for the 19th AVN Awards were announced in November 2000. ''Dream Quest'' led the way with 20, followed by ''Watchers'' with 18, ''Les Vampyres'' wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award
The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the " Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to pornographic/erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony. The increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphic AVN Trophy
Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called computer graphics. Examples are photographs, drawings, line art, mathematical graphs, line graphs, charts, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flyer, poster, web site, or book without any other element. The objective can be clarity or effective communication, association with other cultural elements, or merely the creation of a distinctive style. Graphics can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacho Vidal
Ignacio Jordà González (born 30 December 1973), better known as Nacho Vidal, is a Spanish pornographic performer, director, producer, writer, and camera operator. Early life Ignacio Jordà González was born in Mataró (Barcelona) in Catalonia, Spain. His nickname, Nacho, is the common nickname for Ignacio. When he was young, Jordà moved with his family to Valencia, where part of his family originated. His family was wealthy, but ended up losing their money in the 1987 stock market crash. At 14, Vidal quit school to work to help his family. As a teenager, he was in a punk band. He also was a boxer and enlisted in the Spanish Legion in Melilla. Career In 1994, Vidal started his porn career doing live sex shows with his girlfriend, Sara Bernat (born 1976), at the Sala Bagdad in Barcelona. There, he met the director of the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, José María Ponce, who introduced him to porn films. Vidal became a ''protégé'' of Rocco Siffredi, who br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Spears
Randy Spears (born June 18, 1961), sometimes credited as Greg Ory, is an American retired pornographic actor and director who has appeared in numerous adult feature films. Spears is noted among porn actors for his comedic acting talent. Career Mainstream Spears left Illinois for California during the early 1980s, to pursue a career in acting. He landed small roles in the mainstream films ''Trading Places'' and ''Blow Out''. Spears was seen in three mainstream films under the name Gregory Patrick. In the 1988 comedy ''Sexpot'' he played the role of Damon; the same year he appeared in the horror comedy '' Critters 2: The Main Course''. A year later, Spears starred, along with Georgina Spelvin and Linda Blair, in ''Bad Blood'', a gothic thriller also known as ''A Woman Obsessed''. He also acted in commercials and in a one-week stint on ''Ryan's Hope'' in 1989, where he played a bartender. In 2009, Spears provided the voice of a character called John Q. Mind in the episode " In Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocco Siffredi
Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano; 4 May 1964) is an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer. He took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film ''Borsalino'' (1970). Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films. He is known for appearing in the "Buttman" series of adult movies and mostly for his anal scenes. Pornography career Siffredi met porn actor Leonardo Codazzo in a French sex club in 1985 and was introduced to producer Marco and director Michela, who cast him in his first pornographic role, ''Attention fillettes...'' (''Watch Out, Little Girls...'') in 1987, in which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn actress Teresa Orlowski. Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and gonzo-style pornography, with styles of sex ranging fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Hardman
The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995. , January 14, 2013, Retrieved September 4, 2016 The individuals inducted into the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame have "made significant contributions to the " and have had "a minimum of 10 years in the industry" to be considered for induction. There are several branches of the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame: *Performers and |
Max Hardcore
Paul F. Little (born August 10, 1956) is an American pornographic actor, producer and director better known by his stage name Max Hardcore. He rose to prominence in 1992 with the film series ''The Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore'', which in 1994 was awarded the X-Rated Critics Organization's award for Best Amateur or Pro-Am series.THE BEST OF 1994 (1995 Show) , retrieved October 1, 2014. Former writer, Gerrie Lim, has classified Hardcore's works as gonzo pornography and "testing the limits of acceptability". He is a member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Everhard
Erik Everhard (born December 2, 1976) is the stage name of Mitchell Hartwell, a Canadian pornographic actor and director, known for gonzo pornography films. Biography Everhard is a Canadian national of Ukrainian ancestry. In 1995, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to attend university, at which time he made his first forays into adult films. Everhard's adult film career began in Canada performing for websites. At the urging of friends and colleagues, he moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to pursue his career. His first shoot in the United States was for director Jules Jordan. After securing himself as a performer, Everhard began directing videos for Anabolic and Diabolic Video in 2001. In 2003, he landed a distribution deal with Redlight District. In 2005, Everhard left Redlight, suing the company for breach of contract, conversion, claim and delivery Replevin () or claim and delivery (sometimes called revendication) is a legal remedy, which enables a person to recover p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillon Day
Dillon Day (born August 18, 1970 in Ohio, United States) is a pornographic actor and director. Biography Day was married to Dasha but is now married to fellow pornographic actress Victoria Rush. He initially pursued a career in Hollywood and appeared in ''Bio-Dome'' and the 1994 film ''Widow's Kiss''. In 2002, his father decided to enter the adult film industry as well, making his debut in Sin City ''Sin City'' is a series of neo-noir comics by American comic book writer-artist Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in ''Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special'' (April 1991), and continued in ''Dark Horse Presents'' #51– ...'s ''Island Rain'' and using the stage name Poppa Wad. Awards and nominations References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Dillon 1970 births Living people American male pornographic film actors American pornographic film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davis (actor)
Mark Davis (born 6 August 1965) is an English former pornographic actor, director, and exotic dancer. In 1998, ''The Independent'' labeled him "Britain's biggest male porn star in America". In 2012, he announced his retirement from the adult industry. He has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life Davis grew up in Essex. In 1981, his family moved to Toronto, Ontario. Career After graduating from high school, he went to Los Angeles to shoot a ''Playgirl'' pictorial at 18 years of age. Soon thereafter, he moved to the US permanently. From 1984 to 1988, he was employed as a stripper for the " Chippendale" dancers. In January 1993, Davis began his career in adult films. In 2003, Davis was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. In February 2006, he was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. In his last years (2009-2012), he worked primarily for ''kink.com'', serving villainous roles in BDSM scenes. In 2012, Mark Davis announced his retirement from pornography, end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Stone
Evan Stone is an American pornographic film actor and director. In 2011, Stone became the third actor in history to receive the AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year three times. That same year, he was listed by CNBC as one of the twelve most popular stars in porn, being the only man to make the list. Stone has also been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life Stone was born in Ames, Iowa. He was raised by his adoptive father, who worked as a firefighter, in Dallas, Texas. Stone is a 1982 graduate of Gobles High School in Gobles, Michigan. He played college football in the position of defensive lineman for the Western Michigan Broncos, a NCAA Division I team, but had to retire after suffering an injury. To make a living, he worked as a forklift driver, gas station attendant, dinner theatre performer, mechanic, and slaughterman at JBS. Career Stone entered the sex industry as an exotic dancer, which he did for ten years. In 1997, he began performing i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Female Performer Of The Year Award
The AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year is presented every January in Las Vegas, Nevada at the AVN Awards ceremony sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine '' Adult Video News'' (AVN). It represents the female porn star who has had the best body of work in the previous year. It has been given annually since 1993. Tori Black was the first two-time winner, winning back-to-back in 2010 and 2011. Angela White was the first three-time winner, winning back-to-back-to-back in 2018, 2019 and 2020. As of January 2022, the titleholder is Gianna Dior. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * AVN Award for Best Actress * AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress * AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year * AVN Award for Transsexual Performer of the Year The AVN Award for Transgender Performer of the Year (previously the AVN Award for Transsexual Performer of the Year) is presented every January in Las Vegas, Neva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
