History MediaNotes / GoldenRaspberryAwardForWorstDirector

** David Slade for ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]''

** Creator/BillCondon for ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1]]''

* 2012: '''Creator/BillCondon''' for ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2]]''

** Creator/JoeWright for ''Literature/TheWomanInTheWindow''

** Creator/RobertZemeckis for ''[[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney Pinoccho]]''

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** '''Creator/BlakeEdwards''' for ''Film/{{Sunset}}''

** '''Creator/DennisDugan''' for ''[[Film/GrownUps Grown Ups 2]]''
** '''Creator/TylerPerry for ''A Madea Christmas'' and ''Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor''

* 2013: '''Multiple directors'''[[note]]Steve Baker, Creator/ElizabethBanks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Creator/RustyCundieff, James Duffy, Creator/GriffinDunne, Damon Escott, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, Creator/JamesGunn, Creator/BobOdenkirk, Creator/BrettRatner, and Jonathan van Tulleken[[/note]] for ''Film/Movie43''
** Creator/DennisDugan for ''[[Film/GrownUps Grown Ups 2]]''
** Creator/TylerPerry for ''A Madea Christmas'' and ''Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor''

** Andy Fickman for ''[[Film/PaulBlartMallCop Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2]]''

** Creator/MichaelCimino for ''Film/YearOfTheDragon''

* 1981: '''Creator/MichaelCimino''' for ''Film/HeavensGate''[[note]]First Oscar-winning director to win the Razzie.[[/note]]

[[folder:Worst Director]]
* 1980: '''Robert Greenwald''' (''Film/{{Xanadu}}'')
** John G. Avildsen (''The Formula'')
** Creator/BrianDePalma (''Film/DressedToKill'')
** Richard Fleischer (''Film/TheJazzSinger'')
** Creator/WilliamFriedkin (''Film/{{Cruising}}'')
** Creator/StanleyKubrick (''Film/TheShining'')
** Michael Ritchie (''Film/{{The Island|1980}}'')
** John Trent (''Middle Age Crazy'')
** Nancy Walker (''Film/CantStopTheMusic'')
** Gordon Willis (''Windows'')[[index]]
* 1981: '''Creator/MichaelCimino''' (''Film/HeavensGate'')[[note]]First Oscar-winning director to win the Razzie.[[/note]][[/index]]
** John Derek (''[[Film/TarzanTheApeMan1981 Tarzan, the Ape Man]]'')
** Creator/BlakeEdwards (''Film/{{SOB}}'')
** Frank Perry (''Literature/MommieDearest'')
** Creator/FrancoZeffirelli (''Literature/EndlessLove'')
* 1982: '''Tie'''[[index]]
** '''Ken Annakin''' (''Film/ThePirateMovie'')
** '''Creator/TerenceYoung''' (''Film/{{Inchon}}'')[[/index]]
*** Matt Cimber (''Butterfly'')
*** Creator/JohnHuston (''Film/{{Annie|1982}}'')
*** Hal Needham (''Film/{{Megaforce}}'')
* 1983: '''Peter Sasdy''' (''Film/TheLonelyLady'')
** Joe Alves (''Film/Jaws3D'')
** Creator/BrianDePalma (''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'')
** John Herzfeld (''Film/{{Two of a Kind|1983}}'')
** Hal Needham (''Film/StrokerAce'')
* 1984: '''John Derek''' (''Film/{{Bolero}}'')
** Creator/BobClark (''Film/{{Rhinestone}}'')
** Creator/BrianDePalma (''Film/BodyDouble'')
** John Guillermin (''Film/{{Sheena}}'')
** Hal Needham (''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'')[[index]]
* 1985: '''Creator/SylvesterStallone''' (''Film/RockyIV'')[[/index]]
** Creator/RichardBrooks (''Fever Pitch'')
** Creator/MichaelCimino (''Film/YearOfTheDragon'')
** George Pan Cosmatos (''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'')
** Hugh Hudson (''Film/{{Revolution|1985}}'')[[index]]
* 1986: '''Music/{{Prince}}''' (''Film/UnderTheCherryMoon'')[[/index]]
** Jim Goddard (''Film/ShanghaiSurprise'')
** Willard Huyck (''Film/HowardTheDuck'')
** Creator/StephenKing (''Film/MaximumOverdrive'')
** Michelle Manning (''Blue City'')
* 1987: '''Tie'''[[index]]
** '''Creator/NormanMailer''' (''Film/ToughGuysDontDance'')
** '''Creator/ElaineMay''' (''Film/{{Ishtar}}'')[[note]]First female director to win; Oscar wouldn't give its first Best Director Oscar to a woman until ''2010''.[[/note]][[/index]]
*** James Foley (''Film/WhosThatGirl'')
*** Joseph Sargent (''Film/JawsTheRevenge'')
*** Paul Weiland (''Film/LeonardPart6'')

