Media Notes / Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

A list of directors and films that won and were nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director.

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1980s

• 1980: Robert Greenwald for Xanadu
  • John G. Avildsen for The Formula
  • Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill
  • Richard Fleischer for The Jazz Singer
  • William Friedkin for Cruising
  • Stanley Kubrick for The Shining
  • Michael Ritchie for The Island
  • John Trent for Middle Age Crazy
  • Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music^note First woman to be nominated for Worst Director.
  • Gordon Willis for Windows

• 1981: Michael Cimino for Heaven's Gate^note First Oscar-winning director to win the Razzie.
  • John Derek for Tarzan, the Ape Man
  • Blake Edwards for S.O.B.
  • Frank Perry for Mommie Dearest
  • Franco Zeffirelli for Endless Love

• 1982: Tie
  • Ken Annakin for The Pirate Movie
  • Terence Young for Inchon
    • Matt Cimber for Butterfly
    • John Huston for Annie
    • Hal Needham for Megaforce
• 1983: Peter Sasdy for The Lonely Lady
  • Joe Alves for Jaws 3-D
  • Brian De Palma for Scarface
  • John Herzfeld for Two of a Kind
  • Hal Needham for Stroker Ace
• 1984: John Derek for Bolero
  • Bob Clark for Rhinestone
  • Brian De Palma for Body Double
  • John Guillermin for Sheena
  • Hal Needham for Cannonball Run II

• 1985: Sylvester Stallone for Rocky IV
  • Richard Brooks for Fever Pitch
  • Michael Cimino for Year of the Dragon
  • George Pan Cosmatos for Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • Hugh Hudson for Revolution

• 1986: Prince for Under the Cherry Moon
  • Jim Goddard for Shanghai Surprise
  • Willard Huyck for Howard the Duck
  • Stephen King for Maximum Overdrive
  • Michelle Manning for Blue City

• 1987: Tie
  • Norman Mailer for Tough Guys Don't Dance
  • Elaine May for Ishtar^note First female director to win; the Oscars wouldn't give its first Best Director Oscar to a woman until 2010.
    • James Foley for Who's That Girl
    • Joseph Sargent for Jaws: The Revenge
    • Paul Weiland for Leonard Part 6

• 1988: Tie
  • Blake Edwards for Sunset
  • Stewart Raffill for Mac and Me
    • Michael Dinner for Hot to Trot
    • Roger Donaldson for Cocktail
    • Peter MacDonald for Rambo III

• 1989: William Shatner for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • John G. Avildsen for The Karate Kid Part III
  • Jim Drake for Speed Zone
  • Rowdy Herrington for Road House
  • Eddie Murphy for Harlem Nights

1990s

• 1990: John Derek for Ghosts Can't Do It^note First repeat winner.
  • John G. Avildsen for Rocky V
  • Brian De Palma for The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Renny Harlin for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
  • Prince for Graffiti Bridge

• 1991: Michael Lehmann for Hudson Hawk
  • Dan Aykroyd for Nothing but Trouble
  • William Graham for Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • David Kellogg for Cool as Ice
  • John Landis for Oscar

• 1992: David Seltzer for Shining Through
  • Danny DeVito for Hoffa
  • John Glen for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
  • Barry Levinson for Toys
  • Kenny Ortega for Newsies

• 1993: Jennifer Lynch for Boxing Helena
  • Uli Edel for Body of Evidence
  • Adrian Lyne for Indecent Proposal
  • John McTiernan for Last Action Hero
  • Phillip Noyce for Sliver

• 1994: Steven Seagal for On Deadly Ground
  • Lawrence Kasdan for Wyatt Earp
  • John Landis for Beverly Hills Cop III
  • Rob Reiner for North
  • Richard Rush for Color of Night

• 1995: Paul Verhoeven for 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.)
  • Renny Harlin for Cutthroat Island
  • Roland Joffe for The Scarlet Letter
  • Frank Marshall for Congo
  • Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds for Waterworld

• 1996: Andrew Bergman for Striptease
  • John Frankenheimer for The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Stephen Frears for Mary Reilly
  • John Landis for The Stupids
  • Brian Levant for Jingle All the Way

• 1997: Kevin Costner for The Postman^note Second Best Director Oscar winner to win the Razzie.
  • Jan de Bont for Speed 2: Cruise Control
  • Luis Llosa for Anaconda
  • Joel Schumacher for Batman & Robin
  • Oliver Stone for U Turn

• 1998: Gus Van Sant for Psycho
  • Michael Bay for Armageddon
  • Jeremiah S. Chechik for The Avengers
  • Roland Emmerich for Godzilla
  • Arthur Hiller^note as Alan Smithee for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

• 1999: Barry Sonnenfeld for Wild Wild West
  • Jan de Bont for The Haunting
  • Dennis Dugan for Big Daddy
  • Peter Hyams for End of Days
  • George Lucas for The Phantom Menace

2000s

• 2000: Roger Christian for Battlefield Earth
  • Joe Berlinger for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • Steven Brill for Little Nicky
  • Brian De Palma for Mission to Mars
  • John Schlesinger for The Next Best Thing

• 2001: Tom Green for Freddy Got Fingered^note Green accepted this award and all others that the film "won" that night in person.
  • Michael Bay for Pearl Harbor
  • Peter Chelsom for Town & Country
  • Vondie Curtis-Hall for Glitter
  • Renny Harlin for Driven

• 2002: Guy Ritchie for Swept Away
  • Roberto Benigni for Pinocchio
  • Tamra Davis for Crossroads
  • George Lucas for Attack of the Clones
  • Ron Underwood for The Adventures of Pluto Nash

