(Hollywood, CA) Once again, multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood has dominated awards season with many nominations from XBIZ. He, his casts, and crews scored an impressive 56 XMA nominations.
Last week, XBIZ announced the 2025 XMA nominees at a red-carpet star-studded event at Sound in the heart of Hollywood, CA. Ricky Greenwood attended and was happy that his hard work this year paid off, and his name was called out many times during the night, including for the top honors of Director of the Year – Body of Work (Narrative) and Director of the Year – Trans Works.
Ricky’s Digital Playground flick “Dirty Cops” scored the most nods with 10, including Best Feature and Director of the Year – Individual Work, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing. Jennifer White scored a Best Acting – Lead and Nicole Kitt Best Acting – Supporting nods. The film also garnered Best Sex Scene – Feature Movie and Best Sex Scene – Orgy/Group noms.
His Digital Playground Western “Gold Diggers” grabbed nine nominations, including Best Feature Movie, Director of the Year – Individual Work, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction. Scott Nails scored Best Acting – Lead and Kimmy Granger received Best Acting – Supporting nominations. The film also garnered a scene work nom for Best Sex Scene – Feature Movie.
Ricky’s Digital Playground Futuristic sci-fi film Project X also nabbed nine nominations, including Best Feature Movie, Director of the Year – Individual Work, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction. Cherie DeVille scored a Best Acting – Lead and Tommy Pistol a Best Acting – Supporting nomination. The film also snagged a Best Sex Scene – Feature Movie nod.
Ricky’s Dorcel feature film “Amuse Bouche,” which did more than awaken the palate, scored seven nominations for Best Feature Movie, Director of the Year – Individual Work, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. Cast members were also rewarded for their stellar performances—Lumi Ray snagged Best Acting – Lead and Nathan Bronson garnered Best Acting – Supporting noms.
Ricky’s Dorcel musical “Alive” was also recognized and some impressive scored noms for Best Feature Movie Director of the Year – Individual Work, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. Victoria Voxxx is up for Best Acting – Lead and Chad Alva for Best Acting – Supporting. The film also received a Best Sex Scene – All-Girl nod.
Additionally, Ricky’s non-feature work was recognized. “Jane Doe: A Ricky Greenwood Spotlight” from Pure Taboo snagged Best Featurette and Best Sex Scene – Featurette noms. TransSensual’s “Steamy TS Hookups” and “TS Girls on Top 8” were nommed for Best Trans Movie. AllHerLuv’s “Erotic Premonitions” garnered a Best Sex Scene – All-Girl nom. “Preserving Our Lifestyle” and “Earning Her Badges” from Pure Taboo both scored Best Sex Scene – Featurette. Dorcel’s “Climax 4” received a Best Sex Scene – Orgy/Group nod. And three of Ricky’s TransSensual scenes, “The Winning Bid,” “My TS Stepsister 9,” and “TS Girls on Top 8,” scored Best Sex Scene – Trans nominations.
“This was an incredible year, and I have some amazing projects. It’s great to do what you love for work, but to be recognized for it is wonderful. Thank you so much, XBIZ, Digital Playground, Dorcel, Adult Time, MissaX, and the performers I worked with this year,” says Ricky Greenwood.
The XMAs are set to take place on Sunday, January 19th, at the historic Hollywood Palladium.
See a complete list of the 2025 nominees at xbiz.com/news/285426/2025-xma-award-nominees-announced.
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ABOUT RICKY GREENWOOD
In 2017, French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood started in the industry with a push from Mile High Media Vice President John Blitt, who has always been a genius when it comes to spotting true talent. Ricky came from a mainstream background working in television, reality TV, documentaries, feature films, and shorts—all this prepared him to take over the adult industry in the last seven years.
The multi-award-winning director and writer is known for his story-driven feature films, like Confessions of a Sinful Nun 2: The Rise of Sister Mona, Terror Camp, Talk Derby to Me, Grinders, and Killer on the Loose. Over the past three years, he’s become known as a multi-faceted director that works in the straight, gay, trans, and lesbian realms, and has worked with top-shelf studios like Sweetheart Video, TransSensual, Icon Male, Marc Dorcel, Adult Time, AllHerLuv, Parasited, and MissaX. Ricky has won multiple XBIZ Awards for Director of Year -Body of Work (Narrative), All-Girl Movie of the Year, Best Editing, and Director of the Year- Trans (three times). From the AVN Awards, he’s won Director of the Year, Best Directing Portfolio – Cross-Genre, Grand Reel (twice) and Best Screenplay – Featurette from the AVN Awards. His additional wins include Best Lesbian Movie or Limited Series, Feature Movie of the Year and Best Girl/Girl Release from the Urban X Awards, Best Scene Producer (twice) from the TEAs, Best Ruining Xmas for Adult Time’s The Bargain from the Bazowie Awards, Best Feature Director, Best Feature Film, Best All-Girl Release Editor’s Choice and Best Feature Production Fans’ Choice from the NightMoves Awards, and Best AltStar Feature Video (twice) from the AltStar Awards, and Best Director – Features (twice) from the XRCO Awards.
He’s also received over 500 award nominations for his directing, scenes, art direction, screenplays, cinematography, and editing in all the genres he works in from AVN, XBIZ, TEAs, Fleshbot, NightMoves, XCritic, Urban X, XRCOs, and Inked Awards. Ricky has been featured in Forbes in July of 2024, Hustler twice and scored the cover and a 14-page feature in the September 2023 issue of ASN Lifestyle Magazine.
Ricky is one of the hardest-working men in adult and loves to give his audiences a glimpse into the projects he’s working on from start to finish in photos on his Twitter/X @RickyGreenwoodX and Instagram @x_ricky_greenwood_x. You might also see more than a few adult performers you know in his timelines and posts.
