Award roster · AVN Awards, The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas 2025
Last reviewed by a human: 2026-09-03
The adult industry's flagship awards show, held January 25, 2025 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas — the winners and nominees documented here, every placement sourced to Wikipedia's ceremony record or AVN's own coverage.
The 42nd AVN Awards is the adult industry's flagship awards show, held January 25, 2025 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, honoring releases from 2024. This page documents 29 placements from that ceremony: 11 winners and 18 nominees, each sourced to Wikipedia's dedicated ceremony article, a specific award category's own dedicated Wikipedia winners roster, AVN's own reporting, or a named trade outlet cited on the creator's own page. Winners here include Anna Claire Clouds (Female Performer of the Year), Eve Sweet (International Female Performer of the Year), Gal Ritchie (Best New Starlet), and Mama Plugs (Favorite Independent Female Creator). This is our researched coverage, not the ceremony's full results — AVN named winners and nominees across dozens of categories that we haven't individually verified, so a name missing here means we haven't documented her placement yet, never that she didn't place.
✓ Real 2026 · Received multiple nominations at the 43rd AVN Awards ceremony
AVN's top individual honor; she returned to the 43rd AVN Awards a year later with nine further nominations.
Source: Wikipedia - AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year
✓ Real 2026 · Received multiple nominations at the 43rd AVN Awards ceremony
Shared the win with Octavia Red for "Hot Lesbian Babes Eat Each Other" (Elegant Angel) — AVN's own official winners record credits both performers by name.
✓ Real 2025 · Won Best Supporting Actress at the 42nd AVN Awards for her role in…
Won for her role in Wicked Pictures' "Sunny Goldmelons"; the same year she also won Female Performer of the Year at the 2025 XRCO Awards.
✓ Real 2025 · Won the fan-voted Favorite Cam Girl award at the 42nd AVN Awards
Fan-voted category; a Getty Images staff photographer captured her accepting the trophy on stage.
Source: Getty Images — "Emma Starseed accepts the Favorite Cam Girl award..." (2025 AVN Awards)
2026 · Won the AVN Award for International Female Performer of the Year for a…
Beat a field that included Amirah Adara, Little Caprice, and Anna De Ville; she repeated the win at the 43rd AVN Awards a year later.
Source: Wikipedia — 42nd AVN Awards
✓ Real 2025 · Won Favorite Camming Couple at the 42nd AVN Awards
Fan-voted category, won with fellow cam performer Luna Lore, who isn't independently documented on this registry; both performers confirmed the win from their own accounts the day after the ceremony.
✓ Real Went on to also win New Starlet at the 2025 XRCO Awards the same year, one of a short list of performers to take both honors.
Source: AVN News, "Catching Up With Gal Ritchie" (Apr 6, 2026)
✓ Real IMDb's own credits page for the televised "AVN Awards 2025" special lists her as "Self – Winner"; the specific category could not be independently re-confirmed against a primary source, so none is stated here.
Source: IMDb — "AVN Awards 2025" (TV Special), Kayley Gunner credit
✓ Real 2026 · Won the fan-voted Favorite Independent Female Creator award at the 43rd…
Fan-voted category; first of a back-to-back win, repeated at the 43rd AVN Awards in January 2026.
✓ Real Won for "Just Friends" (Parasited, Hentaied), shared with Lexi Lore, Hazel Moore, and Little Dragon. English Wikipedia's ceremony article omits scene-level awards, so this result is documented on the French-language ceremony article instead; she was also nominated for Best Actress – Featurette the same night.
Source: Wikipedia (French edition) — "42e cérémonie des AVN Awards"
✓ Real 2026 · Was nominated for the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year at the…
Her first AVN win, shared with Blake Blossom — corroborated by AVN's own winners record and now listed as a separate member above.
Source: Wikipedia - Octavia Red
✓ Real One of a 14-name field; she returned the following year with a Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene nomination at the 43rd AVN Awards.
Source: Wikipedia, "42nd AVN Awards" (nominee list, sourced to AVN's official nominations)
✓ Real Lost to Eve Sweet; she'd already won the category's AVN scene-level equivalent (Best International All-Girl Sex Scene) in 2023.
Source: Wikipedia, "42nd AVN Awards"
✓ Real Lost to Eve Sweet, in a field that also included Little Caprice, Kelly Collins, and Anna De Ville; part of a nomination trail from AVN spanning nearly a decade.
Source: Wikipedia — 42nd AVN Awards
Lost to Gal Ritchie; she returned with a Best Virtual Reality Group Sex Scene nomination at the 43rd AVN Awards the following year.
2025 · Was nominated for the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year at the…
Lost to Anna Claire Clouds; a consecutive-year nod after her 2024 nomination in the same category at the 41st AVN Awards.
Source: Wikipedia, "42nd AVN Awards"
✓ Real 2025 · Nominated for International Female Performer of the Year at the 42nd…
A field that also included Little Caprice, Amirah Adara, and Kelly Collins that year; Eve Sweet won.
