25th AVN Awards
The 25th AVN Awards was an event during which Adult Video News (AVN) presented its annual AVN Awards to honor the best pornographic movies and adult entertainment products of 2007 in the United States.
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 Tera Patrick on the event's poster. | |
| Date | January 12, 2008[1] |
| Site | Mandalay Bay Events Center Paradise, Nevada, USA |
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| Best Picture | Layout[4] |
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| Network | Showtime |
The ceremony was held on January 12, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, in Paradise, Nevada.
Ceremony
The 25th Anniversary Adult Video News awards made its broadcast premiere on Showtime on March 14. The two-hour presentation, billed as The AVN Adult Movie Awards, was taped on January 12 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Paradise, Nevada. For the first time the show was shot on High-Definition and was also broadcast in that format.[5]
AVN announced nominations for its annual awards on November 26, 2007. Nominees in the 114 categories were selected by the AVN staff, and winners were selected by AVN writers and other adult film reviewers.[6]
Leaders in nominations were Upload, a science-fiction thriller video from SexZ Pictures, with 22 nominations, and Layout, a film from Vivid Entertainment, with 18. This is the last year for separate film and video categories at the AVN awards.[6]
Performer/director Belladonna received nine nominations, for Best Director (Non-Feature), Director of the Year and seven sex scenes. Performer/director Stormy Daniels received seven nominations, for acting, directing, screenplay, Director of the Year, Female Performer of the Year, Crossover Star of the Year, and Couples Sex Scene with veteran performer Randy Spears.
Spears himself received five nominations, including Best Actor (Video), Best Supporting Actor (Film) and Male Performer of the Year; performer Steven St. Croix received five, four for acting and one sex scene; performer/director Brad Armstrong received four, for acting, screenplay, and two for direction.
Wicked Pictures and its affiliated companies led the nominations count with 91, followed by Evil Angel Productions and its affiliates with 88, Vivid Entertainment and its affiliates with 84, Pure Play Media and its affiliates with 48, Digital Playground and its affiliates with 41, JM Productions and its affiliates with 39, Elegant Angel Productions with 33, Adam & Eve Pictures and its affiliates with 32 and Hustler Video and its affiliates with 31.
This year's additions to the AVN Hall of Fame are performers Brittany Andrews, Jay Ashley, Angel Kelly, Dyanna Lauren, Raylene, Ruby, Alexandra Silk, Angela Summers and Tasha Voux, performer/director Skye Blue, cameraman Jake Jacobs and director Michael Raven.
Changes in categories
The 25th annual AVN Awards was the last at which productions shot on film are divided into separate categories from those shot on video. This change comes due to the very few number of companies producing films.[7]
AVN president Paul Fishbein stated, "If people make films, they'll be eligible in every category, and if there are enough of them, then we'll have a separate Best Film category."
The AVN Award categories that have until this year been divided up into film and video are: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Best Anal Sex Scene, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography/Videography, Best Couples Sex Scene, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Group Sex Scene, Best Oral Sex Scene, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Main awards
Winners of categories announced during the awards ceremony on January 12, 2008, are highlighted in boldface.[3][8][9]
Evan Stone winner of Male Performer of the Year
Sasha Grey winner of Performer of the Year
Eva Angelina won Best Actress Video for Upload
Penny Flame won Best Actress Film for Layout
Bree Olson won for Best New Starlet
Gianna Michaels was the Unsung Starlet of the Year
Allanah Starr, the Transsexual Performer of the Year
Stormy Daniels won The Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year
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| Best Male Newcomer | Best New Starlet | ||||
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| The Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year | Unsung Starlet of the Year | ||||
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| Female Foreign Performer of the Year | Female Performer of the Year | ||||
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| Male Performer of the Year | Transsexual Performer of the Year | ||||
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| Best Film | Director of the Year (Body of Work) | ||||
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Other performing awards
- Best Supporting Actor - Film: Randy Spears
- Best Supporting Actor - Video: Barrett Blade
- Best Supporting Actress - Film: Kylie Ireland
- Best Supporting Actress - Video: Hillary Scott
- Male Foreign Performer of the Year: David Perry
- Best Tease Performance: Brianna Love, Brianna Love: Her Fine Sexy Self
- Best Non-Sex Performance: Bryn Pryor, Upload
Best Scenes
Winners of categories announced during the awards ceremony on January 12, 2008, are highlighted in boldface.[3][8][9]
Film
| Best All-Girl Sex Scene | Best Anal Sex Scene |
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| Best Couples Sex Scene | Best Group Sex Scene |
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| Best Oral Sex Scene | |
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| Best All-Girl Sex Scene | Best Anal Sex Scene |
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| Best Couples Sex Scene | Best Group Sex Scene |
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| Best Oral Sex Scene | Most Outrageous Sex Scene |
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- Best Three-way Sex Scene: Rocco Siffredi, Katsuni, Melissa Lauren, Fashionistas Safado: Berlin (Evil Angel)
- Best POV Sex Scene: Sunny Lane, Goo Girls 26 (Rodnievision/Exquisite)
- Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production: Marsha Lord, Poppy Morgan, Joachim Kessef, Vanessa Hill, Sarah James, Kid Jamaica, Jazz Duro, Omar Galanti, Gianna, Kelly Stafford, Furious Fuckers: Final Race (Evil Angel)
- Best Solo Sex Scene: Eva Angelina, Upload (SexZ Pictures)
Best releases
The best releases of the year, selected by genre. The winners are shown in italics, followed by the production company.[3][8][9]
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Honorary awards
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame - Founders Branch
- Martin Rothstein, Model Distributors
- Teddy Rothstein, Star Distributors
- Kenneth Guarino, Metro Home Video
Reuben Sturman Awards
- Jeff Steward, JM Productions - Who battled Federal obscenity prosecution head-on and won.[3]
- Rondee Kamins, General Video of America - For her appeals court victory striking down 2257 regulations as unconstitutional. Kamins warned that “freedom isn’t free” and that all 50 states have some kind of onerous restrictions on adult entertainment.[3]
Technical awards
The winners are shown in italics, followed by the production company.[3][8][9]
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See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008. |
Notes
- "The 2008 AVN Adult Movie Awards Show". The Floating World. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- "Tera Patrick Named 2008 AVN Awards Host". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- Jared Rutter. "2008 AVN Awards Winners Announced". AVN.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-04. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- "Vivid Entertainment Dominates The 2008 AVN Awards". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- AVN. "AVN Awards Show Debuts". AVN.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- Tod Hunter (November 26, 2007). "AVN Releases Nominations for 2008 Award Show". XBIZ.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
- AVN. "Film Categories To Be Discontinued After 2008 AVN Awards". AVN.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- Steve Javors. "AVN Announces 2008 Adult Movie Awards Winners". Xbiz.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- AVN. "The 2008 AVN Awards Nominations" (PDF). AVN.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-27. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
External links
- AVN Awards
- 2008 AVN Award nominees (archived at Wayback Machine, February 27, 2008)
- Adult Video News Awards at the Internet Movie Database
- The 2008 AVN Adult Movie Awards (2008 TV Special) at IMDb
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