| 27th AVN Awards | |
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| Date | January 9, 2010 |
| Site | Pearl Theater Palms Casino Resort Paradise, Nevada |
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| Directed by | Gary Miller |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | The 8th Day (Best Video Feature) |
| Most awards | The 8th Day (9) |
| Most nominations | The 8th Day (20) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | Showtime |
| Duration | 1 hour, 49 minutes |
The 27th AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic movies of 2009. The ceremony was held on January 9, 2010 in a new venue, the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada. During the ceremony, AVN Media Network presented awards in 125 of categories of movies or products released between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009.[2] The ceremony was televised in the United States by Showtime. Comedian Dave Attell hosted the show with co-hosts Kirsten Price and Kayden Kross.[1]
Among the new award categories introduced was Best Sex Parody due to the genre's quality and market impact.[3] The category was one of three at the awards show where a tie was declared and in this instance The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody, an action-adventure send-up of The X-Files, and Not the Cosbys XXX, a spoof of The Cosby Show, were co-winners.
The 8th Day earned Best Video Feature honors and eight more awards and 21-year-old Tori Black won her first Female Performer of the Year award and won or shared five others, while Kagney Linn Karter won the Best New Starlet Award. Manuel Ferrara won his third Male Performer of the Year Award, joining Lexington Steele as the only actors to have done so.
- ^ a b c d Mark Kernes (March 2010), "27th Annual AVN Awards Show Heats Up the Palms in Las Vegas", AVN, 26 (3), Chatsworth, California: AVN Media Network: 44–48, ISSN 0883-7090, OCLC 24682494,
Could it be the hosts, famous comedian Dave Attell, Wicked Pictures contract gal Kirsten Price and new Digital Playground starlet Kayden Kross?
- ^ "Nominations for 2010 AVN Awards Announced" (Press release). AVN. December 2, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
- ^ "Best Sex Parody Category Added to AVN Awards" (Press release). AVN. September 29, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2013.