Jonathan Morgan
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Jonathan Morgan sent one word to fans. Back. The 2009 AVN list backs him up in spades. He rolled a sexual romp called Fired that handed out knowing one-liners with every thrust. It pulled Best Sex Comedy, Best Actress for Carmen Hart, and Best Supporting Actress for Katie Morgan. His epic of set-piece filth, Se7en Deadly Sins, bagged noms for Best Vignette Release, Best Art Direction, and Best Anal Sex Scene—Eva Angelina on her knees taking Tom Byron, every frame lined up just so. The man edits the way some breathe: sharp, fast, unmistakable. He laced Operation Desert Stormy together with such tight cuts that the industry handed him Best Editing nods before he started calling shots behind the camera. Even his first go-round as talent for Wicked came inside their tongue-in-cheek X-rated comedies. Haunted Nights snatched him the Best Non-Sex Actor and Best Screenplay trophies in the same night. He jumped to directing in 1993, shooting the gonzo blaze Reel Sex World, all raw edges and camera thrust. Four years later he gave Wicked his first pure feature, Crazed, with Serenity turning every scene into a slow burn. It earned him Best Screenplay in ’98. Two films later came Indigo Delta, another lust-and-laughter package that crowned Tom Byron Best Actor. Wicked locked Morgan to an exclusive deal in ’98. The desk was his. Double Feature slammed the laughs and the bodies into history in ’99—ten AVN wins, Morgan’s name etched under Best Director and Best Comedy, Serenity walking off with Best Actress again. He followed it with Bride of Double Feature, Hercules, and in 2001 M Caught in the Act. That last one handed Serenity a second straight Best Actress crown, the first girl to pull the trick twice. Space Nuts landed in 2004: a three-hour, spaceships-and-cum space farce that netted another Best Sex Comedy and landed screen time in Universal’s mainstream comedy The 40 Year Old Virgin. Three years after that, The Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre hacked its way to five trophies—Best Sex Comedy, Best Screenplay, Stormy Daniels Best Supporting Actress, Best DVD, Best Menus. The blood-splattered slapstick still sells, still pops up on lists of genre milestones. Even while the cameras rolled on others, Morgan stepped back in front of one—Best Non-Sex Performance in Becoming Carmen Hart. He followed it by turning Julia Ann loose on brunette, letting her cross every line she had left uncrossed. Kaylani Lei took rides in Next and Carpool that kept Morgan’s name cemented at the top of the heap. 2009 brings Se7en Deadly Sins and Fired into the light once more. The votes read the same: he never left.
Jonathan Morgan sent one word to fans. Back. The 2009 AVN list backs him up in spades. He rolled a sexual romp called Fired that handed out knowing one-liners with every thrust. It pulled Best Sex Comedy, Best Actress for Carmen Hart, and Best Supporting Actress for Katie Morgan. His epic of set-piece filth, Se7en Deadly Sins, bagged noms for Best Vignette Release, Best Art Direction, and Best Anal Sex Scene—Eva Angelina on her knees taking Tom Byron, every frame lined up just so. The man edits the way some breathe: sharp, fast, unmistakable. He laced Operation Desert Stormy together with such tight cuts that the industry handed him Best Editing nods before he started calling shots behind the camera. Even his first go-round as talent for Wicked came inside their tongue-in-cheek X-rated comedies. Haunted Nights snatched him the Best Non-Sex Actor and Best Screenplay trophies in the same night. He jumped to directing in 1993, shooting the gonzo blaze Reel Sex World, all raw edges and camera thrust. Four years later he gave Wicked his first pure feature, Crazed, with Serenity turning every scene into a slow burn. It earned him Best Screenplay in ’98. Two films later came Indigo Delta, another lust-and-laughter package that crowned Tom Byron Best Actor. Wicked locked Morgan to an exclusive deal in ’98. The desk was his. Double Feature slammed the laughs and the bodies into history in ’99—ten AVN wins, Morgan’s name etched under Best Director and Best Comedy, Serenity walking off with Best Actress again. He followed it with Bride of Double Feature, Hercules, and in 2001 M Caught in the Act. That last one handed Serenity a second straight Best Actress crown, the first girl to pull the trick twice. Space Nuts landed in 2004: a three-hour, spaceships-and-cum space farce that netted another Best Sex Comedy and landed screen time in Universal’s mainstream comedy The 40 Year Old Virgin. Three years after that, The Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre hacked its way to five trophies—Best Sex Comedy, Best Screenplay, Stormy Daniels Best Supporting Actress, Best DVD, Best Menus. The blood-splattered slapstick still sells, still pops up on lists of genre milestones. Even while the cameras rolled on others, Morgan stepped back in front of one—Best Non-Sex Performance in Becoming Carmen Hart. He followed it by turning Julia Ann loose on brunette, letting her cross every line she had left uncrossed. Kaylani Lei took rides in Next and Carpool that kept Morgan’s name cemented at the top of the heap. 2009 brings Se7en Deadly Sins and Fired into the light once more. The votes read the same: he never left.