Buck Adams

#10

Buck Adams

BORN: November 15, 1955 in Chatsworth, California

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Babewatch (1993)

AWARDS: AVN Award 1987 Best Actor - XRCO Award 1990 Best Sex Scene - AVN Award 1992 Best Actor - AVN Award 1995  Best Actor - XRCO Hall of Fame - AVN Hall of Fame

One of the industry’s first rock star directors is the late Buck Adams. He died in 2008 but his legacy remains of reference for the industry. He was also a performer, with over 600 scenes under his belt. He is one of the directors from the old generation, which helped change the industry. He’s now in the AVN Hall of Fame and was an inspiration for many of the following directors of this site. Also, he is the brother of porn star Amber Lynn. 
Gina Lynn

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Gina Lynn

BORN: February 15, 1974 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Top Notch Bitches (2004)

AWARDS: NightMoves Award 2002, Best Feature Dancer Exotic Dancer - Award 2003 Adult Movie of the Year - AVN Award 2005 Best Gonzo Release - NightMoves Award 2005 Best New Production Company - NightMoves Hall of Fame - AVN Hall of Fame

Gina Lynn is one of the best porn stars from the 90s and she became a director in the 2000s. This beautiful babe shoot porn for her own company and she used her husband as male talent. She is the director who shoot Asa Akira’s firs boy-girl scene and she is an award winner for both her work as a performer and for her work as a director.
Jules Jordan

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Jules Jordan

BORN: May 25, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Lex the Impaler (2008)

AWARDS: AVN Awards 2007 Best New Video Production Company / Best Oral-Themed Release / Best Specialty Release - AVN Awards 2008 Director of the Year / Best Interracial Release / Best Oral Themed Series - AVN Awards 2009 Best Director / Best Anal-Themed Release / Best Big Bust Release / Best EthnicThemed Release / Best Internal Release / Best POV Series / Best Young Girl Release - AVN Awards 2010 Best Director - AVN Awards 2011 Best Director - AVN Hall of Fame

Jules Jordan is one of those self-made success stories, in which a guy with a dream moves to LA to make it bit in the entertainment industry. And this guy succeeded. He first started out of his apartment and over the years managed to sign exclusive contracts with major league models and self-handedly propel low grade production houses into the mainstream. Most of his work can be now find on his own site, JulesJordan.com, where lately he features stars like Lana Rhodes, Gianna Dior, Kissa Sins and Riley Raid in extra hardcore productions. 
Joanna Angel

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Joanna Angel

BORN: December 25, 1980 in New York

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Rock & Roll In My Butthole (2008)

AWARDS: AVN Award 2006 Most Outrageous Sex Scene - XBIZ Award 2007 Crossover Move of the Year - XRCO Award 2008 Best On-Screen Chemistry - AVN Award 2011 Best Porn Star Website - AVN Award 2011 Best Solo Sex Scene - NightMoves Award 2011 Best Director - NightMoves Awar 2012 Best Individual Website - NightMoves 2012 Triple Play Award -  AVN Award 2013 Best Porn Star Website - AVN Award 2013 Best Solo Sex Scene - NightMoves Award 2013 Best Ink - AVN Award 2014 Best Porn Star Website - AVN Award 2015 Best Porn Star Website - XBIZ Award 2018 Best Actress - XBIZ Award 2019 Best Actress - XBIZ Award 2019 Best Supporting Actress - XBIZ Award 2019 Best Sex Scene - AVN Hall of Fame - XRCO Hall of Fame
  Joanna Angel is the porn angel of all men who like bad ass girls. She is an alt-porn model herself, but she is also the most influential director of this porn style. Most of her movies can be found on Burning Angel, but she also directed for Evil Angel and for Kink.com. She is known for her parodies and she is the only porn star I know who directed her own porn debut. She did her first movie with a male talent with no experience and it was an amateur anal video shoot on the rooftop in New York. 
Kelly Madison

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Kelly Madison

BORN: August 26, 1967 in Newport Beach, California

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Kelly Madison's World Famous Tits (2011)

AWARDS: XBIZ Award 2011 MILF Site of the Year - AVN Award 2011 Best Web Star - NightMoves Award 2013 Best Boobs - AVN Hall of Fame

Kelly Madison is the director for whom perfection is the only work ethic. She created a site together with her husband Ryan, and now that site is leading the tops in the glamour and hardcore porn. They combine these two styles of making movies in an excellent network that features three main channels: Kelly Madison, Teen Fidelity and Porn Fidelity. She produced incredible 4K content and sits behind the camera wherever her husband fucks a teen porn star for their family business.
Rocco Siffredi

#5

Rocco Siffredi

BORN: 4 May 1964 in Ortona, Italy

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Rocco's Perfect Slaves (2013)

