Axel Braun


Axel Braun, is an Italian-American adult film producer and director known for his productions of pornographic parodies.
The son of Lasse Braun, he is an AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame and NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee.

Early life

Axel was born and raised in Milan, Italy. His mother had a brief affair with adult film director Lasse Braun. Axel didn't meet Lasse until he was 14. He attended film school at Columbia College Hollywood.

Career

Braun has directed over 500 movies since 1990. Braun's movie was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. Due to the success of Batman XXX, Vivid Entertainment created a new line to capitalize on the superhero and sci-fi genres called Vivid Superhero and Braun was named leading director for the initiative. In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusively to fairy tale and comic book parodies.

Advocacy

Braun filed a federal lawsuit against 7,098 individuals who he alleged illegally shared digital copies of his movie Batman XXX: A Porn Parody on October 29, 2010.
In May 2014, Braun announced two new policies for his productions. First, he would no longer forgo the use of condoms in his videos. Second, he will require full-panel STD/HIV tests no older than seven days. He added that he would personally cover the cost for the test if a performer's current test is older.

Recognition

Braun was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2014. He has won the AVN Best Parody award for nine consecutive years in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Braun is the only adult director to have won the AVN Director of the Year award more than once, as he has won four consecutive times in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In January 2015, 24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody became the first parody ever to win the AVN Movie of the Year award. Braun won the top award again in 2016 with Peter Pan XXX: An Axel Braun Parody, and in 2017 with "Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody" scoring an unprecedented AVN Movie of the Year three-peat. In 2019, Braun won the AVN Movie of the Year for a fourth time with "The Possession of Mrs. Hyde", his first non-parody feature in 15 years, written with his father Lasse Braun and his son Rikki, and shot entirely in Black and White CinemaScope.

Other ventures

Braun is the owner of Level 5 Post, a post-production company that supplies editing, authoring, graphics and special effects to many adult and mainstream companies.

Selected awards

YearCategoryNominated work
2004Best ScreenplayCompulsion
2011AVN Hall of Fame inducteerowspan="2"
2011Director of the Year-
2011Best ScreenplayBatman XXX: A Porn Parody
2012Director of the Yearrowspan="3"
2013Director of the Year-
2013Best Director-Parody-
2013Best ScreenplayStar Wars XXX: A Porn Parody
2014Director of the Yearrowspan="2"
2015Best Director/Parody-
2015Best Screenplay24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
2016Best Director/Parody
2016Best ScreenplayBatman v Superman XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
2017Best ScreenplaySuicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
2017Best Director/Parodyrowspan="3"
2018Best Director/Feature-
2019Best Director/Feature-
2019Best ScreenplayThe Possession of Mrs. Hyde

YearCategoryNominated work
2010Director of the Year-Body of Work
2013Director of the Year – ParodyStar Wars XXX: A Porn Parody
2014Director of the Year-Body of Workrowspan="2"
2016Director of the Year-Parody-

YearCategoryNominated work
2010Best Director rowspan="3"
2012NightMoves Lifetime Achievement Award-
2014NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee-

YearCategoryNominated work
2004Best DirectorCompulsión

YearCategory
2011Best Director-Parody
2012Best Director-Parody
2013Best Director-Parody
2014XRCO Hall of Fame inductee
2016-
2017-
2018-