Wicked Rakes In 16 NightMoves Awards Nominations

LOS ANGELES—Wicked Pictures earned a total of 16 nominations in the upcoming NightMoves Awards,with every director in the company’s stable getting a nod. The 16 nominations marks the company’s highest tally to date in the awards ceremony. Earning Best Director nominations are Brad Armstrong, Axel Braun, Stormy Daniels and Jonathan Morgan.  Armstrong also received recognition in the Best Male Performer category, while the overall excellence of his output as a filmmaker earned a Best Feature Director nomination. A Best Feature Production nomination went to his hit Jessica Drake/Asa Akira drama Starmaker, while his big-budget spoof Magic Mike XXXL: A Hardcore Parody, also starring Drake and Akira, earned a Best Parody Release mention.  Drake’s work in these features and others earned her a Best Female Performer nomination. Parody king Axel Braun secured a similarly impressive collection of nominations, including both Best Parody Director and Best Parody Release, the latter for his multi-award winning Wicked Fairy Tales hit Peter Pan XXX: An Axel Braun Parody. Axel Braun Productions contract star Carter Cruise earned Best Female Performer and Best Body nominations, while her Wicked Comix vehicle Supergirl XXX: An Axel Braun Parody was honored with the coveted NightMoves First Choice accolade and a Best Body nod for co-star (and ABP contract beauty) Riley Steele. Carter’s Braun-directed designer showcase Cruise Control was also nominated for Best Feature Production.    Stormy Daniels’ epic western adventure Wanted, co-produced by Wicked and Adam & Eve, earned a Best Feature Production nomination, while the uniformly high caliber of Daniels’ output was recognized in the Best Feature Director category.   Veteran contract director and comedic specialist Jonathan Morgan also received a Best Feature Director nomination.  Finally, Wicked Pictures received a Best Production Company nomination.  For his part, owner and President Steve Orenstein couldn’t be more pleased to see his filmmakers and performers rewarded so handsomely. “We’re thrilled to have our directors and contract stars nominated for such a wide range of projects,” Orenstein said. “We strive to create the best movies we can and appreciate NightMoves for noticing.” The 24th Annual NightMoves Awards Show will be held this October in Tampa, Fla. In a prepared statement, event organizers announced, “The NightMoves Awards were started in 1993 and are the third oldest continuously running adult awards show in the United States. The NightMoves Awards are an offshoot of NightMoves Magazine, owned and operated by Paul and Tracy Allen. The NightMoves Awards were the first to allow fans to select the winners, making it the original fan based awards. They were also the first awards show to allow online voting.” To learn more, visit Wicked.com.