14th AVN Awards

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| number = 14

| award = AVN Awards

| image = 1997-AVN-Awards-VHS.jpg

| caption = 1997 AVN Awards Show VHS box cover

| date = {{Start date|1997|01|11}}

| site = Riviera Hotel & Casino, Winchester, Nevada

| host = {{plainlist|

Bobby Slayton
Nici Sterling
Kylie Ireland{{cite magazine |last=Ross |first=Gene |title=Shock, Bobby Sox Dominate the 14th Annual AVN Awards Show|magazine=Adult Video News |location=Van Nuys, California|publisher=AVN Publications, Inc. |date=March 1997 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=20–69 |issn=0883-7090 }}

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| preshow =

| producer = Gary Miller

| director = Mark Stone

| best_picture = Bobby Sox (Best Film)

| most_wins = Shock (11)

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| last = 13th

| next = 15th

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The 14th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 11, 1997 at Riviera Hotel & Casino, Winchester, Nevada, beginning at 7:45 p.m. PST / 10:45 p.m. EST. During the show, AVN presented AVN Awards (the industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards){{cite magazine |last=Paige |first=Cinnamon |title=Exxxtra! Exxxtra!|magazine=Adult Cinema Review |location=New York, New York |publisher=Princeton Publishing, Inc. |date=August 1998 |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=6–10 |issn=0277-2914 }}{{cite magazine |author= |title=Porn Vixens in Vegas!|magazine=Club International |location=Sandy Hook, Connecticut |publisher=Paragon Publishing, Inc. |date=June 1998 |volume=22 |issue=6 |pages=26–29 |issn=0747-0819 }}{{cite magazine |author= |title=The 1998 Adult Video News Awards!|magazine=High Society |location=New York, New York |publisher=Crescent Publishing Group Inc. |date=August 1998 |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=106–111 }} in 41 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 1995 and Sept. 30, 1996. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone.{{cite AV media |people=Stone, Mark (Director) |year=1997 |title=1997 AVN Awards |medium=videotape |publisher=VCA Pictures }} Comedian Bobby Slayton returned as host, with actresses Nici Sterling and Kylie Ireland as co-hosts. At a pre-awards event held the previous evening, 60 more AVN Awards, mostly for technical achievements, were given out by hostess Dyanna Lauren and comedy ventriloquist Otto of Otto & George, however, the pre-awards event was neither televised nor distributed on VHS tapes as was the main evening's ceremony.

Shock won the most awards with 11, however, Bobby Sox, an "off-beat period piece comedy" that received six statuettes, won for best film. Flesh and Blood was next with five awards including best gay feature.

Winners and nominees

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 11, 1997. Missy was the first actress to win both Starlet of the Year and the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award in the same year. Kurt Young, however, was second to win the major gay awards in the same year, taking Gay Video Performer of the Year and Best Newcomer.

=Major awards=

File:Missy PS 1999.jpg and Best New Starlet]]

File:T. T. Boy.jpg, Male Performer of the Year winner]]

File:Jamie Gillis ces99121.jpg, Best Actor—Film winner]]

File:Melissa Hill.jpg, Best Actress—Film winner]]

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ({{double-dagger}}).{{cite magazine |title=1997 AVN|magazine=Swank's Video World |location=Paramus, New Jersey|publisher=Swank Publications, Inc. |date=June 1997 |pages=66–67 }}

class=wikitable
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Shot-on-Video Feature
valign="top" \| *Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}} Dangerous Games* Dreams of Desire Expose Me Again Gangland Bangers Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks Lust and Desire Oral Addiction The Palace of Pleasure Penetrator 2: Grudge Day The Show \| valign="top" \| *Shock{{double-dagger}} Car Wash Angels* Conquest Gregory Dark's Flesh Head Trip Hollywood Boulevard Kink 3 Police Chronicles My Surrender Pristine The Pyramid 1 through 3 Silver Screen Confidential Temple of Poon Virgin Dreams XXX
colspan="2" style="background:#89cff0" \| Best New Starlet
colspan="2" valign="top" \| Missy{{double-dagger}} {{Col-begin}} {{Col-1-of-2}} Farrah Houston Kristy Myst Julie Rage Ruby {{Col-2-of-2}} Jasmin St. Claire Stephanie Swift Tatiana Nikki Tyler Stacy Valentine {{Col-end}}
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Male Performer of the Year ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Female Performer of the Year
valign="top" \| T. T. Boy{{double-dagger}} Tom Byron Mark Davis Sean Michaels Rodney Moore Jonathan Morgan Ed Powers Steven St. Croix Alex Sanders Rocco Siffredi Jake Steed Max Steiner Vince Vouyer \| valign="top" \| Missy{{double-dagger}} Juli Ashton Alex Dane Jeanna Fine Melissa Hill Jenna Jameson Jill Kelly Christi Lake Shayla LaVeaux Caressa Savage Nici Sterling Nikki Tyler
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Actor—Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Actress—Film
valign="top" \| Jamie Gillis, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}} Buck Adams, Sexual Healing Christoph Clark, Hamlet Mark Davis, Oral Addiction Mike Horner, Lust and Desire Steven St. Croix, Gangland Bangers Steven St. Croix, The Show Tony Tedeschi, Party House Randy West, Expose Me Again \| valign="top" \| Melissa Hill, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day{{double-dagger}} Kaitlyn Ashley, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day Christy Canyon, Oral Addiction Christy Canyon, The Show Melissa Hill, Dangerous Games Melissa Hill, Dreams of Desire Nicole London, Lust and Desire Jenteal, Dangerous Games Nikki Tyler, Bobby Sox Stacy Valentine, Expose Me Again
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Actor—Video ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Actress—Video
valign="top" \| Jon Dough, Shock{{double-dagger}} Tom Byron, Gregory Dark's Flesh Jonathan Morgan, Silver Screen Confidential Alex Sanders, Stacked Deck Carter Stone, Whackers Tony Tedeschi, Heinie's Heroes Tony Tedeschi, Sue Vince Vouyer, Hard Evidence T. T. Boy, NYDP Blue \| valign="top" \| Jeanna Fine, My Surrender{{double-dagger}} Lisa Ann, Entangled Kaitlyn Ashley, Anal Inquisition Juli Ashton, Nightshift Nurses 2 Sindee Cox, Pristine Melissa Hill, Mindset Kylie Ireland, Twist of Fate Jenna Jameson, Silver Screen Confidential Jill Kelly, This Year's Model Christi Lake, Director's Wet Dreams Dyanna Lauren, Hard Feelings Shayla LaVeaux, Head Trip Tiffany Million, Shock
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Supporting Actor—Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Supporting Actress—Film
valign="top" \| Tony Tedeschi, The Show{{double-dagger}} T. T. Boy, Lust and Desire Jamie Gillis, Goldenrod Tony Montana, Gangland Bangers Jonathan Morgan, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day Alex Sanders, Dangerous Games \| valign="top" \| Shanna McCullough, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}} Kaitlyn Ashley, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day Chelsea Blue, Bobby Sox Jeanna Fine, Dreams Tracy Love, The Show Lovette, Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Supporting Actor—Video ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Supporting Actress—Video