Source: Wikipedia, "42nd AVN Awards" (nominee list, sourced to AVN's own awards record)
✓ Real 2026 · Won Best New Performer at the 2026 XMA Awards
Four fan-voted category nominations at her first AVN Awards appearance; her first juried nomination (Best New Starlet) came a year later, at the 43rd AVN Awards.
Source: AVN, "Cubbi Thompson Heads to Vegas for Multiple Signings at AEE" (Jan 16, 2025)
✓ Real Lost to Gal Ritchie.
Source: Wikipedia, "42nd AVN Awards"
✓ Real Lost to Eve Sweet; the same year she won the XBIZ Europa Award for Best New Starlet.
Source: Wikipedia — 42nd AVN Awards
✓ Real 2025 · Nominated for Best New Starlet at the 42nd AVN Awards
Lost to Gal Ritchie; Getty Images photographed her attending the ceremony.
✓ Real 2025 · Nominated for Best New Starlet at the 42nd AVN Awards
The same award season she also drew a Best New Performer nomination at the 2025 XMA (XBIZ) Awards.
✓ Real One of three straight years of Female Performer of the Year nominations for her, spanning the 41st through 43rd AVN Awards.
Source: Wikipedia — 42nd AVN Awards
✓ Real One of a 15-name field for the category; lost to Gal Ritchie.
Source: Wikipedia — 42nd AVN Awards (Best New Starlet nominees)
✓ Real Lost to Gal Ritchie; she returned a year later with two nominations at the 43rd AVN Awards.
✓ Real Lost to Gal Ritchie; a circulating "I won" claim for this category traces to Gal Ritchie's own Instagram post, not to Myra Moans.
✓ Real Third of three consecutive nominations in the category, following the 40th (2023) and 41st (2024) AVN Awards.
Source: Wikipedia (Spanish) — Anexo:Premio AVN a la Artista MILF/Cougar del año
✓ Real 2025 · Was nominated for Best New Starlet at the 42nd AVN Awards
Lost to Gal Ritchie.
✓ Real 2025 · Appeared as a guest alongside fellow performer Ameena Green on the…
Lost to Anna Claire Clouds; she went on to win the XRCO Award for Orgasmic Oralist later that year.
✓ Real Inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame’s Video Branch, one of the industry’s top career honors, conferred at this ceremony — a distinction alongside the year’s competitive awards, not one of them.
Source: Wikipedia, "List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame"
This page lists the winners and nominees documented on this registry — not the ceremony's full results, which ran far wider than what we've individually verified and sourced. A name missing here means undocumented, never unlisted by the ceremony itself. Most placements trace to Wikipedia's dedicated "42nd AVN Awards" ceremony article, a specific award category's own dedicated Wikipedia winners roster, or a source cited directly on the creator's own page. Three placements need a closer note: Kayley Gunner's win is sourced only to IMDb's own credit for the televised "AVN Awards 2025" special ("Self – Winner"), and the specific category couldn't be independently re-confirmed, so none is stated for her entry. Melody Marks's Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene win isn't covered by English Wikipedia's ceremony article (which omits scene-level awards) and is sourced instead to the French-language edition. Faye Wilde's win was shared with fellow cam performer Luna Lore, who isn't independently corroborated or documented on this registry, so she isn't listed as a separate member here. (Octavia Red's Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene co-win with Blake Blossom, by contrast, is corroborated directly by AVN's own winners record — awards.avn.com/winners/2025 credits both performers by name — so Blake Blossom is listed as a separate member above.) VerifiedHer is not affiliated with AVN or Wikipedia.
The AVN Awards are the adult industry's largest and longest-running awards show, presented annually by AVN (Adult Video News) since 1984 — often described as the industry's equivalent of the Oscars. The 42nd ceremony was held January 25, 2025 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, honoring releases from 2024 across dozens of scene, performer, and fan-voted categories.
Eleven winners are documented on this page, each sourced to Wikipedia's ceremony article, a category's own dedicated winners roster, AVN's own reporting, or a named trade outlet — among them Anna Claire Clouds (Female Performer of the Year), Eve Sweet (International Female Performer of the Year), Gal Ritchie (Best New Starlet), and Mama Plugs (Favorite Independent Female Creator). This is our verified coverage, not the complete results: the ceremony named winners across dozens more categories than the ones documented here.
Yes — every member on this page has a fully sourced page, and every one is a documented real person with an independently verifiable industry career. A win or nomination is a documented fact about a name at a ceremony, not a verdict by itself, which is why each one links through to the fuller evidence page.
No. The 42nd AVN Awards, documented on this page, was held January 25, 2025, honoring 2024 releases. AVN holds the ceremony annually — the 41st was held January 27, 2024 and the 43rd was held January 24, 2026, each a separate ceremony with its own winners and nominees.
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