| AVN Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| AVN award for contributions of actors to pornography | |
 The 2024 recipient: Tommy Pistol | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Sponsored by | AVN |
| Location | Las Vegas |
| Country | USA |
| Presented by | AVN Media Network |
| First awarded | 1984 |
| Last awarded | 2024 |
| Most recent winner | Tommy Pistol Feed Me (2024) |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Mike Horner, Randy Spears, Evan Stone and Tommy Pistol (5 awards) |
| Total awarded | 63 (40–for films, 23–for videos) |
| First winner | Richard Pacheco Irresistible (1984) |
| Website | avnawards |
The AVN Award for Best Actor is an award that has been given annually by sex industry company AVN since the award's inception in 1984.[1]
Till 2008, the award was awarded annually for two different categories–film and video. From year 2009, it is awarded annually for a single category.
First recipient of the award was Richard Pacheco, who was awarded at 1st AVN Awards in 1984 for his performance in Irresistible.[1] As of 2024, Mike Horner, Randy Spears, Evan Stone and Tommy Pistol are the most honoured pornographic actors with five awards followed by Buck Adams, Steven St. Croix, Tom Byron and Seth Gamble with four awards, Eric Edwards with three awards while five pornographic actors–Jon Dough, Dale DaBone, Brad Armstrong, Robert Bullock and James Bonn–have won the award two times. Jamie Gillis is the oldest recipient of the award at the age of 53 for his performance in Bobby Sox (1997) and Steven St. Croix is the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 26 for his performance in Chinatown (1995). The most recent recipient is Tommy Pistol, who was honoured at the 41st AVN Awards in 2024 for his performance in Feed Me.[2]
- ^ a b "AVN - 1984 AVN Awards Show - History". AVN. AVN Media Network. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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