The 23rd AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic films of 2005 and took place January 7, 2006 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars of porn[3][4][5]) in 104 categories honoring films released between October 1, 2004, and September 30, 2005.[6] The ceremony, televised in the United States by Playboy TV, was produced and directed by Gary Miller. Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons hosted the show with adult film star Jesse Jane.[1]
The Devil in Miss Jones, a remake of the 1973 classic of the same name, won nine awards including Best Film, but the big winner of the evening was Pirates with 11 awards including Best Video Feature.[7] Other multiple award winners included Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre and Dark Side with five apiece and Squealer with three. The telecast was subsequently issued on DVD by Spice Studios.[1][8][9]
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 23rd AVN Awards were announced on November 25, 2005, by Adult Video News. Pirates earned the most nominations with 24 total. The Devil in Miss Jones was next with 19, followed by Eternity with 17, Dark Angels 2: Bloodline and Dark Side each with 16 and Catherine with 15.[6]
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 7, 2006. Notably, Pirates set a new record for most awards at one show, edging past Fashionistas, which won 10 in 2003.[10] McKenzie Lee won the coveted Best New Starlet award while Female Performer of the Year was Audrey Hollander.[4]Manuel Ferrara won Male Performer of the Year for the second straight time.[7]
..3** Mari Possa, Samantha Ryan, Selena Silver, Flower Tucci, War of the Girls[12]
Additional Award Winners
These awards were announced, but not presented, in two pre-recorded winners-only segments during the event. Trophies were given to the recipients off-stage:[1][11]
DIRECTOR AWARDS
Best Director - Foreign Release:Rocco Siffredi, Who Fucked Rocco?
Several new categories debuted, including Crossover Star of the Year (for impact in mainstream media), Best New Video Production Company and several Specialty genre awards. Meanwhile, multiple packaging categories were condensed into one Best Packaging award due to the demise of VHS as a video format.[6]
High Society magazine and Reuters reported the event's attendance record was shattered as more than 5,000 people watched the show.[3][10]
Performance of year's movies
1 Night in China was announced as the top selling movie and the 2004 remake of The Masseuse as the top renting movie of the previous year.[7]
Critical reviews
High Society (magazine)|High Society termed the event a "smashing success."[10]
^ ab"The Oscars of porn". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Digital. January 9, 2006. Retrieved January 13, 2016. The 23rd annual Adult Video News (AVN) Awards, the Oscars of porn, boasted a higher attendance than ever this year, with more than 5,000 watching Saturday night's two-hour-long event in a huge ballroom at the ritzy Venetian Hotel.
^ ab"Lighting Up Sin City". Hustler. U.S.A.: Larry Flynt Publications, Inc. July 2006. pp. 77–80. Think of the AVN Awards as the porn Oscars.
^Grecco, Michael (Director) (2009). Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry (DVD). United States: Phase 4 Films (USA) LLC. 1:52 minutes in. The finale to the expo is the AVN Awards Show, also known as the Oscars of Porn. The AVN Awards brings together 3,000 performers and producers and has the glitz of Hollywood's Academy Awards.
^ abcdefghiRutter, Jared (March 2006). "Sin City Sextacular: AVN Awards Sail Smoothly as Pirates Plunders a Devil of a Night". Adult Video News. Vol. 22, no. 3. Chatsworth, California, U.S.A.: AVN Publications, Inc. pp. 48–116. ISSN0883-7090.
^Houston, Don (September 5, 2006). "2006 AVN Awards Show, The". XCritic. XCritic.com. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^X, Nelson (September 1, 2006). "The 2006 AVN Awards Show". AVN.com. AVN Media Network. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ abcIrons, Nick (August 2006). "Fear and Loathing at the 2006 AVN Awards—XXX's Awards and the Magic of Sin City". High Society. Vol. 31, no. 8. New York, New York, U.S.A.: High Society Periodicals Inc. pp. 48–51. ISSN1075-0800.
"The 2006 Adult Entertainment Expo & AVN Awards Rock Las Vegas!". Girls/Girls X-Rated Cinema & Video. No. 110. Paramus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Dogwood Publications, Inc./Magna Publishing Group. December 2006. pp. 20–23. ISSN1080-4501.
Hoffman, Jens (Director) (2008). 9 to 5: Days in Porn (DVD). Germany: Mongrel Media.
"The 2006 AVN Awards—The biggest night of the year for porn, pervs and freaks". Cheri magazine. U.S.A. August 2006. p. 114.
"On the Set & in Bed With...Stormy Does the AVN Awards in Vegas!". High Society. New York, New York, U.S.A.: High Society Periodicals, Inc. July 2006. p. 16. ISSN1075-0800.
"AVN Awards". Bachelor magazine (in Japanese). Japan. May 2006.
Grecco, Michael (Director) (2009). Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry (DVD). Phase 4 Films (USA) LLC.
Grecco, Michael (2007). Naked ambition : an R rated look at an X rated industry. San Francisco, Calif.: Rock Out Books. pp. 1–224. ISBN9780979331404.
