11th AVN Awards

The 11th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News (AVN), honored pornographic films released in 1993 and took place on January 8, 1994, at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada beginning at 7:45 p.m. PST / 10:45 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 78 categories. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller. Actor Randy West hosted the show for the third time; his co-hosts were actresses Summer Knight and Janine Lindemulder.

Justine: Nothing to Hide 2 won eight awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Paul Thomas and Best Actress-Film for Roxanne Blaze. A comedy, Haunted Nights, took six awards, while Hidden Obsessions and a gay movie, Romeo & Julian, each won four.

Justine: Nothing to Hide 2 led all nominees with thirteen nominations; Whispered Lies had twelve.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 8, 1994. Jonathan Morgan took home four statuettes, the best showing ever for a male performer. Mike Horner’s award for Best Actor—Film tied him with Eric Edwards as the only other three-time best actor winner. Newcomer Roxanne Blaze, just 19 years old, won the Best Actress award for film for Justine: Nothing To Hide 2."

Jonathan Morgan, Male Performer of the Year winner

Shayla LaVeaux, Best New Starlet winner

Mike Horner, Best Actor—Film winner

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

These awards were also announced at the awards show, in two winners-only segments read by Angela Summers and Summer Knight.

• Bob Best, of Bon-Vue
• Howie Wasserman, Paul Wisner, Bruce Walker, Ron Wasserman; Gourmet Video
• Susan Colvin, Don Browning, Christian Mann; Video Team/CPLC
• Michael Warner, Ron Zdeb; Great Western Litho
• Russell Hampshire, of VCA Pictures
• Marty Feig, of Las Vegas Video
• Sidney Niekerk, Jack Gallagher; Cal Vista Video

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 1994 were: Buck Adams, Juliet Anderson, Bionca, Tiffany Clark, Lisa De Leeuw, Steve Drake, Harold Lime, Robert McCallum, Ed Powers, Janus Rainer, Mitchell Spinelli, Raven Touchstone

Among the movies receiving the most nominations were: Justine: Nothing to Hide 2 with 13, Whispered Lies with 12 and Haunted Nights with nine.

The following thirteen movies received multiple awards:

• 8 - Justine: Nothing To Hide 2
• 6 - Haunted Nights
• 4 - Hidden Obsessions, Romeo & Julian
• 2 - Abduction 2 & 3, Hologram, Honorable Discharge, Immortal Desire, New Wave Hookers 3, Total Corruption, Valley of the Bi Dolls, Whispered Lies, More Dirty Debutantes 22

The following individuals, in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. The show's trophy girls were Christina Angel and Felecia.

Randy West hosted the 11th AVN Awards

Actor Randy West hosted the show for the third consecutive year. His co-host for the first half of the show was Janine Lindemulder while Summer Knight co-hosted the last half. Randy West opened the show with a song, “What Do You Call a Movie?”, the lyrics of which contained titles of about 40 movies from the past year.

Several other people were involved with the production of the ceremony. The live show was produced by Gary Miller while musical direction was undertaken by Mark J. Miller. A VHS videotape of the show was also published and sold by VCA Pictures, which was produced and directed by S. Marco Di Mercurio.

Just prior to presentation of the award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video, Shane pulled out an engagement ring at the podium and proposed marriage to her co-presenter Seymore Butts. A surprised Seymore Butts then pulled an engagement ring out of his pocket and said he had also intended to propose to Shane that evening, then promptly went down on his knees to do so.

There were several new categories this year, or categories now split in two between film and video: Best Sex Scene—Film (Group), Best Sex Scene—Film (Couple), Best Sex Scene—Film (All-Girl), Best Sex Scene—Video (Group), Best Sex Scene—Video (Couple), Best Sex Scene—Video (All-Girl), Best Anal Sex Scene, Best Art Direction—Film, Best Art Direction—Video, Best Explicit Series, Best Foreign Release, Best Amateur Series, Best Pro-Am Series, Best Alternative Release—Video, Best Alternative Release—Film, Best Gay Alternative Video Release, Best Gay Alternative Specialty Video.

Hidden Obsessions was announced as the top selling movie of the year, while New Wave Hookers 3 was announced as the top renting tape of the year.

• AVN Award for Best Actress

• AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress

• AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year

• AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year

• AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year

• AVN Female Performer of the Year Award

• List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame

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• "Sex on the Strip: Las Vegas Porn Awards' Premiere Pussy". High Society. United States. July 1994. p. 72.

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