** '''Creator/BlakeEdwards''' (''Film/{{Sunset}}'')
** '''Stewart Raffill''' (''Film/MacAndMe'')
*** Michael Dinner (''Film/HotToTrot'')
*** Creator/RogerDonaldson (''Film/{{Cocktail}}'')
*** Peter [=MacDonald=] (''Film/RamboIII'')[[index]]
* 1989: '''Creator/WilliamShatner''' (''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'')[[/index]]
** John G. Avildsen (''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'')
** Jim Drake (''Film/SpeedZone'')
** Rowdy Herrington (''Film/{{Road House|1989}}'')
** Creator/EddieMurphy (''Film/HarlemNights'')
* 1990: '''John Derek''' (''Film/GhostsCantDoIt'')[[note]]First repeat winner.[[/note]]
** John G. Avildsen (''Film/RockyV'')
** Creator/BrianDePalma (''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'')
** Creator/RennyHarlin (''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane'')
** Music/{{Prince}} (''Film/GraffitiBridge'')
* 1991: '''Michael Lehmann''' (''Film/HudsonHawk'')
** Creator/DanAykroyd (''Film/NothingButTrouble'')
** William Graham (''[[Literature/TheBlueLagoon Return to the Blue Lagoon]]'')
** David Kellogg (''Film/CoolAsIce'')
** Creator/JohnLandis (''Film/{{Oscar|1991}}'')
* 1992: '''David Seltzer''' (''Film/ShiningThrough'')
** Creator/DannyDeVito (''Film/{{Hoffa}}'')
** Creator/JohnGlen (''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'')
** Creator/BarryLevinson (''Film/{{Toys}}'')
** Creator/KennyOrtega (''Film/{{Newsies}}'')
* 1993: '''Jennifer Lynch''' (''Film/BoxingHelena'')[[/index]]
** Uli Edel (''Film/BodyOfEvidence'')
** Creator/AdrianLyne (''Film/IndecentProposal'')
** Creator/JohnMcTiernan (''Film/LastActionHero'')
** Creator/PhillipNoyce (''Film/{{Sliver}}'')[[index]]
* 1994: '''Creator/StevenSeagal''' (''Film/OnDeadlyGround'')[[/index]]
** Creator/LawrenceKasdan (''Film/WyattEarp'')
** Creator/JohnLandis (''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'')
** Creator/RobReiner (''Film/{{North}}'')
** Richard Rush (''Film/ColorOfNight'')[[index]]
* 1995: '''Creator/PaulVerhoeven''' (''Film/{{Showgirls}}'')[[note]]Accepted his award in person at the ceremony, the first person ever to do so. (He also accepted Worst Picture, though technically this was on behalf of the film's producers.)[[/note]][[/index]]
** Creator/RennyHarlin (''Film/CutthroatIsland'')
** Roland Joffe (''Film/{{The Scarlet Letter|1995}}'')
** Frank Marshall (''Film/{{Congo}}'')
** Creator/KevinCostner and Kevin Reynolds (''Film/{{Waterworld}}'')
* 1996: '''Andrew Bergman''' (''Film/{{Striptease}}'')
** Creator/JohnFrankenheimer (''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'')
** Creator/StephenFrears (''Film/MaryReilly'')
** Creator/JohnLandis (''Film/TheStupids'')
** Brian Levant (''Film/JingleAllTheWay'')[[index]]
* 1997: '''Creator/KevinCostner''' (''Film/ThePostman'')[[note]]Second Best Director Oscar winner to win the Razzie.[[/note]][[/index]]
** Jan de Bont (''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'')
** Luis Llosa (''Film/{{Anaconda}}'')
** Creator/JoelSchumacher (''Film/BatmanAndRobin'')
** Creator/OliverStone (''Film/UTurn'')[[index]]
* 1998: '''Creator/GusVanSant''' (''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'')[[/index]]
** Creator/MichaelBay (''Film/{{Armageddon|1998}}'')
** Jeremiah S. Chechik (''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'')
** Creator/RolandEmmerich (''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'')
** Creator/ArthurHiller[[note]]as AlanSmithee[[/note]] (''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'')[[index]]
* 1999: '''Creator/BarrySonnenfeld''' (''Film/WildWildWest'')[[/index]]
** Jan de Bont (''Film/{{The Haunting|1999}}'')
** Creator/DennisDugan (''Film/BigDaddy'')
** Creator/PeterHyams (''Film/EndOfDays'')
** Creator/GeorgeLucas (''Film/ThePhantomMenace'')
* 2000: '''Roger Christian''' (''Film/BattlefieldEarth'')
** Joe Berlinger (''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'')
** Steven Brill (''Film/LittleNicky'')
** Creator/BrianDePalma (''Film/MissionToMars'')
** Creator/JohnSchlesinger (''The Next Best Thing'')
* 2001: '''Creator/TomGreen''' (''Film/FreddyGotFingered'')[[note]]Green accepted this award and all others that the film "won" that night in person.[[/note]]
** Creator/MichaelBay (''Film/PearlHarbor'')
** Peter Chelsom (''Town & Country'')
** Creator/VondieCurtisHall (''Film/{{Glitter}}'')
** Creator/RennyHarlin (''Film/{{Driven}}'')[[index]]
* 2002: '''Creator/GuyRitchie''' (''Film/SweptAway'')[[/index]]
