Porn Stars’ Oscar Picks

As all Hollywood anxiously awaits the ceremonial presentation of a bunch of gilded statuettes at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the members of that parallel acting profession—the adult film industry—also will be looking on, anticipating the glory and the heartbreak they recently experienced themselves at January’s Adult Video News awards in Las Vegas.

For the second year in a row, GreenCine Daily took an informal poll, asking a few porn stars to talk about their favorite films and performances of the year.

[2012 AVN awards: Seven including best anal sex scene, best three-way and best group sex scene.]

Best Actor/Actress picks: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, Shame

I thought it was good. There were a lot of relatable things about a sex addict. It was definitely very graphic. They did a little bit too much of the shock value stuff. All of his nude scenes were unnecessary.

Did you really mind that though?

No. But I’m really aware of it. I don’t like when they try to trick us, or dumb down for the audience.

How about his co-star?

I love her, Carey Mulligan, she’s one of my favorite actresses right now. She’s so good. They did a really good job of portraying a sex addict. It was really dark. It left a lot up to the viewer. There’s this possible incestuous relationship going on, but you don’t really know. I totally thought they had this incestuous past, but my best friend didn’t. We went home and Wikipedia-ed it. They didn’t really say anything about it but I’m still sticking to my guns. I don’t know if I’m projecting because that’s like my fantasy.

So they both deserved nominations?

Yes, definitely. Carey Mulligan, there was something else I saw her in she was so good in…

Drive?

I went to see Drive twice. A lot of people didn’t like it.

I loved it.

I loved it! Oh my god, the director did such a good job of making the audience feel exactly how he wanted to make them feel, but with silence. The part where they’re driving and she says something about her husband coming back and they were so quiet and you can just feel his heart dropping.

What else was on your radar?

I just saw I Saw the Devil. My favorite guy was the cannibal guy, when he was laughing hysterically eating the flesh it was so scary.

Why are Korean movies so fucked up?

I don’t know. I’ve never seen a Korean movie that wasn’t fucked up.

[2012 AVN award nominee: Best new starlet]

Scariest Film: Paranormal Activity 3

I love horror movies because I like to be scared. I really am a masochist. I get so scared that I can’t sleep. Like, I just watched Insidious and Paranormal Activity 3. Even though Paranormal Activity 3 isn’t technically that good of a movie, it freaked me out so much that the night I watched it I couldn’t sleep all night. I was so afraid of a ghost coming to get me.

So if someone really wanted to torture you, they’d lock you up in a dungeon with ghosts, and have shadows come after you.

That would be the most horrible thing ever. I’d be calling my safe word on that one.

2012 AVN award: Best Actress (for Portrait of a Call Girl)

Best Picture pick: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Do you go to a lot of movies?

No [laughs]. I don’t watch TV. But I saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was good. It was weird because it had a rape scene. She was getting anally raped, and it was just disturbing. I was like, I just want to beat this guy up. And then she did, so it was cool.

Were you a fan of the book?

I didn’t read the book, but I heard that the [original Swedish] movie was really good. Everyone was saying good things about it, even if it was three hours long.

What did you think of Rooney Mara?

She kind of reminded me of Sasha Grey. She was very, like, monotone. But just in that way. Not like the aggressive part.

Tim Von Swine

[2012 AVN award nominee: Unsung Male Performer of the Year, Best P.O.V. Scene (for Teenage Spermaholics 7 and four others)]

Best Supporting Actress pick: Andy San Dimas (popular porn star with a speaking part as a stripper in Drive).

So Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is definitely not your pick for best picture?

I sat down to see Hugo under the belief that it was a stand-alone biopic of the character Hugo Stiglitz from Inglourious Basterds but since it was not, and I was fairly disappointed, I left immediately. That would have been fantastic. Drive was great because three words: Andy San Dimas. Where is the love? It all comes full circle when a girl you’ve POV’d twice makes the big screen. And then, The Thing, unfortunately, if you’re going to remake a John Carpenter film and not take it all that serious, remake Big Trouble in Little China. Don’t waste your time with The Thing.

So those are all the movies you saw last year? Any thoughts on the actual nominees?

George Clooney doesn’t need any recognition. How good is George Clooney at being average? He’s great at that. So we don’t need to give him any awards. I would say anything about 9/11, like that Loud and Close thing, it’s wrong to do a 9/11 movie by the generation that went though it. That’s not fair. Let someone else 30 years from now do a 9/11. The silent film The Artist, let something that vague and stylish win. Give it to The Artist, or Woody Allen. Who cares? Woody Allen makes his best movie and nobody cares.

It was his biggest box-office success ever.

That’s just because when he was making movies in the ’60s and early ’70s, there were only three billion people on the planet. Now there’s six-and-a-half or seven billion people on the planet. That’s why it made more money. Just by default.

Did you see it?

No. I didn’t. I’ll admit it.

So all you saw was Drive, The Thing and the opening credits of Hugo?

I saw something else that I can’t remember. I saw The Ides of March. Once again, my comments about Clooney. How good is that dude at being average in a role? He’s great at it, so let’s just move along. I didn’t hate it. I’d give it a 7 or something like that. When you’ve seen one political thriller, you’ve seen them all. Someone’s going to get killed or kill themselves or get gonorrhea, and it ruins everything for somebody, and you have to lie about it and yet you make it to the top and that’s politics. What are you going to do? Unfortunately, someone’s going to get fired or fucked or a dirty test or eat the wrong food that has the poison in it when it’s supposed to be for someone else, and the guy still wins the election and makes millions of dollars.

Any other winners?

Moneyball? I mean, what, are we making Jerry Maguire all over again? Jonah Hill? What, he’s supposed to be a serious actor now? Please, give me a break. The dude saw that if he didn’t take acting serious he was going to be the next Jack Black doing Kung Fu Panda in five years. He’s going to be like Zach Galifianakis. He saw that being the fat guy in movies doesn’t get you laid as much as the Brad Pitt movies. But now that he lost the weight his face is still fat so he’s still not going to get laid. Look, Babe Ruth and Fatty Arbuckle are two of my heroes. Those guys knew how to live it up. They didn’t care if they were carrying some extra pounds. Jonah Hill, don’t try and be something you’re not. You’re just putting perfume on a pig, bro. Stay fat! You’re still going to get sucked off. You’re still going to make a lot more money than we are. And you’re still going to live forever because you made a few movies. Don’t change up the program. Otherwise, you’re going to eat too much sushi like Jeremy Piven and get mercury poisoning.

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