Amanda By Night, an adult crime-drama and Roommates, also a drama, would become CAFA's most-honored movies, with the latter being presented with seven awards in 1983, including Best Director (Chuck Vincent) and Best Actress (Veronica Hart).

[4] The association seems to have faded away after that, as did the New York–based adult film industry, overtaken by the X-Rated Critics Organization and its Heart-On Awards, which had first been presented two years earlier and which were based in California, the new centre of porn production.

Nominees: Behind the Green Door: the Sequel, Every Woman Has a Fantasy 2, Lust on the Orient Express, The Oddest Couple, Star Angel[4] Like the Academy Awards, CAFA also honored the best in various production categories.

[4] The annual Gerard Damiano Special Achievement Award, named after the producer, writer and director of the 1972 cult classic Deep Throat, went to actress Georgina Spelvin in 1982,[1][6] Erica Eaton, publicist and former CAFA chairperson, in 1985[3] and Gloria Leonard in 1987.

[7] ^2 In the book The X-Rated Videotape Guide II, author Robert Rimmer states, "In May 1987, the CAFA (a New York film critics group) gave Snake Eyes II awards for Best Script (Anne Randall), Best Actor (Jerry Butler, who also received it for the original Snake Eyes), and Best Director (Cecil Howard).

"[15] However, this seems unlikely as Snake Eyes II was not released until 1987[citation needed][16] and it contradicts two other sources that list Butler and Howard winning in 1987 for Star Angel and no category called Best Script.