[5] Actor Steven St. Croix hosted the show for the first time, with co-hosts Dyanna Lauren and Tera Heart.

Shame, an avant-garde western, earned ten nominations while Body & Soul and The Dinner Party had nine apiece.

He joined previous winners Cecil Howard and Henri Pachard as the only people to have won three best director awards.

AVN Hall of Fame inductees for 1995 were: Robert Bullock, Karen Dior, Chi Chi LaRue, Scotty Fox, Ryan Idol, Sean Michaels, Kelly Nichols, Nikki Randall, Jim South, Sheri St. Clair, Samantha Strong[1] The following five movies received the most nominations:

[1] A VHS videotape of the show was also published and sold by VCA Pictures, which had hardcore clips of the winning movies interspersed with the awards presentations.

[2] However, Oui magazine and Adult Cinema Review said the video montage didn't work and some of the other entertainment was long, boring and tedious.

[8][9] AVN publisher Paul Fishbein shared a moment of remembrance for industry performers who died over the past 12 months:[1] ^1 The wrong winner was announced at the show.

Adult Video News magazine corrected the mistake: "A program misprint and the fact that Tammi Ann's name was inadvertently dropped, might have caused some confusion in this category.