** Creator/RobertoBenigni (''Film/{{Pinocchio|2002}}'')
** Tamra Davis (''Film/{{Crossroads}}'')
** Creator/GeorgeLucas (''Film/AttackOfTheClones'')
** Creator/RonUnderwood (''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'')[[index]]
* 2003: '''Creator/MartinBrest''' (''Film/{{Gigli}}'')[[/index]]
** Robert Iscove (''Film/FromJustinToKelly'')
** Mort Nathan (''Film/BoatTrip'')
** Creator/TheWachowskis (''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'')
** Bo Welch (''Film/TheCatInTheHat'')
* 2004: '''Pitof''' (''Film/{{Catwoman|2004}}'')
** Creator/BobClark (''[[Film/BabyGeniuses Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2]]'')
** Creator/RennyHarlin "and/or" Creator/PaulSchrader (''Film/ExorcistTheBeginning'') [[note]]The "and/or" is a reference to the film's TroubledProduction: Schrader was originally brought to direct the film, but after the film was completed and was being marketed, studio executives feared that the film would be unsuccessful, and decided to shelve Schrader's cut and brought it Harlin to effectively make an entirely new film, which became ''Exorcist: The Beginning''. For what it's worth, not only is ''The Beginning'' solely credited to Harlin, but after that film was negatively received, Schrader was allowed to released his own version, titled as ''Film/DominionPrequelToTheExorcist''.[[/note]]
** Creator/OliverStone (''Film/{{Alexander}}'')
** Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans (''Film/WhiteChicks'')[[index]]
* 2005: '''Creator/JohnAsher''' (''Film/DirtyLove'')[[/index]]
** Creator/UweBoll (''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'')
** Jay Chandrasekhar (''Film/TheDukesOfHazzard'')
** Creator/NoraEphron (''Film/{{Bewitched}}'')
** Lawrence Guterman (''Film/SonOfTheMask'')[[index]]
* 2006: '''Creator/MNightShyamalan''' (''Film/LadyInTheWater'')[[/index]]
** Creator/UweBoll (''Film/BloodRayne'')
** Michael Caton-Jones (''Film/BasicInstinct2'')
** Creator/RonHoward (''Film/TheDaVinciCode'')
** Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans (''Film/LittleMan'')
* 2007: '''Chris Siverston''' (''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'')
** Creator/DennisDugan (''Film/INowPronounceYouChuckAndLarry'')
** Roland Joffe (''Film/{{Captivity}}'')
** Brian Robbins (''Film/{{Norbit}}'')
** Creator/FredSavage (''Film/DaddyDayCamp'')[[index]]
* 2008: '''Creator/UweBoll''' (''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing'', ''Postal'' and ''Tunnel Rats'')[[note]] Boll jokingly acceted his award, along with his Worst Career Achievement in a video message filmed from the set of his 2009 film ''Darfur'', snarking that the humiliation from his "wins" caused him to move into a hut in Sudan.[[/note]][[/index]]
** [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]] (''Disaster Movie'' and ''Meet the Spartans'')
** Tom Putnam (''Film/TheHottieAndTheNottie'')
** Marco Schnabel (''Film/TheLoveGuru'')
** Creator/MNightShyamalan (''Film/TheHappening'')[[index]]
* 2009: '''Creator/MichaelBay''' (''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'')[[/index]]
** Walt Becker (''Film/OldDogs'')
** Brad Silberling (''Film/LandOfTheLost'')
** Creator/StephenSommers (''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'')
** Creator/PhilTraill (''Film/AllAboutSteve'')
* 2010: '''Creator/MNightShyamalan''' (''Film/TheLastAirbender'')[[note]]Second repeat winner.[[/note]]
** [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]] (''Film/VampiresSuck'')
** Michael Patrick King (''[[Film/SexAndTheCity Sex and the City 2]]'')
** David Slade (''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]'')
** Creator/SylvesterStallone (''Film/TheExpendables'')
* 2011: '''Creator/DennisDugan''' (''Film/JackAndJill'' and ''Film/JustGoWithIt'')
** Creator/MichaelBay (''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'')
** Tom Brady [[note]]No, not the [[Creator/TomBrady American Football player]].[[/note]] (''Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star'')
** Creator/BillCondon (''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1]]'')
** Creator/GarryMarshall (''Film/NewYearsEve'')[[index]]
* 2012: '''Creator/BillCondon''' (''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2]]'')[[/index]]
