Axel Braun

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Axel Braun
Axel Braun October 2010.jpg
Braun in October 2010
Born (1966-09-22) September 22, 1966 (age 58) [1]
Milan, Italy [2]
NationalityItaly
USA [3]
Years active1990-present [4]
ChildrenRikki Braun [5]
Website axelbraun.com

Axel Braun (born September 22, 1966) is an Italian-American adult film producer and director known for his productions of pornographic parodies. [3] [1] [6] [7] He is the most awarded director in the history of adult films. [8]

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The son of Lasse Braun, he is an AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame and NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee. [9] [10]

Early life

Axel was born and raised in Milan, Italy. [2] His mother had a brief affair with adult film director Lasse Braun. [11] Axel didn't meet Lasse until he was 14. [11] He attended film school at Columbia College Hollywood. [11]

Career

Braun has directed over 500 movies since 1990. [12] Braun's movie Batman XXX: A Porn Parody was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. [13] [14] 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. [15] In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures [16] to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusively to fairy tale and comic book parodies. [17] [18]

In December 2020, following the acquisition of Wicked Pictures by Gamma Entertainment, Braun was appointed Head of Production for the company. [19] On June 23, 2023, Braun announced his retirement from the adult industry after a career spanning 33 years. [8]

Advocacy

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. [20]

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. [21]

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. [22]

Recognition

Braun was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2014. [9] [10] He has won the AVN Best Parody award for ten consecutive years in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. [23] 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. [24]

In January 2015, 24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody became the first parody ever to win the AVN Movie of the Year award. [25] 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. [26]

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. [23]

Other ventures

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. [27]

Selected awards

List of accolades received by Axel Braun
Total number of wins and honors
Totals314
AVN Awards
YearCategoryNominated work
2004 [28] Best ScreenplayCompulsion
2011 [29] [30] AVN Hall of Fame inductee—
Director of the Year
Best ScreenplayBatman XXX: A Porn Parody
2012 [31] Director of the Year—
2013 [32]
Director of the Year
Best Director-Parody
Best ScreenplayStar Wars XXX: A Porn Parody
2014 [33] Director of the Year—
2015 [30] [34] Best Director/Parody
Best Screenplay24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
2016 [30] [34] Best Director/Parody—
Best ScreenplayBatman v Superman XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
2017 [30] [34] Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
Best Director/Parody—
2018 [23] [34] Best Director/Feature
2019 [23]
Best ScreenplayThe Possession of Mrs. Hyde
XBIZ Awards
YearCategoryNominated work
2010 [35] Director of the Year-Body of Work—
2013 [36] Director of the Year – ParodyStar Wars XXX: A Porn Parody
2014 [37] Director of the Year-Body of Work—
2016 [30] [38] Director of the Year-Parody
NightMoves Awards
YearCategoryNominated work
2010 [39] Best Director (Editor's Choice)—
2012 [40] NightMoves Lifetime Achievement Award
2014 [41] NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee
Ninfa Awards
YearCategoryNominated work
2004 [42] Best DirectorCompulsión
XRCO Awards [43]
YearCategory
2011Best Director-Parody
2012
2013
2014 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee

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