I am AVN award winner twice over (same year) I won "Best Specialty Tape-Other Genre and "Best Music" for Strange Life- The Breech in 99. It was a body piercing and body suspension movie that I shot while working at VCX who didn't advertise at all in those days. I found that the awards actually hindered what I wanted to do, work! People felt they couldn't afford my rates when in fact I was very reasonable. I was nominated 7 other times with other companies that did a bunch of ad's but didn't win.