(Hollywood, CA) Multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood and his casts and crews have much to celebrate. They walked in with 57 awards and walked away with some monumental wins at the 2025 AVN Awards.
The 42nd Annual AVN Awards in Las Vegas kicked off with a star-studded red carpet, libations, a stellar show hosted by Blake Blossom and Alex Knight, comedy by Steph Tolev, and musical act Jason Derulo at The Theater in the Virgin Hotels. Ricky Greenwood and his casts and crews won many awards, some of which were presented on stage. Ricky went on stage twice to accept two of his three trophies for Grand Reel for Digital Playground’s “Gold Diggers,” Best Directing Portfolio – Varied Range, and Outstanding Directing – Individual Work also for “Gold Diggers.” The same film also won Best Three-Way Sex Scene for Kimmy Granger, Adria Rae, and Seth Gamble.
The Best Lead Actor trophy went to Chad Alva, who starred in his Dorcel musical “Alive.” He was there to accept on stage. The film also snagged the win for Best Music for songs from Queenie Sateen, Victoria Voxxx, and Chad Alva. Another Dorcel feature Ricky directed, “Amuse Bouche,” earned Tommy Pistol a trophy for Best Non-Sex Performance.
Ricky’s crew also walked away with awards. Kylie Ireland and Andy Appleton won Best Art Direction for their work on Digital Playground’s “Project X.” Matt Holder garnered Best Cinematography for Digital Playground’s “Dirty Cops.”
“I’m proud of my work this year for Digital Playground and how well ‘Gold Diggers’ turned out. I was also proud that my cast won awards, especially Chad, who won Best Leading Acting Actor, for which he worked so very hard. It was amazing for my crews to be recognized and win for their phenomenal work on my other DP projects. I’m also thankful to work for Dorcel and that ‘Alive’ won Best Music since everyone sang their hearts out literally, and Tommy won Best Non-Sex Performance. Thank you so much for everything, AVN,” says Ricky Greenwood.
For a complete list of the 2025 AVN Awards winners, visit avn.com/news/video/2025-avn-award-winners-announced-178865.
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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 – Varied Range (twice), Outstanding Directing – Individual Work Grand Reel (three times) 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 600 award nominations for his directing, scenes, art direction, screenplays, cinematography, and editing in all the genres he works in from AVN, XBIZ XMAs, 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.
