The milestone 10th Annual GayVN Awards were handed out in a semi-glitzy show held at the Gift Center in San Francisco last night February 16 and we're here to report the winners. The show itself was slightly scaled down from last year, but there were plenty of stars on hand to hand out the awards.

  The awards show itself started out late by twenty minutes (after all this is a GAY event!) Diva director Chi Chi Larue introduced guest performer Lady Bunny who sang a pleasant ditty "All That Jizz". Then the hosts, Derek & Romaine (from Sirius Radio) took to the stage and the show finally began.

  Here are the winners in order :

• BEST NEWCOMER: Blake Riley 
• BEST AMATEUR VIDEO:  Edge Series 1, ChaosMen
• BEST PRO/AM RELEASE:  Edinburgh, Collin O'Neal's World of Men
• BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE: Ricky Sinz, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST ALTERNATIVE RELEASE: Naked Boys Singing, TLA Releasing
• BEST BISEXUAL VIDEO: Bi Accident, Devil's Film
• BEST LEATHER VIDEO: Folsom Leather, Titan Media
• BEST ORAL SCENE: Joey Amis + others, Mating Season, Bel Ami
• BEST SPECIALTY RELEASE: Executive Pleasures 1, MenAtPlay.com
• BEST SPECIALTY RELEASE (18-23): Rebel, Bel Ami
• BEST SPECIALTY RELEASE (BEAR): When Bears Attack, Rascal Video
• BEST SPECIALTY RELEASE (EXTREME): Fear, Titan Media
• BEST GROUP SCENE: Link: The Evolution, All Worlds featuring  Steve Cruz, Johnny Hazzard, Joe Strong, Matt Majors, Brendan Davies
• BEST NON–SEXUAL PERFORMANCE: Joe Shepard, The Intern, Lucas Entertainment
• HALL OF FAME AWARDS:
• Paul Barresi
• Rod Barry
• Terry LeGrand
• Greg Lenzman
• Lucas Kazan
• David McCabe
• Tyger Tyson
• BEST BOXCOVER CONCEPT: Passio, Dark Alley Media
• BEST OVERALL MARKETING CAMPAIGN: Link: The Evolution, All Worlds Video
• BEST PACKAGING: Link: The Evolution, All Worlds Video
• BEST STILL PHOTOGRAPHER: Kent Taylor/Geof Teague, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST MAKE–UP ARTIST: Seth Stone, On Fire!, Jet Set Men
• BEST ART DIRECTION: Link: The Evolution, Channel 1 Releasing
• BEST EDITING: Chris Ward/Ben Leon, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST DVD EXTRAS/SPECIAL EDITION: GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST SOLO VIDEO: BUILT, COLT Minute Man Solo Series
• BEST CLASSIC GAY DVD: Falcon 35th Anniversary Box Set, Falcon
• BEST ACTOR (FOREIGN RELEASE): Jean Franko, The Men I Wanted, Lucas Kazan
• BEST RENTING TITLE: The Intern, Lucas Entertainment
• SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Tim Valenti, Naked Sword.com
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: (a tie): Ricky Sinz, GRUNTS and Christian Cruz, The Intern
• BEST SEX COMEDY: The Intern, Lucas Entertainment
• BEST THREESOME: Just Add Water, Jet Set Men, Jesse Santana, Nickolay Petrov, Jason White
• BEST ETHNIC–THEMED VIDEO: Tiger Tyson's Eiffel Tower: Paris is Mine!, Pitbull Productions
• BEST ETHNIC–THEMED VIDEO (LATIN): Amazonia: Capture & Release, Athletic Model Guild/AMG Brasil
• BEST MUSIC: Red Shag, Link: The Evolution, Channel 1 Releasing
• BEST SCREENPLAY: Jerry Douglas, Brotherhood, Buckshot (COLT)
• BEST FOREIGN RELEASE: Knockout, Falcon International
• BEST ALL–SEX VIDEO: Link: The Evolution, All Worlds Video
• BEST SEX SCENE: Ricky Sinz, Roman Ragazzi, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST VIDEOGRAPHY: Brian Mills/Paul Wilde Titan Media
• BEST ACTOR: Jake Deckard, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• PERFORMER OF THE YEAR: Jake Deckard
• BEST DIRECTOR: Chris Ward/Ben Leon, GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
• BEST PICTURE: GRUNTS, Raging Stallion

   As you can see the big winner was GRUNTS from Raging Stallion with 9 awards (did the judges really sit through ALL those discs?). Gigolo got shut out, but Lucas Entertainment's The Intern did pick up four awards. Chi Chi Larue did pretty well with six awards for Link: The Evolution.

  Interesting to note that Randy Blue's own Blake Riley won for Best Newcomer. Another alum (although he's done work for many studios) who won in Best Threesome was Nickolay Petrov. Unfortunately he's been arrested for attempted murder so he was a no-show. We do have to wonder what the audience reaction was to his win.

  And oh that Jake Deckard. Is there anyone else like him? Congrats to him on his two awards.

 We'll have more analysis on a future blog.