** Sean Anders (''Film/ThatsMyBoy'')
** Creator/PeterBerg (''Film/{{Battleship}}'')
** Tyler Perry (''Good Deeds'' and ''Madea's Witness Protection'')
** John Putch (''[[Film/AtlasShrugged Atlas Shrugged: Part II]]'')
* 2013: '''Multiple directors''' [[note]]Steve Baker, Creator/ElizabethBanks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Creator/RustyCundieff, James Duffy, Creator/GriffinDunne, Damon Escott, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, Creator/JamesGunn, Creator/BobOdenkirk, Creator/BrettRatner, and Jonathan van Tulleken[[/note]] (''Film/Movie43'')
** Creator/DennisDugan (''[[Film/GrownUps Grown Ups 2]]'')
** Creator/TylerPerry (''A Madea Christmas'' and ''Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor'')
** Creator/MNightShyamalan (''Film/AfterEarth'')
** Creator/GoreVerbinski (''Film/{{The Lone Ranger|2013}}'')
* 2014: '''Creator/MichaelBay''' (''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'')[[note]]Third repeat winner.[[/note]]
** Darren Doane (''Film/SavingChristmas'')
** Creator/RennyHarlin (''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'')
** Jonathan Liebesman (''Film/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2014}}'')
** Creator/SethMacFarlane (''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest'')[[index]]
* 2015: '''Creator/JoshTrank''' (''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2015}}'')[[/index]]
** Andy Fickman (''[[Film/PaulBlartMallCop Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2]]'')
** Tom Six (''[[Film/TheHumanCentipede The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence]]'')
** Creator/SamTaylorJohnson (''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'')
** Creator/TheWachowskis (''Film/JupiterAscending'')
* 2016: '''Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley''' (''Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party'')
** Creator/RolandEmmerich (''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'')
** Creator/TylerPerry (''Boo! A Madea Halloween'')
** Creator/AlexProyas (''Film/GodsOfEgypt'')
** Creator/ZackSnyder (''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'')
** Creator/BenStiller (''Film/Zoolander2'')
* 2017: '''Tony Leondis''' (''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'')
** Creator/DarrenAronofsky (''[[Film/Mother2017 mother!]]'')
** Creator/MichaelBay (''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'')
** James Foley (''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Darker]]'')
** Creator/AlexKurtzman (''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'')
* 2018: '''Etan Cohen''' (''Film/HolmesAndWatson'')
** Creator/KevinConnolly (''Film/{{Gotti}}'')
** James Foley (''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Freed]]'')
** Brian Henson (''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'')
** Creator/TheSpierigBrothers (''Film/{{Winchester}}'')[[index]]
* 2019: '''Creator/TomHooper''' (''Film/{{Cats}}'')[[note]]Third Oscar winner for Best Director to win the Razzie.[[/note]][[/index]]
** [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] (''Film/TheFanatic'')
** Creator/JamesFranco (''Zeroville'')
** Adrian Grunberg (''Film/RamboLastBlood'')
** Neil Marshall (''Film/{{Hellboy|2019}}'')[[index]]
* 2020: '''Music/{{Sia}}''' (''Film/{{Music|2021}}'')[[/index]]
** Charles Band (''Corona Zombies'', ''Barbie & Kendra Saves the Tiger King'', and ''Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51'')
** Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes (''Film/ThreeHundredSixtyFiveDays'')
** Stephen Gaghan (''Film/{{Dolittle}}'')
** Creator/RonHoward (''Literature/HillbillyElegy'')
* 2021: '''Christopher Ashley''' (''Diana the Musical'')
** Stephen Chbosky (''Film/DearEvanHansen'')
** Coke Daniels (''Film/{{Karen}}'')
** Creator/RennyHarlin (''The Misfits'')
** Creator/JoeWright (''Literature/TheWomanInTheWindow'')
* 2022: '''Music/MachineGunKelly and Music/ModSun''' (''Good Mourning'')
** Creator/JuddApatow (''Film/{{The Bubble|2022}}'')
** Creator/AndrewDominik (''Film/{{Blonde}}'')
** Creator/DanielEspinosa (''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}'')
** Creator/RobertZemeckis (''[[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney Pinoccho]]'')

** Creator/DanielEspinosa (''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}''