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20th AVN Awards | |
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Date | January 11, 2003 |
Site | The Venetian Las Vegas at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. |
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Preshow hosts | Nikki Fritz [2] |
Produced by | Gary Miller [2] |
Directed by | Mark Stone [2] |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | The Fashionistas (Best Film) |
Most awards | The Fashionistas (10) |
Most nominations | The Fashionistas (22) |
Television coverage | |
Duration | 2 hours, 10 minutes [2] |
The 20th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 11, 2003 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in nearly 90 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2002. [2] The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Comedian Doug Stanhope co-hosted the show for the first time with adult film star Chloe. [1]
The Fashionistas won 10 awards including Best Film and Best Director—Film for John Stagliano. Breathless and The Private Gladiator each took home four trophies, The Ass Collector and Perfect earned three awards apiece and several more movies won two awards each. [3]
The nominees [4] for the 20th AVN Awards were announced in November 2002. The Fashionistas led the way with 22, followed by Paradise Lost with 16, Les Vampyres 2 with 14, Breathess with 12 and Club Sin with 11.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 11, 2003. The 10 awards won by The Fashionistas were a record for the most awards at a single show. Lexington Steele's third win as Male Performer of the Year was also a record; previously, he, Rocco Siffredi and Tom Byron had each won twice.
Winners [2] are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Best Film | Best Video Feature |
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Best DVD | Best New Starlet |
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Male Performer of the Year | Female Performer of the Year |
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Best Actor—Film | Best Actress—Film |
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Best Actor—Video | Best Actress—Video |
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Best Director—Film | Best Director—Video |
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Best Supporting Actress—Video | Best Foreign Feature |
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Best Ethnic-Themed Video | Best Gonzo Tape |
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Top Selling Tape | Top Renting Tape |
Best Couples Sex Scene—Film | Best Group Sex Scene—Film |
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Best Couples Sex Scene—Video | Best Oral Sex Scene—Video |
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Best Anal Sex Scene—Video | Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video |
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These awards [3] were announced, but not presented, in a pre-recorded winners-only segment shown on the ballroom's video monitors during the event. Trophies were given to the recipients off-stage:
AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2003 were: T. T. Boy, Mark Davis, Felecia, Dave Hardman, Heather Hunter, Jill Kelly, Chasey Lain, Madison, Jonathan Morgan, Alex Sanders, Julian St. Jox, Kirdy Stevens, Tony Tedeschi, Teri Weigel [3]
The following releases received the most nominations.
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The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy. The show's trophy girls were Taylor Starr and Tyler Starr, [6] the Sin City Twins.
Name(s) | Role |
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Misty Rain Jessica Drake | Presenters of the awards for Best Supporting Actress—Video and Best Couples Sex Scene—Video |
Ron Jeremy Hannah Harper Sunrise Adams | Presenters of the award for Best Oral Sex Scene—Video and Best Ethnic-Themed Video |
Presenters of the awards for Best Group Sex Scene—Film and Best Foreign Feature | |
Larry Flynt | Presenter of the Reuben Sturman Special Achievement Award |
Sunset Thomas Paul Fishbein | Presenters of the awards for Top Selling Tape and Top Renting Tape |
Lexington Steele Stormy Gina Lynn | Presenters of the award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video |
Teri Weigel Inari Vachs Brittany Andrews | Presenters of the awards for Best Anal Sex Scene—Video and Best Gonzo Tape |
Chi Chi LaRue Jenna Jameson | Presenters of the awards for Male Performer of the Year and Female Performer of the Year |
Steven St. Croix Julia Ann | Presenters of the awards for Best Director—Film and Best Director—Video |
Sean Michaels Devon April | Presenters of the awards for Best DVD and Best Couples Sex Scene in a Film |
Violet Blue | Presenter of the award for Best New Starlet |
Vince Neil Felicia Savanna Samson | Presenters of the awards for Best Actor—Video and Best Actress—Video |
Seymore Butts Carmen Luvana Shyla Stylez | Presenters of the awards for Best Actor—Film and Best Actress—Film |
Presenters of the award for Best Video Feature | |
Ed Powers Houston | Presenters of the award for Best Film |
Name(s) | Role | Performed |
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Mark Stone and the AVN Orchestra | Musical Director | Orchestral accompaniment |
Spearmint Rhino Dancers | Performers | Dancers on stage |
Vince Neil | Performer | Musical number, “Girls, Girls, Girls” |
Doug Stanhope | Performer | Standup comedy segment |
Randy Spears Steven St. Croix Dale DaBone Mark Kernes Stormy Brad Armstrong Aria Ron Vogel and others | Performers | "What's the Best Way to Win an AVN Award?" comedy short video |
Crazy Town | Performers | Musical numbers, "Butterfly" and "Hurt You So Bad" |
AVN created several new categories for the year's awards show. Among them: Best Oral Sex Scene—Video, Best Male Newcomer, Best Director—Non-Feature, Male Foreign Performer of the Year and Female Foreign Performer of the Year.
The show was recorded for later broadcast [4] and a DVD of the awards show was issued by VCA Pictures. [7]
Briana Loves Jenna was announced as the adult movie industry's top selling movie and also the top renting movie of the previous year. [2] [3]
Rocco Siffredi is an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer. Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since 1986.
Ashlyn Gere is an American pornographic film actress who has also performed in mainstream film and television, including appearances on the science fiction television series The X-Files and Space: Above and Beyond. Gere is an inductee into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.
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Toni Ribas is a Spanish pornographic actor and director. In 2010, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
The Fashionistas is a 2002 pornographic film directed by John Stagliano and produced by Evil Angel Productions. Shot on 35 mm film, it was a high-budget production, with a length of over four and a half hours. The film was a commercial success, selling over 100,000 copies just in its first month of release. In 2003, it set the record for most AVN Award nominations for a single title — 22.
Elegant Angel Productions is an independent pornographic film studio located in Canoga Park, California and owned by Patrick Collins. The company is considered one of the early pioneers of gonzo pornography, and its films have won numerous awards.
Céline Tran is a French actress, writer, martial artist, blogger, and former pornographic actress, previously known under the stage name Katsuni, and before that Katsumi. She started her adult film career in 2001, working first in France, then in the United States.
Evil Angel is an American independent production company and distributor of pornographic films, founded and owned by John Stagliano.
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VCA Pictures is an American independent pornographic film production and distribution company. The company was founded by Russ Hampshire, and was formerly a major player during the 'Golden Age of Porn'. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s VCA produced big budget, plot-oriented feature films. In 1982 VCA sold 12,000 units of Insatiable on its first day of release, making it the top selling video that year in America. In the 1990s Hampshire served one year in jail for the interstate transportation of obscene materials. In 2003, VCA was bought by Hustler Video, a subsidiary of Larry Flynt-owned Larry Flynt Publications. VCA maintains a separate identity within the LFP conglomerate. VCA distributed the 1998 documentary Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes, and in 2004 provided footage for the HBO documentary Pornucopia.
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