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RAGING STALLION LEADS THE WAY AT THE GAYVN AWARDS SHOW 2009
By: Andy Powell, Staff Writer - 03-30-09 - 12:30 a.m PDT
San Francisco porn powerhouse Raging Stallion Studios took all the top prizes at last night's GayVN show. Streamed live over the web by Nakedsword's TheSword.com, the GayVN Awards show was the biggest and best of all time.Held in the magnificent Castro Theater, Raging Stallion actors and crew were singled out for numerous trophies and To The Last Man--the epic western in which all but one of the actors are killed--took more awards than any film in the studio's history, including the coveted Best Picture of the Year, To the Last Man [2009] also held the No.1 spot in America for a solid three (3) weeks on the JRL Weekly Top 100 and it's no surprise that it swept the awards this year.
Gay Porn icon Gino Colbert inducted the legendary Dink Flamingo, Michael Lucas, TJ Paris, Dean Phoenix, Jack Simmons, Phil St. John and Chris Steele into the GayVN Hall of Fame and bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award up on Roger Earl.
The top performer awards were a clean sweep for the studio with Logan McCree being named Performer of the Year.
Raging Stallion has won this top prize for five of the past 6 years. Ricky Sinz was named Best Actor and Scott Tanner was named Best Supporting Actor.
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Sinz, Tanner, and McCree also won Best Three Way for the violent and disturbing rape scene at the end of To The Last Man. McCree shared the Best Sex Scene trophy with his real life partner, Vinnie D'Angelo, for their passionate performance in The Drifter [2008].
Sinz also won Best Oral Scene for his paring with Jackson Wild in To the Last Man. To fully fill his personal bag of awards, Sinz was also named Best Top. Sinz was the top award winner last year for his work in GRUNTS [2008], and he took home more personal trophies this year than any other performer in GayVN history. He is the current Raging Stallion Studio's Man Of The Year.
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Team Raging Stallion swept the production and studio awards as well, with Ben Leon, Tony Dimarco, and Chris Ward sharing the prizes of Best Director and Best Editor for To the Last Man, which as noted above, was also named Best Picture of the Year. To The Last Man also took awards for Best Art Direction, Best Music, Best Screenplay, Best Videography, Best DVD Special Edition, and Best DVD Special Features.
JD Slater's Centurion Muscle 5 won in the Best Bear Category, an award shared with Co-Director Jake Deckard. Slater also shared the Best Music Award with Nekked for the dramatic score for To The Last Man.
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Studio president Chris Ward told JRL that he was very pleased by the award wins. "We really made great movies this year and I am proud of our staff and our actors. They earned every award they won. I am especially proud of Ricky Sinz, Scott Tanner, and Logan McCree! I also think that I am a lucky man to be working with Ben Leon and Tony Dimarco--these are the top directors in our industry today."
Ward also commented on the entire weekend, a series of events organized by Naked Sword: "Tim Valenti and his staff went all out and created, in my view, the finest GayVN weekend in recent memory.
They managed to turn the entire Castro into a huge street party, they sold out the Castro Theater, and put on an after party that had 2,000 people still waiting in line to get in! Frankly, I was astounded at how well the entire weekend shaped up. This weekend was clearly one of the high points of my own professional career and to be part of it was a great honor."
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Over the past week Raging Stallion signed five new exclusives and hired a major director (who has won dozens of GayVN awards over the past ten years) to join the staff as part of its post-AEBN merger expansion. Announcements will be made in the coming weeks with details on these new hires.
Check out the entire GayVN winner's circle:
Best Actor: Ricky Sinz, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Actor-Foreign Release:Ralph Woods, French Kiss, Bel Ami/Paladin
Best All-Sex Film: Breakers, Titan Media/Io Group
Best Alternative Release: Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, TLA Releasing
Best Amateur Film: Edge, Volume 2, ChaosMen/EurocremeUSA
Best Amateur Website: ChaosMen.com/EurocremeUSA
Best Art Direction: To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Bear Film: Centurion Muscle 5: Maximus, Centurion Pictures/Raging Stallion
Best Bear Website: ButchBear.com / New Barbary Coast
Best Bisexual Film: Shifting Gears, All Worlds/C1R
Best Bottom: Brent Corrigan
Best Cinematography: Chris Ward, Ben Leon and Tony Dimarco, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Classic DVD Release: Best of the 1970s, Falcon/Pulse
Best Cum-Shot: Barrett Long, XXX Amateur Hour Volume 6, Dirty Bird Pictures/Pulse
Best Director: Chris Ward, Ben Leon and Tony Dimarco, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best DVD Extras: To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best DVD Special Edition: To the Last Man 4-disc Edition, Raging Stallion
Best Editing: To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Ethnic-Themed Film: Black Balled 6: Under the Hood, All Worlds/C1R
Best Ethnic-Themed Film-Latin: Roman's Holiday, Falcon/Pulse
Best Fetish Film: Folsom Prison, Titan Media/Io Group
Best Fetish Performer: Tober Brandt
Best Foreign Release: Italians and Other Strangers, Lucas Kazan/Paladin
Best Group Scene: Sex Hiker, Black Scorpion, Zack Randall, Pistol Pete, Dallas Reeves, Rocco, Zackary Pierce, Braxton Bond, Carlos Rio
Best HD Feature: Breakers, Titan Media/Io Group
Best Leather Film: Verboten 1& 2, Hot House Entertainment/Paladin
Best Marketing Campaign: Excess, Rascal/C1R
Best Music: JD Slater/Nekked, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Newcomer: Jackson Wild
Best Non-Sex Performance: Lady Bunny, Brothers' Reunion, Lucas Entertainment
Best Oral Scene: To the Last Man, Jackson Wild and Ricky Sinz, Raging Stallion
Best Packaging: Return to Fire Island, Lucas Entertainment
Best Picture: To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Pro/Am Film: Brent Corrigan's Summit, Dirty Bird Pictures/Prodigy Pictures/Pulse
Best Screenplay: Tony Dimarco, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Sex Comedy: Paging Dr. Finger, Hot House Entertainment/Paladin
Best Sex Scene (Duo): The Drifter, Logan McCree and Vinnie D'Angelo, Raging Stallion
Best Solo Film: Minute Man Solo 31: Hangin' Out, COLT/Paladin
Best Solo Performance: Tommy Ruckus/Jackson Wild, Home Invasion, Titan Media/Io Group
Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Trevor Knight, Endgame, Dirty Bird Pictures, and Scott Tanner, To the Last Man, Raging Stallion
Best Threesome: To the Last Man, Ricky Sinz, Scott Tanner, Logan McCree, Raging Stallion
Best Top: Ricky Sinz
Best Twink Film: Just the Sex 1 & 2, Dirty Bird Pictures/Prodigy Pictures/Pulse
Best Twink Website: BelAmiOnline.com / Paladin
Best Web Performer of the Year: Leo Giamani
Best Website of the Year: C1R.com, Channel 1 Releasing
And
Performer of the Year : Logan McCree
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