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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)


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


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