Useful Notes / Golden Raspberry Award Winners

These are truly the best of the worst in terms of the film industry, with a trophy to prove it.

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• Worst Picture
• Worst Director
• Worst Actor
• Worst Supporting Actor
• Worst Actress
• Worst Supporting Actress
• Worst Screenplay
• Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
• Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble/Combo
• The Razzie Redeemer Awards

Worst Original Song

• 1980: "The Man with Bogart’s Face" (from The Man with Bogart's Face)
  • "Suspended in Time" (from Xanadu)
  • "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" (from A Change of Seasons)
  • "You, Baby, Baby!" by Neil Diamond (from The Jazz Singer)
  • "(You) Can't Stop the Music" (from Can't Stop the Music)
• 1981: "Baby Talk" (from Paternity)
  • "Hearts, Not Diamonds" (from The Fan)
  • "The Man in the Mask" (from The Legend of the Lone Ranger)
  • "Only When I Laugh" (from Only When I Laugh)
  • "You, You're Crazy" (from Honky Tonk Freeway)
• 1982: "Pumpin' and Blowin'" (from The Pirate Movie)
  • "Comin' Home to You" (from Author! Author!)
  • "Happy Ending" (from The Pirate Movie)
  • "It's Wrong for Me to Love You" (from Butterfly)
  • "No Sweeter Cheater than You" (from Honkytonk Man)
• 1983: "The Way You Do It" (from The Lonely Lady)
  • "Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves" (from Querelle)
  • "Lonely Lady" (from The Lonely Lady)
  • "Yor's World" (from Yor: The Hunter from the Future)
  • "Young and Joyful Bandit" (from Querelle)
• 1984: "Drinkenstein" (from Rhinestone)
  • "Love Kills" by Freddie Mercury (from the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis)
  • "Sex Shooter" (from Purple Rain)
  • "Smooth Talker" (from Body Rock)
  • "Sweet Lovin' Friends" (from Rhinestone)
• 1985: "Peace in Our Life" (from Rambo: First Blood Part II)
  • "All You Can Eat" (from Krush Groove)
  • "The Last Dragon" (from The Last Dragon)
  • "Oh, Jimmy" (from The Slugger's Wife)
  • "7th Heaven" (from The Last Dragon)
• 1986: "Love or Money" (from Under the Cherry Moon)
  • "Howard the Duck" (from Howard the Duck)
  • "I Do What I Do" (from 9½ Weeks)
  • "Life in a Looking Glass" (from That's Life!)
  • "Shanghai Surprise" (from Shanghai Surprise)
• 1987: "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael (from Beverly Hills Cop II)
  • "El Coco Loco (So, So Bad)" (from Who's That Girl)
  • "Let's Go to Heaven in My Car" (from Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol)
  • "Million Dollar Mystery" (from Million Dollar Mystery)
  • "You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid" (from The Garbage Pail Kids Movie)
• 1988: "Jack Fresh" (from Caddyshack II)
  • "Skintight" (from Johnny Be Good)
  • "Therapist" (from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master)
• 1989: "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" by Bruce Dickinson (from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
  • "Let's Go" by Kool Moe Dee (from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
  • "Pet Sematary" (from Pet Sematary)
• 1990: "He's Comin' Back (The Devil)" (from Repossessed)
  • "The Measure of a Man" (from Rocky V)
  • "One More Cheer" (from Stella)
• 1991: "Addams Groove" (from The Addams Family)
  • "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)" (from Cool as Ice)
  • "Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead)" (from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
• 1992: "High Times, Hard Times" (from Newsies) ^note  Accepted by the song's writers, Jack Feldman and Alan Menken, in 2016 and 2019 respectively, making the later the first ever "REGOT" winner.
  • "Book of Days" (from Far and Away)
  • "Queen of the Night" (from The Bodyguard)
• 1993: "Addams Family Whoomp!" (from Addams Family Values)
  • "Big Gun" (from Last Action Hero)
  • "(You Love Me) in All the Right Places" (from Indecent Proposal)
• 1994: "Marry the Mole" (from Thumbelina)
  • "Under the Same Sun" (from On Deadly Ground)
  • "The Color of the Night" (from Color of Night)
• 1995: "Walk Into the Wind" (from Showgirls)^note  Described parenthetically as "the love theme from the rape scene"
  • "(Feel the) Spirit of Africa" (from Congo)
  • "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 (from Batman Forever)
• 1996: "(Pussy Pussy Pussy) Whose Kitty Cat Are You?" (from Striptease) ^note  This win is a bit of a stretch as the song was originally released in 1938.
  • "Welcome to Planet Boom" (from Barb Wire)
  • "Whenever There is Love" (from Daylight)
• 1997: The entire song score (from The Postman)
  • "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" (from Batman & Robin)
  • "Fire Down Below" (from Fire Down Below)
  • "How Do I Live" (from Con Air)
  • "My Dream" (from Speed 2: Cruise Control)
• 1998: "I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" (from An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn)
  • "Barney, the Song" (from Barney's Great Adventure)
  • "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (from Armageddon)
  • "Storm" (from The Avengers (1998))
  • "Too Much" (from Spice World)
• 1999: "Wild Wild West" (from Wild Wild West)
• 2002: "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" (from Crossroads (2002))
  • "Die Another Day" (from Die Another Day)
  • "Overprotected" (from Crossroads (2002))

Worst New Star

• 1981: Klinton Spilsbury (as John Reid/The Lone Ranger in The Legend of the Lone Ranger)
  • Gary Coleman (as Lester in On the Right Track)
  • Martin Hewitt (as David Axelrod in Endless Love)
  • Mara Hobel (as child Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest)
  • Miles O'Keeffe (as Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man)
• 1982: Pia Zadora (as Kady in Butterfly)
  • Morgan Fairchild (as Jamie Douglas in The Seduction)
  • Luciano Pavarotti (as Giorgio Fini in Yes, Giorgio)
  • Aileen Quinn (as Annie in Annie)
  • Mr. T (as Clubber Lang in Rocky III)
• 1983: Lou Ferrigno (as Hercules in Hercules)
  • Loni Anderson (as Pembrook Feeny in Stroker Ace)
  • Reb Brown (as Yor in Yor, the Hunter from the Future)
  • Cindy and Sandy ("the shrieking dolphins") (as themselves in Jaws 3D)
  • Finola Hughes (as Laura in Staying Alive)
• 1984: Olivia d'Abo (as Paloma in Bolero and Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer)
  • Michelle Johnson (as Jennifer Lyons in Blame It on Rio)
  • Apollonia Kotero (as Apollonia in Purple Rain)
  • Andrea Occhipinti (as Angel in Bolero)
  • Russell Todd (as Scott Nash in Where the Boys Are '84)
• 1985: Brigitte Nielsen (as Red Sonja in Red Sonja and Ludmilla Drago in Rocky IV)
  • Ariane (as Tracy Tzu in Year of the Dragon)
  • The new computerized Godzilla (as himself in Godzilla 1985)
  • Julia Nickson-Soul (as Co-Bao in Rambo: First Blood Part II)
  • Kurt Thomas (as Jonathan Cabot in Gymkata)
• 1986: "The six guys and gals in the duck suit" ^note Ed Gale, Tim Rose, Steve Sleap, Peter Baird, Mary Wells and Lisa Sturz (as Howard the Duck in Howard the Duck)
  • Joan Chen (as May-May in Tai-Pan)
  • Mitch Gaylord (as Steve Tevere in Amererican Anthem)
  • Kristin Scott Thomas (as Mary Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon)
  • Brian Thompson (as the Night Slasher in Cobra)
• 1987: David Mendenhall (as Michael Hawk in Over The Top)
  • The Barbarian Brothers (as themselves in The Barbarians)
  • The Garbage Pail Kids ^note consisting of Ali Gator, Greaser Greg, Nat Nerd, Foul Phil, Messy Tessie, Valerie Vomit and Windy Winston (as themselves in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie)
  • Debra Sandlund (as Patty Lareine in Tough Guys Don't Dance)
  • Jim Varney (as Ernest P. Worrell in Ernest Goes to Camp)
• 1988: Ronald McDonald (as himself in Mac and Me)
  • Don the talking horse (as himself in Hot To Trot)
  • Tami Erin (as Pippi Longstocking in The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking)
  • Robi Rosa (as Rico in Salsa)
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme (as Frank Dux in Bloodsport)
• 1990: Sofia Coppola (as Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III)
  • Ingrid Chavez (as Aura in Grafitti Bridge)
  • Leo Damian (as Fausto in Ghosts Can't Do It)
  • Carrie Otis (as Emily Reed in Wild Orchid)
  • Donald Trump (as himself in Ghosts Can't Do It)
