The 17th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 8, 2000 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards (often dubbed the "Academy Awards of Porn"^[2][3]) in 77 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 1998 and Sept. 30, 1999. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Adult film star Juli Ashton hosted the show.^[1]

Double Feature! won 10 awards including Best Director—Video for Jonathan Morgan while the night's other big winner, Seven Deadly Sins captured eight awards including Best Film and Best Director—Film for Ren Savant. Several other movies won two trophies apiece including: Cashmere, Chloe, Dark Garden, Playthings, Search for the Snow Leopard, Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, What Makes You Cum and When Rocco Meats Kelly 2: In Barcelona.^[4]

The nominees for the 18th AVN Awards were announced in November 1999. Seven Deadly Sins received the most nominations with 15, followed by Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 with 12 and Double Feature! and The Awakening with 11 apiece.

The winners^[1][4] were announced during the awards ceremony on January 8, 2000. Besides winning Best Actress—Film, Chloe also won or shared in four other awards:^[5] Best Solo Sex Scene, Best Anal Sex Scene—Film, Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video and Best Group Sex Scene—Video.^[3] The most sought-after awards, Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year, went to Bridgette Kerkove and Inari Vachs respectively.^[2] Dark Garden was named best video feature, the fourth time a Michael Ninn-directed feature had won either Best Film or Best Video.^[4]

Major awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

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Best Film	Best Video Feature
Seven Deadly Sins‡[1][4] The Awakening Chloe Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 Original Sin Search For The Snow Leopard Stray Cats Talent Scout Three Trigger[6]	Dark Garden‡[1][4] Archer's Last Day Cashmere Crossroads The Devil in Miss Jones 6 Eyes of Desire 2 The Kissing Game L.A. 399 Revenge Serenade Torn White Rabbit[6]
Best DVD	Best New Starlet
Cashmere‡[1][4] Assylum Big Babies in Budapest The Devil in Miss Jones 6'' Fatal Orchid L.A. Uncovered Painting Pamela Seven Deadly Sins Stray Cat Risque Burlesque 2 Rocki Roads' Wet Dreams Tatiana 1, 2, & 3[6]	Bridgett Kerkove‡[1][4] Anastasia Blue Jewel De'Nyle India Katja Kean Leanni Lei Bunny Luv Barrett Moore Sonja Redd Regan Starr Sydnee Steele Vivian Valentine[6]
Male Performer of the Year	Female Performer of the Year
Lexington Steele‡[1][4] Chris Cannon Christoph Clark Luciano Mr. Marcus Sean Michaels Herschel Savage Rocco Siffredi Randy Spears[6]	Inari Vachs‡[1][4] Chloe Sabrina Johnson Alisha Klass Monique Raylene Serenity Alexandra Silk Stephanie Swift[6]
Best Actor—Film	Best Actress—Film
James Bonn, Chloe‡[1][4] John Decker, The Trophy Mickey G., Taxi Dancer Mike Horner, In the Flesh Herschel Savage, Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 Randy Spears, Poseur Bobby Vitale, Talent Scout[6]	Chloe, Chloe‡[1][4] Asia Carrera, Search For The Snow Leopard Allysin Chaynes, Stray Cat Racquel Darrian, Original Sin Raylene, The Trophy Nikki Sinn, Things Change 3 Gwen Summers, Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 Inari Vachs, The Awakening[6]
Best Actor—Video	Best Actress—Video
Randy Spears, Double Feature!‡[1][4] Brad Armstrong, Knockout Tyce Buné, Revenge Tom Byron, Archer's Last Day Mickey G., Eyes of Desire 2 Mike Horner, Sexplicity Michael Raven, Mindfuck Tony Tedeschi, Taboo 18[6]	Serenity, Double Feature!‡[1][4] Chloe, Taboo 19 Kylie Ireland, Timeless Katja Kean, Millennium Ginger Lynn, Torn Missy, Desperate Measures Raylene, Manic Behavior Stephanie Swift, Crossroads[6]
Best Director—Film	Best Director—Video
Ren Savant, Seven Deadly Sins‡[1][4] James Avalon, Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 Andrew Blake, Playthings Nic Cramer, Trigger Kris Kramski, Chloe Nicholas Orleans, Search For The Snow Leopard Ralph Parfait, Three Ed Powers, Tight Shots: The Movie Paul Thomas, The Awakening Michael Zen, Things Change 3 & 4[6]	Jonathan Morgan, Double Feature!‡[1][4] Brad Armstrong, The Kissing Game Charley Crow, Archer's Last Day Toshi Gold, Succubus: Skin XVII Cash Markman, Pleasureville Michael Ninn, Dark Garden Antonio Passolini, The Devil In Miss Jones 6 Simon Poe, Windsong Michael Raven, White Rabbit Candida Royalle, Eyes of Desire 2 Jane Waters, Return of the Nightstalker Michael Zen, Taboo 19[6]
Best All-Sex Film	Best All-Sex Video
Playthings‡[1][4] Daydreamer Hell on Heels Pin-Ups Tropic of Eros[6]	Voyeur 12‡[1][4] Asswoman: The Rebirth Fleshpot Fresh Meat 7 Katja Kean's Sports Spectacular Porno Playground Return of the Nightstalker Slutwoman Street Meat Whispers White Trash Whore 12 Windsong[6]
Top Selling Tape 1999	Top Renting Tape 1999
The Houston 620‡[1][4]	The Devil in Miss Jones 6‡[1][4]
Best Comedy	Best Vignette Tape
Double Feature!‡[1][4] Chamber of Whores 2: Porn World Eye Candy Refocused Hardcore Championship Fucking Lizzy Borden's Pornoflick Missionary Position Impossible Nymph Fever Pleasureville Shooting Sex Tai Blow Job Tight Shots: The Movie XXX Trek: The Final Orgasm[6]	Sodomania 28‡[1][4] Barely Legal Conflict Daydream Just Fuckin' and Suckin' 4 Kelly the Coed 2 Perverted Stories 22 PickUp Lines 34 Pleasure Highway Porno Playground[6]
Best Anal-Themed Tape	Best Gonzo Video
Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women‡[1][4] Anal Demonstrative Assman 9 Caught From Behind 29 Cornhole Armageddon Only the A Hole 8 Rocco's True Anal Stories 8 Sean Michaels Rocks That Ass 2 Stop My Ass Is On Fire Tails of Perversity 6 Up Your Ass 12 Young and Anal 14[6]	Ben Dover's The Booty Bandit‡[1][4] Beach Bunnies With Big Browneyes 5 Cumback Pussy 17 Essentially Shayla Knocking at Heaven's Back Door Max World 17 "Please!" 2 Pornological 3 Return of the Cumm Brothers Whack Attack 3 World Sex Tour 17[6]
Hot Video Award (Best U.S. Release in Europe)	Best Foreign Vignette Tape
Eros‡[1][4] Cashmere Delirious The Devil in Miss Jones 6 Flashpoint In The Flesh Phoenix Rising The Rear Arrangers Ritual Skin Unbound[6]	When Rocco Meats Kelly 2: In Barcelona‡[1][4] Assman 8 Czech Cherry Poppers: The College Years 4 Debauchery 2 Euro Angels 14 Euro Angels: Hardball 3 European Sex Chronicles Lil' Women 15: Sorority Rush Return to Planet Sexxx Penetrating the East 3 Rocco: Animal Trainer Xtreme Desires[6]
Best Ethnic-Themed Series	Best Gonzo Series
My Baby Got Back‡[1][4] Black Dirty Debutantes Black Panty Chronicles Black Pearls Bootylicious Booty Talk Freaks, Whoes and Flows Inner City Black Cheerleader Search Rocks That Ass South Central Hookers Sugar Walls 24/7[6]	Seymore Butts‡[1][4] Action Sports Sex Beach Bunnies With Big Browneyes Ben Dover Freshman Fantasies Hardcore Junior College Schoolgirls Hot Bods and Tail Pipe "Please!" Real Sex Magazine Whack Attack World Sex Tour[6]
Best Couples Sex Scene—Film	Best Couples Sex Scene—Video
Asia Carrera, James Bonn, Search for the Snow Leopard‡[1][4] Stephanie Swift, Vince Vouyer, Debbie Does Dallas 99 Gwen Summers, Julian, Nothing to Hide 3 & 4 Lea Martini, Ramon, Pin-Ups Randy Spears, Allysin Chaynes, Poser James Bonn, Azlea Antistia, Seven Deadly Sins Nick East, Heather Hunter, Star Hunter Inari Vachs, Jake Steed, Stray Cat Olga Rios, Bobby Vitale, Talent Scout Misty Rain, Mark Davis, Things Change 3 Inari Vachs, Evan Stone, Three Shaena Steel, Ed Powers, Tight Shots: The Movie[6]	Zoë, Van Damage, Hardcore Championship Fucking‡[1][4] Anastasia Blue, Billy Glide, Barely Legal Tera Patrick, Mickey G., Crossroads Lena, Alec Metro, Freshman Fantasies 22 Keper Real, Jake Steed, Fresh Meat 7 Missy, Herschel Savage, The Kissing Game Allysin Chaynes, Mark Vega, Psychedelisex Brandon Iron, Katie June, Real Sex Magazine 18 Tiffany Mynx, Paul Carrigan, Return of the Nightstalker Alex Sanders, Phaedra Alexis, Sodomania 28 John Decker, Ginger Lynn, Torn Sean Michaels, Chloe, We Go Deep[6]
Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Film	Best All-Girl Sex Scene—Video
Janine, Julia Ann, Seven Deadly Sins‡[1][4] Claudia Chase, Sheila Stone, Amber Michaels, Day Dreamer Jenna Jameson, Felecia, Stephanie Swift, Hell on Heels Ashley, Karin, Playthings Dee, Leanni Lei, Deva Station, Statues Devon, Maya Divine, Devinn Lane, Three Inari Vachs, Katie Gold, Trial By Copulation Alex Taylor, Raylene, Charlie, Wildlife[6]	Alisha Klass, Chloe, Tampa Tushy Fest‡[1][4] Nikita, Lisa Belle, Dark Garden Sorority Hazing Scene (Allysin Chaynes, Gwen Summers, Katie Gold, Kristin), Kelly the Coed 2 RayVeness, Shanna McCullough, Lipstick Lesbians 6 Inari Vachs, Monique DeMoan, Mia Smiles, Nasty Girls 20 Eight-Girl Orgy, No Man's Land 26 Annabel Chong, Eden Rae, Poison Candy (second scene) Jill Kelly, Katie Gold, Porno Playground Chaz Vincent, Cheyenne Silver, Rocks That Ass 3 Roxanne Hall, Alexandra Nice, Slutwoman Chloe, Ginger Lynn, Torn The Group Finale (Dyanna Lauren, Heather Hunter, Janine, Jenteal, Kobe Tai, Leslie Glass, Tia Bella), Where The Boys Aren't 11[6]

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The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy.^[1] The show's trophy girls were Layla and Alexa Rae.

For 2000, the event was moved to the eight-month-old Venetian Hotel and Casino and Genesis magazine noted the annual show "was as much style as substance as several thousand porn stars, directors, producers and fans poured into the massive ballroom."^[2]

Following criticism of the previous year's four-hour show, host Juli Ashton announced she was going to try to keep the 2000 show short;^[1] it ended up running slightly longer than two hours.^[4]

Alisha Klass tried to shock the audience during the show, first by coming out wearing a microscopic dress and with a ball-gag in her mouth to announce the winner of Best New Starlet, then later by pulling off her clothes as adult stars jumped on stage to dance to orchestra Jimmie Lykes and the Club Swingers prior to announcement of the final two awards.^[1]

AVN founder Paul Fishbein, who presented the AVN Special Achievement awards, announced they were being renamed the Reuben Sturman Memorial Award to honor Sturman for his contributions to the industry.^[4] Meanwhile, when Howard Stern refused to attend and accept his Achievement Award, Beetlejuice took to the podium to accept on his behalf and "rambled incomprehensibly"^[5] and had to be interrupted to stop what seemed like an endless speech.^[1]

Meanwhile, Hustler noted, "This year's AVN Awards inspired many catcalls and boos from the allies of losing nominees, prompting Jill Kelly to remark that the camaraderie of past awards shows had been replaced with a mean-spirited competitiveness this year."^[5]

Several new awards were introduced for this years show; among them: Best Specialty Tape—Big Bust. The show was recorded and a video of the awards show was issued by VCA Pictures.^[1]

The annual moment of silence tribute for those who died during the past year, presented by AVN founder Paul Fishbein, honored the following people: Bob Vosse, Bruce Walker, Stanley Fleischman, Paul Wisner, Kim Kataine, Albert Sanchez, David Chandler, Lou Perraino and Rene Bond.^[4]

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• AVN Best New Starlet Award
• AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
• AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year
• AVN Female Performer of the Year Award
• List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame
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