Global InformationCritics Adult Film Association information
| Critics Adult Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in the porn film genre.[1] |
| Sponsored by | East Coast Producers Association of the Adult Film Association of America[1] |
| Location | New York City |
| Country |  United States |
| Presented by | Critics Adult Film Association |
| Reward(s) | Trophy |
| First awarded | 1981 |
| Last awarded | 1987 |
The Critics Adult Film Association (CAFA) was a New York–based group of East Coast adult sex film critics, which bestowed awards upon those working in pornographic film during the 1980s. The awards were first presented in 1981, honoring the movies of the previous year. Talk Dirty to Me, a sex comedy starring John Leslie, who won Best Actor, was voted best film of 1980. Samantha Fox was the first Best Actress, winning for her role in This Lady Is A Tramp, another sex comedy.
Amanda By Night, an adult crime-drama and Roommates, also a drama, would become CAFA's most-honored movies, with the latter being presented with seven awards in 1983, including Best Director (Chuck Vincent) and Best Actress (Veronica Hart).[2] Amanda By Night scooped six awards the previous year in a ceremony "held at the famed Copacabana":[1] Best Film, Best Actress (Hart), Best Supporting Actress (Lisa De Leeuw), Best Director (Robert McCallum), Best Screenplay and Best Editing.
The CAFA and Adult Film Association of America awards were considered the major adult film awards of the Golden Age of Porn. By 1985, sex news magazine Cheri declared: "Held at the Silver Lining, a snazzy little bistro on the West Side's Restaurant Row, the fifth-annual Critics Adult Film Awards was a gentle reminder that porn films can be measured against standards other than the Peter Meter."[3]
The seventh CAFA Awards were presented May 27, 1987, in Manhattan.[4] The association seems to have faded away after that, as did the New York–based adult film industry, overtaken by the X-Rated Critics Organization and its Heart-On Awards, which had first been presented two years earlier and which were based in California, the new centre of porn production.
In 1986 all three awards programs chose the same Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress.[5]
- ^ a b c "1981 Adult Film Critics Awards", Porn Stars: The Stag Erotic Series Vol. 3 No. 4, July/August 1982, pp. 6–9.
- ^ The Film Journal Volume 87, Pubsun Corp., 1984.
- ^ "CAFA Capers: The N.Y. Critics Salute Porndom's Finest", Cheri Magazine, October 1985, pp. 24-27.
- ^ Will H. Jarvis, "The 7th Annual CAFA Awards: The X-rated stars cum out at night!", Cinema Blue magazine, Vol. 4, No. 8, November 1987, pp. 6-9.
- ^ Bill Bottiggi, "The 10th Annual Erotica Awards", Stag magazine, December 1986, pp. 56-57.