valign="top" \| Tony Tedeschi, Silver Screen Confidential{{double-dagger}} Brad Armstrong, Conquest Steve Hatcher, Stacked Deck Jonathan Morgan, Anal Inquisition Jonathan Morgan, Heinie's Heroes Alex Sanders, Valentina Joey Silvera, Nightshift Nurses 2 Jake Steed, Valentina \| valign="top" \| Juli Ashton, Head Trip{{double-dagger}} Davia Ardell, Silver Screen Confidential Juli Ashton, Twist of Fate Sindee Coxx, XXX Jenna Jameson, Hard Evidence Kiss, Sue
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Director—Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Director—Video
valign="top" \| Paul Thomas, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}} Andrew Blake, Unleashed Stuart Canterbury, Dreams Nic Cramer, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day Joe D’Amato, Gangland Bangers Greg Dark, Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks Mike Horner, Dreams of Desire Robert McCallum, Lust and Desire Ralph Parfait, Oral Addiction Michael Santangelo, The Palace of Pleasure Paul Thomas, The Show Michael Zen, Expose Me Again T. T. Boy, NYDP Blue Tom Byron, Gregory Dark's Flesh \| valign="top" \| Michael Ninn, Shock{{double-dagger}} Nic Cramer, Pristine Gregory Dark, Gregory Dark's Flesh Alex de Renzy, Virgin Dreams Teri Diver, Generation Sex Veronica Hart, The Right Connection Jim Holliday, Car Wash Angels Kris Kramski, SexHibition 3 John Leslie, Fresh Meat 3 Candida Royalle, My Surrender Joey Silvera, Kink 3 Police Chronicles Greg Steel and Brad Armstrong, Conquest Justin Sterling, Head Trip Pierre Woodman, The Pyramid 1–3
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Sex Comedy ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best All-Sex Video
valign="top" \| *The Show{{double-dagger}} Best Butt in the West 2* Car Wash Angels Gangbusters Heinie's Heroes Nightshift Nurses 2 Silver Screen Confidential \| valign="top" \| *Fresh Meat 3{{double-dagger}} Beyond Reality* Dirty Tricks 2 Fresh Meat 2 Friends in Sex SexHibition 2
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Selling Tape of the Year ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Renting Tape of the Year
valign="top" \| *Shock{{double-dagger}} World's Biggest Gang Bang 2{{double-dagger}} (tie) \| valign="top" \| Shock*{{double-dagger}}
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Gonzo Tape ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Gonzo Series
valign="top" \| *Buttman's Bend Over Babes 4{{double-dagger}} American Tushy* Anabolic World Sex Tour Ben Dover's Alley Cats Ben Dover's Fresh Cheeks \| valign="top" \| *Butt Row{{double-dagger}} Anabolic World Sex Tour* Ben Dover Buttman Tom Byron's Cumback Pussy
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Couples Sex Scene—Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best Couples Sex Scene—Video
valign="top" \| Jenna Jameson, Rocco Siffredi; Jenna Loves Rocco{{double-dagger}} Nikki Tyler, Steven St. Croix; Bobby Sox Jeanna Fine, Vince Vouyer; Dreams Melissa Hill, Mike Horner; Dreams Infidel Lethal Affairs \| valign="top" \| Jenna Jameson, Vince Vouyer; Conquest{{double-dagger}} Ben Dover's Different Strokes Ben Dover's Little Big Girls Blue Saloon Buttman's Bend Over Babes #4 Fresh Meat #2
style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Film ! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" \| Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video
valign="top" \| Jill Kelly, Melissa Hill; Dreams of Desire{{double-dagger}} Lethal Affairs Lunachick Nightclub Party House Return Engagement The Show \| valign="top" \| Caressa Savage, Missy, Misty Rain; Buttslammers: The Thirteenth{{double-dagger}} Anal Aristocrats Buttslammers 12: Anal Madness Everybody Wants Some Frendz 2: Friendlier

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style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Shot-on-Video Feature

valign="top" |

Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}}
Dangerous Games
Dreams of Desire
Expose Me Again
Gangland Bangers
Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks
Lust and Desire
Oral Addiction
The Palace of Pleasure
Penetrator 2: Grudge Day
The Show

| valign="top" |

Shock{{double-dagger}}
Car Wash Angels
Conquest
Gregory Dark's Flesh
Head Trip
Hollywood Boulevard
Kink 3 Police Chronicles
My Surrender
Pristine
The Pyramid 1 through 3
Silver Screen Confidential
Temple of Poon
Virgin Dreams
XXX

colspan="2" style="background:#89cff0" | Best New Starlet

colspan="2" valign="top" |

Missy{{double-dagger}}

Jasmin St. Claire
Stephanie Swift
Tatiana
Nikki Tyler
Stacy Valentine

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Male Performer of the Year

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Female Performer of the Year

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Actor—Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Actress—Film

valign="top" |

Jamie Gillis, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}}
Buck Adams, Sexual Healing
Christoph Clark, Hamlet
Mark Davis, Oral Addiction
Mike Horner, Lust and Desire
Steven St. Croix, Gangland Bangers
Steven St. Croix, The Show
Tony Tedeschi, Party House
Randy West, Expose Me Again

| valign="top" |

Melissa Hill, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day{{double-dagger}}
Kaitlyn Ashley, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day
Christy Canyon, Oral Addiction
Christy Canyon, The Show
Melissa Hill, Dangerous Games
Melissa Hill, Dreams of Desire
Nicole London, Lust and Desire
Jenteal, Dangerous Games
Nikki Tyler, Bobby Sox
Stacy Valentine, Expose Me Again

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Actor—Video

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Actress—Video

valign="top" |

Jon Dough, Shock{{double-dagger}}
Tom Byron, Gregory Dark's Flesh
Jonathan Morgan, Silver Screen Confidential
Alex Sanders, Stacked Deck
Carter Stone, Whackers
Tony Tedeschi, Heinie's Heroes
Tony Tedeschi, Sue
Vince Vouyer, Hard Evidence
T. T. Boy, NYDP Blue

| valign="top" |

Jeanna Fine, My Surrender{{double-dagger}}
Lisa Ann, Entangled
Kaitlyn Ashley, Anal Inquisition
Juli Ashton, Nightshift Nurses 2
Sindee Cox, Pristine
Melissa Hill, Mindset
Kylie Ireland, Twist of Fate
Jenna Jameson, Silver Screen Confidential
Jill Kelly, This Year's Model
Christi Lake, Director's Wet Dreams
Dyanna Lauren, Hard Feelings
Shayla LaVeaux, Head Trip
Tiffany Million, Shock

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Supporting Actor—Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Supporting Actress—Film

valign="top" |

Tony Tedeschi, The Show{{double-dagger}}
T. T. Boy, Lust and Desire
Jamie Gillis, Goldenrod
Tony Montana, Gangland Bangers
Jonathan Morgan, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day
Alex Sanders, Dangerous Games

| valign="top" |

Shanna McCullough, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}}
Kaitlyn Ashley, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day
Chelsea Blue, Bobby Sox
Jeanna Fine, Dreams
Tracy Love, The Show
Lovette, Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Supporting Actor—Video

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Supporting Actress—Video

valign="top" |

Tony Tedeschi, Silver Screen Confidential{{double-dagger}}
Brad Armstrong, Conquest
Steve Hatcher, Stacked Deck
Jonathan Morgan, Anal Inquisition
Jonathan Morgan, Heinie's Heroes
Alex Sanders, Valentina
Joey Silvera, Nightshift Nurses 2
Jake Steed, Valentina

| valign="top" |

Juli Ashton, Head Trip{{double-dagger}}
Davia Ardell, Silver Screen Confidential
Juli Ashton, Twist of Fate
Sindee Coxx, XXX
Jenna Jameson, Hard Evidence
Kiss, Sue

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Director—Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Director—Video

valign="top" |

Paul Thomas, Bobby Sox{{double-dagger}}
Andrew Blake, Unleashed
Stuart Canterbury, Dreams
Nic Cramer, Penetrator 2: Grudge Day
Joe D’Amato, Gangland Bangers
Greg Dark, Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks
Mike Horner, Dreams of Desire
Robert McCallum, Lust and Desire
Ralph Parfait, Oral Addiction
Michael Santangelo, The Palace of Pleasure
Paul Thomas, The Show
Michael Zen, Expose Me Again
T. T. Boy, NYDP Blue
Tom Byron, Gregory Dark's Flesh

| valign="top" |

Michael Ninn, Shock{{double-dagger}}
Nic Cramer, Pristine
Gregory Dark, Gregory Dark's Flesh
Alex de Renzy, Virgin Dreams
Teri Diver, Generation Sex
Veronica Hart, The Right Connection
Jim Holliday, Car Wash Angels
Kris Kramski, SexHibition 3
John Leslie, Fresh Meat 3
Candida Royalle, My Surrender
Joey Silvera, Kink 3 Police Chronicles
Greg Steel and Brad Armstrong, Conquest
Justin Sterling, Head Trip
Pierre Woodman, The Pyramid 1–3

