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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 |
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') annually to honor achievements in the global Sex industry, adult entertainment industry. The awards are often called the "Academy Awards, Oscars of porn". The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. Since 2008, the show has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime (TV channel), Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. 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 Pornography, pornographic/erotica, erotic film and video. Awards for Gay pornography, gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN (magazine)
''Adult Video News'' (also called ''AVN'' or ''AVN Magazine'') is an American trade magazine that covers the adult video industry. ''The New York Times'' notes that ''AVN'' is to pornographic films what ''Billboard'' is to records. ''AVN'' sponsors an annual convention, called the Adult Entertainment Expo or AEE, in Las Vegas, Nevada along with the AVN Awards, an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Academy Awards. ''AVN'' rates adult films and tracks news developments in the industry. An ''AVN'' issue can feature over 500 movie reviews. The magazine is about 80% ads and is targeted at adult-video retailers. Author David Foster Wallace has described ''AVN'' articles to be more like infomercials than articles, but he also described the ''AVN'' magazine as "sort of the '' Variety'' of the US porn industry." History Paul Fishbein, Irv Slifkin, and Barry Rosenblatt founded ''AVN'' in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Slifkin left in 1984; having lost interest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Blake (director)
Andrew Blake (born 1948) is an American adult erotic film director and film producer. Blake has been inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame and is a medal recipient from the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival for his first film NIGHT TRIPS. Biography Andrew Blake began his career working on movies for Playboy, and then for Penthouse but shifted to working independently in the 1990s. Most of Blake's films are released through his own production company, Studio A Entertainment. Andrew Blake is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame (200?) and XRCO Hall of Fame (2003). Blake's films usually feature original music scores by the composer Raoul Valve. Blake has described his work as " erotic fashion," and his films usually include fetish, bondage, and lesbian imagery, often excluding heterosexual intercourse entirely. Blake's earliest films were primarily works of softcore erotica. Early films made by Blake soon after he came into his own as an independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tori Black
Tori Black (born 1988) is an American pornographic actress. In 2011, she became the first person to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award two years in a row. She was inducted in the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame. Early life and education Black was born in Seattle, Washington. She stated on Reddit in 2016 that she had studied journalism at Western Washington University. Career Black started her career at age 18 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was on a summer vacation while attending college. At her parents' insistence on getting a job, Black saw an advertisement for an adult talent agency and sent in her pictures. The agency accepted and, after considering their offer, she accepted and returned to the agency a week later. She was the '' Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for December 2008. Black is the first person in history to win two AVN Female Performer of the Year Awards, winning back-to-back years in 2010 and 2011. She also won the 2010 and 2011 XRCO Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Zicari
Robert D. Zicari (born August 5, 1974), also known as Rob Black, is an American pornographer, entrepreneur, podcaster and professional wrestling promoter. Together with his then-wife Janet "Lizzy Borden" Romano, he owned the porn company '' Extreme Associates''. Zicari was prosecuted for distribution of obscenity by the United States Department of Justice in 2004. The case was dismissed but was reinstated upon appeal in 2005. Zicari entered into a plea agreement with the government in 2009, ending the case. Career Zicari became a porn director in the mid-1990s. His former porn company ''Extreme Video'' was started in 1993/1994. In 1998, he founded the porn company, Extreme Associates, together with fellow porn directors Tom Byron and Van Damage and porn star Tiffany Mynx (who have since left the company). Janet Romano started to work for him in the same year, first as an actress and then as a director. His work often involved scenes considered egregious and extreme even b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Benz
Nikki Benz (born 1981 or 1982) is an American pornographic film actress. She was named the 2011 Penthouse Pet of the Year. Early life Born in Ukraine, Benz immigrated to Canada with her parents at age seven. She was raised in Toronto. After living in the United States for several years, she became a U.S. citizen in February 2013. Career Benz worked as a swimsuit model and stripper prior to her porn career. She entered the adult film industry by e-mailing porn director Jim Gunn, who introduced her to Frank Kay, the president of Pleasure Productions. She signed with Pleasure Productions in January 2003 and made her first on-screen sex scene in ''Strap on Sally 20'' with Gina Lynn, and her first boy-girl scene with Ben English in ''The Sweetest Thing''. After completing her contract, Benz moved to Los Angeles and signed with Jill Kelly Productions in September 2004. Benz signed a contract with TeraVision in September 2005. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belladonna (actress)
Michelle Sinclair (born 1980 or 1981), known professionally as Belladonna, is an American former pornographic film and erotic actress, director, producer, and model. Since announcing her retirement from pornography in 2012, she has acted in several mainstream films, including ''Inherent Vice'' and '' The Ladies of the House.'' Early life Sinclair grew up as the second of seven children in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City. Her father was a retired Air Force captain and former bishop in the LDS Church. Career Sinclair started performing in pornography in Los Angeles at age 18. One of her early films featured a rough group sex scene with her and twelve men, staged in a prison. She has since appeared in over 300 adult films, including titles such as ''Service Animals 6 & 7,'' ''She-Male Domination Nation,'' ''Bella Loves Jenna,'' ''Back 2 Evil,'' ''Weapons of Ass Destruction,'' and ''Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge.'' In 2002 she featured in the multi award-winning BDSM the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briana Banks
Briana Banks (born 21 May 1978) is a German pornographic actress and model. She was the '' Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for June 2001. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame. Early life Banks was born in Munich, Germany to a German father and an American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four, then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven. Career upleft, Banks in 2008 Banks modeled as a teenager, appearing on a cover of ''Teen'' magazine."Briana Banks: From Teen Magazine Cover Girl to Vivid Porn Queen" , Mike Ramone, '' AVN Insider'', 2002-05-17. Retrieved April 28, 2007. She entered the industry under the name "Mirage", but began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Avalon
James Avalon is an American adult film director, cinematographer, editor, writer, and producer. His aliases include Kunga Sludge, Mondo Tundra and Monty Tundra. Career James entered the adult film industry in 1979 as a journalist and became editor of '' Adam Film World''’s special editions. He was also a founding member of the X-Rated Critics Organization. Awards (selected) * 1998 AVN Award Winner – Best Editor, Video ('' Zazel'') * 2001 AVN Award Winner - Best Director, Film (''Les Vampyres'') * 2002 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Video (''Taboo 2001'') * 2003 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Film (''Les Vampyres 2'') * 2004 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Non-Feature (''Fantasy'') * 2004 XRCO Hall of Fame Inductee * 2005 AVN Hall of Fame Inductee * 2006 Ninfa Prize Winner – Best Director (''La Mansión del Placer'') * 2007 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Video (''Sex Pix'') * 2009 AVN Award nominations - Best Director, Feature, Best Videog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Time Capsule
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. The Wayback Machine's earliest archives go back at least to 1995, and by the end of 2009, more than 38.2 billion webpages had been saved. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data. History The Internet Archive has been archiving cached web pages since at least 1995. One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 8, 1995. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juli Ashton
Juli Ashton (born October 5, 1969) is an American former pornographic actress. Early life Juli was born in Colorado Springs, CO. After high school, she attended Colorado State University earning a degree in Spanish and History. During college she worked as a waitress at a topless club. Upon graduation she worked as a Junior High Teacher, teaching Spanish. Her teaching career only lasted one year. She moved to Florida and started waiting tables in a strip club. After learning she could make more money as a dancer, she started doing that. While dancing she learned from her fellow dancers about the adult film industry, and after a year and a half she started her adult film career, appearing in a scene in the film ''The Dinner Party'' Adult film career In 1994, she began appearing in adult films, starting with ''New Wave Hookers 4''."The Women of Porn", ''Playboy'', March 2002, page 128 From 1996 to 2006 she was co-host of the Playboy Channel's live phone-in program ''Night Calls.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Armstrong (director)
Brad Armstrong (born Rod Hopkins; September 23, 1965) is a Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is currently under contract with Wicked Pictures. He has been known as one of the most popular leading men in the sex industry, as well as "The King of Porn" and "The Steven Spielberg, Spielberg of Skin Directors". Among the films he has directed is ''Octomom Home Alone'' (2012). Early life Armstrong attended college for commercial art and advertising. Career Armstrong worked as a male stripper in Canada for 10 years. He began dancing at age 17 by borrowing a friend's ID. He was introduced to the porn industry by pornographic actress Erica Boyer. His first scene was a Group sex, sixway with Erica Boyer, Randy Spears, Eric Price, and two other women for the film ''Bimbo Bowlers From Boston''. He also had an acting role in Don McKellar's 1992 short film ''Blue (1992 film), Blue''. Personal life Armstrong married Jenna Jameson in December 1996. They di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
