Ricky Sinz
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Ricky Sinz (born November 12, 1980) is an American pornographic actor
who appears in gay
pornographic films. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
In September 2008, Sinz became Raging Stallion's first Lifetime Exclusive after his first year contract expired that same year. The new deal covers films, print media, and web markets, as well as the development of new projects aimed at the mainstream gay market. At Raging Stallion's 2008 annual Folsom Street Fair
pre-party, Sinz was named Raging Stallion Man of the Year for 2008.
While at Raging Stallion, he was a Technical Director as well as an actor for award-winning gay porn film Grunts
, in which, at the 2008 GayVN Awards
, he won 3 of the 8 awards for the film because of three of his performances. Grunts is purported to be the first gay porn film released on Blu-ray Disc
and a film with a record breaking production budget in the gay porn industry.
Continuing in his tradition, at Raging Stallion Studios, he did not stop with the military based film Grunts and went on to star in a leading role for the subsequent higher-budget film To the Last Man.
, an award winning director with hands in independent film, softcore porn, and hardcore porn. Ricky starred in a film Live for Sex, Die for Love, which appears to be his first venture in to a more mainstream filming genre with a more acting based role. This film preceded his dramatic role in the gay porn film To the Last Man.
Profane - (Ricky's third more mainstream acting film - not hardcore porn) scheduled for release in 2009, this film will be one of Ricky's most controversial projects that explores the sexual role of prostitutes in a very cutting edge fim project
directed by Usama Alshaibi
.
, to be held in Hollywood, California.
His Chicago based personal preferences for support in his own community are TPAN (Test Positive Aware Network), Bonaventure House, St. Judes, The Howard Brown Health Center,and the STOP AIDS project
.
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdddd;" | Additional Nominations
|-background="#ffdddd"
! Year !! Nomination !! Film / Role
|-align="center"
| rowspan="7" | 2009 || XBIZ Award
, GLBT Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
, Best Actor || To the Last Man (Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
, Best Performer || Various
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
, Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
, Best Sex Scene - Duo
with Max Schutler || BarBack (Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
, Best Non-Sexual Performance || Hotter than Hell part 1
|-align="center"
| Cybersocket, Best Porn Star site || (Voting Still Open)
|-align="center"
| rowspan="6" | 2008 || XBIZ Award
, GLBT Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| XXX Review, Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| Hard Choice Awards, Best Actor || Grunts
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
, Best Newcomer || Various
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
, Best Threeway Sex Scene
with Jake Deckard
& Trey Casteel || Grunts
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
, Best Duo Sex Scene
with Roman Ragazzi || Grunts
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| 2007 || XXX Review, Best Top ||
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
who appears in gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
pornographic films. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Gay Porn
Ricky Sinz signed as a Raging Stallion Studios Exclusive in 2007. He identifies himself as a bisexual.In September 2008, Sinz became Raging Stallion's first Lifetime Exclusive after his first year contract expired that same year. The new deal covers films, print media, and web markets, as well as the development of new projects aimed at the mainstream gay market. At Raging Stallion's 2008 annual Folsom Street Fair
Folsom Street Fair
The Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week"...
pre-party, Sinz was named Raging Stallion Man of the Year for 2008.
While at Raging Stallion, he was a Technical Director as well as an actor for award-winning gay porn film Grunts
Grunts (film)
Grunts is an award winning gay pornographic film directed by Chris Ward and Ben Leon, produced by Raging Stallion Studios. Featuring a military theme with high budget sets and props the films shooting cost in the vicinity of US$250,000 with 40 scenes and 12 hours of footage...
, in which, at the 2008 GayVN Awards
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...
, he won 3 of the 8 awards for the film because of three of his performances. Grunts is purported to be the first gay porn film released on Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
and a film with a record breaking production budget in the gay porn industry.
Continuing in his tradition, at Raging Stallion Studios, he did not stop with the military based film Grunts and went on to star in a leading role for the subsequent higher-budget film To the Last Man.
Mainstream Films
Ricky Sinz did venture out of mainstream porn to work next door with Hornbill Films director Toby RossToby Ross
Toby Ross is an American film director who made gay hardcore films in the 1970s and 80s. Before Ross made feature films he made loops which were shot on silent 8mm or 16mm. His earliest feature films were partially composed of some of his loops with added soundtracks.Some of his later films were...
, an award winning director with hands in independent film, softcore porn, and hardcore porn. Ricky starred in a film Live for Sex, Die for Love, which appears to be his first venture in to a more mainstream filming genre with a more acting based role. This film preceded his dramatic role in the gay porn film To the Last Man.
Profane - (Ricky's third more mainstream acting film - not hardcore porn) scheduled for release in 2009, this film will be one of Ricky's most controversial projects that explores the sexual role of prostitutes in a very cutting edge fim project
directed by Usama Alshaibi
Usama Alshaibi
Usama Alshaibi is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs...
.
Community and Causes
On December 4, 2008, Sinz was nominated GLBT Performer of the Year for the XBIZ Awards 2009XBIZ
XBIZ is an American publisher of business news and business information for the adult entertainment industry.In addition to its flagship website, XBIZ publishes two monthly trade magazines, hosts winter and summer exhibition & industry conferences, and facilitates networking among adult online...
, to be held in Hollywood, California.
His Chicago based personal preferences for support in his own community are TPAN (Test Positive Aware Network), Bonaventure House, St. Judes, The Howard Brown Health Center,and the STOP AIDS project
STOP AIDS project
Stop AIDS Project is a United States non-profit organization established in 1985 that works to prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual, and trans men in San Francisco, California, through multicultural, community-based organizing...
.
Awards
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #ffdddd;" | Additional Nominations
|-background="#ffdddd"
! Year !! Nomination !! Film / Role
|-align="center"
| rowspan="7" | 2009 || XBIZ Award
XBIZ Award
XBIZ Awards are given annually to honor "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult entertainment". Organized by the adult industry trade magazine XBIZ, the awards were first given in 2003...
, GLBT Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards , are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free weekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC....
, Best Actor || To the Last Man (Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards , are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free weekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC....
, Best Performer || Various
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...
, Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...
, Best Sex Scene - Duo
with Max Schutler || BarBack (Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| GayVN Awards
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...
, Best Non-Sexual Performance || Hotter than Hell part 1
|-align="center"
| Cybersocket, Best Porn Star site || (Voting Still Open)
|-align="center"
| rowspan="6" | 2008 || XBIZ Award
XBIZ Award
XBIZ Awards are given annually to honor "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult entertainment". Organized by the adult industry trade magazine XBIZ, the awards were first given in 2003...
, GLBT Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| XXX Review, Performer of the Year || Various
|-align="center"
| Hard Choice Awards, Best Actor || Grunts
Grunts (film)
Grunts is an award winning gay pornographic film directed by Chris Ward and Ben Leon, produced by Raging Stallion Studios. Featuring a military theme with high budget sets and props the films shooting cost in the vicinity of US$250,000 with 40 scenes and 12 hours of footage...
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards , are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free weekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC....
, Best Newcomer || Various
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards , are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free weekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC....
, Best Threeway Sex Scene
with Jake Deckard
Jake Deckard
Jake Deckard is an American gay pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. In April 2006, a shakeup between Titan Media and Raging Stallion ended in a swap himself and François Sagat . Deckard has been named Raging Stallion 2007 Man of the Year. Deckard has also...
& Trey Casteel || Grunts
Grunts (film)
Grunts is an award winning gay pornographic film directed by Chris Ward and Ben Leon, produced by Raging Stallion Studios. Featuring a military theme with high budget sets and props the films shooting cost in the vicinity of US$250,000 with 40 scenes and 12 hours of footage...
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards
Grabby Awards , are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free weekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC....
, Best Duo Sex Scene
with Roman Ragazzi || Grunts
Grunts (film)
Grunts is an award winning gay pornographic film directed by Chris Ward and Ben Leon, produced by Raging Stallion Studios. Featuring a military theme with high budget sets and props the films shooting cost in the vicinity of US$250,000 with 40 scenes and 12 hours of footage...
(Raging Stallion Studios)
|-align="center"
| 2007 || XXX Review, Best Top ||
See also
- List of pornographic movie studios
- List of Grabby recipients
- List of male performers in gay porn films
External links
- Ricky Sinz Website Warning: Explicit content (nudity)
- hole and a heartbeat studios Website Warning: Explicit content (nudity)
- Ricky Sinz live Website Warning: Explicit content (nudity)
- Ricky Sinz MySpace
- IMDB Profile (The Internet Movie Database)
- IAFD Profile (International Adult Film Database)
- AVN Media Network articles relative to Ricky Sinz