(Hollywood, CA) Once again, multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood and his casts and crews have done it again—they have swept the XBIZ XMAs with some major wins across the board.
On Sunday, January 19th, the XBIZ XMAs kicked off with a star-studded red carpet, and the night continued the glitz and glamour with an incredible ceremony hosted by Vanna Bardot and Ryan Reid at the world-famous Hollywood Palladium. Ricky Greenwood and his casts and crews walked in with 56 nominations and ended up sweeping the show. Ricky won the top prizes for Best Feature Movie for Digital Playground’s “Project X” and Director of the Year – Body of Work (Narrative). His casts all scored big—Tommy Pistol snagged the Best Acting – Supporting trophy for Digital Playground’s “Project X,” and Cherie DeVille and Mick Blue scored the Best Sex Scene – Feature Movie trophy for the same film. His crews were also rewarded with big wins—Matt Holder scored a Best Cinematography win for Digital Playground’s “Project X” and Kylie Ireland and Andy Appleton garnered a win for Best Art Direction for Digital Playground’s “Gold Diggers.”
“It was a great night, and I was thankful to win the big awards and that my casts and crews also won. I’m fortunate to be able to make the movies I do and to be nominated and win awards for them is an honor. Thank you, XBIZ and Digital Playground!” says Ricky Greenwood.
See a complete list of the 2025 winners at xbiz.com/news/286699/2025-xma-awards-winners-announced.
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ABOUT RICKY GREENWOOD
In 2017, French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood started in the industry with a push from Mile High Media Vice President John Blitt, who has always been a genius when it comes to spotting true talent. Ricky came from a mainstream background working in television, reality TV, documentaries, feature films, and shorts—all this prepared him to take over the adult industry in the last seven years.
The multi-award-winning director and writer is known for his story-driven feature films, like Confessions of a Sinful Nun 2: The Rise of Sister Mona, Terror Camp, Talk Derby to Me, Grinders, and Killer on the Loose. Over the past three years, he’s become known as a multi-faceted director that works in the straight, gay, trans, and lesbian realms, and has worked with top-shelf studios like Sweetheart Video, TransSensual, Icon Male, Marc Dorcel, Adult Time, AllHerLuv, Parasited, and MissaX. Ricky has won multiple XBIZ Awards for Director of Year – Body of Work (Narrative) two times, All-Girl Movie of the Year, Best Feature Movie, and Director of the Year- Trans (three times). From the AVN Awards, he’s won Director of the Year, Best Directing Portfolio – Cross-Genre, Grand Reel (twice) and Best Screenplay – Featurette from the AVN Awards. His additional wins include Best Lesbian Movie or Limited Series, Feature Movie of the Year and Best Girl/Girl Release from the Urban X Awards, Best Scene Producer (twice) from the TEAs, Best Ruining Xmas for Adult Time’s The Bargain from the Bazowie Awards, Best Feature Director, Best Feature Film, Best All-Girl Release Editor’s Choice and Best Feature Production Fans’ Choice from the NightMoves Awards, and Best AltStar Feature Video (twice) from the AltStar Awards, and Best Director – Features (twice) from the XRCO Awards.
He’s also received over 600 award nominations for his directing, scenes, art direction, screenplays, cinematography, and editing in all the genres he works in from AVN, XBIZ XMAs, TEAs, Fleshbot, NightMoves, XCritic, Urban X, XRCOs, and Inked Awards. Ricky has been featured in Forbes in July of 2024, Hustler twice and scored the cover and a 14-page feature in the September 2023 issue of ASN Lifestyle Magazine.
Ricky is one of the hardest-working men in adult and loves to give his audiences a glimpse into the projects he’s working on from start to finish in photos on his Twitter/X @RickyGreenwoodX and Instagram @x_ricky_greenwood_x. You might also see more than a few adult performers you know in his timelines and posts.
