Written and directed by Jacky St. James, “Love In the Digital Age” marks the celebrated filmmaker’s triumphant return to romance and is the first release for New Sensations Romance since 2014’s AVN award-winning “Second Chances.”

“AVN has supported me in my career from my first year in the business – with a nomination for ‘Dear Abby’ – to present day,” Jacky St. James said. “I was thrilled to see the recognition for ‘Love In the Digital Age’ across all facets of production. Thank you for acknowledging a film that I consider one of my best to date!”

“Love In the Digital Age” stars Gia Paige as Sara, an internet-obsessed millennial, who on a dare, gives up her smart phone and social media and discovers love is far more rewarding when your head is out of the cloud.

Paige’s portrayal of Sara puts her in the running for Best Actress – Feature. Logan Pierce, who plays her once embittered love interest in the film, is also nominated for Best Actor in the category.

AVN award-winning cinematographer and editor Eddie Powell is nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Editing for his outstanding work on “Love In the Digital Age.” The film’s fun and uplifting score is also up for Best Soundtrack.

Powell is also in the running for Director of the Year and shares a nomination for Best Director – Non-Feature for Digital Sin’s “Schoolgirl Bound 5” with frequent collaborator and fellow award-winning director Paul Woodcrest.

Woodcrest’s “Innocence of Youth 10,” a milestone entry in Digital Sin’s groundbreaking, ama-loli fashioned young-girl series, scored nods for Best Cinematography and Best Ingénue Movie. In addition, Digital Sin’s artistic all-girl imprint “The Lesbian Experience” received nominations for Best All-Girl Series and Best Older Woman/Younger Girl Movie for “Women Loving Girls 3.”

New series “My Wife’s First Blowbang” impressed out the gate, earning New Sensations nominations for Best Oral Movie and Best Oral Sex Scene for Kristen Scott’s performance in the debut volume and Emily Willis’ in “My Wife’s First Blowbang 2.” The studio continued to be recognized for its hotwifing projects across the board, picking up nominations for Best Polyamory Movie for “Watching My Hotwife 3,” Best Gangbang for “My Hotwife’s Gangbang 4,” and Best BDSM for “Hotwife Bound 3.”

New Sensations/Digital Sin’s complete 2018 AVN Award nominations (including distributed studios) are as follows:

