LOS ANGELES — Paraphrasing the unofficial US Postal Service motto, neither rain nor cold nor the chaos of natural disasters can stop the adult entertainment community from the completion of its appointed duty every January: to honor the artistic and commercial achievements of their peers.
Defying doomsayers, the 2025 XMAs — the Adult Industry’s Biggest Night® — renewed the yearly ritual at its now traditional home, the historic Hollywood Palladium, right in the heart of Tinseltown. Virtually every major industry figure gathered in the landmark Los Angeles venue to witness the celebration of nominees and winners in all the major categories, culminating with much-anticipated accolades for Anna Claire Clouds as Female Performer of the Year, Alex Jones as Male Performer of the Year, Gal Ritchie as Best New Performer, Lilly Bell as Girl/Girl Performer of the Year, Penny Barber as MILF Performer of the Year, Derek Kage as Gay Performer of the Year, Ariel Demure as Trans Performer of the Year, and Best Feature Movie “Project X.”
Before the show began, attendees and their dates walked the customary red carpet along Sunset Blvd., with select top nominees invited for on-camera interviews conducted by veteran superstar Tera Patrick. One 2025 innovation was that the red carpet interviews and the show itself were both broadcast live online as the evening’s events unrolled.
Presented by Fansly, the newly renamed XMAs were hosted by twice-crowned Female Performer of the Year Vanna Bardot and acclaimed Brazzers contract star Ryan Reid. The signature ambience of the evening was gold and glitz, with both presenters coordinating aurific skin-tight outfits with enough translucence to reveal much of their industry-famous bodaciousness and golden skin tones.
“I’m really grateful that tonight isn’t anal, because I feel I’m gonna shit myself tonight,” Reid declared, referencing the nerves of hosting the XMAs.
“You and me, girl,” Bardot replied. “Rian and I are here to make all your dreams come true…”
“…and keep all of your balls from turning sore and blue!” Reid retorted.
After edging the crowd with effortless comedy banter, the hosts welcomed the first presenters, Jewelz Blu and Kazumi. The popular influencers offered a double splash of color, with Blu’s signature hair and Kazumi’s vibrant green gown, before announcing the winner for Best Performer Showcase, Angela White’s self-produced, retro-tinged blockbuster “Fuck Angela.”
“Thank you so much XBIZ,” White, entirely clad in neck-to-floor black, told the crowd. “This was such an incredible movie and I’m so honored to have so many legendary directors participate in making this film what it was, and of course, I have to thank the incredible performers for making some old-school gonzo with me.”
Blu and Kazumi then announced the winners for Best Sex Scene – Performer Showcase, the veritable crowd of top performers involved in the epic gangbang that crowns Jules Jordan Video’s “Anna Claire Clouds: Dark Side”: Clouds herself, Hollywood Cash, Damon Dice, Chocolate Gold, Vince Karter, Nade Nasty, Slim Poke, Milan Ponjevic, Will Pounder, Jax Slayher and John Strong.
This was the first time on stage in the evening for this XMAs biggest winner, and as she ascended onto the stage to receive the award, the audience got a first glimpse at Clouds’ lingerie-inspired outfit and her bold choice to showcase her most famous asset with a derrière-baring, curves-hugging translucent black slip skirt.
“This is so cool, this is so freaking cool,” she offered, admiring the columnated X-topped trophy, with her classic fresh nonchalance, before thanking Jordan, her agent, and her male talents.
The next presenters were Nicole Kitt, in a striking chartreuse gown, and Melissa Stratton, in a black gown and with her hair in playful micro pigtails. Kitt and Stratton presented the award for Best Featurette to the ambitious Jewelz Blu erotic thriller “Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu,” a Holly Randall production directed by Jeffrey John Hart.
Blu, Hart and Randall took the stage alongside several other members of the cast and production. The director thanked XBIZ and “the amazing cast and crew who worked so hard for this.” Hart extolled his star, re-telling how he told her “It’s gonna be the hardest thing that you’ll ever do” and how she delivered.
A visibly moved Blu told the crowd, “I gave everything and more: it was a surreal experience to be a part of this movie, and the movie just happened to mimic some real life things that were happening to me as well, so I felt I was method acting a lot. I cried on camera for real in the movie, and now I’m also crying for real onstage. I’m so honored to be part of this.”
Randall gave accolades to Hart and his team.
“This was a passion project, a lot of people did it for free or for very little money — so thank you, everyone.”
Kitt and Stratton next announced the winners for Best Sex Scene — Featurette, Demi Hawks and Seth Gamble for Pure Taboo’s “Do Unto Others.” Gamble — wearing one of the evening’s most notable fashion statements, a dapper brown fedora hat — accepted the award for both performers.
“Demi is amazing,” Gamble offered, asking for a round of applause for his co-star, and acknowledging producer-directors Michael Vegas and Siouxsie Q. “You guys killed this one.”
The next presenter was the always luscious Ana Foxxx, in a stylish, shiny white shorts and top combo. “I am wearing panties,” she teased, “so nobody is gonna see my dick tonight.” Foxxx announced Wicked’s “The Hunger” as the Best Couples-Themed Movie. Director Claudia Ross thanked Wicked, star Emma Hix and the other performers and her mentor Axel Braun for giving her the script.
Foxxx returned to announce the Best Sex Scene – Couples-Themed Movie, which once again went to Seth Gamble, this time with Aiden Ashley, for Wicked’s “American Stud.” The fedoraed Gamble made his way up to the stage to thank Ashley and director Dana Vespoli.
The radiant Romi Rain — who turned eyes throughout the evening in synchronized, glimmering maritime blue outfits with pal Laura Desiree — and irrepressible Latin dynamo Luna Star announced Girlsway’s “Spun” as the Best All-Girl Movie. Director Casey Calvert and much of her cast accepted the award onstage, with Chanel Camryn taking the mic to thank Adult Time, COO Bree Mills, her castmates and Calvert.
“This was actually my first ever lead role in a feature movie, so I’m so thankful you guys thought of me and made me part of this project,” Camryn revealed. Calvert recovered from being dumbstruck “by all these amazing women on stage” and offered her gratitude for the award.
“I don't know about you guys, but girl-girl sex is the best,” declared presenter Luna Star before announcing the winners for Best Sex Scene – All-Girl, the all-star, truly elite group of ladies involved in the climactic orgy scene in Girlsway’s “Come Out to Play: An All-Girls Warriors Parody”: Penny Barber, Casey Calvert, Lulu Chu, Ana Foxxx, Leana Lovings, Little Puck, Hailey Rose, Serene Siren, Codi Vore, and Jane Wilde. Several of the cast members took to the stage and compelled a reluctant Bree Mills, the mastermind of the project, to address the XMA crowd.
“I played a homeless cameo, I did not have sex,” Mills protested, “but this scene was a special scene for the 10th anniversary of Girlsway as a studio, and I brought together an all-star group of amazing talent and it was an incredible day. Pig Machine — Michael Vegas and Siouxsie Q — and the whole crew put in an incredible amount of work. We had so many makeup artists and stylists, but honestly, watching you all have sex after than long day, and when I yelled cut, like a mom, to get everyone out, they could have kept going for two more hours!”
Emma Rose — always mega striking, and this time in a black-and-white Gothic Lolita gown complemented by psychedelic raver boots — and Kimmy Granger presented the award for Best Gonzo Movie to Ricky’s Room “Superstar Room 3.” Increasingly consolidated mogul Ricky Johnson accepted the award, yet another accolade buttressing Ricky’s Room's growing reputation as the little studio that can.
“Yeah, oh shit!” Johnson reveled. “Shoutout to all the women who were in ‘Superstar Room,’ I cannot do this without them. I’m just here to have a good time. If not me, who? Also, shoutout to all my haters, ha ha ha, suck my dick! I love the porn community. Everyone who came here, we are all community. If you look around, we’re family. And we can all come together, and we can win together. We can do it all by ourselves.”
Rose and Granger announced Chanel Camryn and Kai Jaxon as the winners for Best Sex Scene – Gonzo for Tushy Raw’s “Gorgeous Chanel Gets Her Tight Hole Stretched Out.” Camryn returned to the stage to declare, “I’ve never won before for an anal scene, so here’s to opening my ass!” and to thank Vixen Media Group for always casting her.
Next presenters were the perennially head-turning redhead Elly Clutch and the industry’s absolute mistress of outrageous costuming, Little Puck. Puck’s incredible choice for the evening: a Hollywood-quality sexy twist on Pinhead from the cult movie franchise “Hellraiser.” Clutch and Puck announced Chaturbate as the Cam Site of the Year — Freemium. Chaturbate top broadcasters Hime Marie, Mary Moody, Lushiana and Vanniall accepted the award, with Marie stating, “Chaturbate is the best webcam platform in the world, hands-down” before thanking Shirley Lara and the company crew.
“You guys spoil us.”
Added Moody, “I wouldn’t be here without Chaturbate.”
After intermission, hosts Bardot and Reid returned to joke about how winners should sterilize the phallic trophies before putting them in any orifice.
“Remember, if it ain’t shiny, don’t put it in your heinie!” Reid japed.
The next presenters were mega fan-favorite Violet Myers and Ricky Johnson, who announced the award for Best Vignette Movie, which went to Brazzers’ “HZTV.”
“This series was real!” Brazzers’ Lea Lexis explained, accepting the award. “We really renovated a house. It took us a year to finish the series! I wanna thank Brazzers for supporting us in all our crazy ventures.”
Myers and Johnson then presented the Best Sex Scene – Vignette award to Jennifer White, Kendra Sunderland and Jason Luv for Deeper’s “Negotiation.”White — in a stunning, leg-baring namesake-color gown — told the crowd this was her first award and expressed gratitude to her agency Hussie, her fans and her scene partners.
Next on stage were Amirah Adara and Nicolette Shea, who presented the Best Comedy Movie award to MILFY’s high-profile superproduction “American MILF.” Cast members Maitland Ward and Serenity Cox were joined by multi-decorated director and studio head Kayden Kross, who also thanked Phoenix Marie, Brandi Love and Christy Canyon.
Ward extolled the project, stating that “American MILF” was “an amazing thing to be part of. MILFs really had full stories and full scripts and it was really fun to go back to my comedy roots and it was so special to all of us.”
“American MILF” also reaped the award for Best Sex Scene – Comedy Movie , for a group scene featuring the five titular MILFs and noted studio hunk Jason Luv. Ward and Cox returned to accept the award and thank Vixen.
Jennifer White and Spencer Bradley presented the award for Girl/Girl Performer of the Year to hard-working multi-talented performer Lilly Bell. Stunning in a sparkling, backless gown, Bell thanked “the people in my life who are my best friends, and to all the people who’ve helped me.”
“I love women,” she reflected on the accolade. “I’ve been able to experience so many different types of women in this job, and it’s such a blessing to experience those girls.”
White and Bradley also announced Penny Barber as the new MILF Performer of the Year.
“I wanna thank Erika Icon, my PR agent, who is the reason I’m here,” the sculptural Barber, in a floor-length metallic silver gown, told the audience. “My wonderful husband, who has done everything he can to support me, the directors who have hired me and my co-stars, and everyone who’s collabed with me this year. Last year it was Lauren Phillips, this year it was me, so next year I want a blonde MILF of the year so we can have the MIFL Powerpuff Girls!”
Euro bombshells Cherry Kiss and Valentina Nappi announced Ariel Demure as Trans Performer of the Year. Always the epitome of traditional elegance, the redheaded Demure seized her award — after last year’s Season of Demure — and said, “I wanna say a quote. It means a lot to me and it’s gotten me through a lot over the years: ‘You’re never gonna be the prettiest in the room, you’re never gonna be the most talented in the room, you’re never gonna be the smartest in the room — but you’re special.’ And we had to work so hard as a community, this has been a hard year for all of us, we had to work so much harder as trans women in this community, and I’m so proud of all of us. This award is as much mine as it is all of ours. We deserve this. We deserve to be here. We deserve to be in the front row.”
Kiss and Nappi then announced the Gay Performer of the Year, superstar Derek Kage — winning the award for the second consecutive year — outstanding as both a performer and a community figure, and also this year’s recipient of the FSC’s Advocacy Award.
“Thank you, XBIZ, for giving us this night to recognize all of the talent that is in this room,” Kage acknowledged. “Thank you to every director, every producer, every studio, every person who’s taken a chance on me, even down to the production assistants, every single one of you has contributed to me being your Gay Performer of the Year. I absolutely love what I do, and I’m sure that everyone in this room can say the exact same thing. And there’s an organization that is helping us make sure to do everything we do — the Free Speech Coalition. They are the reason why we continue to do what we do. I’m gonna go to FreeSpeechCoalition.com, and I’m gonna donate right now. Donate a dollar, donate five dollars, every little thing helps to help FSC fight to keep us doing what we do. I love everybody in this room, and I cannot wait to keep doing what I love to do.”
More top Euro talent, Agatha Vega — in an impossibly skin-tight white mini-dress — and Christian Clay, both reigning XMAs Europa Performers of the Year, took the stage next to present the Creator Platform of the Year award to Fansly. “It’s such an honor to be in this space,” Fansly’s Leah Koons said. “To be in the room with all these wonderful creators. Thank you, guys, for trusting us because we will always have your back, we will always fight for you, we will always push for discoverability and creator safety. We are so deeply appreciative of every single creator in the room here.”
Vega and Clay next announced VRBangers.com as the Virtual Site of the Year.
“What started as a cool idea grew into something amazing,” said Boris Smirnoff, CTO of VRBangers, who also thanked his partner Daniel Abramovich. “I’m proud to say that this year we celebrated 10 years of innovation and all of this would not have been possible without our incredible team: marketing, design, web development, production, post-production: you guys are the ones who make the magic happen.”
Vega and Clay remained to announce the winners for Best Sex Scene – Career-First Performance, Kazumi, Hollywood Cash and Isiah Maxwell for Blacked Raw’s “Beast Mode.”
