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Lucas, RSS, Titan Claim “Hard Choice” Honors
April 22, 2008 |
[Edits 04/23/08.] Lucas Entertainment, Raging Stallion Studios and Titan Media are the top winners, while Jesse Santana snags more kudos, at the 14th Annual Hard Choice Awards, presented by XXFactor.com (formerly Arizona’s X-Factor magazine) and longtime reviewer/editor “Onan the Vulgarian.” He is the only person in gay porn who would start off his awards announcement with a Ferlinghetti quote (click over to the site to read it). About the year in porn, “In a time when pundits warn of the demise of DVDs, producer-director Chris Ward and co-director Ben Leon had the cojones to mastermind a 6-disc, 20-hour sexual marathon called GRUNTS, and to sell it for over $100. It simply blew everyone out of the water; not only was it good, it was very, very good—and it sold like hotcakes,” he burbles. “GRUNTS is now the War and Peace (War and Piece?) of gay porn, and it’s the line drawn in the sand for those who say the DVD is dead.” He also has good things to say about Kristen Bjorn, Bruce Cam and Michael Lucas, Steve Cruz and Jesse Santana. Plus, the Hard Choice Awards are the first (tell me if I’m wrong here) to recognize web-produced content with kudos to ChaosMen.com. Click here for the full list of winners and a few runners-up…
14TH ANNUAL HARD CHOICE AWARD WINNERS
Presented by XXFactor.com
Best New Kids on the Block
Performer: Steve Cruz
Director: Jake Deckard
Studio: FPG Entertainment
Performer of the Year
Jesse Santana
Runners-up: Steve Cruz, Vinnie D’Angelo, Tory Mason, Lucio Maverick
Best Film—USA
GRUNTS (Raging Stallion Studios)
Runners-up: COMMUNION (Hot House Video); FEAR (Titan Media); THE INTERN and GIGOLO (Lucas Entertainment)
Best Film—Foreign
EL RANCHO (Sarava Productions)
Best Director—USA
Chris Ward and Ben Leon, GRUNTS
Best Director—Foreign
Kristen Bjorn, EL RANCHO
Best Director—Web
Bryan Ockert, ChaosMen.com
Best Screenplay
Tony Dimarco, THE INTERN and GIGOLO (Lucas Entertainment)
Best Actor—USA
Braxton Bond, DARE (Falcon Studios)
Best Actor—Foreign
Flavio Valentino, BODYGUARDS (Olympus Studio/COLT Studio)
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Cruz, THE INTERN (Lucas Ent.)
Best Non-sexual Performance
Ryan Block, HUNGRY 4 SEX 2 (Gino Pictures)
Best Videography
Mr. Pam and Jonathan, HUNGER (Black Scorpion Video)
Best Film Editing
EDGE SERIES VOL. #1, ChaosMen.com
Best Art Direction
H2O (Titan Media)
Most Passionate Sex
Gage Weston and Mitch Branson, HAWAI’I (COLT Studio)
The Year’s Best Sex
1.) Carmello and Kidd, STEEL CURTAIN (Pitbull Productions)
2.) Adam Cooper and Race, A(DAM) to Z(ACK), ChaosMen.com
3.) Dean Monroe and Brian Bodine, COCK SHOTS (Studio 2000)
4.) Jesse Santana and Tyler Saint, JET SET FRATERNITY GANG BANG 2 (Jet Set Productions)
5.) Kadu Meyer and Pedro Lamasta, FRIENDS & LOVERS (U.S. Male)
6.) Eric Hung and Robert Van Damme, HUNGRY 4 SEX 2 (Gino Pictures)
7.) Ray Star and Todd Welch, WELCOME TO PARADISE (Lucas Ent.)
8.) Remy Delaine and Roman Ragazzi, TAILPIPES (Raging Stallion)
9.) Roman Ragazzi and Barrett Long, PLAYBACK (Raging Stallion)
10.) Sancho Sun and Richard West, NIGHT EYES (Bubble B Entertainment)
Best Sex for 3 or More
1.) Mason Wyler, CJ Madison and Roman Ragazzi, MIAMI (Collin O’Neal Productions)
2.) The fuck orgy, MIRAGE (Raging Stallion)
3.) Robert Van Damme, Josh Weston and Brad Rock, THE MUSCLE PIT (Big Blue Productions)
4.) Marc Williams, Zen and Rodney, MARC’S HAWAIIAN DREAMS, BlackMen.Net
5.) Jake Dakota, Andrew Justice and Tyler Saint, VANISHED (Mustang Studios)
6.) Nick Piston, Jay Armstrong and Vinnie D’Angelo, FULL THROTTLE (Hot House Video)
7.) Arpad Miklos, Cole Ryder and Steve Cruz, WHEN BEARS ATTACK (Rascal Video)
8.) Vinnie D’Angelo, Matt Cole and Steve Cruz, COMMUNION (Hot House)
9.) Dean Flynn, Francois Sagat, Brody Newport, Diesel Washington and C.J. Madison, FEAR (Titan Media)
10.) Flavio Valentino, Kane O’Farrell, Alfredo and Renato Belaggio, BODYGUARDS (Olympus)
Best Solo
Ricky Sinz, GRUNTS: THE NEW RECRUITS (Raging Stallion)
Best Oral Sex
Shane Leblanc and Jeremy Hall, VANCOUVER NIGHTS (Fierce Dog)
Best Rimming
Ray Star and Todd Welch, MICHAEL LUCAS’ AUDITIONS 18: FLORIDA (Lucas Ent.)
Best Daddy-”Boy” Sex
Arpad Miklos and Zack Randall, GIGOLO (Lucas Ent.)
Best Butt Parade
Furry: GRUNTS from Raging Stallion
Smooth: JIM STEEL’S BEACH HOUSE DIARIES from Men of Odyssey
Most Fuckable Boy in the World
Kidd
Best Music
Dardo, HUNGER (Black Scorpion)
Having a Blast! (Best Cum Shot)
The cast of SPLASH from Studio 2000
Rub Me the Right Way
Kurt Koenig and Tom Engelhoff, WHY THE WOODEN INDIAN WOULDN’T (segment: “Not for Sale”) (Athletic Model Guild)
Best Mind Fuck
Tyler Cane and Kai Grant, CAMPUS PIZZA (Titan)
Best Classic DVD
THE IDOL, Bijou Video
Savage Humor Award
The “Michael Lucas found dead†publicity campaign for GIGOLO.
Cleverest Title
IN TENTS ORGASM, Euroboy XXX
Onan’s Pantheon of Michelangelo Bodies
Blu Kennedy, Alexy Tyler
Deepest Throat
Milan Gamiani
Best Buns
Carlos (a/k/a Oleg Tarkowski, Karel Rok, Cole Powers, Karel Kohlicek)
Best Chest
Dean Flynn
Hottest Man on the Planet
Roman Ragazzi
Chance Erotic Moment
Guy Parker’s gymnastics fantasy, BOTTOM OF THE 9TH: LITTLE BIG LEAGUE III (All Worlds Video)
Immor(t)al Dialogue
Christian Cruz to Ben Andrews, who is about to get his first blow job: “Don’t worry, I’ve done this before” from THE INTERN (Lucas)
Best Credits
RANGER from Mustang Studios
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2008 Nominee!
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“War and Piece.” Why didn’t THEY think of that? (”Grunts” is pretty good, too.)
Raging Stallion deserves their success they have major cajones to bankroll such a risky project in an era of decline for DVD’s.
And yet this follows the Hollywood pattern of big budget blockbusters in the 1950’s while overall they lost 75% of their market.
I was worried if Grunts failed my favorite BIG studio might go under.
Look at the Aftermath of Velvet Mafia a title that sold well but not at a Spectacular level.
The result 6 months later a painful retrenchment and a bounced checks (Chad Donavon)
Grunts has sold well but is it the highest selling DVD of the last decade?
I think not I am sure if it had sold 25,000 units in this economy RS would have issued a press release!(Many hits 5 years ago met that figure)
Still if they moved as few as 10,000 units thats over 1 millon at retail and RS would have earned back their 200K plus investment.
Again NO OTHER company in this Biz would have or could have produced Grunts!
Great Job guys!
DeWayne - I love how you always slip in one tidbit (Chad Donavon) to make those who are uninformed (or don’t read your blog) go WTF?? Good job!
Rs and Grunts…oh dear the ‘on est vendu’ saga continues….
Why not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Britanny Coxxx?
BTW in my above comment to DeWayne I should have said “those OF US who are uninformed. . .”
As far as I’m concerned Jesse Santana can reap more awards. He is HOT! I love the fact that he is rather shy and humble yet those qualities just make him even HOTTER!
He’s indeed a hot performer but i could name afew more who deserve it as much and even more..Santana will forever be assiociate din my ’sick brain’ as the anti-escort guy
Critical Eye - I don’t think you’re alone there.
Will didn’t think anyone would catch the Chad Donavon item,,but Chad (who I just LOVE) dropped that little bombshell on Jason Curious last year and that was the first credible word we had that Falcon was in distress!
The Layoffs followed.
FYI Chris Donavon was hired post Chris Steele (and just wait till Chris pens his tell All Bio I’ll be first in line for a signed copy!)
DeWayne - This is so off-topic, but. . .Is this why Chad only lasted such a short time there? A bounced check?
Oh we won our first US award and no one told us????
Thanks anyway!