AVN Awards
Best Video: Haunted Nights, Best Art Direction: Haunted Nights, Best Supporting Actor: (Haunted Nights) Randy Spears, Best Screenplay: (Haunted Nights) Jonathan Morgan & Jace Rocker, Best Video: Haunted Nights, Best Non-Sex Performance: (Haunted Nights) Jonathan Morgan.

Wicked Pictures signs its first exclusive contract starlet, Chasey Lain who remains with the company until the end of 1994.

   
AVN Awards
Best New Starlet: Jenna Jameson, Best Film: Blue Movie, Best Director: Blue Movie, Best Editing: Blue Movie, Best Couples Sex Scene: Blue Movie, Best Supporting Actor: Alex Sanders, Best Supporting Actress: Jeana Fine, Best Actress: (The Wicked One) Jenna Jameson.


The new year sees Wicked Pictures creating Conquest, the most ambitious project in the company's history to date, and the first of several successful co-productions with Adam & Eve. 1996 also sees the release of Wicked Weapon, starring Jenna Jameson and French Video Marc Dorcel starlet Laure Sainclair. Wicked Pictures signs an exclusive contract with actor/director Brad Armstrong.
   
AVN Awards
Best Screenplay: Crazed, Best All-Girl: (Satyr) Missy & Jenna Jameson, Best Actor-Video: (Indigo Delta) Tom Bryon,


Wicked Pictures signs Missy, a multiple AVN award winner, and husband Mickey G. to exclusive contracts to both act in and direct movies (making Wicked Pictures the first adult video company to ever ink a couple to such an agreement). Wicked Pictures, Brad Armstrong, and Adam & Eve re-team in 1998 for Flashpoint, a complex, big-budget Jenna Jameson vehicle about the world of firefighters. The year also sees Wicked Pictures adding talented performer-turned-director Jonathan Morgan to the Wicked Pictures roster, who goes on to explore the dark side of eroticism with the award-winning projects Crazed and Indigo Delta.

   

AVN Awards
Best Comedy: Double Feature, Best Director Video: (Double Feature) Jonathan Morgan, Best Actor Video: (Double Feature) Randy Spears, Best Actress Video: (Double Feature) Serenity, Best Supporting Actress Video: (Double Feature) Shanna McCullouth, Best Non-Sex Performance: (Double Feature) Anthony Crane, Best Art Direction Video: (Double Feature) Art Martin, Best Editing: (Double Feature) Jonathan Morgan, Best Screenplay Video: (Double Feature) Martin Brimmer, Best Videography: (Double Feature) Jake Jacobs, Best Packaging: Desperate Measures, Best Actress Video: (Desperate Measures) Missy, Best Overall Marketing Campaign Individual Project: Condom PSA's.

Hot Video Award: Eros, Best Actor Video: (Knockout) Brad Armstrong.



Wicked Pictures teams up with award winning industry veteran Susan Colvin's California Exotic Novelties to produce the Wicked Essensual Elements, an exclusive series of high-end erotic toys.

August 2000 sees the hotly anticipated release of Brad Armstrong's Dream Quest. A lushly shot movie on film, Dream Quest debuts simultaneously on video and DVD, the first title in adult video history to see a same day and date release in both formats. 13 year industry veteran, David Crawford, who became Wicked Picture's head of DVD production in early 2000, makes the disc a true landmark of the adult genre that includes bonus scenes, a fascinating behind the scenes feature, and many other DVD only extras.

The year also sees Wicked Pictures expanding its public relations division by hiring publicist Daniel Metcalf, a 12 year industry veteran to work with Joy King in increasing the company's profile in both the adult and mainstream media arenas.

Wicked Pictures gets 73 nominations for the 2001 AVN Awards.

 
   

AVN Awards
Best Video Feature: Euphoria, Best Director: (Euphoria) Brad Armstrong, Best Actress: (Euphoria) Sydnee Steele, Best Actor: (Euphoria) Mike Horner, Best Screenplay: (Euphoria) David Aaron Clark & Brad Armstrong, Best Special Effects: (Euphoria) Dick Roundtree, Best Videography: (Euphoria) Jack Jacobs & Perry Tratt, Best Supporting Actor: (Wild Thing) Mike Horner, Best Packaging: Beautiful/Nasty.

XRCO Best Film/Video: Euphoria 

In April of 2002, Steve Orenstein signed award winning adult film legend Julia Ann to an exclusive contract. This legendary performer began her Wicked Pictures contract by starring as Hera in Jonathan Morgan's big budget comedy Hercules. Her other titles for the company include Wicked Whispers, Sex On Film, Class Act, and the AVN AAAAA Editor's Choice Turning Point.

September of 2002 saw Wicked Pictures announcing the signing of Stormy, a beautiful and busty 23 year old blonde from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Stormy was a serious player in the Wicked Pictures' camp even before signing her contract, having appeared in such titles as Class Act, Best Friends, and Brad Armstrong's Sydnee Steele vehicle, Falling From Grace, a Five Star Editor's Choice in Adam Film World. Stormy performed her first lead role, and first boy/girl scenes, in Armstrong's Heat.
   

AVN Awards
Best Video Feature: Beautiful, Best Director: (Beautiful) Michael Raven, Best Actress: (Beautiful) Julia Ann, Best New Starlet: Stormy, Best Screenplay: (Beautiful) Michael Raven & George Kaplan, Best Comedy: (Space Nuts), Best Actor: (Space Nuts) Evan Stone, Best DVD Menus: (Space Nuts), Best Extras: (Space Nuts),Best Special Effects: (Space Nuts), Best VHS Box Cover Concept: (Angel X)

 
Wicked Pictures is established on March 1, 1993 by current owner Steve Orenstein.
   
AVN Awards
Best Box Cover Concept: Film Buff




Wicked signs new contract girl, Jenna Jameson, in early 1995 and hires longtime industry veteran Joy King to promote her.
   
AVN Awards
Best New Starlet: Missy, Female Performer Of The Year: Missy, Best Trailer: Conquest, Best Couples Sex Scene Video: (Conquest) Jenna Jameson & Vince Voyeur, Best Overall Marketing Campaign-Individual Project: Conquest, Best Screenplay-Video: (Silverscreen Confidential) Jace Rocker, Best Supporting Actor-Video: (Silverscreen Confidential) Tony Tedeschi.


Wicked Pictures signs Serenity. The year also sees Jenna Jameson doing another Michael Zen film. Zen's vision to bring an X-rated version of "Beauty & The Beast" to the screen is realized in Satyr . The end of 1997 sees Wicked Pictures entering into an exclusive distribution arrangement with Juli Ashton's Ashton View Promotions. The first result of this collaboration, Essentially Juli, is an instant success with both fans and critics alike. Wicked Pictures receives an unprecedented 81 award nominations from the AVN awards, representing increasing ackknowledgement from the industy for the outstanding quality of the company's product.
   
AVN Awards
Best Overall Company Marketing/Image Award: Wicked Pictures, Best Packaging: Exile, Best Art Direction: Pornogothic, Best Supporting Actress: Katie Gold, Best Overall Marking Title Or Series: Flashpoint.

Steve Orenstein hires 23 year industry veteran Steve Karmelin to manage day to day operations at Wicked Pictures in addition to signing another Wicked Girl, the sultry Stephanie Swift. Wicked Pictures' groundbreaking DVD version of Flashpoint is released complete with special features.

October 1999 saw Wicked Pictures venturing into cyberspace, with a web site promoting the company's high quality adult entertainment. In an unprecedented move, Orenstein inks deals with Temptress, Alexa, Devinn Lane, and Meridian duringthe last week of November.

Wicked Pictures' Serenity vehicle, Double Feature, would become the most award-nominated comedy in AVN history.


   

AVN Awards
Best Packaging: Dream Quest, Best Selling Release: Dream Quest, Best Renting Release: Dream Quest, Best Cinematography: (Dream Quest) Jack Jacobs, Ralph Pafait, Best Solo Sex Scene: (In Style) Devinn Lane, Best Sex Comedy: M Caught In The Act, Best Actress Video: (M Caught In The Act) Serenity.

Hot Video Award: Tell Me What You Want.

Dream Quest wins the first ever Adult DVD Best Of Show award at the Video Software Dealers Association's 2001 DVD Festival. It also receives two awards from Adult DVD Empire: Best Feature and Viewers' Choice. The X-Rated Critics Organization bestows its first ever Best Adult DVD award to Dream Quest.

Flashpoint receives Best Selling DVD and All Time Best Seller Adult DVD Empire awards.

In April of 2001 Steve Orenstein signs multiple-award-winning adult film actress, Sydnee Steele, to an exclusive contract. Summer finds Wicked Pictures releasing Jonathan Morgan's ,The Gate simultaneously on video and DVD.

The first week of October 2001 sees the release of the most intricate project of Brad Armstrong's career, Euphoria. Starring Sydnee Steele and also featuring Devinn Lane, Euphoria is hailed as an instant classic in reviews.



The year end AVN nominations would see Wicked Pictures garnering 57 nominations.

   

AVN Awards
Best Actress: (Breathless) Devinn Lane, Best Supporting Actress: (Breathless) Sydnee Steele, Best Overall Marketing Campaign, Best DVD Authoring, Best Screenplay (Falling From Grace) Daniel Metcalf, Brad Armstrong & Jonathan Morgan, Best Actor (Falling From Grace) Brad Armstrong, Best Screenplay (Breathless) Michael Raven & Devinn Sapphire, Best DVD Extras (Euphoria)

 XRCO Awards
DVD Of The Year: (Euphoria)

Wicked Pictures signs adult industry veteran jessica drake, exotic newcomer Kaylani Lei and multi-award winning director Michael Raven, who would go on to direct Wicked’s most acclaimed video of 2004, the stylish Julia Ann film noir fantasy Beautiful.
   

AVN Awards
Best Actress: (Fluff & Fold) Jessica Drake , Best Oral Sex Scene: (The Collector) Jessica Drake, Chris Cannon, Cheyne Collins & Voodoo, Best Screenplay (The Collector), Best Supporting Actor (Fluff & Fold) Randy Spears, Best Non Sex Actor: (The Collector) Mike Horner

 In April of 2005, Steve Orenstein signs the very beautiful and in high demand newcomer Keri Sable to an exclusive contract. Keri heats up Wicked Productions with her sexual energy and preference for anal scenes in recently released titles Sold and Dark Sins.

Wicked Pictures continues to break new ground while remaining focused on producing quality adult entertainment, strengthening its appeal with women and couples, and enjoying ongoing success. Without a doubt, Wicked Pictures is the one to watch.