19th AVN Awards

19th AVN Awards
2002 AVN Awards Show Program cover
Date	January 11, 2002 (2002-01-11)
Site	The Venetian Las Vegas at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A.
Hosted by	Teri Weigel Bobby Slayton[1][2]
Preshow hosts	Chi Chi LaRue[2]
Produced by	Gary Miller[2]
Directed by	Mark Stone[2]
Highlights
Best Picture	Fade to Black (Best Film)
Most awards	Fade to Black (8)
Most nominations	Taboo 2001, Underworld (12)
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The 19th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 11, 2002 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in more than 80 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 2000 and Sept. 30, 2001. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Comedian Bobby Slayton hosted the show for the third time; his co-host was adult film star Teri Weigel.^[1][2][3]

Fade to Black won eight awards including Best Film and Best Director—Film for Paul Thomas. Other winners included Euphoria with seven trophies, Island Fever with three and numerous movies with two wins apiece.^[3]

Winners and nominees[edit]

The nominees^[4] for the 19th AVN Awards were announced on November 9, 2002.^[5] Taboo 2001 and Underworld tied for the most nominations with 12 each, followed by Bad Wives 2, Fade to Black and Taken which each received 11. Euphoria followed with nine and Beast, Marissa and Unreal had eight apiece.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 11, 2002. Paul Thomas's win for Best Director—Film was his third; he won previously for Justine (1993) and Bobby Sox (1996). Nikita Denise was first European actress to win Female Performer of the Year.^[3]

Major awards[edit]

Winners^[1][2][3] are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Additional Award Winners[edit]

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

Honorary AVN Awards[edit]

Reuben Sturman Award[edit]

• Gloria Leonard, Elyse Metcalf^[3]

Hall of Fame[edit]

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2002 were: Christoph Clark, Patrick Collins, Raquel Darrian, Samantha Fox, Janine Lindemulder, Missy, Michael Ninn, Rocco Siffredi, P. J. Sparxxx, Randy Spears, Tianna^[3]

Multiple nominations and awards[edit]

Presenters and performers[edit]

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers, comedy or tributes. The show's trophy girls were Carmen Luvana and Monique Alexander.^[4]

Presenters (in order of appearance)[edit]

Performers[edit]

Ceremony information[edit]

The awards show was held on the four-month anniversary of New York and Washington terrorist attacks and as such, began with a pre-recorded video tribute to post 9/11 U.S.A. featuring industry stars offering personal tributes to the country.^[3]

The show was not without its share of controversies. To keep the length of the show as short as possible by limiting the number of awards presented on stage, about 50 of the awards split into two groupings are announced in rapid succession on a screen with awards handed out later. In the first of these groupings the announcements were made by the animated characters of 2 Funky 4 U, a forthcoming animated feature by Private North America. However, some of the animated characters "offended some audience members as being allegedly racist."^[3]

Later, Snoop Dogg generated excitement by appearing on stage to accept the award for Best Selling Tape of 2001. After returning to his seat he was thronged by about 100 fans eager to meet or congratulate him, obstructing the view of people sitting behind, although the crowd did disperse without incident.^[3]

Then AVN publisher Paul Fishbein went on stage to present the Reuben Sturman Memorial Special Achievement Award to Cincinnati retailer Elyse Metcalf. Fishbein gave a recap of her high-profile obscenity trial and acquittal in the previous year but Metcalf gave the show an awkward moment because she was not there to accept the honor. Metcalf had left earlier "after becoming upset over remarks made to her by a financial supporter."^[3]

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

Performance of year's movies[edit]

Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle was announced as the adult movie industry's top selling movie and Island Fever was the top renting movie of the previous year.^[3]

In Memoriam[edit]

John Leslie and Joey Silvera ended the show by asking for a moment of silence in memory of late director Alex de Renzy who had died in 2001.^[2][3]

See also[edit]

• 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
• 2002 GayVN Awards

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

"United Porns of America". Bachelor (in Japanese). Japan. April 2002. pp. 17–21.

External links[edit]

• AVN Awards
• 2002 AVN Award nominees (archived at Wayback Machine, December 8, 2001)
• 2002 AVN Award Winners (archived at Wayback Machine, December 9, 2002)
• Adult Video News Awards Archived January 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database
• Adult Video News Awards 2002 (2002 Video) at IMDb
• Adult Video News Awards 2002 at the Internet Adult Film Database
• 2002 AVN Awards at the Adult Film Database