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FEATURE
FEATURE | 2018 AVN Awards
THE
CANDIDATES
2018
Our year-end ritual:
revealing the AVN Awards nominees
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On November 16, a capacity crowd of industry luminaries descended upon the Edison nightclub in
downtown Los Angeles to mark the announcement of the 35th annual AVN Awards nominations.
Sponsored by MyFreeCams.com and hosted by Kat Dior and Chad White, the fourth annual AVN
Awards Nomination Party kicked off with the revealing of the official trophy girls for the 2018 show,
Ayumi Anime and Sofi Ryan, as well as the comic co-host, Aries Spears, who will be joining adult
stars Angela White and Harli Lotts on the awards stage.
Another big reveal of the evening was the addition of a brand-new category, Best Action/Thriller,
to recognize the proliferation of ambitious features in the past year employing heavy elements
of suspense, chills and peril. In addition, AVN instituted a second new field for the 2018 awards
dubbed Best Lewd Propositions Movie. In a sense a staple of adult movies for as long as they’ve
been made, this category puts a name for the first time on the age-old setup device of procuring sex
by way of coercion, manipulation, barter or the pretense of some sort of opportunity, which has seen
a boom of late as the central theme of many anthology-style releases.
Last but not least, for those who feared adult parodies had gone the way of the dodo, good news:
AVN found during the nominations process that the beloved genre of triple-X spoofs remains a
viable one, and hence our Best Parody category lives on.
VIDEO & WEB
The nominees in all judged AVN Awards categories are listed on these pages. In addition, many more performers have
been included in the Fan Awards contest, for which voting is now in progress. To see those nominees, go to
AVN.com/awards/voting.
All-Girl Performer of the Year
The 2018 AVN Awards Show takes place January 27 at The Joint inside Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, topping
off a full week of events at the resort starting with Internext January 20-23, followed by the concurrent AVN Novelty
Aiden Ashley | Serena Blair | Jayden Cole
Expo (January 24-26) and AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (January 24-27).
Val Dodds | Darcie Dolce | Prinzzess Felicity Jade
For information on purchasing tickets to the 2018 AVN Awards Show, visit AVNAwards.com.
Shyla Jennings | Georgia Jones | Mindi Mink
Karlie Montana | Ryan Ryans | Jenna Sativa
Charlotte Stokely | Tanya Tate | Vanessa Veracruz
Best Action/Thriller
Agent 69, Adam & Eve Pictures
The Altar of Aphrodite, Kelly Madison/Juicy
Blood Sisters, Digital Playground/Pulse
Crash, Wicked Pictures
Extradition, Girlsway/Girlfriends
From Beyond, Wicked Pictures
An Inconvenient Mistress, Wicked Pictures
Lay Her Down, Digital Playground/Pulse
My Killer Girlfriend, BurningAngel/Exile
Pussy or Lead, Brazzers/Pulse
Quest, Digital Playground/Pulse
Takers, Wicked Pictures
Transmission, Girlsway/Girlfriends
Vampires, Girlsway/Girlfriends
Vendetta, Wicked Pictres
Seth Gamble, Karma, Wicked Pictures
Tyler Knight, Interracial Family Needs, Sweet Sinner/
Mile High
Marcus London, Unbridled, Wicked Pictures
Derrick Pierce, Indirect Relations, Pretty Dirty
Logan Pierce, The Voyeur, Sweet Sinner/Mile High
Tommy Pistol, Ingenue, Wicked Pictures
Toni Ribas, Blood Sisters, Digital Playground/Pulse
Ryan Ryder, The Altar of Aphrodite, Kelly Madison/Juicy
Nacho Vidal, Outland 2: Looking for Freedom, Harmony
Films
Ella Nova, Snapshot, Wicked Pictures
Romi Rain, Justice League XXX: An Axel Braun Parody,
Axel Braun/Wicked
Angela White, The Altar of Aphrodite, Kelly Madison/
Juicy
Chad White, Laura, MissaX.com
Best Actress
Best Actor
Brad Armstrong, Takers, Wicked Pictures
Danny D, Bulldogs, Digital Playground/Pulse
Charles Dera, Half His Age: A Teenage
Tragedy, Pure Taboo/Pulse
Damon Dice, From the First Moment,
Wicked Pictures
Ryan Driller, An Inconvenient Mistress,
Wicked Pictures
Asa Akira, The Blonde Dahlia, Wicked Pictures
Chloe Amour, Love for Sale 2, SexArt/MetArt/New
Sensations
Abella Danger, The Obsession, Sweet Sinner/Mile High
Jessica Drake, An Inconvenient Mistress, Wicked
Pictures
Alexis Fawx, Fantasy Factory, Girlsway/Girlfriends
Alexa Grace, Crash, Wicked Pictures
Janice Griffith, Ingenue, Wicked Pictures
Jill Kassidy, Half His Age: A Teenage Tragedy, Pure
Taboo/Pulse
Cassidy Klein, Conflicted, Wicked Pictures
Sara Luvv, The Faces of Alice, Girlsway/Girlfriends
Melissa Moore, The Voyeur, Sweet Sinner/Mile High
Katie Morgan, Bad Babes Inc., Adam & Eve Pictures
Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
Best Friends or Lesbians?, X-Art/Adult Source; Aiden
Ashley, Salena Storm & Kimmy Granger
Best New Starlets 2017, Elegant Angel Productions;
Melissa Moore, Elsa Jean & Adria Rae
Christmas Spirit, Girlsway/Girlfriends; Shyla Jennings,
Elle Alexandra & Reena Sky
The Faces of Alice, Girlsway/Girlfriends; Sara Luvv,
AJ Applegate, Dahlia Sky, Serena Blair, Melissa Moore,
Kimmy Granger, Darcie Dolce, Kristen Scott, Bree Daniels
& Cadence Lux
Girl Kush 2, Emerald Triangle Girls/Pulse; Casey Calvert,
Valentina Nappi & Kristina Rose
Jessica Drake Is Wicked, Wicked Pictures; Jessica Drake,
Anikka Albrite, Angela White, Vicki Chase, Abella Danger
& Brandy Aniston
The Luck of the Draw, Adam & Eve Pictures; Siouxsie Q,
Bella Rossi & Arabelle Raphael
MILF Performers of the Year 2017, Elegant Angel
Productions; India Summer, Julia Ann & Mercedes Carrera
Performers of the Year 2017, Elegant Angel Productions;
Adriana Chechik, Riley Reid & Veronica Rodriguez
Tori Black Is Back, Lesbian X/O.L. Entertainment; Tori
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