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Date | January 19, 2013 |
Site | The Joint Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Paradise, Nevada |
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Directed by | Gary D. Miller |
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Best Picture | Wasteland |
Most awards | Wasteland (7) |
Most nominations | Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody (20) |
Television coverage | |
Network | Showtime [3] |
Duration | 1 hour, 20 minutes |
The 30th AVN Awards ceremony, or XXX 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 2012. Movies or products released between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012, were eligible. The ceremony was held on January 19, 2013 at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Paradise, Nevada. [4] Comedian April Macie, AVN Hall of Fame inductee Jesse Jane and Asa Akira, who won Female Performer of the Year, hosted the AVN Awards. [1] The awards show was held immediately after the Adult Entertainment Expo at the same venue.
Best Romance Release was one of several new categories created for the 30th Awards Show. The new categories "reflect the ever-evolving market trends of the business" and the Best Romance award is for a movie with a romantic story line geared specifically to women or couples. [5] Torn, starring best actor winner Steven St. Croix, won the first Best Romance award.
Wasteland took top honors as Movie of the Year, also winning best drama and six other awards, including a directing award for Graham Travis, who also directed the previous year's top movie, and a Best Actress victory for Lily Carter. Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody took six awards including Best Parody – Comedy.
Octomom Home Alone won the Best Celebrity Sex Tape category, [6] while Axel Braun won his third straight Director of the Year award [7] and Remy LaCroix won the AVN Best New Starlet Award. All winners were presented newly redesigned trophies, depicting an intertwined couple, to celebrate the awards' 30th anniversary. [8]
The nominees for the 30th AVN Awards were announced on November 30, 2012. [5]
Winners of categories announced during the awards ceremony January 19, 2013, are highlighted in boldface. [9]
Movie of the Year A | Female Performer of the Year | |
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Male Performer of the Year | Transsexual Performer of the Year | |
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Director of the Year | Best New Starlet | |
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Best Actor | Best Actress | |
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Best Foreign Feature | Best Drama | |
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Best Parody - Comedy | Best Parody - Drama | |
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Best Star Showcase | Best Romance Release | |
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Best Anal Sex Scene | Best Oral Sex Scene | |
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Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene | Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production | |
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Best Girl-Girl Sex Scene | The Fan Awards | |
| Favorite Body: Twitter Queen: Favorite Porn Star: Best Free Adult Website:
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These awards were not presented during the awards ceremony itself but were announced separately. In addition, the awards for Best Animated Release, Best Gonzo Series, Best Softcore Release, and Best Vignette Series were on the list of award categories, [10] but were not presented in 2013.
Video/DVD Categories
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Web and Technology Categories
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Lasse Braun was awarded the Reuben Sturman Award, which "recognizes industry stalwarts who've made revolutionary strides for industry rights by battling legal and free speech obstructions." [11]
Adam & Eve founder Phil Harvey was chosen to receive the second annual Visionary Award "not only for his success in taking a novelty start-up company into nearly every realm of adult commerce, but also for his sense of civic responsibility in helping to prevent the scourge of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies from destroying lives in Third World countries." [12]
The AVN Awards Hall of Fame inductees, "a handful of individuals who’ve left a perennial imprint in the history pages of the adult entertainment industry," for 2013 were:
The following releases received multiple awards:
The following releases received the most nominations:
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The following individuals received the most nominations:
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The following individuals were presenters or performers during the awards ceremony:
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Lea Lexis and Nick Hawk | Presenters of the Best Actor and Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene awards |
Tom Byron, Phoenix Marie, Ana Foxxx | Presenters of the Best Star Showcase and Best Oral Sex Scene awards |
Prinzzess Felicity Jade, Teagan Presley, Bailey Blue | Presenters of the Best Romance and Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene awards |
Brooklyn Lee | Presenter of the AVN Best New Starlet Award |
Joseline Hernandez, Stevie J., Ron Jeremy | Presenters of the Best Anal Sex Scene and Best Parody - Comedy awards |
Steven Hirsch | Presenter of the Visionary Award |
Annika Albrite, Riley Reid, Tommy Pistol | Presenters of the Best Actress and Best Parody - Drama awards |
India Summer, Kimberly Kane, Dyanna Lauren | Presenters of the Transsexual Performer of the Year, Male Performer of the Year and Female Performer of the Year awards |
Taylor Vixen, Brett Rossi, Emily Addison | Presenters of the Best Foreign Feature and Best Sex Scene in a Foreign Production awards |
Axel Braun | Presenter of the Reuben Sturman Award |
Lexi Belle, Aiden Ashley, Phil Varone | Presenters of the Best Drama and Director of the Year awards |
Stormy Daniels, Jessica Drake, Kaylani Lei, Alektra Blue, Samantha Saint | Presenters of the Movie of the Year award |
Name(s) | Role | Performed |
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April Macie | Host | Comedian [1] |
Tyga | Performer | Hip-hop hits "Rack City" and "Make It Nasty" |
The Girls of Spearmint Rhino Las Vegas | Performer | Dance |
Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity | Performers | Mix of dance, sensuality and acrobatics [16] |
Mark Stone and DJ Starlett [17] | Performers | Original music |
Beginning with the 30th AVN Awards, the following changes to award categories took place: [5]
Some media outlets were impressed by the show. Robin Leach of the Las Vegas Sun reported, "It was the annual sea of sexiness that couldn't take place anywhere else in the world." [18] He also noted the large size of the crowd as did the Huffington Post, which pointed out, "Thousands of fanboys and porn stars flooded the halls" and "all the A-listers were there." [19]
As the show was beginning, AVN used a video segment to pay a tribute to adult-industry personalities who had died since the 2012 awards show:
Time constraints prevented the segment from being re-edited to include director Fred J. Lincoln, who had died a couple of days earlier. [20]
^A Rather than nominees for the Movie of the Year category, voting is conducted separately just prior to the awards ceremony from among winners in "best release" categories [21] including those listed.
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