Adam Film World Guide Announces Awards Winners
Adam Film World Guide Announces Awards Winners
By Steve Javors
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Adam Film World Guide, a long-running adult film resource, announced the winners of its annual awards today. The organization’s in-house editorial staff, reviewers and contributors nationwide voted on the AFWG awards.
“After viewing this year’s crop of films, I believe this is the Golden Age for hardcore porn,” Anthony Petkovitch, AFWG’s editor in chief told XBIZ. “Our awards ultimately come down to the sex, but there are some unbelievably advanced technical achievements as well.”
Co-produced by Adam & Eve and Digital Playground, “Pirates” nabbed top honors as Best Movie and Best Special Effects.
“Joone is a true filmmaker and artist and ‘Pirates’ is his vision,” Adella O’Neal, Digital Playground’s publicist told XBIZ. “We really wanted to push the limits with this film in terms of sets, costume, scripts and sex, and I think we did.”
Digital Playground, which now owns the trademark to Virtual Sex, also garnered an award for Best Interactive Title for “Virtual Sex with Teagan Presley.” Presley is a contract performer for DP.
“Virtual Sex is our star vehicle line,” O’Neal said. “We only shoot A-list adult stars for it and to have Teagan be a part of it, we knew this edition would be special.”
Smash Pictures was also the recipient of three awards from AFWG - all hitting different, hardcore niches. Smash captured trophies for Best Interracial (White Wife, Black Cock), MILF (Cheating Housewives) and Cream Pie (Planting Seeds).
“I’m quite pleased to have won Best Interracial Series. To stand out in that market we hired Bishop from ‘Family Business’ to direct,” Smash VP Stuart Wall told XBIZ. “I’ve always liked his humor and approach. ‘Cheating Housewives’ [also] has consistently great casts, which is one of the reasons it won an award. Our newest volume features Lisa Ann.”
AFWG also gave out awards for the top performers. Manuel Ferrara won Male Performer of the Year and Zero Tolerance contract star Courtney Cummz won Female Performer of the Year.
“I’m so happy that Adam Film World voted me as performer of the year,” Cummz told XBIZ. “I love to fuck and I love to fuck on camera. It’s always nice to get recognized for something I truly love to do.”