Raging Stallion Takes Record 42 Nominations at Chicago's Grabby Awards!

San Francisco-based Raging Stallion Studios set a new record with a total of 42 nominations spread across nearly every category for the upcoming (Memorial Day Weekend) Grabby Awards. Handed out every year during IML, the Grabby Awards are the major awards celebration for the Gay Porn Industry.

Raging Stallion's Focus/Refocus (which was just picked up for Independent Film distribution) carried the flag with a total of over a dozen nominations, including in the Best Picture, Best Director Chris Ward, Tony DiMarco and Ben Leon), and Best Acting (Cole Streets, David Taylor, Steve Cruz, Bruno Bond) categories. Tony DiMarco's The Visitor also picked up nominations in all major categories, adding Logan McCree to the Best Actor list. Other films nominated were Caliente, Hard Friction, Nailed and Screwed, Stag Fight, Piss Off, Ink Stain, Fist Away, Fist my Butt, Menace, and Junkyard Fist Dogs.

Steve Cruz and Logan McCree were both nominated for Performer of the Year.

Studio head Chris Ward commented on the nominations: "We are really proud of our work in 2009-2010, and we are very happy that our movies were singled out for nominations. All the actors and our staff at Raging Stallion work very hard to make the best product possible, and we are really excited to have these nominations. We look forward to IML weekend!"

Here's the list of Stallion nominations, for a complete list visit the Grabby's website.


BEST LEATHER MOVIE
Menace/ Raging Stallion Studios


BEST BOX COVER
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST VIDEOGRAPHY
Ben Leon & Tony DiMarco
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
 
Tony Dimarco
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST PORNSTAR BLOG
Antonio Biaggi
Ricky Sinz
RJ Danvers
Ryan Raz


BEST VERSATILE PERFORMER
Logan McCree


BEST SCREENPLAY
Dan Rhodes
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
 
Tony DiMarco
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIE
Caliente/Raging Stallion Studios
 

BEST FETISH MOVIE
Ink Stain/Raging Stallion Studios
 

BEST SOLO
Cole Streets
Focus/Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios
 
Derrek Diamond
Hard Friction/Raging Stallion Studios
 
Logan McCree
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios
 
Jason Crew
Menace/Raging Stallion Studios
 
Mitchell Rock
Focus/Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios
 

BEST FETISH EXTREME
Fists Away/Raging Stallion Studios
Fist My Butt/Raging Stallion Studios
Junk Yard Fist Dogs/Raging Stallion Studios
 

BEST ART DIRECTION
Focus/Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST CUM SCENE
Luke Cassidy & Tristen Phoenix
Nailed and Screwed/Raging Stallion Studios
 
Orgy Scene on Damien Crosse
Focus Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST PORNSTAR WEBSITE
staghommestudios.com
StevecruzXXX.com


BEST THREE WAY
Adam Killian/Steve Cruz/Ricky Sinz
Focus Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST RIMMING SCENE
RJ Danvers & David Taylor
Nailed and Screwed/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bruno Bond
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
 
David Taylor
Focus /Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
 
Steve Cruz
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios

 
BEST STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Kent Taylor


BEST DIRECTOR
Chris Ward/Ben Leon/Tony DiMarco
Focus/Refocus/Raging Stallion Studios 

Tony DiMarco
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST GROUP
Focus/Refocus-RSS
Damian Crosse, Fracesco D'Macho, Wilfred Knight, Steve Cruz and
Angelo Marconi
 

ALL SEX
Hard Friction/Raging Stallion Studios
Nailed and Screwed/Raging Stallion Studios


BEST ACTOR
Cole Streets
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
 
Logan McCree
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios
 

BEST MOVIE
Focus/Refocus-Raging Stallion Studios
The Visitor/Raging Stallion Studios


PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Logan McCree
Steve Cruz


Grabby's are awarded Saturday, May 29th at the Park West Theater in Chicago... abudy time in the windy city! It's also IML and Memorial Day Weekend! Good luck to all the nominees and congratulations to our own performers and creative team!


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