The ceremony was held on January 9, 2010 in a new venue, the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada.

During the ceremony, AVN Media Network presented awards in 125 of categories of movies or products released between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009.

[1] Among the new award categories introduced was Best Sex Parody due to the genre's quality and market impact.

Manuel Ferrara won his third Male Performer of the Year Award, joining Lexington Steele as the only actors to have done so.

"Because of the amount of quality parodies that studios have produced in the past year and the impact they've had on the marketplace, we've decided to honor the best of those movies in their own category separate from our long-running Best Sex Comedy award", said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN.