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The 30th AVN Awards ceremony, or XXX AVN Awards, was an event during which Adult Video News (AVN) presented its annual AVN Awards to honor the best pornographic movies and adult entertainment products of 2012. Movies or products released between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012, were eligible. The ceremony was held on January 19, 2013 at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Paradise, Nevada. Comedian April Macie, AVN Hall of Fame inductee Jesse Jane and Asa Akira, who won Female Performer of the Year, hosted the AVN Awards. The awards show was held immediately after the Adult Entertainment Expo at the same venue.
Best Romance Release was one of several new categories created for the 30th Awards Show. The new categories "reflect the ever-evolving market trends of the business" and the Best Romance award is for a movie with a romantic story line geared specifically to women or couples. Torn, starring best actor winner Steven St. Croix, won the first Best Romance award.
Wasteland took top honors as Movie of the Year, also winning best drama and six other awards, including a directing award for Graham Travis, who also directed the previous year's top movie, and a Best Actress victory for Lily Carter. Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody took six awards including Best Parody – Comedy.
Octomom Home Alone won the Best Celebrity Sex Tape category, while Axel Braun won his third straight Director of the Year award and Remy LaCroix won the AVN Best New Starlet Award. All winners were presented newly redesigned trophies, depicting an intertwined couple, to celebrate the awards' 30th anniversary.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 30th AVN Awards were announced on November 30, 2012.
= Major awards
=Winners of categories announced during the awards ceremony January 19, 2013, are highlighted in boldface.
= Additional Award Winners
=These awards were not presented during the awards ceremony itself but were announced separately. In addition, the awards for Best Animated Release, Best Gonzo Series, Best Softcore Release, and Best Vignette Series were on the list of award categories, but were not presented in 2013.
Honorary AVN Awards
= Reuben Sturman Award
=Lasse Braun was awarded the Reuben Sturman Award, which "recognizes industry stalwarts who've made revolutionary strides for industry rights by battling legal and free speech obstructions."
= Visionary Award
=Adam & Eve founder Phil Harvey was chosen to receive the second annual Visionary Award "not only for his success in taking a novelty start-up company into nearly every realm of adult commerce, but also for his sense of civic responsibility in helping to prevent the scourge of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies from destroying lives in Third World countries."
= Hall of Fame
=The AVN Awards Hall of Fame inductees, "a handful of individuals who’ve left a perennial imprint in the history pages of the adult entertainment industry," for 2013 were:
Video Branch: Kandi Barbour, Ashley Blue, Vanessa Blue, Mary Carey, Francois Clousot, Manuel Ferrara, Jesse Jane, Rebecca Lord, Shy Love, Anna Malle, Katie Morgan, Ralph Parfait, Mike Quasar, Julie Simone, Chris Streams and Vaniity
Internet Founders Branch: Danni Ashe, Founder of Danni's Hard Drive; Anthony J., Founder of NetVideoGirls.com; and Bill Pinyon & Steve Wojcik, Founders of Badpuppy.com
Pleasure Product Branch: Dennis Paradise of Paradise Marketing, Mark Franks of Castle Megastore, and Teddy Rothstein, Irwin Schwartz & Elliot Schwartz of Nasstoys/Novelties by Nasswalk
Multiple awards and nominations
Presenters and performers
The following individuals were presenters or performers during the awards ceremony:
= Presenters
== Trophy girls
== Performers
=Ceremony information
= Changes to awards categories
=Beginning with the 30th AVN Awards, the following changes to award categories took place:
The AVN Award for Best Feature has been renamed Best Drama to properly complement Best Comedy.
The AVN Award for Best All-Sex Release - Mixed Format has been renamed Best Wall-to-Wall Release for movies that mix gonzo, vignette and all-sex scene genres.
The discontinued AVN Award previously known as Best All-Sex/Vignette Series has been reintroduced as Best Continuing Series. (Similarly, the existing Best Foreign All-Sex Series and Best Foreign All-Sex Release awards were renamed Best Foreign Continuing Series and Best Foreign Non-Feature respectively.)
The discontinued AVN Award Best New Production Company has been reintroduced because of market expansion.
New categories, including Best Romance Release, Best Star Showcase and Best Transsexual Sex Scene have been introduced to reflect evolving market trends.
= Reception and review
=Some media outlets were impressed by the show. Robin Leach of the Las Vegas Sun reported, "It was the annual sea of sexiness that couldn't take place anywhere else in the world." He also noted the large size of the crowd as did the Huffington Post, which pointed out, "Thousands of fanboys and porn stars flooded the halls" and "all the A-listers were there."
In Memoriam
As the show was beginning, AVN used a video segment to pay a tribute to adult-industry personalities who had died since the 2012 awards show:
Actress Kandi Barbour
Actor Sledge Hammer
Actress Hollie Stevens
Director Kirdy Stevens (Taboo 1–5)
Big Top Video's Sam Lessner
Mainstream softcore director Zalman King
First Amendment to the United States Constitution attorney Steven Swander.
Time constraints prevented the segment from being re-edited to include director Fred J. Lincoln, who had died a couple of days earlier.
See also
AVN Awards
AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
AVN Female Performer of the Year Award
AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year
List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame
Notes
References
Gary D. Miller (Director) (2013). The 2013 AVN Awards Show (Television production). Los Angeles, California: Showtime Networks.
External links
Official website - Complete list of winners
The 2013 AVN Awards Show on YouTube
Adult Video News Awards at the IMDb
2013 AVN Awards Show (2013 TV Special) at IMDb
AVN Awards Nominees:
2013 (archived at Wayback Machine, January 18, 2013)
2013 AVN Award nominees
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bonnie Rotten
- Remy LaCroix
- 30th AVN Awards
- AVN Awards
- April Macie
- 31st AVN Awards
- 29th AVN Awards
- Nicole Aniston
- Mia Malkova
- Yurizan Beltran
- Asa Akira
- Remy LaCroix
