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28th AVN Awards

28th AVN Awards

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The 28th AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic movies and adult entertainment products of 2010. The ceremony was held on January 8, 2011 in the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada.[1] During the ceremony, AVN Media Network presented awards in 155 categories of movies or products released between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Showtime.[1] Comedian Lisa Lampanelli hosted the show[1] with co-hosts Tori Black and Riley Steele.[2]

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AVN increased the number of people who voted on the awards to more than forty, "roughly divided evenly between in-house AVN editors, freelancers and outside critics" by adding "Xcitement Magazine's Cindi Loftus, Genesis Magazine's Dan Davis, RogReviews.com's Roger Pipe, DrunkenStepfather.com's Drunken Stepfather, Theresa “Darklady” Reed, former AVN editors Tod Hunter and Jared Rutter, XCritic.com's Christopher Thorne, Dr. Jay and Don Houston, members of AdultDVDTalk.com and others."[4]

Fan awards were also introduced in 2011. Winners were determined by voting two weeks before the show. Fans were able to vote in four categories: Favorite Performer, Favorite Body, Favorite Movie, and Wildest Sex Scene.[2]

Speed earned Best Feature honors for Brad Armstrong who also took home the Best Director—Feature award.[5] Tori Black won her second Female Performer of the Year award, the first actress to do so in the event's 28-year history,[6] while Gracie Glam won the Best New Starlet Award.[7] Evan Stone became a three-time Male Performer of the Year, joining Manuel Ferrara and Lexington Steele as the two others with three wins in the category.[8]

Winners and nominees

Tori Black, winner of the 2011 AVN Female Performer of the Year Award
Evan Stone, winner of the 2011 AVN Male Performer of the Year
Gracie Glam, winner of the 2011 AVN Best New Starlet Award
Andy San Dimas tied for Best Actress with India Summer
Tom Byron, winner of the 2011 Best Actor

The nominees for the 28th AVN Awards were announced on November 29, 2010 in a press release.[3] The film receiving the most nominations was Malice in Lalaland with 19, while performer Tori Black had the most individual nominations with 22, an AVN Awards record. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 8, 2011, which were taped for broadcast April 7 on Showtime.

Major Awards

Award winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

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Additional Award Winners

These awards were announced in a winners-only segment but were not presented their awards on stage during the event and were not part of the televised awards show:

Honorary AVN Awards

Reuben Sturman Award

John Stagliano was awarded the Reuben Sturman Award "for his successful defense of obscenity charges" in 2010.[3]

Hall of Fame

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2011 were: Belladonna, Axel Braun, Gia Darling, Ben Dover, Jada Fire, Jules Jordan, Bridgette Kerkove, Miles Long, Sinnamon Love, Sonny Malone, Pat Myne, Savanna Samson, Jasmin St. Claire, Scott St. James and Evan Stone.

  • Founders Branch: Russell Hampshire, VCA Pictures; Mike Moran, Lion's Den; Steven Orenstein, Wicked Pictures
  • Pleasure Product Branch: Joani Blank, Good Vibrations; Ron Braverman, Doc Johnson; Susan Colvin, California Exotic Novelties; Marty Tucker, Topco.
  • Internet Founders Branch: Mitch Farber, Netbilling; Colin Rowntree, Wasteland.com; Tim Valenti, NakedSword.com.

Multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The following individuals were presenters or performers during the awards ceremony:

Presenters

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Presenters (in order of appearance)

Trophy girls

Trophy girls

Performers

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Performers

Changes to awards categories

Beginning with the 28th AVN Awards, AVN Media Network added a category to the awards show, entitled Best Web Premiere, "to recognize original and outstanding content production exclusively for the web."[9]

Five new categories were also introduced to recognize the retail and distribution sector of the adult industry:[10]

  • Best Adult Distributor (East region)
  • Best Adult Distributor (West region)
  • Best Retail Boutique (East region)
  • Best Retail Boutique (West region)
  • Best Retail Chain

Controversies

Comedian Andy Dick was ejected from the awards ceremony before the show had even started for allegedly pestering adult star Tera Patrick and drag queen Chi Chi LaRue backstage.[11]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "The 2011 AVN Awards". Showtime Networks Inc. Archived from the original on October 27, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  2. [2]
    "2011 AVN Awards Show to Feature Fan Favorite Categories" (Press release). Adult Video News. December 6, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Nominations for the 2011 AVN Awards Announced" (Press release). Adult Video News. November 29, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  4. [4]
    "2011 AVN Awards Expands Voting Pool" (Press release). Adult Video News. October 12, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  5. [5]
    Mark Kernes, "Fast Company", Adult Video News, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 2011, page 46.
  6. [6]
    Errera, Robert, ed. (August 2011), "On the Road: Red Carpet, Pink Pussy", Cheri Magazine, 36 (1), New York, New York: 98–105, ISSN 1059-7131, OCLC 24682494, No woman in history has ever won the Performer of the Year Award two years in a row!
  7. [7]
    Steve Javors, "Little Miss Sunshine State", Adult Video News, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 2011, page 44.
  8. [8]
    Sharan Street, "Interview with the Phenom", Adult Video News, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 2011, pp. 42, 56.
  9. [9]
    "AVN Awards Show Introduces Best Web Premiere Category for 2011" (Press release). Adult Video News. October 26, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  10. [10]
    "2011 AVN Awards to Honor Distributors, Retailers for First Time" (Press release). Adult Video News. September 1, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  11. [11]
    "Dick Ejected From Adult Video Awards". World Entertainment News Network. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.

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