• 2003: Martin Brest for Gigli
  • Robert Iscove for From Justin to Kelly
  • Mort Nathan for Boat Trip
  • The Wachowskis for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
  • Bo Welch for The Cat in the Hat

• 2004: Pitof for Catwoman
  • Bob Clark for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
  • Renny Harlin "and/or" Paul Schrader for Exorcist: The Beginning^note The "and/or" is a reference to the film's Troubled Production: 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 Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist.
  • Oliver Stone for Alexander
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans for White Chicks

• 2005: John Asher for Dirty Love
  • Uwe Boll for Alone in the Dark
  • Jay Chandrasekhar for The Dukes of Hazzard
  • Nora Ephron for Bewitched
  • Lawrence Guterman for Son of the Mask

• 2006: M. Night Shyamalan for Lady in the Water
  • Uwe Boll for BloodRayne
  • Michael Caton-Jones for Basic Instinct 2
  • Ron Howard for The Da Vinci Code
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans for Little Man

• 2007: Chris Siverston for I Know Who Killed Me
  • Dennis Dugan for I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
  • Roland Joffe for Captivity
  • Brian Robbins for Norbit
  • Fred Savage for Daddy Day Camp

• 2008: Uwe Boll for In the Name of the King, 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.
  • Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg for Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans
  • Tom Putnam for The Hottie and the Nottie
  • Marco Schnabel for The Love Guru
  • M. Night Shyamalan for The Happening

• 2009: Michael Bay for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
  • Walt Becker for Old Dogs
  • Brad Silberling for Land of the Lost
  • Stephen Sommers for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • Phil Traill for All About Steve

2010s

• 2010: M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender^note Second repeat winner.
  • Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg for Vampires Suck
  • Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City 2
  • David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
  • Sylvester Stallone for The Expendables

• 2011: Dennis Dugan for Jack and Jill and Just Go with It
  • Michael Bay for Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Tom Brady^note No, not the American Football player. for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
  • Bill Condon for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
  • Garry Marshall for New Year's Eve

• 2012: Bill Condon for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
  • Sean Anders for That's My Boy
  • Peter Berg for Battleship
  • Tyler Perry for Good Deeds and Madea's Witness Protection
  • John Putch for Atlas Shrugged: Part II

• 2013:
  • Steve Baker for Movie 43
  • Elizabeth Banks for Movie 43
  • Steven Brill for Movie 43
  • Steve Carr for Movie 43
  • Rusty Cundieff for Movie 43
  • James Duffy for Movie 43
  • Griffin Dunne for Movie 43
  • Damon Escott for Movie 43
  • Peter Farrelly for Movie 43
  • Patrik Forsberg for Movie 43
  • Will Graham for Movie 43
  • James Gunn for Movie 43
  • Bob Odenkirk for Movie 43
  • Brett Ratner for Movie 43
  • Jonathan van Tulleken for Movie 43
  • Dennis Dugan' for Grown Ups 2''
  • Tyler Perry for A Madea Christmas and Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
  • M. Night Shyamalan for After Earth
  • Gore Verbinski for The Lone Ranger

• 2014: Michael Bay for Transformers: Age of Extinction^note Third repeat winner.
  • Darren Doane for Saving Christmas
  • Renny Harlin for The Legend of Hercules
  • Jonathan Liebesman for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Seth MacFarlane for A Million Ways to Die in the West

• 2015: Josh Trank for Fantastic Four
  • Andy Fickman for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
  • Tom Six for The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence
  • Sam Taylor-Johnson for Fifty Shades of Grey
  • The Wachowskis for Jupiter Ascending

• 2016: Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley for Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
  • Roland Emmerich for Independence Day: Resurgence
  • Tyler Perry for Boo! A Madea Halloween
  • Alex Proyas for Gods of Egypt
  • Zack Snyder for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Ben Stiller for Zoolander 2

• 2017: Tony Leondis for The Emoji Movie
  • Darren Aronofsky for mother!
  • Michael Bay for Transformers: The Last Knight
  • James Foley for Fifty Shades Darker
  • Alex Kurtzman for The Mummy

• 2018: Etan Cohen for Holmes & Watson
  • Kevin Connolly for Gotti
  • James Foley for Fifty Shades Freed
  • Brian Henson for The Happytime Murders
  • The Spierig Brothers for Winchester

• 2019: Tom Hooper for Cats^note Third Oscar winner for Best Director to win the Razzie.
  • Fred Durst for The Fanatic
  • James Franco for Zeroville
  • Adrian Grunberg for Rambo: Last Blood
  • Neil Marshall for Hellboy

2020s

• 2020: Sia for Music
  • Charles Band for Corona Zombies, Barbie & Kendra Saves the Tiger King, and Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51
  • Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes for 365 Days
  • Stephen Gaghan for Dolittle
  • Ron Howard for Hillbilly Elegy

• 2021: Christopher Ashley for Diana: The Musical
  • Stephen Chbosky for Dear Evan Hansen
  • Coke Daniels for Karen
  • Renny Harlin for The Misfits
  • Joe Wright for The Woman in the Window

• 2022: Machine Gun Kelly and MOD SUN for Good Mourning
  • Judd Apatow for The Bubble
  • Andrew Dominik for Blonde
  • Daniel Espinosa for Morbius
  • Robert Zemeckis for Pinocchio

• 2023: Rhys Frake-Waterfield for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
  • David Gordon Green for The Exorcist: Believer
  • Peyton Reed for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • Scott Waugh for Expend4bles
  • Ben Wheatley for Meg 2: The Trench

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