AVN Nominations Getting Worse Over The Years

There’s a lot being said about the AVN Award Nominations and I have given this a lot of thought and have arrived at the conclusion that over the years they have gotten worse instead of better.  Yes it’s true that the quality of product has been in steady decline overall but that is no excuse, there is still excellent quality product out there that is deserving.

The real problem with the nominations is the arbitrary nature in which they are decided. AVN sets guidelines but doesn’t follow them. Take for example Tera  Patrick being inducted into the Hall of Fame. AVN guidelines state that you must have ten active years in the industry, Tera doesn’t. Unless she started the biz on or before Sept 30th (AVNs Deadline) 1998 she isn’t qualified, and she isn’t, she started in 1999.  Even if you use Jan 1st 2009 as the date she still doesn’t qualify. Now I’m not saying Tera doesn’t deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, ABSOLUTELY she does, no question about it, but by AVNs own guidelines she doesn’t qualify till next year.

Now lets take our own Kayden Kross, she had no videos out in 2006, 1 out during the qualification period in 2007 this year is when the bulk of her new work came out. She didn’t get nominated when she clearly should have, specially when you consider that Lexi Belle who started in late 2005  and had well over 60 movies out by 2007 did get nominated this year. Then you look at Nikki Jayne, she has ONE movie out during the qualification period and she gets nominated. This category  is the one that year after year reeks the most of foul play. Now you may say that well Kayden got nominated for THE most prestigious award AVN has…Female Performer of the Year, but that does not negate the fact that she was clearly more qualified for best new starlet and there  is no reason she couldnt be nominated in both categories, it happens every year almost.

Now lets look at the nominations themselves, of all the categories only 6 had fewer than 7 nominations and of those none had fewer than 6.  Could you people over there REALLY not narrow down Best Young Girl Series to fewer than 15 series?

Dozens of categories had 15 or more nominations. Im sorry but that is  just retarded. There is NO reason at all, ever for more than 6 nominees in any category.

And while we are on the topic of nominations, how many of you knew that AVN lets companies nominate themselves?  Thats right if you want a nomination you have to send AVN what you think is nomination worthy.  Now do you really think THAT is objective? I say if AVN can’t remember from the review what was worthy….well it shouldn’t be nominated.

And about the categories, do we really need an award for best dvd menus? for  best high end all sex release? for best dvd extras? for best educational release? or categories for best release and best series for every niche market known to porn?

Did it occur to you guys after last year that naming it the Jenna Jameson Crossover Award is no different than calling it the Traci Lords Crossover Award?  Do you really want to continue to perpetuate THAT bad idea?

And why not rename the Most Outrageous Sex Scene to the Most Disgusting Sex Scene, because that’s what always wins…or better yet there’s another good one to deep six.

And are we really to believe that nobody was deserving of the Reuben Sturman Award this year, I mean after all y’all gave it to Rob Black for God’s sake. Isn’t Max or Ray Guhn or someone equally deserving?

Are y’all starting to see the absurdity here? These awards no longer reward quality or innovation, they reward popularity and mediocrity and dare I say…Advertisers.

And now AVN is adding Web based Awards…that’s a lot like the Academy Awards giving an award to the best automaker based on what the stars drive.

Speaking of those web based awards, who pulled those nominees out of their ass? They aren’t reflective of anything and nobody at AVN is qualified to nominate anyone in one of those categories, after all they didn’t even know enough about the web to keep their nominations list where I couldn’t get it before they posted it.

Think about it…..