18th AVN Awards

The 18th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 8, 2001 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 77 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 1999 and Sept. 30, 2000. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Adult film star Jenna Jameson hosted the show for the second time.

The year's biggest winner was Dark Angels with six awards, including best Video Feature and Best Director—Video for Nic Andrews, however, Watchers won for Best Film while capturing three additional trophies. Other multiple winners included: Les Vampyres with five awards, Dream Quest with four and Raw and West Side each with three.

Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 19th AVN Awards were announced in November 2000. Dream Quest led the way with 20, followed by Watchers with 18, Les Vampyres with 17, West Side with 16, Raw with 15, Dark Angels with 14, Jekyll and Hyde with 12 and A Midsummer Night's Cream, Artemesia and In the Days of Whore with 10 apiece.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 8, 2001.

Major awards


Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Additional Award Winners

 * Best All-Girl Feature: Hard Love/How to Fuck in High Heels
 * Best All-Girl Series: The Violation of...
 * Best Alternative Video: Dream Girls: Real Adventures 18
 * Best Anal Sex Scene—Film: Randy Spears, Inari Vachs; Façade
 * Best Anal Sex Scene—Video: "Kristi Myst's Anal Gang Bang" (Kristy Myst, Anthony Crane, Arnold Schwartzenpecker, Brandon Iron, Brian Surewood, Dick Nasty, Gino Greco, John Strong, Rod Fontana, Trevor Thompson, Valentino), In the Days of Whore
 * Best Anal-Themed Feature: Rocco's True Anal Stories 11
 * Best Anal-Themed Series: Rocco's True Anal Stories
 * Best Art Direction—Film: Jekyll and Hyde
 * Best Art Direction—Video: Shayla's Web
 * Best Box Cover Concept: Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro
 * Best Cinematography: Ralph Parfait, Jake Jacobs; Dream Quest
 * Best Classic Release on DVD: Chameleons Not the Sequel
 * Best Continuing Video Series: Pick Up Lines, Hollywood Hardcore (tie)
 * Best Director—Foreign Release: Tanya Hyde; Hell, Whores and High Heels (Pirate Video 10)
 * Best DVD Extras: All Star
 * Best Editing—Film: Michael Raven, Sammy Slater; Watchers
 * Best Editing—Video: Nic Andrews, Dark Angels
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Release: Panochitas 5
 * Best Foreign Vignette Series: Private XXX
 * Best Foreign Vignette Tape: Hell, Whores and High Heels (Pirate Video 10)
 * Best Group Sex Scene—Film: Violet Luv, Wendi Knight, Brandon Iron; Les Vampyres
 * Best Group Sex Scene—Video: Hakan Serbes, Alisha Klass, McKayla Matthews; Mission to Uranus
 * Best Interactive DVD: Virtual Sex With Tera Patrick
 * Best Music: Derik Andrews, Inversion 89; Dark Angels


 * Best Non-Sex Performance—Film or Video: Rob Spallone, The Sopornos
 * Best Oral-Themed Feature: Blowjob Adventures of Dr. Fellatio 26
 * Best Oral-Themed Series: Blowjob Adventures of Dr. Fellatio
 * Best Overall Marketing Campaign—Company Image: Vivid Entertainment Group
 * Best Overall Marketing Campaign—Individual Title or Series: Les Vampyres, Cal Vista Films/Metro
 * Best Packaging: Dream Quest, Wicked Pictures
 * Best Pro-Am or Amateur Series: Up and Cummers
 * Best Pro-Am or Amateur Tape: California College Student Bodies 16
 * Best Screenplay—Film: Michael Raven, George Kaplan; Watchers
 * Best Screenplay—Video: Antonio Passolini, Raw
 * Best Solo Sex Scene: Devinn Lane, In Style
 * Best Special Effects: Intimate Expressions
 * Best Specialty Tape—Bondage and S/M: Humiliation of Heidi
 * Best Specialty Tape—Big Bust: Harem Hooters
 * Best Specialty Tape—Other Genre: Barefoot Confidential 8
 * Best Specialty Tape—Spanking: Public Canings
 * Best Supporting Actor—Film: Randy Spears, Watchers
 * Best Supporting Actor—Video: Wilde Oscar, West Side
 * Best Supporting Actress—Film: Chloe, True Blue
 * Best Tease Performance: Jessica Drake, Shayla's Web
 * Best Transsexual Tape: Rogue Adventures: Big Ass She-Males 7
 * Best Videography: Nic Andrews, Jake Jacobs; Dark Angels
 * Best Vignette Tape: Terrors From the Clit 2
 * Best Vignette Series: Perverted Stories
 * Most Outrageous Sex Scene: “The Detached Cock” with Bridgette Kerkove, Tyce Bune; In the Days of Whore

Reuben Sturman Award

 * Ed Powers, Mark Kernes

Hall of Fame
AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2001 were: Kaitlyn Ashley, John T. Bone, Asia Carrera, Bud Lee, Shayla La Veaux, Clive McLean, Earl Miller, Tiffany Mynx, Reb Sawitz, Sunset Thomas, Bob Vosse, Honey Wilder, Sam Xavier

Multiple nominations and awards
The following releases received the most nominations.

The following 15 releases received multiple awards:

Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy. The show's trophy girls were Haven and Lacey.

Ceremony information
The awards show marked the premiere of its new trophy design, which Adult Video News called "an original 3-D Lucite monolith that hailed the long awaited Demise of the Golden Bitch."

The year's show featured a "Pussy Cam", a floor-level camera near the stage's podium, which offered attendees an infrequent glimpse of female stars lingerie or lack thereof. In his moment at the podium, actor Mark Davis offered female attendees equal time by dropping his trousers for the audience's supposed benefit.

The show was recorded and a DVD of the show was published and distributed by VCA Interactive.

Performance of year's movies
Dream Quest was announced as the adult movie industry's top selling movie and was also the top renting movie of the previous year.

Critical reviews
The show received a negative reception from Adult DVD Talk. An article by Groundskeeper Willie was titled, "The Adult Video Snooze Awars" and besides having found the show slow and monotonous with occasional gaffes, he also took organizers to task for not using film or video clips during the show, even in the major categories.

Hustler magazine agreed that "the ceremony dragged on for what seemed like an eternity but still managed to entertain, despite the shaky hositn gskills of cock-shy Jenna Jameson" and also decried the $195 fee for admission tickets.