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FEATURE | AVN AWARDS SHOW
GOLD RUSH
Inside the Winners Lounge at the AVN Awards
The AVN Awards have more than 100
Jason Brown, the third member of that Best
categories, most of which are announced as a group near the end of the show. Beginning last year, AVN started a new tradition: the Winners Lounge. Located adjacent to the after party in Vanity nightclub at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, the lounge is where all winners can come by and get their already-engraved awards, nestled in gold boxes, after signing a receipt. Then they can hang around, enjoy some celebratory champagne and snap selfies in front of the photo wall.
Three-Way Sex Scene – Boy/Boy/Girl in Kendra’s
Obsession, picked up his AVN Award a few minutes
after Sunderland and Johnson: “This is my second
win. I’ve been in the business for almost 14
years and I’m finally getting people who start to
recognize me and understand what I do for a living.
I appreciate it so much. I love my fans, all of the
people who actually believe in what I do, because
it’s been a lot of hard times. You wonder if people
We stopped by to check out the scene and talk to
like what you’re doing. When you get validated at
some of the winners.
the end of that, it’s such an amazing thing. I can’t
Leya Falcon, Most Outrageous Sex Scene winner
put it into words.”
with Ophelia Rain for “Well, There’s ONE Place
“It’s so heavy. I can do bicep curls with this,”
You Can Put an AVN Award” in Viking Girls Gone
said Kay Brandt, director of Best Polyamory Movie
Horny from Desire/Girlfriends, was one of the
winner Adventures With the Baumgartners from Adam
first to pick up an AVN Award at the lounge. “I
& Eve Pictures. “Winning is great. Wonderful. The
screamed and I cried. Now, I’m going to do a d.p.
best feeling in the world. This is the second winner
with awards,” Falcon said. “My mommy is so proud
in a row.”
of me. I called her.”
Producer/performer Kelly Madison picked
Kendra Sunderland and Ricky Johnson picked
up AVN Awards for Best Soundtrack for Altar
up their AVN Awards for Best Three-Way Sex
of Aphrodite and Best Taboo Relations Movie for
Scene – Boy/Boy/Girl in Kendra’s Obsession from
Dysfucktional: Blood Is Thicker Than Cum, joined by
Blacked/Jules Jordan. “I just want to say thank you
Altar director Andy Zane and performer/director
for recognizing it,” Sunderland told AVN. “The
Ryan Madison. “What’s amazing is having people
showcase meant a lot to me.” Smiling at her co-
win that I get to help win,” Kelly Madison said.
star, she added, “Ricky was really great too.”
“It’s more satisfying. I’m a better cheerleader.”
“That [scene] was the first time I met Kendra,”
“This is my biggest haul of all time,” producer/
Johnson said.
performer Kayden Kross said, hefting three boxed
Above, MILF Performer of the Year Cherie DeVille; Mick Blue and Markus Dupree; Thomas, Ray Dark and Aidra Fox. Middle, Scott David, Kay Brandt, Bob Christian and Will Ryder celebrating Adam & Eve’s wins; AVN Hall of Famer Aiden Starr; Favorite
Camming Couple Fan Award winners Honey and Tom Christian. Bottom, AVN Hall of Famer Alexis Amore; Kayden Kross; Andy Zane and Kelly Madison; Dee Severe and Jimmy Broadway. Photos by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com
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