(LAS VEGAS, NV) -- The AVN Awards Show seemed even better than last year with many Adult Industry professionals getting the recognition they deserve. Hosted by Jenna Jameson, and with awards presented by well-known stars, the show moved smoothly through the presentations. Briefly the night went as follows.

The awards and comments:

Best Couples Sex Scene - Film
Facade, Vivid Entertainment Group, Sydnee Steele & Bobby Vitale

Best Couples Sex Scene - Video
West Side, Video Team, Lexington Steele & Inari Vachs

Best Gonzo Series
Please!, All Blew Shirts/Evil Angel

Best Ethnic-Themed Series
Chica Boom, Toe-to-Toe/Hustler Video

Best All-Girl Sex Scene - Film
Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro, Ava Vincent & Syren

-- By the way, Houston is getting married tonight! --

Best All Girl Sex Scene - Video
Dark Angels, New Sensations, Sydnee Steele & Jewel De'Nyle

Best Renting and Selling Tape of the Year
Dream Quest, Wicked Pictures

Best Art Direction - Film
Jekyll and Hyde, Vivid Entertainment Group

Best Art Direction - Video
Shayla's Web, VCA Platinum Plus

-- Awards presenter Herschel Savage congratulates the eventual winners in his categories! --

Best Cinematography
Dream Quest, Wicked Pictures, Jake Jacobs and Ralph Parfait

Best Videography
Dark Angels, New Sensations, Jake Jacobs & Nic Andrews

Best Editing - Film
Watchers, Sin City Films, Michael Raven & Sammy Slater

Best Editing - Video
Dark Angels, New Sensations, Nic Andrews

Best Music
Dark Angels, New Sensations, Derik Andrews & Inversion 89

Best Screenplay - Film
Watchers, Sin City Films, Michael Raven & George Kaplan

Best Screenplay - Video
Raw, VCA Platinum Plus, Antonio Passolini

Best Special Effects
Intimate Expressions, New Sensations

-- For this group of awards Hersch asked the winners to pick them up in the back. To save time just the winners were read. --

Best Non-Sex Performance Film or Video
Rob Spallone, The Sopornos, VCA Platinum Plus

Best Transsexual Tape
Rogue Adventures: Big Ass She-Males 7, All Blew Shirts/Evil Angel

Best Alternative Video
Dream Girls: Real Adventures 18, Evil Angel Productions

Best Director - Foreign Release
Tanya Hyde, Hell, Whores and High Heels, Pirate/Private USA

Best Foreign Vignette Tape
Hell, Whores and High Heels, Pirate Video Deluxe/Private USA

Best Interactive DVD
Virtual Sex With Tera Patrick, Digital Playground

Best DVD Extras
All Star Digital Playground

Best Classic Release on DVD
Chameleons Not the Sequel, VCA Interactive

-- Next was a monologue by the comedian Mike Saccone --

Best Sex Comedy
M Caught In The Act, Wicked Pictures

-- Serenity and Jonathan Morgan accepting. --

Best DVD
Raw, VCA Interactive

The Hot Video Award
(Best American Release in France)
Tell Me What You Want, Vidéo Marc Dorcel

-- May 16, 2001 in France --

Best Sex Scene in a Foreign Release
Buttman's Anal Divas, Evil Angel Productions, Nacho Vidal, Jazmine & Isabella

Best Foreign Release
Rocco: Animal Trainer 3, Rocco Siffredi/Evil Angel

Best Continuing Video Series (tie)
Hollywood Hardcore, Filmwest/Legend
Pick Up Lines, Odyssey Group Video

Best Supporting Actress- Video
Midori, West Side, Video Team

-- Midori is getting married Saturday - Congratulations to her and John! --

Best Actor - Video
Joel Lawrence, Raw, VCA Platinum Plus

Best Actress - Video
Serenity, M Caught in the Act, Wicked Pictures

-- 2 years in a row! Way to go Serenity! Next Sindee Williams and Brigit Powerz come on stage to present… -

Best Specialty Tape - Big Bust
Harem Hooters, Big Top Video

Best Specialty Tape - Bondage & S/M
Humiliation of Heidi, B&D Pleasures

Best Specialty Tape - Spanking
Public Canings, Bizarre Video

Best Specialty Tape - Other Genre
Barefoot Confidential 8, Toe-To-Video/Hustler

The Adult Video Nudes Award
Kid Vegas: Trenchcoat Pornographer, X-Traordinary Pictures/Legend

-- Paul Fishbein now takes the podium and begins with, "Now I'd like to fuck… Now I'd like to thank"… as part of his speech leading up to the Hall of Fame Certification and Reuben Sturman Memorial Award. He went on to say that "now that the cancer is out [of the company] there will be raises" and a feature article soon in AVN Magazine. --

Added to the Hall of Fame:

Kaitlyn Ashley
John T. Bone
Asia Carrera
Bud Lee
Shayla La Veaux
Clive Mc Lean
Earl Miller
Tiffany Mynx
Reb Sawitz
Sunset Thomas
Bob Vosse
Honey Wilder
Sam Xavier


Best New Starlet
Tera Patrick

-- Tera is articulate and to the point! --

Reuben Sturman Award:
Mark Kernes
Ed Powers

-- Mark got a standing ovation and said, "Just doing my job."

