Axel Braun | |
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![]() Braun in October 2010 | |
Born | [1] | September 22, 1966
Nationality | Italy USA [3] |
Years active | 1990–present |
Children | Rikki Braun [4] |
Website | axelbraun |
Axel Braun (born September 22, 1966) is an Italian-American adult film producer and director known for his productions of pornographic parodies. [3] [1] [5] [6] He is the most awarded director in the history of adult films. [7]
The son of Lasse Braun, he is an AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame and NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee. [8] [9]
Axel was born and raised in Milan, Italy. [2] His mother had a brief affair with adult film director Lasse Braun. [10] Axel didn't meet Lasse until he was 14. [10] He attended film school at Columbia College Hollywood. [10]
Braun has directed over 500 movies since 1990. [11] Braun's movie Batman XXX: A Porn Parody was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. [12] [13] Due to the success of Batman XXX, Vivid Entertainment created a new line to capitalize on the superhero and sci-fi genres called Vivid Superhero and Braun was named leading director for the initiative. [14] In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures [15] to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusively to fairy tale and comic book parodies. [16] [17]
In December 2020, following the acquisition of Wicked Pictures by Gamma Entertainment, Braun was appointed Head of Production for the company. [18] On June 23, 2023, Braun announced his retirement from the adult industry after a career spanning 33 years. [7]
In October 2010, Braun filed a federal lawsuit against 7,098 individuals who he alleged illegally shared digital copies of his movie Batman XXX: A Porn Parody. [19]
In October 2013, Braun instated a policy that required all performers appearing in sexually explicit roles in any of his movies to be 21 years of age, or older. [20]
In May 2014, Braun announced two new policies for his productions. First, he would no longer forgo the use of condoms in his videos. Second, he will require full-panel STD/HIV tests no older than seven days. He added that he would personally cover the cost for the test if a performer's current test is older. [21]
Braun was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2014. [8] [9] He has won the AVN Best Parody award for ten consecutive years in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. [22] Braun is the only adult director to have won the AVN Director of the Year award four consecutive times in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. [23]
In January 2015, 24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody became the first parody ever to win the AVN Movie of the Year award. [24] Braun won the top award again in 2016 with Peter Pan XXX: An Axel Braun Parody, and in 2017 with Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody scoring an unprecedented AVN Movie of the Year three-peat. [25]
In 2019, Braun won the AVN Movie of the Year for a fourth time with The Possession of Mrs. Hyde, his first non-parody feature in 15 years, written with his father Lasse Braun and his son Rikki, and shot entirely in Black and White CinemaScope. [22]
Braun is the owner of Level 5 Post, a post-production company that supplies editing, authoring, graphics and special effects to many adult and mainstream companies. [26]
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Totals | 31 | 4 |
Year | Category | Nominated work |
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2004 [27] | Best Screenplay | Compulsion |
2011 [28] [29] | AVN Hall of Fame inductee | — |
Director of the Year | ||
Best Screenplay | Batman XXX: A Porn Parody | |
2012 [30] | Director of the Year | — |
2013 [31] | ||
Director of the Year | ||
Best Director-Parody | ||
Best Screenplay | Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody | |
2014 [32] | Director of the Year | — |
2015 [29] [33] | Best Director/Parody | |
Best Screenplay | 24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody | |
2016 [29] [33] | Best Director/Parody | — |
Best Screenplay | Batman v Superman XXX: An Axel Braun Parody | |
2017 [29] [33] | Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody | |
Best Director/Parody | — | |
2018 [22] [33] | Best Director/Feature | |
2019 [22] | ||
Best Screenplay | The Possession of Mrs. Hyde |
Year | Category | Nominated work |
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2010 [34] | Director of the Year-Body of Work | — |
2013 [35] | Director of the Year – Parody | Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody |
2014 [36] | Director of the Year-Body of Work | — |
2016 [29] [37] | Director of the Year-Parody |
Year | Category | Nominated work |
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2010 [38] | Best Director (Editor's Choice) | — |
2012 [39] | NightMoves Lifetime Achievement Award | |
2014 [40] | NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee |
Year | Category | Nominated work |
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2004 [41] | Best Director | Compulsión |
Year | Category |
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2011 | Best Director-Parody |
2012 | |
2013 | |
2014 | XRCO Hall of Fame inductee |