The AVN Adult Movie Awards has announced the nominations for over 100 different categories this week with winners in to be honored at a live show on January 10th, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. This event will be hosted by two famous names in the world of adult entertainment, Belladonna and Jenna Haze. The 26th AVN Adult Movie Awards will be the most important night for the erotic industry as it celebrates the finest and most significant characters, movies, producers, distributors, cinematographers in the business.

More than 6,000 productions and films were reviewed by the AVN staff over the last year to select the all the nominees. In addition to the movie awards, the AVN introduced 40 nominees in three new categories: Adult Site of the Year, Web Starlet of the Year, and Best New Web Starlet. The categories of this year’s awards are truly historic and show how the industry has grown and changed over the last years. The categories featured at the 2009 AVN also include Best Actor, Best Actress, Best All Girl Release, Best Alternative Release, Best Amateur Release, Best Amateur Series, Best Animated Release, Best Art Direction, Best Continuing Series, Best DVD Extras, Best Fetish Release, etc.

"With the enormous amount of product being released weekly on the American market, I must say how proud I am of the AVN staff for vigorously watching thousands of titles to come up with these nominations. Most of the categories have 15 nominees and that is designed to reward the thousands of people working in the adult business. While it may seem to be a large amount of names per category, comparatively speaking, it really isn't." said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN Publications.

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