CHATSWORTH, Calif.—As a final reminder, AVN Media Network alerts adult industry members once again that the pre-nomination submissions deadline for the 2021 AVN Awards soon approaches, at midnight this Wednesday, September 30. The same deadline applies for the GayVN Awards.
To submit your productions, websites, retail products and other work of the past year to be considered for the 2021 AVN Awards or GayVN Awards, any and all adult industry professionals are invited to do so using the AVN Pre-Nomination Site, located at:
If you were approved to use the Pre-Nomination Site last year, you may use the same login to access the site for this year's submissions. If not, you must fill out the sign-up form to request access here. For any questions about access to or use of the Pre-Nomination Site, email AVN Senior Editor Peter Warren at [email protected].
The Pre-Nomination Site will close at midnight on September 30, and there will be no extensions of the deadline.
Note that once again, you may submit a maximum of FIVE (5) pre-nominations in any one category. With this in mind, we strongly urge all those participating in the pre-nomination process to take great care in what and whom they choose to submit for consideration, limiting it to the very best of the best selections within a given category.
For more clarification on the 2021 award cateogries, be sure to mouse over the question marks beside each one in the Pre-Nomination Site to see detailed descriptions, or find them all here.
Finally, be sure to carefully read through the following eligibility rules for the various types of categories in the Video & Web sector (Scene/Featurette, Full-Length Production, Series or Channel):
Eligibility Term
To be considered in any of the video categories, a production must be made available commercially between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020. If a sex scene or featurette is released both as a standalone work online and as part of a full-length production via DVD or VOD prior to or on the September 30 cutoff date, it will by default be considered part of the full-length production for attribution purposes. Any scene or featurette considered for a 2021 AVN Award will be void from future consideration thenceforth if included as part of any larger production released after September 30, 2020.
Full-Length Production Eligibility
To be considered for a nomination in any category recognizing full-length, multiple-scene productions, a work must be made available in its entirety by the end of the current eligibility term on a minimum of two qualifying platforms, with all content released under a unifying title on at least one of said platforms during the current term and originally released on any platform no earlier than the first date of the previous term. The two required platforms may consist of any combination of the following:
• DVD (must be stocked with at least 100 retail outlets)
• Membership website (i.e. site or network for a single studio or group of affiliated studios offering monthly paid memberships to access content)
• VOD/streaming site (i.e. site carrying productions from at least 100 active studio labels and offering monthly paid memberships or a la carte purchases to access content)
• Subscription broadcast network
Scene/Featurette Eligibility
To be considered for a nomination in any sex scene or featurette category, a work may be released either as a standalone segment on a membership or VOD/streaming site, or as part of a larger production released via any of the platforms listed above, in accordance with the following guidelines:
• If submitted as a standalone segment, release through only one qualifying membership or VOD/streaming site is required, however the scene/featurette must be solely and originally released as its own self-contained work during the current eligibility term.
• If submitted as part of a larger production, the scene/featurette must have been originally released no earlier than the first date of the prior eligibility term, and not previously considered for AVN Awards contention.
• Scenes/featurettes released solely though clip sites are not eligible.
Series or Channel Eligibility
To be considered for a nomination in any Series or Channel category, a line must meet one of the following criteria:
• Contains at least EIGHT (8) scenes/featurettes made available across two or more qualifying platforms by the end of the current eligibility term, with all released in the form of at least two volumes/productions on one or more of said platforms during the current term and originally released across all platforms no earlier than the first date of the previous term.
• Contains at least 12 scenes/featurettes all originally released on a single qualifying platform during the current eligibility term.
• If both criteria apply, all scenes/featurettes meeting either may be submitted for overall consideration of the series or channel.
(Note that any collection of fewer than eight scenes/featurettes released under a unifying title/volume number on any qualifying platform will be considered a “production” for classification/attribution purposes; in turn, the eligibility criteria pertaining to full-length production categories must be met for consideration there. Additionally, any series as defined above released in the form of multiple volumes/productions on any qualifying platform will by default be attributed with the title and company credits under which said productions were released.)
Record-Keeping Requirements
Producers must maintain 2257 records for any content submitted for AVN Awards consideration. In addition, any online content submitted must have clearly marked post/release dates within the eligibility term on the qualifying website(s) carrying it.
AVN asks producers to send two (2) copies of any productions they are submitting for consideration as DVD platform releases to the AVN office by September 30. Novelty companies should also provide two (2) samples of each product they would like considered. All items should be mailed or hand-delivered to:
AVN Media Network
Attn: Nominations
9400 Penfield Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
