The XCritic Awards are back! After a month of internal deliberations, we have finally settled on a list of nominees that are deserving of special recognition in the industry.  We figure that with the amount of porn we watch collectively here at XCritic that we are definitely qualified to give you a comprehensive list of who the shining stars in the industry are and you’ll find that list below. Over the next month, we will duke it out internally and decide who the absolute cream of the crop is and let you know who wins on January 1st, 2020! Our list consists of outstanding titles and performances that were released between September 1, 2018, and September 30, 2019.

There are some differences this time around, in order to feature only the Best of the Best, performers are only nominated once per category, even if they had multiple outstanding performances. We also eliminated Support Actor/Actress categories and limited our selection fields considerably.