“I had never won a scene award ever!” Kazumi enthused. “Thank you guys so much for fucking my ass. It was literally my best day ever, and this is now my second best day ever. I love anal, I love Vixen, here’s to 2025 and more of both of those things.” Maxwell thanked Kazumi for picking him for the scene and for practicing with him.
Siri Dahl — making her political statement with a full-on Hester Prynne costume showcasing the Scarlet Letter of shame — and Adria Rae presented the award for Creator of the Year — Streamer to the bountifully bosomed Cubbi Thompson. “Thank you to everyone I met in the industry throughout this year,” she told the crowd. “You truly have become the family I needed. I wish I could have my ‘Mean Girls’ moment and break up pieces of this trophy for each of you.”
Dahl and Rae next announced the winner for Creator of the Year — Clips, Jewelz Blu. The blue-haired performer said, “I’ve literally poured my heart, my soul and my pussy into everything I do, and do it for the fans, do it for art, do it for the sex and do it for the love.”
The Creator of the Year — Premium Social award went to Violet Myers, who expressed gratitude and shared, “I love making content. It’s my dream to be on social media, and shoutout to my YouTube team and everyone who helps me run all my pages so I can be the best creator.”
As the night was reaching the top awards, veteran superstar Tera Patrick took the stage as a presenter.
“Hello beautiful people! I know it’s been a minute, but some of you know who I am, right?” she encouraged the cheering crowd. “I’m not ‘old-school-old school,’ right?”
Patrick announced the Best Feature Movie award to Digital Playground’s “Project X” directed by Ricky Greenwood. The bearded auteur invited his cast and crew offering, “A movie like this is not made by one person, it’s made with a group of people. Thank you Digital Playground for trusting me with this movie. It was a very ambitious movie and I had never directed sci-fi before.”
“Project X”’s Cherie DeVille and Mick Blue pair-up also took the award for Best Sex Scene – Feature Movie.
“This was such an amazing movie to be a part of,” DeVille enthused. “It was such an honor to work with Mick and with Ricky on ‘Project X,’ and we crushed that.”
“It was angry sex with passion!” quipped Blue, before tenderly embracing his scene partner.
Next, Nicole Doshi presented the award for Best Acting – Lead to Maitland Ward for “American MILF.” Ward confirmed her dominance in the acting categories, a recognition that she has been receiving since joining the adult industry following a successful career in the mainstream world.
“Thank you Kayden and Vixen for creating this role for me, which was like walking back in time to doing my role as Rachel McGuire in ‘Boy Meets World,’ but all grown up, sexy, having fun and being the full person I have become. I will always be so proud to stand her, like I did back in 2020 when I won my first XMA award and it is just as good today!”
Doshi announced Ricky Greenwood as the winner of Director of the Year — Body of Work (Narrative). Greenwood once again took time to recognize the labor of his hard-working team in making him look good and awards-worthy, and dedicated his award to crew-member Rick who had passed away.
Lacy Lennon and Jada Stevens welcomed to the stage the winners of all the fan-voted categories: Fav Female Performer Hailey Rose, Fav Male Performer Parker Ambrose, Fav Girl/Girl Performer Leah Gotti, Fav MILF Performer Serenity Cox, Fav Gay Performer Legrand Wolf, Fav Trans Performer Emma Rose, Fav New Performer Dan Dangler, Fav Female Creator Lily Phillips, Fav Male Creator Thor Johnson, Fav MILF Creator Romi Rain, Fav Gay Creator Silas Brooks, Fav Trans Creator, Shiri Allwood, and Fav New Creator Mary jane.
Cherie DeVille, fittingly attired in the evening’s main chromatic element of gold, announced unstoppable British import Gal Ritchie as the Best New Performer. Ritchie, spectacular in lime green, thanked agents Mark Spiegler and George for “taking a chance on a girl from a tiny little village in England.”
“Thank you to everyone who’s fucked me!” she concluded. “I love you all.”
DeVille then announced hard-working, prodigiously endowed stud Alex Jones as Male Performer of the Year. The well-liked Jones, showing surprise at the choice, thanked his girlfriend, agents, Brazzers, his family and his friends.
It was time then for the climax of the evening: the announcement of Female Performer of the Year. The winner of the hotly contested category: Anna Claire Clouds. “That ass. In that outfit. Holy shit!” enthused DeVille, welcoming Clouds to come up and get her flowers.
“The amount of people who said they were gonna pull a Kanye West if I didn’t win this award was absolutely insane,” she revealed, “so thank you XBIZ for giving this to me, or otherwise I would have been really nervous!
“I love this community so much,” the brand new Female POTY wrapped her speech — and the evening — up. “I love porn so fucking much. Thank you. I’m really proud.”
