The 16th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by ''

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'' (AVN) honored the best of 1998 in pornographic movies and took place on January 9, 1999, at

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. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 68 categories. The ceremony, televised by

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, was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Comedian

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returned as host and actresses Alisha Klass,

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and Serenity co-hosted the award show. Five weeks earlier in a ceremony held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, California, on December 4, 1998, the awards for gay pornographic movies were presented in a new separate ceremony known as the

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. ''Looker'' won six awards including Best Film. Other winners included ''

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2'' with four awards, ''Tushy Heaven'' with three and ''Euro Angels 10'', ''Forever Night'', '' Masseuse 3'', ''Models'', ''Pornogothic'', ''The Pornographer'', ''Strange Life: The Breech'', ''Tatiana'' each with two.

Winners and nominees

When the nominees for the 16th AVN Awards were announced, ''

2'' earned the most nominations with 14; ''Models'' came in second place with 13. A new committee of 51 industry professionals voted to select the best in each category. There were 30 AVN voters. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 9, 1999. Besides winning Best Film, ''Looker's'' awards haul also included wins for Best Actress to

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, who won her first acting award 12 years earlier, and Best Director—Film to Nic Cramer, his second in consecutive years. Co-host Klass won Best New Starlet with

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and Chloe winning Male and Female Performer of the Year awards respectively. ''Erotic X-Film Guide'' suggested that with gonzo porn making a mark for itself in hardcore, the Best Gonzo Video and Best Gonzo Series awards, won by ''Whack Attack 2'' and ''Seymore Butts'' respectively, were "perhaps the most important this past year."

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Performances

Sex Scenes

By Genre

Marketing

Series

Technical Achievement

Achievement Awards

Breakthrough Award

* Alex Sanders

Safe Sex Award

* ''One Size Fits All'' – Femme Productions/ Adam & Eve

Special Achievement Awards

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, LFP *

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, AIM * Shane, Shane's World * Eddie Wedelstedt, Goalie Entertainment * Greg Allan

Hall of Fame

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* Nikki Charm * Bob Chinn * Diedre Holland * Tami Monroe *

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* Suze Randall *

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Best-Selling Tape of the Year

* '' Pam &

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•Hardcore & Uncensored'', S & D Video/IEG

Best-Renting Tape of the Year

* ''Pam & Tommy Lee•Hardcore & Uncensored'', S & D Video o/I EG

Movies with multiple nominations and awards

The following 22 movies received the most nominations: The following 11 movies received multiple awards:

Presenters and Performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

For 1999, "a decision was made to reinstate the mainstream portion of the technical awards ''et al.'' in one evening's presentation" because for the first time, awards for gay movie categories were split off into a new event, the

, which were held a month earlier. Previously, technical and some other categories were presented separately from the awards show; with them included, the 1999 show ran four hours. Gary Miller was producer of the show and comedian

was selected for a second consecutive stint as host. Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony and its related events. Mark Stone served as musical director for the festivities. John Leslie, who won his fourth Best Director statuette at the event, and who led a blues band in his spare time, performed a self-composed song as one of the musical performers. The award show kicked off with presentation of the Best Couples Sex Scene—Film award, with the winners announced as Stephanie Swift and

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. ''Erotic X-Film Guide'' magazine reported this was a faux pas: "Stephanie went to the podium to get her award and swore that she did not have sex with Jon Dough in the video. In fact, it was true and was a misprint in the program."

Box office performance of nominees

The '' Pam &

• Hardcore & Uncensored'' celebrity sex tape won the awards for Best Selling Tape and Best Renting Tape, presented to Steven Hirsch on behalf of S&D Video and IEG.

Critical reviews

The show received a mixed reception from sex publications. ''

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'' magazine reported, "Accused of rigging its voting process to favor its advertisers in the past, ''

s judges restored luster to the proceedings this year by bestowing awards to deserving nominees." However, the magazine noted co-host Klass managed "to shock the ceremony's seen-it-all, heard-it-all organizers by repeatedly expressing her fondness for" anal sex. ''Erotic X-Film Guide'' was critical of the show's length: "We realized this was indeed the longest and most drawn out show AVN had ever produced. As much as the industry likes to pat itself on the back and as much as we love AVN for giving us the porn equivalent of the

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, the show must go on. But only if it's edited with a merciless sword. Something must be done to make one of the most anticipated nights in porn not be one of the most dreaded."

References

Notes

External links

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Adult Video News Awards, USA: 1999
Internet Movie Database * * * * {{AVN AVN Awards 1998 film awards 1999 in Nevada AVN Awards 16