Al Goldstein who presented to Ed Powers said January 10th was his 65th birthday, and "I don't need this business! Fuck you ALL! I'm going to get a Social Security check and spend it on pot and pussy! He announced a new website and Teri Weigel joined him on stage for the announcement of his new brothel, Screw's International Rabbit Ranch, where Teri will be celebrating her birthday.

Ginger Lynn then presented the next group of awards. --

Best Pro-Am or Amateur Series
Up and Cummers, Randy West/Evil Angel

Best Pro-Am or Amateur Tape
California College Student Bodies 16, Xplor Media Group

Best All-Girl Feature
Hard Love/How to Fuck in High Heels, S.I.R. Productions

Best All-Girl Series
The Violation Of…., JM Productions

Best Oral-Themed Series
Blowjob Adventures of Dr. Fellatio, Elegant Angel Productions

Best Oral-Themed Feature
Blowjob Adventures of Dr. Fellatio 26, Elegant Angel Productions

Best Anal-Themed Series
Rocco's True Anal Stories, Rocco Siffredi/Evil Angel

Best Anal-Themed Feature
Rocco's True Anal Stories 11, Rocco Siffredi/Evil Angel

Best Vignette - Tape
Terrors From the Clit 2, Extreme Associates

Best Vignette - Series
Perverted Stories, JM Productions

Best Foreign Vignette - Series
Private XXX, Private USA

Best Ethnic-Themed Video
Panochitas 5, Diabolic Video

Best Tease Performance
Shayla's Web, VCA Platinum Plus, Jessica Drake

Best Solo Sex Scene
Devinn Lane, In Style, Wicked Pictures

Best Anal Sex Scene - Film
Façade, Vivid Entertainment Group, Inari Vachs & Randy Spears

Best Anal Sex Scene - Video
In The Days of Whore, Extreme Associates, Kristi Myst's Anal Gang Bang

Best Group Sex Scene - Film
Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro, Wendi Knight, Violet Luv & Brandon Iron

Best Group Sex Scene - Video
Mission to Uranus, Seymore Butts Home Movies, Alisha Klass, McKayla Matthews & Hakan Serbes

Most Outrageous Sex Scene
In The Days of Whore, Extreme Associates, The Detached Cock w/ Tyce Bune & Bridgette Kerkove

Best Box Cover Concept
Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro

Best Packaging
Dream Quest, Wicked Pictures

Best Overall Marketing Campaign - Company Image
Vivid Entertainment Group

Best Overall Marketing Campaign - Individual Title or Series
Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro

Best Supporting Actor - Video
Wilde Oscar, West Side, Video Team

Best Supporting Actor - Film
Randy Spears, Watchers, Sin City Films

Best Supporting Actress - Film
Chloe, True Blue, Vivid Entertainment Group

Best Actor - Film
Evan Stone, Adrenaline, Sin City Films

Best Actress - Film (tie)
Taylor Hayes, Jekyll and Hyde, Vivid Entertainment Group
Raylene, Artemesia, Vivid Entertainment Group

Male Performer of the Year
Evan Stone

Female Performer of the Year
Jewel De'Nyle

-- Mark Davis drops pants over the pussy cam for the ladies before presenting. --


Best Director - Film
James Avalon, Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro

Best Director - Video
Nic Andrews, Dark Angels, New Sensations

Best All-Sex Film
Erotica, Sin City Films

Best All-Sex Video
Buttwoman vs. Buttwoman, Elegant Angel Productions

Best Gonzo Video
Please 12, All Blew Shirts Video/Evil Angel

Best Video Feature
Dark Angels, New Sensations

Best Film
Watchers, Sin City Films

-- Jenna joked several times throughout the night about using heroine, called Gene Ross an ass, and at the end of the show urged us all to "go out and get gnarly drunk." In spite of her joking she did not appear to be loaded.

The after party was held in one of the most elaborate clubs I have ever seen. There were three or four floors connected by staircases in different places and more rooms than I cared to count. There was food in several rooms and in a special VIP room you could overlook the courtyard to the Venetian and enjoy the cool night air. This room was so packed it was hard to move, but with the amount of women there - who cares!

There was an after party put on by one of the video companies in one of the tower suites. When I got there the man at the door - who is also well known talent - was telling the famous photographer, the film editor, the AVN award winner with his wife and friend, and myself that only single girls and couples were allowed in. I guess there are some things a press pass can't get you into. --