Multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood has won Best Director – Features for the third year in a row from the XRCOs, plus one of his features scored a major win and a cast member as well.
On Sunday night, the XRCO Awards took place at Boardner’s in Hollywood and were a well-attended event. Ricky Greenwood walked the star-studded carpet and was all smiles. The show was hosted by Cherry Kiss and Gigi Dior, with many presenters. Ricky took home the trophy for Best Director – Features, and his Digital Playground feature, “Gold Diggers,” won Best Release. And Chad Alva won Best Actor for Dorcel’s feature/musical “Alive.” Ricky was there to accept both of his awards and to cheer Chad on.
“I’m honored to have won Best Director – Features again and to have also won Best Release. I’m also proud of Chad that he won another award for his acting in the film. It was a great evening. Thank you, Dirty Bob and everyone at the XRCOs,” says Ricky Greenwood.
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), All-Girl Movie of the Year, Best Editing, and Director of the Year- Trans (three times). From the AVN Awards, he's won Director of the Year, Best Directing Portfolio – Varied Range (twice), Outstanding Directing – Individual Work Grand Reel (three times) 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 (three times) and Best Release 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 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.