Best Comedy
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations Romance
Best Director – Feature
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations; Jacky St. James
Best Screenplay
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations Romance; Jacky St. James
Best Actor – Feature
Logan Pierce, Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations Romance
Best Actress – Feature
Gia Paige, Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations Romance
Best All-Girl Movie
The Exhibitionist 2: Women in the Wild, SexArt/MetArt/New Sensations
Best All-Girl Series
The Lesbian Experience, Digital Sin
Best Anal Series
Anal Perfection, Vision/Digital Sin
Best Anthology Movie
She Likes It Rough 2, Digital Sin
Best BDSM Movie
Hotwife Bound 3, New Sensations Tales From the Edge
Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene
Petites, Baeb/New Sensations; Adria Rae & James Deen
Best Cinematography
The Innocence of Youth 10, Digital Sin; Paul Woodcrest
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations; Eddie Powell
Best Continuing Series
My Sexy Little Sister, Digital Sin
Best Director – Non-Feature
Schoolgirl Bound 5, Digital Sin; Eddie Powell & Paul Woodcrest
Best Editing
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations; Eddie Powell
Best Ethnic Movie
Black on Black, Baeb/New Sensations
My Asian Hotwife 3, New Sensations
Best Foreign Feature/Anthology Movie
Natural Beauty 2, SexArt/MetArt/New Sensations
Timeless Affairs 3, SexArt/MetArt/New Sensations
Best Ingénue Movie
The Innocence of Youth 10, Digital Sin
Petites 2, Baeb/New Sensations
Best Interracial Movie
A Black Bull for My Hotwife 2, New Sensations
Best Marketing Campaign – Company Image
New Sensations/Digital Sin
Best MILF Movie
MILF Stories: Still Sexy, New Sensations
Best New Series
My Very First Scene, Vision/Digital Sin
Petites, Baeb/New Sensations
Best Older Woman/Younger Girl Movie
The Lesbian Experience: Women Loving Girls 3, Digital Sin
The Older Woman Experience, Sex Art/MetArt/New Sensations
Best Oral Movie
My Wife’s First Blowbang, New Sensations
Best Oral Sex Scene
My Wife’s First Blowbang, New Sensations; Kristen Scott, Johnny Goodluck, Codey Steele, Ramon Nomar & Tommy Pistol
My Wife’s First Blowbang 2, New Sensations; Emily Willis, Tommy Pistol, Eric Masterson, Chad Alva, Codey Steele & Mark Zane
Best Orgy/Gangbang Movie
My Hotwife’s Gangbang 4, New Sensations
Best Polyamory Movie
Menage a Trois, Sex Art/MetArt/New Sensations
Shared for the First Time 3, Vision/Digital Sin
Threesome Fantasies Fulfilled 13, Pure Passion/Digital Sin
Watching My Hotwife 3, New Sensations
Best Pro-Am/Exhibitionist Movie
My Very First Scene, Vision/Digital Sin
Best Solo/Tease Performance
Just Girls and Their Toys, Digital Sin; Haley Reed
Best Soundtrack
Love in the Digital Age, New Sensations Romance
Best Taboo Relations Movie
Sex With My Younger Sister 3, Digital Sin
Best Three-Way Sex Scene – Girl/Girl/Boy
Anal Perfection 6, Vision/Digital Sin; Megan Rain, Adria Rae & Markus Dupree
Director of the Year
Eddie Powell

About New Sensations: New Sensations is a worldwide leader in adult entertainment, receiving multiple awards and critical acclaim for its unique and progressive brand of high-end erotic features and all-sex releases. Founded in 1993, the studio is renowned for discovering tomorrow’s superstars, ushering in new, provocative niches, and producing many of the industry’s most globally celebrated films, including the multi-award winning features “Torn,” “Second Chances,” and “The Submission of Emma Marx” trilogy. New Sensations is also known for its sex-positive approach to human sexuality. It’s “Tales From the Edge” series is lauded for its authentic and enticing depiction of the hotwifing, swinging, and BDSM lifestyles, while “The Romance Series” and “Tales From the Heart” lines capture the passionate ups-and-downs of romantic courtship. For more information about all New Sensations titles, visit New Sensations, The Romance Series, Tabu Tales, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

About Digital Sin: Digital Sin is a worldwide leader in adult entertainment, producing high-end, award-winning erotic content in a variety of provocative genres. Innovative and artistic, the studio was first to introduce an interactive DVD line to the market with “My Plaything” and is lauded for its mix of hard-edged sex and cinematic presentation, as seen in its young-girl flagship series “The Innocence of Youth” and its acclaimed all-girl, glamour imprint “The Lesbian Experience,” an artistically produced line of high-end lesbian erotica, exploring a variety of adult themes and featuring today’s most beautiful stars. Its award-winning “Tabu Tales” series is one of its boldest productions, offering scripted taboo fantasy in such award-winning titles as “Father Figure” and “Me, My Brother, and Another.” Digital Sin is home to some of the industry’s most intense gangbang features, including “The Gangbang of Bonnie Rotten,” and is a noted producer of top-tier interracial lines, including “Shane Diesel’s Black Bull For Hire” and “My Hotwife’s Black Bull.” It is also noted for its star-making “Meet…” showcase series, instrumental in launching the careers of superstars Bonnie Rotten and Carter Cruise. For more information about all Digital Sin movies, visit Digital Sin, The Lesbian Experience, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, and Fun On the Set. . For more information about all Digital Sin movies, visit Digital Sin, TheLesbianExperience, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook.