16th AVN Awards

16th AVN Awards
Choices: The 1999 AVN Awards Show program cover
DateJanuary 9, 1999 (1999-01-09)
SiteBally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada[1]
Hosted by
Produced byGary Miller[1]
Directed byMark Stone[1]
Organized byAdult Video News
Highlights
Best FilmLooker[3]
Special Achievement
Best DirectionNic Cramer[3]
Best ActorJames Bonn[3]
Best ActressShanna McCullough[3]
Hall of Fame
Most awardsLooker[3]
Most nominationsCafé Flesh 2
Television coverage
NetworkPlayboy TV[4]

The 16th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News (AVN) honored the best of 1998 in pornographic movies and took place on January 9, 1999, at Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 68 categories. The ceremony, televised by Playboy TV,[4] was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone.[1] Comedian Robert Schimmel[1] returned as host[5] and actresses Alisha Klass,[2] Midori and Serenity co-hosted the award show.[3] Five weeks earlier in a ceremony held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, California, on December 4, 1998, the awards for gay pornographic movies were presented in a new separate ceremony known as the GayVN Awards.[6]

Looker won six awards including Best Film. Other winners included Café Flesh 2 with four awards, Tushy Heaven with three and Euro Angels 10, Forever Night, Masseuse 3, Models, Pornogothic, The Pornographer, Strange Life: The Breech, Tatiana each with two.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Den (August 18, 1999). "AVN 1999 Awards Show". Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews. Denny Recob. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "1999 AVN Awards". Hustler. Beverly Hills, CA: Larry Flynt Publications: 34. June 1999.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "The 1999 AVN Awards Winners". Adult Video News. 15 (3). Van Nuys, CA: AVN Publications, Inc. (published March 1, 1999): 56–58. March 1999. ISSN 0883-7090.
  4. ^ a b c Ross, Gene (March 1999). "Larry Flynt Brings Down the House at the 16th Annual AVN Awards". Adult Video News. 15 (3). Van Nuys, CA: AVN Publications, Inc. (published March 1, 1999): 26–54. ISSN 0883-7090.
  5. ^ Roark, Howard (July 1999). "The Insider". Erotic X-Film Guide. Las Vegas Valley: All Coasts Inc.: 36–37.
  6. ^ "Choices". 1999 AVN Awards Show Program. Van Nuys, CA: AVN Publications, Inc. January 9, 1999.