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Sex Comedy

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best All-Sex Video

valign="top" |

The Show{{double-dagger}}
Best Butt in the West 2
Car Wash Angels
Gangbusters
Heinie's Heroes
Nightshift Nurses 2
Silver Screen Confidential

| valign="top" |

Fresh Meat 3{{double-dagger}}
Beyond Reality
Dirty Tricks 2
Fresh Meat 2
Friends in Sex
SexHibition 2

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Selling Tape of the Year

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Renting Tape of the Year

valign="top" |

Shock{{double-dagger}}
World's Biggest Gang Bang 2{{double-dagger}} (tie)

| valign="top" |

Shock{{double-dagger}}

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Gonzo Tape

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Gonzo Series

valign="top" |

Buttman's Bend Over Babes 4{{double-dagger}}
American Tushy
Anabolic World Sex Tour
Ben Dover's Alley Cats
Ben Dover's Fresh Cheeks

| valign="top" |

Butt Row{{double-dagger}}
Anabolic World Sex Tour
Ben Dover
Buttman
Tom Byron's Cumback Pussy

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Couples Sex Scene—Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best Couples Sex Scene—Video

valign="top" |

Jenna Jameson, Rocco Siffredi; Jenna Loves Rocco{{double-dagger}}
Nikki Tyler, Steven St. Croix; Bobby Sox
Jeanna Fine, Vince Vouyer; Dreams
Melissa Hill, Mike Horner; Dreams
Infidel
Lethal Affairs

| valign="top" |

Jenna Jameson, Vince Vouyer; Conquest{{double-dagger}}
Ben Dover's Different Strokes
Ben Dover's Little Big Girls
Blue Saloon
Buttman's Bend Over Babes #4
Fresh Meat #2

style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Film

! style="background:#89cff0" width="50%" | Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video

valign="top" |

Jill Kelly, Melissa Hill; Dreams of Desire{{double-dagger}}
Lethal Affairs
Lunachick
Nightclub
Party House
Return Engagement
The Show

| valign="top" |

Caressa Savage, Missy, Misty Rain; Buttslammers: The Thirteenth{{double-dagger}}
Anal Aristocrats
Buttslammers 12: Anal Madness
Everybody Wants Some
Frendz 2: Friendlier

=Additional award winners=

These awards were also announced at the awards show, most in a winners-only segment read by Kylie Ireland during the event:

Best All-Girl Feature: The Violation of Missy
Best All-Sex Film: Unleashed
Best Anal Sex Scene—Film: Lovette and the Six Skeletons (John Decker, Michael J. Cox, Nick East, three others), Gregory Dark's Sex Freaks
Best Anal Sex Scene—Video: Rocco Siffredi, Laura Turner, Danielle Louise Kelson; Buttman's Bend Over Babes 4
Best Continuing Video Series: The Voyeur
Best Director—Gay Video: Jerry Douglas, Flesh and Blood
Best European Release (the Hot Video Award): Torero (Italy)
Best Gangbang Tape: Gangbang Girl 17

Best Gay Video: Flesh and Blood
Best Group Sex Scene—Film: Christy Canyon, Tony Tedeschi, Vince Vouyer, Steven St. Croix; The Show
Best Group Sex Scene—Video: (tie) Hakan, Missy, Taren and Alex Sanders, Squirting Anal Orgy scene in American Tushy!; Ruby, Christi Lake, Rocco Siffredi, John Stagliano, Buttman's Bend Over Babes 4
Best Tease Performance: Janine Lindemulder, Extreme Close-Up
Gay Video Performer of the Year: Kurt Young
Most Outrageous Sex Scene: Shayla LaVeaux, T. T. Boy and Vince Vouyer, gargoyle scene in Shock