• 1991: Vanilla Ice (as Johnny Van Owen in Cool as Ice)
  • Brian Bosworth (as Joe Huff/John Stone in Stone Cold)
  • Milla Jovovich (as Lilli Hardgrave in Return to the Blue Lagoon)
  • Brian Krause (as Richard Lestrange, Jr. in Return to the Blue Lagoon)
  • Kristin Minter (as Kathy Winslow in Cool as Ice)
• 1992: Pauly Shore (as Stoney in Encino Man)
  • George Corraface (as Christopher Columbus in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery)
  • Kevin Coster's crew cut (as itself in The Bodyguard)
  • Whitney Houston (as Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard)
  • Sharon Stone's tribute to Theodore Cleaver (as itself in Basic Instinct)
• 1993: Janet Jackson (as Justice in Poetic Justice)
  • Roberto Benigni (as Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli in Son of the Pink Panther)
  • Mason Gamble (as Dennis Mitchell in Dennis the Menace)
  • Norman D. Golden II (as Devon Butler in Cop and a Half)
  • Austin O'Brien (as Danny Madigan in Last Action Hero)
• 1994: Anna Nicole Smith (as Tanya Peters in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult)
  • Jim Carrey (as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber, and Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask)
  • Chris Elliott (as Nathaniel Mayweather in Cabin Boy)
  • Chris Isaak (as Dean Conrad in Little Buddha)
  • Shaquille O'Neal (as Deon in Blue Chips)
• 1995: Elizabeth Berkley (as Nomi Malone in Showgirls)
  • "Amy the talking gorilla" (as herself in Congo)
  • David Caruso (as David Corelli in Jade and Jimmy Kilmartin in Kiss of Death)
  • Cindy Crawford (as Kate McQuean in Fair Game)
  • Julia Sweeney (as Pat Riley in It's Pat! and Mea C. in Stuart Saves His Family)
• 1996: Pamela Anderson (as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski in Barb Wire)
  • Beavis and Butt-head (as themselves in Beavis and Butt-head Do America)
  • Ellen DeGeneres (as Martha Alston in Mr. Wrong)
  • Friends cast members turned movie star wannabes:
    • Jennifer Aniston (as Renee Fitzpatrick in She's The One)
    • Lisa Kudrow (as Linda in Mother)
    • Matt LeBlanc (as Jack "Deuce" Cooper in Ed)
    • David Schwimmer (as Tom Thompson in The Pallbearer)
  • The new "serious" Sharon Stone (as Nicole Horner in Diabolique and Cindy Liggett in Last Dance)
• 1997: Dennis Rodman (as Yaz in Double Team)
  • "The anamatronic andaconda" (as itself in Andaconda)
  • Tori Spelling (as Lesly in The House of Yes and herself in Scream 2)
  • Howard Stern (as himself in Private Parts)
  • Chris Tucker (as Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element and Franklin Hatchett in Money Talks)
• 1998: Tie
  • Joe Eszterhas (as himself in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn)
  • Jerry Springer (as Jerry Farelly in Ringmaster)
    • Barney the Dinosaur (as himself in Barney's Great Adventure)
    • Carrot Top (as Edison in Chairman of the Board)
    • Spice Girls (as themselves in Spice World)

