2017 AVN Award Winners: A Look Back
The 2020 awards season is nearly upon us, so we’re continuing our look back at previous AVN winners: in this edition, we return to 2017!
Movie of the Year
After waiting years of for a movie featuring your favorite bad girl: Harley Quinn, Axel Braun used that fan power to score him winning the most awards with nine, including Best Movie and Best Parody along with Best Actress for Kleio Valentien.
* Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody (Winner)
- Adventures With The Baumgartners
- The Submission of Emma Marx: Exposed
- Babysitting the Baumgartners
- Asa Goes to Hell
- Deception: A XXX Thriller
- Gangbanged 7
- Facialized 3
- Angela Loves Gonzo
All Girl Performer of the Year
Jenna Sativa is a reliable, consistently popular all-girl performer year in and year out. Starting in 2017 started her two-year reign as All-Girl Performer of the Year!
* Jenna Sativa
Best Anal Movie
Directed by the 2016 AVN award-winning Director of the year, Greg Lansky this movie was sure to be a hit with the fans claiming the top prize in the genre for 2017. The movie featured Chanell Heart‘s first anal shoot, Male Performer of the Year: Mick Blue, curvaceous superstar AJ Applegate, Latin beauty Luna Star in a rare anal scene and the return of the incredibly beautiful Holly Michaels.
*The Art of Anal Sex 3
Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
Girlsway‘s AVN nominated directors Bree Mills and Stills by Alan return with their most ambitious feature to date: Missing: A Lesbian Crime Story. Featuring an all-star cast, breathtaking visuals, exquisite locations, over-the-top lesbian sex, and Girlsway’s twisted sense of humor, this six-part epic will take girl-girl fans further down the rabbit hole of lesbian melodrama than any studio has ever dared to go!
*Missing: A Lesbian Crime Story
Best BDSM Movie
John “The Pope” Paul is no stranger to being in front of the camera shooting many scenes for Kink.com. He also wrote and directed this controversial Hogtied feature, and the result is bloodless high-caliber horror porn.
*Deception: A XXX Thriller
Best Drama
Wicked Pictures and Award Winning Director Brad Armstrong brings you the dramatic story of Marissa (Mia Malkova) the 19-year-old daughter of a small-town preacher. She’s always been Daddy’s little girl and never been in trouble, that is until she meets Billy, the towns, bad boy, from the wrong side of the tracks.
*The Preacher’s Daughter
Best New Starlet
It’s no surprise that Holly Hendrix left the 34th AVN Awards with the award for Best New Starlet. She has openly talked about how much she loves her job in the porn industry, “Imagine my passion for porn. You have it in your head, right? Now multiply it by a million. THAT’s my passion for porn. I can’t even explain to you or even give you an idea of my passion for porn because I’m under-exaggerating this shit like a motherf*cker.”
* Holly Hendrix
Director of the Year
Greg Lansky, an award-winning director, yet again wins for the second year in a row!
*Greg Lansky
MILF of the Year
Kendra Lust is very familiar with the MILF title, starting her winning streak in 2016 she has won the lucky number of 13 “MILF” awards in her career.
* Kendra Lust
Female Performer of the Year
Four years after entering the adult industry, and being nominated three times Adriana Chechik finally wins Female Performer of the Year! She also won Best Oral Sex Scene and Most Outrageous Sex Scene at the 2017 AVN’s.
*Adriana Chechik
Other winners:
- BBW Performer of the Year: Angel DeLuca
- Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene: AI: Artificial Intelligence
- Best All-Girl Movie: Missing: A Lesbian Crime Story
- Best All-Girl Series: Women Seeking Women
- Best Amateur/Pro-Am Movie: Amateur POV Auditions 26
- Best Amateur/Pro-Am Series: Amateur Introductions
- Best Anal Series: Anal Beauty
- Best Anthology Movie: Natural Beauties
- Best Art Direction: Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
- Best Big Butt Movie: Anikka vs. Kelsi
- Best Big Bust Movie: Big Wet Breasts 3
- Best Cinematography: Eddie Powell, The Submission of Emma Marx: Exposed
- Best Comedy: Cindy Queen of Hell
- Best Director – Feature: Jacky St. James, The Submission of Emma Marx: Exposed
- Best Double Penetration Sex Scene: Abella
- Best Gonzo Movie: Angela Loves Gonzo
- Best Group Sex Scene: Orgy Masters 8
- Best Ingénue Movie: Fresh Girls 3
- Best Interracial Movie: My First Interracial 7
- Best Older Woman/Younger Girl Movie: Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 44
- Best Oral Movie: Facialized 3
- Best Orgy/Gangbang Movie: Gangbanged 7
- Best Polyamory Movie: Babysitting the Baumgartners
- Best Solo/Tease Performance: Asa Akira, Asa Goes to Hell
- Best Taboo Relations Movie:Tabu Tales: Me, My Brother and Another
- Best Three-Way Sex Scene – Girl/Girl/Boy: Anal Beauty 4
- Best Transsexual Movie: Real Fucking Girls
- Best Transsexual Series: Trans-Visions
- Best Transsexual Sex Scene: Buck Angel, Valentina Nappi, Girl/Boy 2
- Clever Title of the Year: Aunts in My Pants
- Female Foreign Performer of the Year: Misha Cross
- Mainstream Star of the Year: Julia Ann
- Best Continuing Series: Angela Loves …
- Best Editing: Eddie Powell, The Submission of Emma Marx: Exposed
- Best Ethnic/Interracial Series: Black & White
- Best Ethnic Movie: Asian Fuck Machines
- Best Foreign Feature: Sherlock: A XXX Parody
- Best Foreign Non-Feature: Rocco’s Italian Porn Boot Camp 2
- Best Foreign Series: Rocco One on One
- Best Makeup: Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
- Best Marketing Campaign – Company Image: Blacked/Tushy/Vixen
- Best MILF Movie: Dirty Rotten Mother Fuckers 10
- Best New Imprint: Vixen
- Best New Series: Her 1st Interracial
- Best Non-Sex Performance: Nyomi Banxxx, Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
- Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production: Misha Cross, Nikita Bellucci, Hard in Love
- Best Soundtrack: The Submission of Emma Marx: Exposed
- Best Special Effects: Supergirl XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
- Best Specialty Movie – Other Genre: Marshmallow Girls 4
- Best Specialty Series – Other Genre: Schoolgirl Bound
- Best Supporting Actor: Brad Armstrong, The Preacher’s Daughter
- Best Three-Way Sex Scene – Boy/Boy/Girl: Kleio Valentien, Tommy Pistol, Charles Dera, Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
- Male Foreign Performer of the Year: Danny D.
Check out the 2018 winners here: