42nd AVN Awards

42nd AVN Awards
42nd AVN Awards
Presented by	MyFreeCams
Date	January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Site	Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Hosted by	Blake Blossom and Alex Knight
Highlights
Best Film	Gold Diggers
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Adult industry award ceremony in 2025

The 42nd AVN Awards was a pornography awards ceremony recognizing the best actresses, actors, directors, and films in the adult industry in 2024. The 42nd edition of the ceremony, which began in 1984, encompassed over 130 categories involving content creation, production, retail and web/tech forums in the adult industry. The ceremony was held at the The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on January 25, 2025, as part of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo,^[1] and streamed on Adult Video News' AVN.com.^[2]

Winners and nominees

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 25, 2025.^[2]

Major awards

Winners of these categories are highlighted in boldface.

Female Performer of the Year

Anna Claire Clouds

Male Performer of the Year

Vince Karter

Best Actress

Casey Calvert – Birth, Adult Time

Best Actor

Chad Alva – Alive, Dorsel

Best Actress - Featurette

Maitland Ward – Pigeonholed, Deeper/Pulse

Best Actor - Featurette

Seth Gamble – A Loving Home Environment, Pure Taboo/Adult Time/Pulse

Movie of the Year

Gold Diggers, Digital Playground/Pulse

Best Featurette

Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu, Holly Randall Productions

Best Supporting Actress

Chanel Camryn – Sunny Goldmelons, Wicked Pictures

Best Supporting Actor

Nathan Bronson – Ulterior Motives, Adam & Eve Pictures

Female Foreign Performer of the Year

Eve Sweet

Male Foreign Performer of the Year

Christian Clay

Best New Starlet

Gal Ritchie

Transgender Performer of the Year

Brittney Kade

Director of the Year

Gold Diggers, Digital Playground/Pulse – Ricky Greenwood

Best Editing

Compulsion 20th Anniversary Director's Cut, Elegant Angel – Axel Braun

Best Cinematography

Dirty Cops, Digital Playground – Matt Holder

Best Soundtrack

Alive, Dorcel

References

^ Chouinard, Kyle (January 19, 2025). "Some AVN attendees passing on Las Vegas event due to Virgin Hotels strike". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on November 2, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
^ a b "2025 AVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. January 25, 2025. Archived from the original on December 30, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2026.

[1] Chouinard, Kyle (January 19, 2025). "Some AVN attendees passing on Las Vegas event due to Virgin Hotels strike". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on November 2, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2026.

[AVNWinners-2] "2025 AVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. January 25, 2025. Archived from the original on December 30, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2026.