Next year's AVN Awards — y'know, the Oscars of the porn world — will apparently be the last one where video and film are treated as separate categories.
"There are very few films now, and very few companies producing films," said AVN president Paul Fishbein, "so it doesn't make sense to have separate categories for [both films and videos in] acting, screenplay, editing, sex scenes, because pretty much everything is being shot on some sort of video format now. So while we love film, and we love the look and the feel of film, there just aren't enough anymore to justify all those extra categories.
"If people make films, they'll be eligible in every category," Fishbein continued, "and if there are enough of them, then we'll have a separate Best Film category."
So basically, if there's no need for an award at AVN, after a while they'll get rid of it. Huh. And that screenplay award has survived how, exactly?