The previous night, January 10, 1997, during AVN's pre-awards cocktail reception, hostess adult film actress hostess Dyanna Lauren and comedy ventriloquist Otto of Otto & George handed out these awards, mostly for technical excellence:

Best Advertisement: Changing the Face of Adult, Vivid
Best Alternative Adult Feature Film: Scoring
Best Alternative Adult Film Featurette or Specialty Tape: The Best of Anna Nicole Smith
Best Alternative Adult Video: Buttman at Nudes ‘a Poppin 3
Best Amateur Series: Filthy First Timers
Best Amateur Tape: Southern Belles 4
Best Anal Tape: American Tushy!
Best Art Direction—Film: Unleashed
Best Art Direction—Video: Shock
Best Bisexual Video: Switchhitters VIII
Best Box Cover Concept: Russian Model Magazine
Best Box Cover Concept—Gay Video: Night Walk
Best CD-ROM Graphics/Art Direction: Latex
Best CD-ROM Photo Disk: Eric Kroll: Fetish
Best Cinematography: Andrew Blake, Unleashed
Best Compilation Tape: Sodomania: Smokin' Sextions
Best Director—Bisexual Video: Gino Colbert, Switchhitters VIII
Best Editing—Film: Barry Rose, Bobby Sox
Best Editing—Gay Video: Michael Ninn, Night Walk
Best Editing—Video: Michael Ninn, Shock
Best Ethnic-Themed Video: Inner City Black Cheerleader Search 6
Best Explicit Series: Amazing Hard
Best Featurette Tape: Sodomania 16
Best Foreign Release: The Pyramid 1–3
Best Foreign Featurette Tape: Prague by Night
Best Gay Alternative Video Release: Nighthawken
Best Gay Solo Video: Brad Posey's Hot Sessions 3
Best Gay Specialty Release: Orgy Boys 1 & 2
Best Interactive CD-ROM (Game): 2069: Oriental Sex Odyssey
Best Interactive CD-ROM (Non-Game): FantaScenes

Best Music: Dino and Earl Ninn, Shock
Best Music—Gay Video: Sharon Kane, Idol in the Sky
Best Newcomer—Gay Video: Kurt Young
Best Non-Sex Performance, Film or Video: Scotty Schwartz, Silver Screen Confidential
Best Non-Sexual Role—Bi, Gay or Trans Video: Jeanna Fine, Flesh and Blood
Best Original CD-ROM Concept: NetErotique
Best Overall Marketing Campaign for an Individual Title or Series: Conquest, Wicked Pictures
Best Overall Marketing Campaign for Company Image: Vivid Girl campaign, Vivid Video
Best Packaging—Film: Chasey Saves the World
Best Packaging—Gay Video: Idol in the Sky
Best Packaging—Specialty: Wheel of Obsession
Best Packaging—Video: XXX
Best Performer—Gay Video: Kurt Young, Flesh and Blood
Best Pro-Am Series: Cumm Brothers
Best Pro-Am Tape: Up and Cummers 33
Best Screenplay—Film: Raven Touchstone, Bobby Sox
Best Screenplay—Gay Video: Jerry Douglas, Flesh and Blood
Best Screenplay—Video: Jace Rocker, Silver Screen Confidential
Best Sex Scene—Gay Video: Derek Cameron, Kurt Young, Tradewinds
Best Special Effects: Shock
Best Specialty Tape—Big Bust: The Duke of Knockers 2
Best Specialty Tape—Bondage: Kym Wilde's on the Edge 33
Best Specialty Tape—Other Genre: High Heeled and Horny 4
Best Specialty Tape—Spanking: Hot Young Asses
Best Supporting Performer—Gay Video: Dino Phillips, Happily Ever After
Best Trailer: Conquest
Best Trans Video: Red Riding She-Male
Best Videography: Barry Harley, Shock
Best Videography—Gay Video: Bruce Cam, Desert Train

