Pornstar awards & nominations
Award recognition for the performers we index, organised by board and year. The data comes from public industry records, so it tracks who got nominated and who won, not how the vote went. A nomination means a board put her name forward; it is not the same as a win, and the two are kept separate everywhere on these pages.
AVN Awards
33 yearsThe Oscars of porn, running since 1984.
The AVN Awards have been handed out by the trade magazine Adult Video News since February 1984. The Oscars-of-porn label mostly fits: a January ceremony in Las Vegas, more than a hundred categories, and a trophy that follows a performer for the rest of her career. The show runs inside the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. Even a nomination here is the single most-cited credit in the business, which is why it shows up on so many of the profiles below.
Inked Awards
4 yearsFor the tattooed end of the industry, since 2012.
The Inked Awards started in 2012 for a corner of the industry the bigger shows tend to skip: tattooed performers and the people who build their careers around ink. The first few years ran online; it became a live event in 2015, with fan-voted categories added along the way.
XBIZ Awards
9 yearsThe industry's business-side honours, launched 2003.
XBIZ started its awards in 2003 as the trade-side counterpart to the fan-driven shows. Run out of Los Angeles by Adnet Media, the ceremony lands in January, usually around the Hollywood Palladium, and weighs studios, directors and the commercial end as heavily as on-camera work. From 2025 the show was rebranded the XMAs.
VOD Awards
0 yearsAVN's video-on-demand strand.
VOD here is the video-on-demand strand tied to AVN: scenes released straight to video-on-demand became eligible in a handful of scene categories without going through a disc release first. The entries we hold under this label came through our source without a ceremony year attached, so they sit on the board page rather than under a year.