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 eight consecutive years in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. 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.