Award Categories
| AVN Award | ||||
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| 29th AVN Awards | ||||
The 1999 AVN Award for the category "Best Specialty Tape – Bondage," won by RedBoard Video for the movie Uncut. |
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| Awarded for | Exceptional performance in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic movies. | |||
| Sponsor | Adult Video News | |||
| Presented by | Adult Video News | |||
| Location | Las Vegas, Nev. | |||
| Country | USA | |||
| Reward | Trophy | |||
| First awarded | 1984 | |||
| Last awarded | Present | |||
| Official website | avnawards.com | |||
| Television coverage | ||||
| Network | Showtime | |||
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In order to be eligible for a given year's AVN Awards, a title must have been released between October 1 of two years before and September 30 of one year before, and it must be available either from at least 10 wholesale or at least 100 retail outlets by the deadline of September 30 of the preceding year.
The award, which was redesigned in 2000, is named Woody and now appears as a transparent rectangular Lucite block with an engraved stylized male and female embracing. The base of the award is dark and contains lettering with year, category description and winner's name or film title.
In 1998 and 1999, AVN had a Safe Sex Award category, which was discontinued. In 2007, AVN decided to rename the "AVN Crossover Star of the Year Award" to "Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year Award" to honor Jenna Jameson.
There are many award categories, which are as follows:
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