When we talk about men in porn, we always mention Rocco Siffredi. This Italian stallion is one of the best-looking male actors. He performed in over 1,300 movies and his famed helped him in his directorial career. Lately he shoots lots of amateur babes, including many new East European talents. He has lots of movies which he directed on Evil Angel and has a great new series of hardcore anal, threesome and doube penetration audition sex tape with lots of new wild amateurs. His fame and looks really helped him when directed movies because the babes really want to fuck him.
AWARDS: AVN Awards 1991 Best Group Sex Scene - AVN Awards 1992 Best Couples Sex Scene, Best Group Sex Scene - AVN Awards 1993 Male Performer of the Year - AVN Awards 1994 Best Group Sex Scene - AVN Awards 1995 Best Anal Sex Scene - AVN Awards 1996 Male Performer of the Year, Best Couples Sex Scene - AVN Awards 1997 Best Couples Sex Scene, Best Group Sex Scene, Best Anal Sex Scene - NightMoves Awards 1997 Best Actor - AVN Awards 1998 Best Couples Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2000 Best Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2002 Best Couples Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2003 Male Foreign Performer of the Year, Best Anal Sex Scene, Best Oral Sex Scene, Best Group Sex Scene, Best Director, Best Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2005 Best Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2006 Best Director - AVN Awards 2007 Best Group Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2008 Best Group Sex Scene, Best Three-Way Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2009 Male Foreign Performer of the Year - AVN Awards 2011 Male Foreign Performer of the Year - XBiz Awards 2011 Foreign Male Performer of the Year - AVN Awards 2012 Male Foreign Performer of the Year - AVN Awards 2013 Best Sex Scene, Male Foreign Performer of the Year, Most Outrageous Sex Scene - AVN Awards 2014 Male Foreign Performer of the Year - AVN Awards 2015 Best Sex Scene, Male Foreign Performer of the Year -XBiz Awards 2015 Foreign Male Performer of the Year - XBiz Awards 2016 Foreign Director of the Year - XBiz Awards 2017 Foreign Director of the Year, Foreign Non-Feature Release of the Year - XBiz Awards 2019 Foreign Director of the Year, Foreign Non-Feature Release of the Year - AVN Awards 2019 Best Anal Sex Scene, Male Foreign Performer of the Year, Foreign Director of the Year - AVN Awards Hall of Fame
Ron Jeremy

#4

Ron Jeremy 

BORN: March 12, 1953 in New York

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Ron Jeremy On the Loose (2002)

AWARDS: AVN Award 1986 Best Supporting Actor - AVN Award 1991 Best Supporting Actor -AFWG Award 2004 Crossover Performer of the Year - 2004 FICEB Award Best Actor - F.A.M.E. Award 2006 Favorite Adult Actor 

Ron Jeremy is the boss of the LA porn world. When people see Ron Jeremy, nobody pictures him as a porn director, but he was also a porn star. And that’s because he has a very large cock. And a lot of swag. He directed 285 movies and he is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records for most appearances in adult films, with over 2000 movies in which he performed. He is also pretty famous outside the porn world, he has appearances in movies and TV shows, he used to be a stand-up comedian and he is the image of a rum called Ron de Jeremy. 
John Buttman Stagliano

#3

John “Buttman” Stagliano

BORN: November 29, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Buttman's (1991)

AWARDS: Hot d'Or d'Honneur 1998 - Hot d'Or d'Honneur 2009 -XBIZ2010 Industry Pioneer - XBIZ 2011 Man of the Year

John “Buttman” Stagliano is a porn director who got famous thanks to all the gonzo porn he directed before the 2000s. His series “The Adventures of Buttman” is considered to be the beginning of the gonzo industry. He is also a performer and he performed in about just as many movies as he directed, which are around 250. You can find all his vintage porn on Evil Angel, where he has lots of new porn as well. He is also famous for an obscenity trial that was caused by one of his scenes from Evil Angel, which featured pee, bondage and enema action. 
Axel Braun

#2

Axel Braun

BORN: September 22, 1966 in Milan, Italy

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Squirting 101 (2004)

AWARDS: AVN Awards 2004 Best Screenplay - XBIZ Awards 2010 Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2011 Best Screenplay, Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2012 Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2013 Best Director-Parody, Best Screenplay - XBIZ Awards 2013 Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2014 Director of the Year - XBIZ Awards 2014 Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2015 Best Director/Parody, Best Screenplay - AVN Awards 2016 Best Director/Parody, Best Screenplay - XBIZ Awards 2016 Director of the Year - AVN Awards 2017 Best Director/Parody, Best Screenplay - AVN Awards 2018 Best Director - AVN Awards 2019 Best Screenplay - AVN Awards Hall of Fame
  Axel Braun is one of the most famous porn directors and the best when it comes to porn parodies. He is the son of Lasse Braun, an Italian porn director, so we could say that the talent runs through the family. In his career, Axel directed over 500 movies, and he won an ridiculous amount of porn awards. Most of his work is in the porn parody niche, but he also directed non parody movies, which are really well received. Since 2011 he won an AVN award for his directorial work every single year, and many other awards from other galas. Some of his best parodies are Batman XXX, Star Wars XXX, 24 XXX, Batman vs Superman XXX and Suicide Squad XXX.
Gerard Damiano

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Gerard Damiano

BORN: August 4, 1928 in New York

BEST SERIE AS DIRECTOR: Deep Throat (1972)

AWARDS: XBIZ Award 2008 Lifetime Achievement in Movie Production

Gerard Damiano is not the director with the most movies, but he sure is a total legend in the world of porn. He is from the era that’s called “the golden age of porn”, which is basically when porn as a genre arose from the underground and was normalized in the American society. His movies are absolute masterpieces, combining cinematography and storytelling with excellent scenes of hardcore sex. His most known works are the Devil in Miss Jones and Deep Throat, which came out in movie theaters and made millions in the box office.  

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