A special Website for pre-nominations for the 2006 AVN Awards — avnawards.com/nominations — is now open for use by qualified industry personnel. It will remain active until October 10.
Producers and performers who wish to make pre-nominations must have a user name and password. These may be obtained by emailing Heidi Pike-Johnson, AVN senior associate editor, at [email protected]. The site is not accessible to the general public.
Pike-Johnson may also be reached by phone at 818.718.5788, ex. 154, but she emphasized that email is the swiftest and most effective means of communication. She also emphasized that AVN no longer accepts pre-nom lists from any party in hard copy or via email or fax.
The website will shut down at 9 a.m. on October 10, at which time the passwords will no longer be operative.
“We’re asking people to be judicious in what they ask us to consider,” Pike-Johnson said. “If you say everything you’ve released this year is worthy of a nomination, that is simply not going to work in your favor.
I can’t stress that enough. Only pre-nom things that you really believe in, because that will increase the chances that we’ll believe in them, too.”
Pike-Johnson also noted that production companies must supply AVN with all required information in their pre-noms, such as listing all performers in sex scenes and the names of all behind-the-camera talent in the technical categories such as editing, videography, music and others.
“Last year, when we debuted our pre-nom Website, we found that it enabled producers to more efficiently enter their own pre-noms,” said AVN Editor-in-Chief Mike Ramone. The pre-noms, he added, are “invaluable tools AVN uses to insure that the nominations process is as fair and all-encompassing as possible.”
To be considered for a 2006 Awards nomination, a production must have been released between Oct. 1, 2004 and Sept. 30, 2005. The 23rd annual AVN Awards show will be held January 7, 2006, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
Producers are reminded to provide the magazine with two DVD copies of each title or scene they would like to have considered for nominations, as well as sample materials used in marketing campaigns if seeking consideration in those categories.
Producers may enter pre-noms in all the categories listed below.
Ramone said that, like last year, producers could request that their comedies and foreign features be nominated in the Best Film and Best Video Feature categories. DVD producers, meanwhile, can pre-nom classic and all-sex DVDs for Best DVD. If, however, those productions are not eventually nominated in the Best Film, Best Video Feature or Best DVD categories, producers cannot then request that they be nominated as Best Sex Comedy, Best Foreign Feature, Best Classic Release on DVD or Best All-Sex DVD.
Nominations for the 2006 Awards Show will be announced in November.
AVN Awards Categories
Adult Video Nudes (Worst Release of the Year)
Best Actor-Film
Best Actor-Video
Best Actress-Film
Best Actress-Video
Best All-Girl Feature
Best All-Girl Series
Best All-Girl Sex Scene-Film
Best All-Girl Sex Scene-Video
Best All-Sex Film
Best All-Sex Video
Best Alternative Release
Best Amateur Release
Best Amateur Series
Best Anal Sex Scene-Film
Best Anal Sex Scene-Video
Best Anal-Themed Feature
Best Anal-Themed Series
Best Art Direction-Film
Best Art Direction-Video
Best Cinematography
Best Classic DVD
Best Continuing Series
Best Couples Sex Scene-Film
Best Couples Sex Scene-Video
Best Director- Film
Best Director- Non-Feature
Best Director- Video
Best Director-Foreign Release
Best DVD
Best DVD Extras
Best DVD Menus
Best DVD Packaging
Best Editing-Film
Best Editing-Video
Best Ethnic-Themed Release- Asian
Best Ethnic-Themed Release- Black
Best Ethnic-Themed Release- Latin
Best Ethnic-Themed Series
Best Film
Best Foreign All-Sex Release
Best Foreign All-Sex Series
Best Foreign Feature
Best Gonzo Release
Best Gonzo Series
Best Group Sex Scene-Film
Best Group Sex Scene-Video
Best High-Definition Production
Best Interactive DVD
Best Interracial Release
Best Male Newcomer
Best Marketing Website
Best Music
Best New Starlet
Best Non-Sex Performance
Best Oral Sex Scene-Film
Best Oral Sex Scene-Video
Best Oral-Themed Feature
Best Oral-Themed Series
Best Overall Marketing Campaign- Company Image
Best Overall Marketing Campaign- Individual Project
Best P.O.V. Release
Best Pro-Am Release
Best Pro-Am Series
Best Retail Website
Best Screenplay-Film
Best Screenplay-Video
Best Sex Comedy
Best Sex Scene In A Foreign-Shot Production
Best Solo Sex Scene
Best Special Effects
Best Specialty Release- BDSM
Best Specialty Release- Big Bust
Best Specialty Release- Foot Fetish
Best Specialty Release- Other Genre
Best Specialty Release- Spanking
Best Supporting Actor-Film
Best Supporting Actor-Video
Best Supporting Actress-Film
Best Supporting Actress-Video
Best Tease Performance
Best Threeway Sex Scene-Film
Best Threeway Sex Scene-Video
Best Transsexual Release
Best VHS Boxcover Concept
Best VHS Packaging
Best Video Feature
Best Videography
Best Vignette Release
Best Vignette Series
Female Foreign Performer Of The Year
Female Performer Of The Year
Hall Of Fame
Male Foreign Performer Of The Year
Male Performer Of The Year
Most Outrageous Sex Scene
Reuben Sturman Special Achievement Award
Transsexual Performer Of The Year
