William Higgins (director)
William Higgins (also "Wim Hof") is a director of gay pornographic films. His first film, "Boys of Venice" was produced in 1979 and he has produced over 140 internationally distributed titles.[1] His films have won several Grabby awards and he is in the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame.[2] He is the founder of the film production company Catalina Video.
One of gay porn's pioneers, William Higgins began making movies with a distinctive "California look" in the 1970s and directed many of Catalina Video's greatest hits for nearly two decades. With classic films like "Pacific Coast Highway," "The Young & the Hung," "Sailor in the Wild," "Class Reunion," "Big Guns," "The Bases Are Loaded," "Brother Load," "Beyond Hawaii," and "French Lieutenant's Boys,"
Channel 1 Releasing acquired the rights to Catalina Video in 2007 and is re-mastering many of Higgins' classic Catalina movies and transferring them to DVD.
Awards and nominations
- 1984 Gay Producers Association winner of Special Achievement Award for "Sailor In The Wild 1".[3]
- 1985 X-Rated Critics Organization winner of Best Depiction of Safe Sex for "The Young & the Hung".[4]
- 2000 Grabby Awards nomination for Best International Video and Best Videograph.[5]
- 2000 Grabby Awards winner of Best Classic DVD.[6]
- 2003 Grabby Awards winner of Best Classic DVD.[7]
Selected filmography
References
- ^ Weitzer, Ronald John (2000), Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry, Routledge, p. 54, ISBN 9780415922951, http://books.google.com/books?id=LEhzBddEcjkC, "Directors William Higgins and Matt Sterling set the standard for the new 1980s gay porn model."
- ^ 1998 GayVN Hall of Fame.
- ^ Guyjoy, Wilder, editor-in-chief (November 1995). Adam Gay Video 1996 Directory. Los Angeles, California: Knight Publishing Corp..
- ^ "XRCO award winners". XRCO. http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm.
- ^ "GVD 2000 Grabby Awards Nominations". Archived from the original on June 4, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20040604095113/http://www.grabbys.com/a1.grab.00.cat.win.html.
- ^ "The 12th Annual (2002) Grabby Award Winners". Gay Chicago Magazine. 24 May 2003. Archived from the original on 9 May 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20040509125335/http://www.grabbys.com/a1.grab.02.winners.html.
- ^ "The 13th Annual (2003) Grabby Award Winners". Gay Chicago Magazine. Archived from the original on June 18, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20040618023524/http://www.grabbys.com/a1.grab.03.winners.html.
- ^ 2004 Grabby award winner for Best Classic DVD
- ^ 1985 X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) award for best director.
- ^ 1987 X-Rated Critics Organization Best Video, 2002 Grabby Award Best Classic DVD and 2006 Grabby Award Best Classic Gay DVD.
- ^ JC Adams (28 April 2009). "Identical-Twin Sex Featured in ‘Double Czech’". The Adams Report. http://www.gayporntimes.com/hardnews/2009/04/28/identical-twin-sex-featured-in-double-czech/. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ 2002 Grabby award winner for Best International Screenplay.
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