=Honorary AVN Awards=

==Special Achievement Awards==

Mark Stone and Gary Miller on their 10th anniversary producing the AVN Awards Show
Berth Milton Jr. and Robert Tremont for their success with Private Video

==AVN Breakthrough Award==

Presented to Steve Perry for Ben Dover series

==Hall of Fame==

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 1997, announced during AVN's pre-awards event, were: Bunny Bleu, R. Bolla, Michael Carpenter, Desiree Cousteau, Duck Dumont, Jeanna Fine, Gail Force, Ken Gibb (posthumously), Victoria Paris, Jeannie Pepper, John Stagliano, Joey Stefano (posthumously), John Travis, Dick Witte

=Multiple nominations and awards=

Shock won the most awards with 11; Bobby Sox was next with six, followed by gay video Flesh and Blood with five. Buttman's Bend Over Babes 4, Conquest, The Show, Silver Screen Confidential and Unleashed had three apiece. American Tushy! Idol in the Sky, Night Walk and Switchhitters VIII had two each.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy. The show's trophy girls were Midori and Stephanie Swift.

= Presenters=

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Name(s) ! Role
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{{sortname\|Dyanna\|Lauren}} Sasha Vinni Laura Palmer Lori Michaels Gina LaMarca Bionca Sahara Sands	Presenters of the awards for Best Couples Sex Scene—Film and Best Couples Sex Scene—Video
{{sortname\|Caressa\|Savage}} Angel Hart Jasmin St. Claire	Presenters of the awards for Best Supporting Actor—Film and Best Supporting Actress—Film
{{sortname\|Max\|Hardcore}} Barbie Angel Shyla Foxxx Morgan Fairlane	Presenters of the award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video
{{sortname\|Misty\|Rain\|nolink=1}} Chi Chi LaRue Richard Williams Steve Hatcher Sunset Thomas Zach Thomas Missy	Presenters of the award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Film
{{sortname\|Kristi\|Myst}} Gene Ross Jill Kelly Taylor Hayes	Presenters of the AVN Breakthrough Award, Best Renting Tape of the Year and Best Selling Tape of the Year
{{sortname\|David\|Chryso	nolink=1}} Lea Martini Vicka	Presenters of the Hot Video Award (Best European Release)
{{sortname\|Tiffany\|Mynx}} Stacy Valentine Randy West Tricia Devereaux Coral Sands Felicia	Presenters of the awards for Best Supporting Actor—Video and Best Supporting Actress—Video
{{sortname\|Robert\|Schimmel}} Rocki Roads Wet Man	Presenters of the award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene
{{sortname\|Victoria\|Paris\|nolink=1}} Shane Yvonne Rayveness Felicia	Presenters of the awards for Male Performer of the Year and Female Performer of the Year
{{sortname\|Paul\|Fishbein}}	Presenter of the AVN Special Achievement Awards
{{sortname\|Kylie\|Ireland}}	Announces winners in the winners-only segment
{{sortname\|Jenna\|Jameson}}	Presenter of the award for Best New Starlet
{{sortname\|Veronica\|Hart}} Shayla LaVeaux Carolyn Monroe Colt Steel Jon Dough Jenteal	Presenters of the awards for Best Director—Video and Best Director—Film
{{sortname\|Nina\|Hartley}} Mark Davis Helen Duval Kobe Tai Shanna McCullough Porsche Lynn	Presenters of the awards for Best Actor—Video and Best Actress—Video
{{sortname\|Jeanna\|Fine}} Kelly O'Dell Juli Ashton Jake Steed Heather Hunter T. T. Boy Janine Lindemulder	Presenters of the awards for Best Actress—Film and Best Actor—Film
{{sortname\|Alex\|Sanders\|nolink=1}} Nicole London Brittany O'Neill Sean Ryder Shelby Stevens	Presenters of the awards for Best Gonzo Series and Best Gonzo Tape
{{sortname\|Wilde\|Oscar}} Micky Lynn Sindee Cox Melissa Hill Jonathan Morgan	Presenters of the awards for Best Sex Comedy and Best All-Sex Video
{{sortname\|Monique\|Covét}} Houston Steven St. Croix Serenity Nikki Tyler	Presenters of the awards for Best Shot-on-Video Feature and Best Film

