Produced by Gary MillerJeff Roe | Directed by Gary Miller | |
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Date January 9, 2010 (2010-01-09) Hosted by Dave AttellKayden KrossKirsten Price Preshow host(s) Jessica DrakeJesse JaneDave Navarro | ||
The 27th AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic movies of 2009. The ceremony was held on January 9, 2010 in a new venue, the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada. During the ceremony, AVN Media Network presented awards in 125 of categories of movies or products released between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Showtime. Comedian Dave Attell hosted the show with co-hosts Kirsten Price and Kayden Kross.
Contents
- Winners and nominees
- Major Awards
- Additional Award Winners
- Hall of Fame
- Presenters and performers
- Changes to awards categories
- References
Among the new award categories introduced was "Best Sex Parody" due to the genre's quality and market impact. The category was one of three at the awards show where a tie was declared; in this instance The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody, an action-adventure send-up of The X-Files, and Not the Cosbys XXX, a spoof of The Cosby Show, were co-winners.
The 8th Day earned Best Video Feature honors and eight more awards and 21-year-old Tori Black won her first Female Performer of the Year award and won or shared six others, while Kagney Linn Karter won the Best New Starlet Award. Manuel Ferrara won his third Male Performer of the Year Award, joining Lexington Steele as the only actors to have done so.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 27th AVN Awards were announced on Dec 2, 2009 in a press release. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 9, 2010, which was broadcast on Showtime.
Major Awards
Award winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Additional Award Winners
These awards were announced in a winners-only segment but were not presented their awards on stage during the event and were not part of the televised awards show:
Hall of Fame
AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2010 were: Chris Charming, Stoney Curtis, Racquel Devine, Devon, Jessica Drake, Byron Long, Gina Lynn, Toni Ribas, Nicholas Steele, Michael Stefano, Valentino and Mark Wood
Presenters and performers
The following individuals were presenters or performers during the awards ceremony:
Changes to awards categories
Beginning with the 27th AVN Awards, AVN Media Network added a category to the awards show titled Best Sex Parody. "Because of the amount of quality parodies that studios have produced in the past year and the impact they've had on the marketplace, we've decided to honor the best of those movies in their own category separate from our long-running Best Sex Comedy award," said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN.