Evil Angel Celebrates 'Awards Season O’ Plenty'

LOS ANGELES—As America prepares for the holidays, the XXX business gears up to celebrate the year’s finest achievements in adult entertainment. Arty, edgy porn studio Evil Angel has been recognized in multiple, prestigious categories with nominations for 112 AVN Awards. The 2016 AVN Awards Show, “the Oscars of porn,” will be held January 23, 2016, in Las Vegas. Evil Angel filmmakers Mike Adriano and Manuel Ferrara both received Director of the Year nominations. Ferrara also was nominated for Male Performer of fthe Year. Ferrara, Jonni Darkko, Rocco Siffredi, Nacho Vidal and first-time director Anikka Albrite also garnered nominations in various AVN directing categories — and those a just a few in the host of additional mentions for other movies in diverse categories. Ferrara and creative partner Kayden Kross were behind one of the year’s big sensations: Screwing Wall Street: The Arrangement Finders IPO scored AVN Award nominations for Best Parody Movie, Best Direction - Parody and Best Screenplay - Parody. Stoya was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, while Kross and Veronica Vain are up for Best Girl-Girl Sex Scene. And Screwing Wall Street was also nominated in the category Best Marketing Campaign - Individual Project. Albrite and Blue were both nominated to repeat in their respective AVN Female and Male Performer of the Year categories. Porn’s First Couple had a big year, forming BAM Visions with co-director Claudio, nominated by AVN as the year’s Best New Imprint. Albrite’s directing debut, Anikka’s Bootycise, took an AVN nom for Best All-Girl Movie. Anikka’s Anal Sluts, directed by Blue and Claudio, won AVN nominations for Best Anal Movie, Best Director - Non Feature and Best Three-Way Sex Scene - G/G/B (Albrite, Blue and Valentina Nappi). Iconoclastic filmmaker Vespoli’s A Thing of Beauty received an AVN Best Drama nomination. Vespoli’s Fluid 3 won AVN recognition with noms for Best Anthology Movie, Best Oral Sex Scene (London Keyes) and Best Three-Way Sex Scene - G/G/B (Carter Cruise, Jessa Rhodes and Ferrara). Vespoli’s My Evil Stepson was recognized in the Best Taboo Relations Movie category. Stylish director Darkko has a head start in the awards race. At the recent Inked Awards, which recognize tattoo culture in the adult industry, Darkko was named Director Of The Year, and his Whore’s INK 2 claimed the trophy for DVD of the Year. Darkko’s Anal Angels is up in AVN's Director - Non-Feature category and Suck Balls 4 took an AVN nom for Best Soundtrack. Darkko’s Starfall, Asian Fucking Nation 6, Wet Food 6 and Sperm Diet all gathered multiple nominations. The legendary Siffredi highlighted a great overall year with Bonnie vs. Rocco, a star showcase/feature movie nominated by AVN as Best Foreign Feature. The movie took additional AVN nominations for Best Director - Foreign Feature and Best Sex Scene In A Foreign Shot Production (Rotten, Siffredi and Valeria Visconti). Rocco’s Perfect Slaves won an AVN nod for Best Continuing Series and AVN tapped him for Male Foreign Performer of the Year recognition. Transsexual entertainment is an Evil Angel specialty, and as usual, company mainstay Silvera leads this genre. AVN nominated Trans-Visions 3 as well as Silvera’s She-Male Idol: The Auditions 6 for Best Transsexual Movie. The series to which those titles belong plus Silvera’s The Trans X-Perience all garnered AVN nominations for Best Transsexual Series. Joining Silvera among awards nominees for TS porn are Evil Angel filmmakers Sin, Aiden Starr and LeWood Productions. All four were also accorded awards recognition in other genres. As usual, Evil Angel reaped numerous nominations in the gonzo, anal and niche porn categories in which the studio specializes, ranging from an AVN Best Solo Movie nod (for Buttman Toy Master, by Evil Angel founder John Stagliano). Leading African-American pornographer Lexington Steele earned 10 AVN nominations for his interracial and black erotica. In his first year at Evil Angel, Toni Ribas joined BAM Visions with an AVN nom for Best New Imprint (Toni Ribas Productions), and AVN nominated him for Male Performer of the Year. The 2016 AVN Awards Show is at the Hard Rock Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas; Joanna Angel and new Evil Angel director Albrite will be the hosts.