=Performers=

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Name(s)	Role	Performed
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{{sortname\|The\|Stingers	nolink=1}} Serenity and Her Dancers	Performer	Opening number: “The World Sex Suite”
{{sortname\|Bobby\|Slayton}}	Host	Standup comedy
{{sortname\|Rich\|Williams\|nolink=1}}	Performers	Bill Clinton impersonation
{{sortname\|Robert\|Schimmel}}	Performer	Standup comedy segment
{{sortname\|Scott\|Schwartz}} Serenity and Her Dancers The Stingers	Performer	Musical number: “Thank Heaven for Grown-Up Girls”
{{sortname\|Scott\|Schwartz}} Serenity and Her Dancers The Stingers	Performer	Macarena spoof: “Cockeranal”

Ceremony information

Comedian Bobby Slayton made a return engagement as host of the show. This year the show was centered around an international theme, “the world of adult,” with added emphasis on European presenters and awards. This was the first year the awards ceremony was split over two nights, with a pre-awards event held January 10, 1997, where awards for technical achievements were distributed, while the main awards were presented January 11, 1997.

Several other people were also involved with the production of the ceremony. Serenity was responsible for choreography and Mark Stone was musical director with original songs by Mark J. Miller.

The top selling and renting tape of the year was Shock, although it was tied in the best-selling category with World's Biggest Gang Bang 2. There were several new awards categories this year including Best Advertisement and the AVN Breakthrough Award to acknowledge "those who were carving new niches and forging new territories in the adult business."

The ceremonies were published on VHS tape by VCA Pictures.{{cite web |url=http://www.cavr.com/review/v97r0868.htm |title=AVN 1997 Awards Show |last1=Recob |first1=Den |date=August 25, 1997 |website=Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews |publisher=Denny Recob |access-date=January 18, 2017 |quote=This is a well put together video. It shows who won the 1997 awards for best performances of 1996 videos.}}

=Critical response=

The show received a negative reception from Hustler magazine, which said, “Long-winded speeches from several award winners threatened to bore everyone to death.” It went on to add that since AVN is a trade publication paid for by ads "from the same adult video companies it bestows awards upon, the critical value of such honors is subject to debate."{{cite magazine |title=Video News Awards: Winners Gather With Losers in Las Vegas|magazine=Hustler |publisher=LFP Publications, Inc. |date=June 1997 |page=32 }} Swank Video World magazine was a bit more positive, calling the show "the most glamorous night in the adult industry."

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Bibliography

{{cite magazine |date=July 1997 |title=Backstage at the Flesh Film Awards |magazine=Cheri Magazine }}
{{cite magazine |date=July 1997 |title=Award Winning Pussy! |magazine=High Society magazine |page=90 }}
{{cite magazine |date=April 1997 |title=AVN Awards event report |language=ja |magazine=Bachelor magazine |location=Japan }}
{{cite magazine |date=April 1997 |title=CES & AVN Awards show |language=ja |magazine=Dick magazine |location=Japan }}

External links

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[https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Adult_Video_News_Awards/ Adult Video News Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119011618/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Adult_Video_News_Awards/ |date=January 19, 2009 }} at the Internet Movie Database
{{IMDb title | 0189338 | Adult Video News Awards 1997 | (1997 Video) }}
{{IAFD movie|adult+video+news+awards+1997|1997|Adult Video News Awards 1997}}
{{AFD movie|37570|1997 AVN Awards}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/19970606095942/http://www.avn.com/avn_main/1997awards.html "1997 AVN Award Winners" and categories] at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

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Category:1997 film awards

14th AVN Awards

Winners and nominees

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==Special Achievement Awards==

==AVN Breakthrough Award==

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Presenters and performers

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Ceremony information

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