AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year

The AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year is an award that has been given annually by sex industry company AVN since the award's inception in 1993.[1]

AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
AVN award for contributions of male performers to pornography
Awarded forBest Performance by a Male Performer
Sponsored byAVN
LocationLas Vegas
CountryUSA
Presented byAVN Media Network
First awarded1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Last awarded2024
Most recent winnerIsiah Maxwell
Highlights
Most awardsManuel Ferrara
(6 awards)
Most nominationsManuel Ferrara and Erik Everhard
(14 nominations)
Total awarded32
First winnerRocco Siffredi
Websiteavnawards.avn.com

First recipient of the award was Rocco Siffredi, who was awarded at 10th AVN Awards in 1993. As of 2024, Manuel Ferrara is the most honored pornographic actor with six awards followed by Lexington Steele, Mick Blue and Evan Stone with three awards, while four pornographic actors–Rocco Siffredi, James Deen, Small Hands and Tom Byron–have won the award two times. Tommy Pistol is the oldest recipient of the award at the age of 45 in 2022 and James Deen is the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 22 in 2009.[2] The most recent recipient is Isiah Maxwell, who was honoured at the 41st AVN Awards in 2024.[3]

Winners and nominees

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Manuel Ferrara has been the most frequent winner of the award (six times).
Lexington Steele (top), Mick Blue (middle) and Evan Stone (bottom) have won the award three times each.
From top to bottom: Rocco Siffredi, James Deen and Tom Byron and Small Hands have won the award two times each.

1990s

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Year Photo Winner Nominee(s) Ref(s)
1993   Rocco Siffredi Mike Horner [1][4][5][6]
1994   Jonathan Morgan [7][8][9][10]
1995   Jon Dough [11][12][13]
1996   Rocco Siffredi [14][15][16]
1997   T. T. Boy [17][18][19][20]
1998   Tom Byron [21][22][23]
1999 [24][25][26]

2000s

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Year Photo Winner Nominees Ref(s)
2000   Lexington Steele [27][28][29]
2001   Evan Stone [30][31][32][33]
2002   Lexington Steele [34][35][36][37]
2003 [38][39]
2004   Michael Stefano [40][41]
2005   Manuel Ferrara [42][43][44]
2006 [45][46]
2007   Tommy Gunn [47][48][49]
2008   Evan Stone [50][51]
2009   James Deen [52][53]

2010s

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Year Photo Winner Nominees Ref(s)
2010   Manuel Ferrara [54][55]
2011   Evan Stone [56][57]
2012   Manuel Ferrara [58][59]
2013   James Deen [60][61]
2014   Manuel Ferrara [62][63]
2015   Mick Blue [64][65]
2016 [66][67]
2017 [68][69]
2018 Markus Dupree [70][71]
2019   Manuel Ferrara [72][73]

2020s

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Year Photo Winner Nominees Ref(s)
2020   Small Hands [74][75]
2021 [76][77]
2022   Tommy Pistol [78][79]
2023   Seth Gamble [80][81]
2024 Isiah Maxwell [3][82]

Superlatives

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Superlative Performer Record
Performer with most awards Manuel Ferrara 6
Performer with most nominations Manuel Ferrara and Erik Everhard 14
Performer with most consecutive wins Mick Blue
(2015-17)
3
Performer with most consecutive nominations Keiran Lee
(2011-21)
11
Performer with most nominations without ever winning Erik Everhard 14
Oldest winner Tommy Pistol 45
Youngest winner James Deen 22

Multiple winners and nominees

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Multiple winners

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Wins Performer
6 Manuel Ferrara
3 Lexington Steele
Mick Blue
Evan Stone
2 Rocco Siffredi
James Deen
Tom Byron
Small Hands

Multiple nominees

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Nominations Performer
14 Erik Everhard
Manuel Ferrara
13 Mick Blue
12 Ramon Nomar
11 Mr. Marcus
Keiran Lee
10 Evan Stone
James Deen
Prince Yahshua
Xander Corvus
Tommy Pistol
9 Mr. Pete
8 Lexington Steele
7 Sean Michaels
Randy Spears
Michael Stefano
6 Toni Ribas
Steven St. Croix
5 Rocco Siffredi
Mandingo
Tom Byron
4 Max Hardcore
Mark Davis
Nacho Vidal
Tommy Gunn
Marco Banderas
Markus Dupree
Charles Dera
Ricky Johnson
Isiah Maxwell
Seth Gamble
3 T. T. Boy
Alex Sanders
Johnny Sins
Christoph Clark
Dave Hardman
Dillon Day
Brandon Iron
Rocco Reed
Anthony Rosano
Mark Wood
Kurt Lockwood
Ryan Driller
Oliver Flynn
Scott Nails
Zac Wild
2 Mike Horner
Jon Dough
Jean Val Jean
Chad White
Small Hands
Chris Strokes
Mark Ashley
John Strong
Lee Stone
Brian Surewood
Luciano
Mike Adriano
Rodney Moore
Ed Powers
Vince Vouyer
Steve Holmes
Jax Slayher
Dante Colle
Dredd
Nathan Bronson
Ricky Johnson
Codey Steele

See also

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