Cardi B performs at this year's AVN Awards. The ceremony celebrates the biggest names in the adult entertainment industry and includes comedy segments along with an insider's look into the industry's premier trade show and expo.

Adult Video News staged its 25th anniversary awards show last night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center with a maximum of good feeling and an absence of the self-congratulatory hype that might be expected to accompany such a milestone. The show was swiftly paced and simply designed, with plenty of cable-TV-friendly movie clips, due perhaps to the fact that it will air on the Showtime network, "another giant step" for the awards, as co-host Tera Patrick pointed out.

The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN (Adult Video News) to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic movies. The "Oscars of porn".