Also called "The Razzies". And by "raspberry" we mean a
big, loud, wet one, although the trophy portrays, for simplicity's sake, a fruit.
When you've made a movie that is
So Bad Its Horrible, this is exactly the sort of "award" you may be in for.
The Razzies have been handed out since 1981, traditionally on the evening before
the Academy Awards are handed out. Understandably, very few people ever show up in person to accept their Raspberry, a gold-painted plastic statue costing "about $4.97".
A few have though, taking the suck-atude of their movie in stride (which
makes you wonder). A few actors and films have won both Oscars
and Razzies. A select few have been nominated for both awards
for the same work.
To date, only one actor has ever won both the Razzie and the Oscar in equivalent categories in the same year (albeit for different films), in 2010 —
Sandra Bullock actually did turn up to collect both though, the Worst Actress Razzie for
All About Steve and the Best Actress Oscar for
The Blind Side. Two others also won simultaneous awards: composer
Alan Menken (Oscar for Score and Song in
Aladdin, Razzie for Worst Song in
Newsies) and screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Oscar for the
LA Confidential adaptation, Razzie for
The Postman — he decided to accept the Razzie, and they delivered it to him in his office).
note His collaborator, Eric Roth — who had himself adapted Forrest Gump into the far better-known movie and won an Academy Award for that one — was not so gracious.Among the people who showed up to collect awards are
Halle Berry for
Catwoman (bringing her Oscar from the previous year to the ceremony!), Tom Green for
Freddy Got Fingered (accepting all four of the awards he personally won as well as the Worst Picture trophy), J.D. Shapiro for
Battlefield Earth, and Paul Verhoeven for
Showgirls, as well as the aforementioned Sandra Bullock.
Tom Selleck received his for
Christopher Columbus The Discovery on a talk show, and on another show
Bill Cosby received a literal Golden (and marble) Raspberry for
Leonard Part 6 on a show instead of the cheap one. The star of
The Wild Wild West, Robert Conrad, picked up the awards for the
ill-fated adaptation starring
Will Smith as a protest.
Biggest Razzie winners are
Jack And Jill (10 awards, i.e.
all the categories),
Battlefield Earth (9 total, 7 awards upon release, Worst Drama of the Razzies' First 25 Years in 2004, and Worst Movie of the 2000s in 2010),
Showgirls (8 total, 7 awards upon release and Worst Movie of the 90s in 2000) and
I Know Who Killed Me (8 awards in 2008 — though one is kind of a cheat:
Lindsay Lohan tied with Lindsay Lohan for Worst Actress as she
played two roles) for movies,
Sylvester Stallone (10 awards, including Worst Actor of
The Eighties and Worst Actor of the Century, the latter being for "99% of everything he's EVER done") and
Madonna (8 awards, including Worst Actress of the Century) for actors.
To date, only one documentary (
Michael Moore's 2004 film
Fahrenheit 9/11) has ever been nominated for or won a Razzie. It was also the first Razzie winner (all four awards scorning the performances of high-ranking American
Iraq hawks who "starred" as themselves) that bombed neither critically nor financially.
note The Worst Actor was none other than President George W. Bush, who also won Worst Screen Couple (with either Worst Actress nominee Condoleezza Rice or his Pet Goat); Donald Rumsfeld won the Worst Supporting Actor laurel; and Britney Spears won Worst Supporting Actress based on a clip in which she expressed her support for the administration's policies.Remember, it's just a movie...
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