20th AVN Awards

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20th AVN Awards
2003 AVN Awards Show Program cover
Date	January 11, 2003 (2003-01-11)
Site	The Venetian Las Vegas at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A.
Hosted by	Chloe Doug Stanhope[1]
Preshow hosts	Nikki Fritz[2]
Produced by	Gary Miller[2]
Directed by	Mark Stone[2]
Highlights
Best Picture	The Fashionistas (Best Film)
Most awards	The Fashionistas (10)
Most nominations	The Fashionistas (22)
Television coverage
Duration	2 hours, 10 minutes[2]
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The 20th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 11, 2003 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in nearly 90 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2002.^[2] The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Comedian Doug Stanhope co-hosted the show for the first time with adult film star Chloe.^[1]

The Fashionistas won 10 awards including Best Film and Best Director—Film for John Stagliano. Breathless and The Private Gladiator each took home four trophies, The Ass Collector and Perfect earned three awards apiece and several more movies won two awards each.^[3]

Winners and nominees[]

The nominees^[4] for the 20th AVN Awards were announced in November 2002. The Fashionistas led the way with 22, followed by Paradise Lost with 16, Les Vampyres 2 with 14, Breathess with 12 and Club Sin with 11.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 11, 2003. The 10 awards won by The Fashionistas were a record for the most awards at a single show. Lexington Steele's third win as Male Performer of the Year was also a record; previously, he, Rocco Siffredi and Tom Byron had each won twice.

Major awards[]

Jenna Haze, Best New Starlet winner

Lexington Steele, Male Performer of the Year winner

Aurora Snow, Female Performer of the Year

Brad Armstrong, Best Actor—Film and Best Screenplay—Film winner

Taylor St. Claire, Best Actress—Film winner

John Stagliano, Best Director—Film winner

Jonathan Morgan, Best Screenplay—Film winner

Winners^[2] are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().

Additional Award Winners[]

These awards^[3] were announced, but not presented, in a pre-recorded winners-only segment shown on the ballroom's video monitors during the event. Trophies were given to the recipients off-stage:

Honorary AVN Awards[]

Reuben Sturman Award[]

• Mel Kamins, General Video Cleveland^[3]

Special DVD Recognition Award[]

• Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes, Cass Paley, VCA Interactive^[3]

Hall of Fame[]

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2003 were: T. T. Boy, Mark Davis, Felecia, Dave Hardman, Heather Hunter, Jill Kelly, Chasey Lain, Madison, Jonathan Morgan, Alex Sanders, Julian St. Jox, Kirdy Stevens, Tony Tedeschi, Teri Weigel^[3]

Multiple nominations and awards[]

Presenters and performers[]

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy. The show's trophy girls were Taylor Starr and Tyler Starr,^[6] the Sin City Twins.

Presenters (in order of appearance)[]

Performers[]

Ceremony information[]

AVN created several new categories for the year's awards show. Among them: Best Oral Sex Scene—Video, Best Male Newcomer, Best Director—Non-Feature, Male Foreign Performer of the Year and Female Foreign Performer of the Year.

The show was recorded for later broadcast^[4] and a DVD of the awards show was issued by VCA Pictures.^[7]

Performance of year's movies[]

Briana Loves Jenna was announced as the adult movie industry's top selling movie and also the top renting movie of the previous year.^[2][3]

See also[]

• AVN Award
• AVN Best New Starlet Award
• AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
• AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year
• AVN Female Performer of the Year Award
• List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame
• 2003 GayVN Awards

Notes[]

References[]

• Partridge, Giddie (July 2003). "Glamour Whores". Hustler. Beverly Hills, California. pp. 48–49.
• "1001 Porn Stars". Cheri magazine. August 2003. p. 42.
• "The AVN Awards Are Pornographic and Perverse!". High Society. July 2003.
• "Fear of Clothing in Law Vegas". Best of High Society. No. 162.
• Pike-Johnson, Heidi (January 21, 2003). "2003 AVN Awards Winners Announced: Awards Presented Big Year for Evil Angel..." Adult Video News. AVN Media Network. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
• Majors, Frank (January 16, 2003). "The Backstage Boogie At The AVN Awards". Adult Video News. AVN Media Network. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

External links[]

• AVN Awards
• 2003 AVN Award nominees (archived at Wayback Machine, November 27, 2002)
• 2003 AVN Award Winners (archived at Wayback Machine, February 10, 2003)
• Adult Video News Awards Archived January 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database
• Adult Video News Awards 2003 (2003 Video) at IMDb
• Adult Video News Awards 2003 at the Internet Adult Film Database
• 2003 AVN Awards at the Adult Film Database