I don't really pay attention to porn gossip sites so some of this may be old news or mainstream media hype, but this caught my attention.



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I think the AVN's are a silly joke as it is.. I mean, one person up for THIRTY THREE awards?

It's like they have as many categories as possible with as many nominees for each one as possible (it must be 10 or something like that), so everyone gets nominated for something.

it's like trying to get everyone participation ribbons at school so nobody feels left out.

As for Deen, it will eventually go away and perhaps he won't get as much work as before, but he will not be gone from porn. He got 2 out of 33 which would tell me most people didn't want to vote for him so he got his embarrassment people want.

You gotta prop these whores' egos up. Besides money, they need to feel they're doing something worthwhile rather than just getting paid for being disgusting fuckpigs. Until the bubble bursts and they commit suicide.

Damn straight. Give every one of those narcissistic jizz-catchers a trophy. Two if they got buttfucked.

Stoya was lying whore who was full of shit then mentally imploded. She now drools out of the corner of her mouth and plays with her food.
Deen got three awards for treating whores they way they should be treated and I'm sure he'll he shooting for Kink next month.

Brandon would be a lock for the Hoser Award

Even lowly me finagled a nomination. The bar has been lowered.



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There must be about a thousand nominations (each category has at least 10, right? and there are dozens and dozens of categories)

I think it would be more of an achievement to get zero nominations.

Let me put it this way: Even I have an avn nomination. Best oral sex scene 06 for a blowbang I was in with Gia Paloma.

Better than that: My porn name was said by Howard Stern on radio. They were goofing on the avn's and porn names and they chose that list of names because they were so silly. (Arnold Schwartzenpecker, Dick Nasty, FaceBlaster, Jim Beem, etc) My name even got emphasis in pronunciation in a very Howard way.
So yeah, everybody gets a nom.

So George W. Bush stole the "No Child Left Behind"/ "Everybody gets a trophy" model from the porn industry.

I will bet that some of those 33 nominations were for scenes for Stoya's company. Nothing say's "rape rape" like hiring the guy.

You'd lose that bet. The reported number of nominations were taken from both AVN and XBiz, the one's Deen won coming from group scenes with three or more people. His big project of the year, Stockholm Syndrome, lost everything it was up for and none of the movies he directed or produced won anything either. He won nothing from XBiz at all.

Every year, hundreds of new performers shoot 1000's of scenes and a small number get nominated for something. That hardly constitutes "everyone gets an award" or even a nomination. Given the pissing and moaning by some, you'd think they lost a child. Now, the poverty pimps are out there selling snake oil as to how their own award shows are so much better, forgetting to remind people how they selected themselves, their immediate family members, and sponsors years back, doing EXACTLY what they accuse AVN of doing. LOL

Do the names Mike Ramone and Emily Evermoore ring a bell?

Ahh, who gives a shit, the expo is a waste of time now. The award show is for whores, put on by whores who can't read the teleprompter. And sometimes the winning whore doesn't even bother to show up because she's already flushed out of the business (Naomi and Keri Sable come to mind).

As a non-pornographer myself, you can't believe how difficult it is to keep a straight face when the category is "best double anal sex scene" or something equally degrading. And everyone is clapping, the whore is in tears because she won an award for wrecking her bowel movement for the next 40 years. It's tragi-comical, like an Alfred Jarry play.

Funny you should mention Ramone as someone asked me about him this morning. Apparently, he is going around touting how legit the awards were when he was in charge of them and how obviously biased they are now because his pick for performer of the year this time did not win (he reportedly was going around claiming Adriana Chechik should have won). I was told it was on a fanboy forum but not provided a link, pretty darned bold of the guy who was fired for trading influence to make claims like that.

As far as the expo or the award show, they are both popular enough to pay the bills, the awards too popular for the venue according to reports (they were short hundreds of tickets this year). I always had fun at the expo (other than always getting sick) and never attended the show itself, preferring to leave after shooting the red carpet, but I think you're being harsh on them. If you're going to work in a field such as this, isn't it better to be labeled "the best" rather than just another hack? It has impacted rates for feature stripping and escorting as well as garnering more fans to buy stuff for them off wish lists, so why fuss?

Yeah, some take it too seriously, others then see an opening to screw people over in all new ways, but if you look at every industry award process, AVN is better than most in terms of screening out voter biases (they gave the boot to a few voters this year who really needed to go); just how many websites or organizations have more than a couple of people picking their winners?