27th AVN Awards

The 27th AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic movies of 2009. The ceremony was held on January 9, 2010 in a new venue, the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada. During the ceremony, AVN Media Network presented awards in 125 of categories of movies or products released between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Showtime. Comedian Dave Attell hosted the show with co-hosts Kirsten Price and Kayden Kross.

Among the new award categories introduced was Best Sex Parody due to the genre's quality and market impact. The category was one of three at the awards show where a tie was declared and in this instance The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody, an action-adventure send-up of The X-Files, and Not the Cosbys XXX, a spoof of The Cosby Show, were co-winners.

The 8th Day earned Best Video Feature honors and eight more awards and 21-year-old Tori Black won her first Female Performer of the Year award and won or shared five others, while Kagney Linn Karter won the Best New Starlet Award. Manuel Ferrara won his third Male Performer of the Year Award, joining Lexington Steele as the only actors to have done so.

Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 27th AVN Awards were announced on December 2, 2009, in a press release. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 9, 2010, which was broadcast on Showtime.

Major Awards
Award winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Additional Award Winners
These awards were announced in a winners-only segment, but were not presented their awards on stage during the event and were not part of the televised awards show.

DVD Categories
 * Best All-Girl Series: Women Seeking Women
 * Best All-Sex Release: Evalutionary
 * Best All-Sex Series: Addicted
 * Best Alternative Release: Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 3
 * Best Alternative Series: Naked College Coeds
 * Best Amateur Release: 18 With Proof 2
 * Best Amateur Series: Cherries
 * Best Anal-Themed Release: Ass Worship 11
 * Best Anal-Themed Series: Evil Anal
 * Best Animated Release: PornoMation 3
 * Best BDSM Release: Ivy Manor Slaves 3: The Dream Team
 * Best Big Bust Release: Breast Worship 2
 * Best Big Bust Series: Big Tits at School
 * Best Big Butt Release: Big Wet Asses 15
 * Best Big Butt Series: Big Wet Asses
 * Best Classic Release: Debbie Does Dallas 30th Anniversary Edition
 * Best DVD Extras: The 8th Day − Adam & Eve Pictures
 * Best DVD Menus: 2040 − Wicked Pictures
 * Best Educational Release: Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Threesomes
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Release — Asian: Asian Fucking Nation 3
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Release — Black: Phatty Girls 9
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Release — Latin: Young Tight Latinas 17
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Series — Asian: Cockasian
 * Best Ethnic-Themed Series — Latin: Deep in Latin Cheeks
 * Best Fem-Dom Strap-On Release: Forced Fem 3
 * Best Foot/Leg Fetish Release: Party of Feet
 * Best Foreign All-Sex Release: Bobbi Violates Europe − Evil Angel/Clark Euro Angel Video
 * Best Foreign All-Sex Series: Rocco: Puppet Master − Evil Angel/Rocco Siffredi Productions
 * Best Foreign Feature: Billionaire − Pure Play Media
 * Best Gonzo Series: Jerkoff Material
 * Best Interactive DVD: Interactive Sex With Tori Black
 * Best Internal Release: All Internal 9
 * Best Internal Series: Internal Damnation
 * Best Interracial Release: Lex the Impaler 4
 * Best Interracial Series: It's Big, It's Black, It's Jack
 * Best MILF Release: It's a Mommy Thing! 4
 * Best MILF Series: Seasoned Players
 * Best New Line: Reality Junkies
 * Best New Series: Glamour Girls
 * Best New Video Production Company: Bluebird Films
 * Best Online Marketing Campaign — Company Image: Sitcums.com – X-Play
 * Best Online Marketing Campaign — Individual Project: The 8th Day, the8thdayxxx.com − Adam & Eve Pictures
 * Best Oral-Themed Release: Feeding Frenzy 10
 * Best Oral-Themed Series: Face Fucking Inc.
 * Best Orgy/Gangbang Release: Young Harlots: Gangbang
 * Best Orgy/Gangbang Series: Gangland
 * Best Overall Marketing Campaign — Company Image: Vivid Entertainment and Digital Playground (tie)
 * Best Overall Marketing Campaign — Individual Project: Throat: A Cautionary Tale, Vivid Entertainment Group
 * Best Packaging: Operation: Tropical Stormy − Wicked Pictures
 * Best Packaging Innovation: The 8th Day − Adam & Eve Pictures
 * Best POV Release: Anal Prostitutes on Video 6
 * Best POV Series: Jack's POV
 * Best Pro-Am Release: Bang Bus 24
 * Best Pro-Am Series: Brand New Faces
 * Best Solo Release: All Alone 4
 * Best Special Effects: The 8th Day
 * Best Specialty Release — Other Genre: Asses of Face Destruction 5
 * Best Specialty Series: Fishnets
 * Best Squirting Release: Squirt Gangbang 4
 * Best Squirting Series: Storm Squirters
 * Best Transsexual Release: Rogue Adventures 33
 * Best Transsexual Series: America's Next Top Tranny
 * Best Vignette Release: Nurses
 * Best Vignette Series: Penthouse Variations
 * Best Young Girl Release: Young & Glamorous
 * Best Young Girl Series: Barely Legal
 * Clever Title of the Year: Who's Nailin' Paylin?

Performer/Creator Categories Web and Technology Categories
 * Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene: Eva Angelina, Teagan Presley, Sunny Leone, Alexis Texas − Deviance
 * Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene: Bree Olson, Tori Black, Poppy Morgan − The 8th Day
 * Best Art Direction: 2040
 * Best Director — Ethnic Video: Jules Jordan − Lex the Impaler 4
 * Best Director — Foreign Feature: (tie) Moire Candy (Louis Moire/Max Candy) (Ritual) & Paul Chaplin (Black Beauty: Escape to Eden − Bluebird Films)
 * Best Director — Foreign Non-Feature: Raul Cristian (Ass Traffic 6 − Evil Angel)
 * Best Director — Non Feature: William H., Evalutionary
 * Best Double Penetration Sex Scene: Bobbi Starr, Mr. Marcus, Sean Michaels − Bobbi Starr & Dana DeArmond's Insatiable Voyage
 * Best Editing: Ren Savant, The 8th Day
 * Best Makeup: Christi Belden, Lisa Berczel, Leonard Berczel, Nicki Hunter, Julia Ann, The 8th Day
 * Best Male Newcomer: Dane Cross
 * Best Music Soundtrack: Live in My Secrets
 * Best Non-Sex Performance: Thomas Ward, Not the Cosbys XXX
 * Best Original Song: “Bree's Bossa” by Joe Gallant − The Crack Pack
 * Best POV Sex Scene: Kagney Linn Karter, Pound the Round POV
 * Best Screenplay: Raven Touchstone − Throat: A Cautionary Tale
 * Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production: Aletta Ocean, Olivier Sanchez, George Uhl (Dollz House − Harmony Films)
 * Best Solo Sex Scene: Teagan Presley, Not the Bradys XXX: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
 * Best Supporting Actor: Tom Byron, Throat: A Cautionary Tale
 * Best Supporting Actress: Penny Flame, Throat: A Cautionary Tale
 * Best Tease Performance: Tori Black, Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy
 * Best Three-Way Sex Scene: Tori Black, Rebeca Linares, Mark Ashley, Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy
 * Best Videography/Cinematography: Monmarquis, David Lord, Ren Savant, The 8th Day
 * Director of the Year (Body of Work): Will Ryder
 * Female Foreign Performer of the Year: Aletta Ocean
 * Male Foreign Performer of the Year: Toni Ribas
 * MILF/Cougar Performer of the Year: Julia Ann
 * Most Outrageous Sex Scene: Bobbi Starr in “Go Fuck Yourself” from Belladonna: No Warning 4
 * Transsexual Performer of the Year: Kimber James
 * Unsung Male Performer of the Year: Derrick Pierce
 * Unsung Starlet of the Year: Shawna Lenee
 * Best Adult Website: BangBros.com − Bang Productions
 * Best New Web Starlet: Lexi Belle
 * Best Retail Website: AdultDVDEmpire.com

Hall of Fame
AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2010 were: Chris Charming, Stoney Curtis, Racquel Devine, Devon, Jessica Drake, Byron Long, Gina Lynn, Toni Ribas, Nicholas Steele, Michael Stefano, Valentino, Mark Wood
 * Founders Branch: Christian Mann, Catalina Video; Michael Paulsen, Paradise Visuals; Michael Warner, Great Western Litho
 * Internet Founders Branch: Ron Cadwell, CCBill; Tony Morgan, National Net; Morgan Sommer, Cybersocket

Multiple nominations and awards
The following releases received multiple awards:
 * 9 awards: The 8th Day
 * 5 awards: Throat: A Cautionary Tale
 * 3 awards: Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy, 2040
 * 2 awards: Evalutionary, Lex the Impaler 4, Not the Cosbys XXX, The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody

The following releases received the most nominations:
 * 20 nominations: The 8th Day
 * 18 nominations: 2040
 * 16 nominations: The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody
 * 13 nominations: Throat: A Cautionary Tale, Pure
 * 11 nominations: Flight Attendants
 * 10 nominations: Seinfeld: A XXX Parody, Fuck The World

The following individuals received multiple awards:
 * 6 awards: Tori Black
 * 3 awards: Sasha Grey
 * 2 awards: Lexi Belle, Julia Ann, Kagney Linn Karter, Sunny Leone, Aletta Ocean, Teagan Presley, Ren Savant, Bobbi Starr

Presenters and performers
The following individuals were presenters or performers during the awards ceremony.

Trophy girls

 * Alexis Ford
 * Janie Summers
 * Sara Sloane

Changes to awards categories
Beginning with the 27th AVN Awards, AVN Media Network added a category to the awards show titled Best Sex Parody. "Because of the amount of quality parodies that studios have produced in the past year and the impact they've had on the marketplace, we've decided to honor the best of those movies in their own category separate from our long-running Best Sex Comedy award", said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN.