(Hollywood, CA) Multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood took home two of the biggest X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCOs) awards of the night, and one of his cast members took home the trophy for Best Actor.
Sunday night, the XRCOs celebrated their 42nd annual show with a bevy of stars attending the show and walking the red carpet at Boardner’s nightclub in Hollywood. Hosted by Melony Melons and Sarah Arabic, more than 30 awards were presented. For the second year in a row, Ricky Greenwood won Best Release, this time for Digital Playground’s “Deadly Vows.” And for the third year in a row, he took home the coveted trophy for Best Director (Features). Additionally, Tommy Pistol won Best Actor for his role as the strip club owner in Dorcel’s feature “Strip.”
“What an epic night to have won two of the top awards for Best Release and Best Director (Features) again this year—it’s truly an honor. Thank you so much to everyone at the XRCOs. I was also thrilled Tommy took home the trophy for Best Actor—he really was incredible in his role as the strip club owner in ‘Strip’ and truly deserved the win,” says Ricky Greenwood.
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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 eight years.
The multi-award-winning director and writer is known for his story-driven feature films, like Raw, Wanted, Deadly Vows, Project X, Machine Gunner, 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 who 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), All-Girl Movie of the Year, Best Editing, and Director of the Year- Trans (three times). From the AVN Awards, he’s won multiple awards for Director of the Year, Best Directing Portfolio – Varied Range, Outstanding Directing – Individual Work Grand Reel, 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, a Lifetime Achievement Award and Best Scene Producer multiple times 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 (three times) and Director of the Year (twice) and Best Release from the XRCO Awards.
He’s also received over 800 award nominations for his directing, scenes, art direction, screenplays, cinematography, and editing in all the genres he works in from AVN, XBIZ XMAs, TEAs, DSN, NightMoves, XRCOs, Urban X, Fleshbot, XCritic, 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 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.

















