Receiving Over 100 Nominations For The Second Year In A Row,
WICKED PICTURES Congratulates Their 2008 AVN Nominees
DATELINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2007 | Daniel Metcalf Public Relations
LOS ANGELES, CA - (November 30, 2007 DMPR) - For the second consecutive year, Canoga Park-based adult production powerhouse Wicked Pictures is pleased to announce that it has received over 100 combined AVN Nominations, for both its own product and the Video Marc Dorcel, Playgirl, and Sinsation Pictures lines it distributes. Over 50 of these nominations went to the company’s acclaimed quartet of high profile blockbusters Operation Desert Stormy, Coming Home, The Craving, and Black Widow.
As noted by Adult Video News in their formal announcement this week, Stormy Daniels' epic comic adventure Operation Desert Stormy (with 16 nominations) and Brad Armstrong’s compelling war drama Coming Home (with 13 noms) were two of the year’s most nominated titles, followed closely by The Craving (with 12 nominations) and Black Widow (with 10 noms).
Shot on film, Armstrong's darkly elegant cinematic fairytale The Craving was a top-rated film for the year, receiving such important nominations as Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography (Francois Clousot), as well as four sex scene nominations, three of which featured the luminous star of the movie, jessica drake.
Turning to the video categories, Armstrong's Coming Home scored such significant noms as Best Director, Best Screenplay - Video (Brad Armstrong), Best Video Feature, Best High-Definition Production, Best Packaging, Best Actor - Video (Brad Armstrong), Best Actress - Video (Kirsten Price), Best Supporting Actor - Video (Barrett Blade), and Best Supporting Actress - Video (Shyla Stylez). Coming Home star Kirsten Price also received a Female Performer Of The Year nomination, and director Armstrong’s Just Between Us was recognized with a Best Actress - Video nomination for its beautiful star, Carmen Hart. The director’s Love Always snared a Best Supporting Actress - Video nod for jessica drake (who also penned the screenplay).
Wicked contract actress, director, and mainstream crossover personality Stormy Daniels’ Operation Desert Stormy received noms in virtually all the major video categories, including Best Director, Best Screenplay - Video (Stormy Daniels), Best Sex Comedy, Best High-Definition Production, Best Actor - Video (Steven St. Croix), Best Packaging, Best Supporting Actor - Video (Marcus London), and Best Editing - Video (Jonathan Morgan).
The actress-director's stylish comedy For Love, Money, Or A Green Card was also recognized with a Best Sex Comedy nomination, as was The One, which she wrote and starred in for director Jonathan Morgan. Daniels’ darkly intense The Predator, which she both shot and starred in, received a nom for Best All-Girl Release.
The scope of Stormy‘s talent and influence was rewarded with additional nominations in categories as diverse as Director Of The Year (Body Of Work), Female Performer Of The Year, and the Jenna Jameson Crossover Star Of The Year award.
Another Stormy project, Michael Raven’s Black Widow, came on strong in such important categories as Best Director, Best Screenplay - Video (Jennifer Allison), Best Video Feature, Best High-Definition Production, Best Actor - Video (Randy Spears), Best Actress - Video (Stormy Daniels), and Best Videography (Francois Clousot). Black Widow star Randy Spears also received a Male Performer Of The Year nomination.
The veteran director’s Delilah registered strongly with AVN‘s nominating committee as well, winning recognition in the Best Actress - Video (jessica drake), Best Actor - Video (Herschel Savage), Best Screenplay - Video (Jennifer Allison), and Best Non-Sex Performance (Veronica Hart) categories. Raven’s spellbinding thriller Supernatural was recognized with Best Supporting Actress - Video (August), Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Individual Project, and Best Special Effects nominations. Raven also received induction into the AVN Hall Of Fame.
Iconoclastic adult visionary David Stanley once again made his mark with an eclectic group of nominations that spoke to the diversity of his talent. Melt saw Stanley receiving Best Video Feature, Best Non-Sex Performance, and Best Screenplay - Video nominations, while his excellent Kaylani Lei vehicle Candelabra scored both a Best Actress - Video nom for its glamorous star and a Best Supporting Actor - Video mention for Eric Masterson. And speaking of Kaylani, her Brad Armstrong-directed designer vehicle Kaylani Unleashed was nominated for Best High End All-Sex Release.
Mark Stone‘s best-selling Reform School Girls was rewarded with a nomination for Best Vignette Release.
Continuing its tradition as a true innovator in the DVD field, Wicked‘s stunning Flashpoint X, a beautifully packaged, multi-disc 10 year anniversary edition of the seminal Jenna Jameson classic, received nominations for both Best Classic DVD and Best Packaging.
Having reached triple digit noms for the second year in a row for its track record of excellence in the areas of direction, performance, eroticism, and design, it should come as little surprise that Wicked 's sweep of the 2008 nominations also included a mention in the Best Overall Marketing Campaign - Company Image category.
In reviewing the over one hundred AVN nominations his company received, Wicked Pictures President and Owner Steve Orenstein observed, “In today’s market, and with the sheer amount of product released on the market, we're happy to see our product and creative team continue to get recognized for their outstanding achievements. Like in years past, virtually all of our team have been recognized in the nominations, as well as all the lines we distribute. I'm thankful to AVN for their consideration, and to my team for their hard work.”
A complete list of nominations is below.
Wicked Pictures
2008 AVN Nominations
By Title
Best Film
Best Director-Film Brad Armstrong
Best Cinematography Francois Clousot
Best Art Direction-Film
Best Couples Sex Scene-Film jessica drake & Justin Magnum
Best Editing-Film Eddie Door
Best Group Sex Scene-Film jessica drake, Kimberly Kole, Kayla Carrera, Brooke Haven & Randy Spears
Best Oral Sex Scene-Film jessica drake
Best Anal Sex Scene-Film Chelsie Rae & Tyler Knight
Best DVD Extras
Best DVD Menus
Best Packaging
Best Video Feature
Best Director-Video Brad Armstrong
Best Actor-Video, Brad Armstrong
Best Actress-Video, Kirsten Price
Best Supporting Actor-Video Barrett Blade
Best Supporting Actress-Video Shyla Stylez
Best Screenplay-Video, Brad Armstrong
Best Editing-Video, Eddie Door
Best DVD Extras
Best Packaging
Best High Def. Production
Best On-Line Marketing Campaign, Individual Project www.cominghomethemovie.com
Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Individual Project
Best Sex Comedy
Best Videography Francois Clousot & Jake Jacobs
Best Director-Video Stormy Daniels
Best Actor-Video, Steven St. Croix
Best Supporting Actor-Video Marcus London
Best Editing-Video Jonathan Morgan
Best Special Effects
Best Art Direction Video
Best High Def. Production
Best DVD Extras
Best DVD Menus
Best Non-sex performance, Ron Jeremy
Best On-Line Marketing Campaign, Individual Project (www.operationdesertstormy.com)
Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Individual Project
Best Packaging
Best Screenplay-Video Stormy Daniels
Best Video Feature
Best Director-Video Michael Raven
Best Videography, Francois Clousot
Best Actress-Video, Stormy Daniels
Best Actor-Video, Randy Spears
Best Editing-Video, Michael Raven & Rex Humbolt
Best Couples Sex Scene-Video, Stormy Daniels & Randy Spears
Best DVD Extras
Best High-Definition Production
Best Screenplay-Video, Jennifer Allison
Best Actor-Video, Herschel Savage
Best Actress-Video, jessica drake
Best Non-Sex Performance Veronica Hart
Best Screenplay-Video, Jennifer Allison
Best Video Feature
Best Non-Sex Performance David Stanley
Best Screenplay-Video, David Stanley
Best Special Effects
Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Individual Project
Best Special Effects
Best Supporting Actress-Video, August
Best Actress-Video, Kaylani Lei
Best Supporting Actor-Video, Eric Masterson
Best Sex Comedy
Best Actress-Video, Roxy Jezel
Flashpoint X
Best Classic DVD
Best Packaging
Best Couples Sex Scene-Video Jayna Oso & Tommy Gunn
Best Ethnic-Themed Release, Asian
Best Screenplay-Video, Cash Markman
Best Vignette Release
Best Sex Comedy
Best Actress-Video, Carmen Hart
Best All-Girl Release
Best High End All-Sex Release
Best Supporting Actress-Video jessica drake
Best Vignette Release
Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Company Image
Wicked Pictures
Director of the Year (Body of Work)
Stormy Daniels
Female Performer of the Year
Stormy Daniels
Kirsten Price
Male Performer of the Year
Randy Spears
The Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year
Stormy Daniels
Hall of Fame
Michael Raven
For Titles Distributed By Wicked Pictures:
Foreign Female Performer Of The Year
Yasmine (Marc Dorcel Contract Star)
Melissa Lauren (Marc Dorcel Contract Star)
Best Director, Foreign Release, Herve Bodilis, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Foreign All-Sex Release, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Foreign All-Sex Series, Pornochic, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked, Francesca Fellucci & James Brossman
Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked, Katsumi, Ian Scott, James Brossman, JPX, Tony Carrera & Lauro Giotto
Best Director, Foreign Release, Alain Payet, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Foreign Feature, Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked, Yasmine & Ian Scott
Best Foreign All-Sex Release, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Foreign All-Sex Series,
Russian Institute, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production, Video Marc Dorcel/Wicked, Oksana, Frank Major & Bob Terminator
Best Foreign Feature, Wicked Pictures
Best Foreign Feature, Marc Dorcel/Wicked Pictures
Best Supporting Actress-Video Aurora Snow
Best Actor-Video Voodoo
Best Solo Sex Scene, Mika Tan
Best Solo Release
Best Squirting Release
Best Vignette Release Playgirl/Wicked Pictures
Playgirl
Best Vignette Series Playgirl/Wicked Pictures
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About Wicked Pictures
Founded March 1, 1993, acclaimed adult industry powerhouse Wicked Pictures (www.wickedpictures.com), creates quality adult features for women and couples.
Wicked Pictures' elite team of contract talent includes actor-writer-director Brad Armstrong, writer-directors Jonathan Morgan, Michael Raven, and David Stanley, writer-director-star Stormy Daniels, actor-director Randy Spears, videographer/director Francois Clousot, and acclaimed actresses as Julia Ann, jessica drake, Kaylani Lei, Kirsten Price, and Carmen Hart.
AVN's coveted acting awards have been won by Wicked Girls for eight consecutive years. It's the longest record of its kind to be held by a single company in adult video history.
2007 - jessica drake for Manhunters
2006 - Stormy Daniels for The Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre
2005 - jessica drake for Fluff & Fold
2004 - Julia Ann for Beautiful
2003 - Devinn Lane for Breathless
2002 - Sydnee Steele for Euphoria
2001 - Serenity for M Caught in the Act
2000 - Serenity for Double Feature
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