Worst Musical Score

• 1981: The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  • Heaven's Gate
  • Thief
  • Under the Rainbow
  • Zorro, the Gay Blade
• 1982: The Pirate Movie
  • Butterfly
  • Death Wish II
  • Monsignor
  • The Thing
• 1983: The Lonely Lady
  • Querelle
  • Superman III
  • Yentl
  • Yor: The Hunter from the Future
• 1984: Bolero
  • The Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis
  • Thief of Hearts
  • Rhinestone
  • Sheena
  • Where the Boys Are '84
• 1985: Rocky IV
  • Fever Pitch
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • Revolution (1985)
  • Turk 182

Worst Career Achievement Award

• 1980: Ronald Reagan ("Retired Movie Star")
• 1982: Irwin Allen ("The Master of Disaster")
• 1984: Linda Blair ("Razzie Scream Queen")
• 1986: Bruce ("The Rubber Shark")
• 2008: Uwe Boll ("Germany's answer to Ed Wood")

Worst Visual Effects

• 1986: Howard the Duck
  • Invaders from Mars
  • King Kong Lives
• 1987: Jaws: The Revenge
  • The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property

• 1997: Con Air
  • Batman & Robin
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  • Turbulence
  • Volcano
• 2019: Rambo: Last Blood
  • Dragged Across Concrete
  • The Haunting of Sharon Tate
  • Hellboy
  • Joker

The Barry L. Bumstead Award

• 2015: United Passions
• 2016: Misconduct
• 2017: CHiPs
• 2018: Billionaire Boys Club

One-Off Awards

• 1996: Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million - Twister
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame^note The only nomination received to date by a film of the Disney Animated Canon.
  • Independence Day
  • Mission: Impossible
  • A Time to Kill
• 1998: Worst Movie Trends of the Year - "Gidgets 'n' geezers (58-year-old leading men wooing 28-year-old leading ladies)" (examples include A Perfect Murder, Six Days, Seven Nights, and Stepmom)
  • "If you've seen the trailer, why bother to see the movie?!? (previews that give away the film's entire plot)"
  • "30 minutes of story – conveyed in less than three hours! (l-o-n-g-e-r movies... shorter plots)"
  • "THX: The audio is deafening! (movie sound so loud it constitutes assault with a deafening weapon)"
  • "Yo quiero tacky tie-ins! (Mega-zillion-dollar cross-promotional overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, etc.)"
• 2002: Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie - Jackass: The Movie
  • Crossroads
  • Eight Crazy Nights
  • Scooby-Doo
  • xXx
• 2003
  • Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content) - The Cat in the Hat
    • 2 Fast 2 Furious
    • Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    • From Justin to Kelly
    • The Real Cancun
  • Governor's Award for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography - Travis Payne (for From Justin to Kelly)
• 2005: Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets - Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Oprah Winfrey's couch, the Eiffel Tower, and "Tom's baby"
  • Tom Cruise and his anti-psychiatry rant
  • Paris Hilton and … "who-EVER!"
  • Mr. and Mrs. Britney, their baby (Sean Preston Federline), and their camcorder
  • The Simpsons: Ashlee, Jessica, and Nick
• 2006: Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment - RV
  • Deck The Halls
  • Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
  • The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
  • The Shaggy Dog
• 2007: Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie - I Know Who Killed Me
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
  • Captivity
  • Hannibal Rising
  • Hostel: Part II
• 2010: Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3-D - The Last Airbender
  • Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
  • Clash of the Titans
  • The Nutcracker in 3D
  • Saw 3D
• 2017: The Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It - Baywatch ^note  Accepted by Dwayne Johnson.
  • The Emoji Movie
  • Fifty Shades Darker
  • The Mummy
  • Transformers: The Last Knight
• 2020: Special Governors' Award for the Worst Calendar Year EVER! - 2020
• 2021: Worst Performance By Bruce Willis In A 2021 Movie - Cosmic Sin ^note (This award was rescinded five days after it was awarded — and one day after Willis announced his retirement due to a brain disorder that had a demonstrable effect on the kinds of roles he was taking and how he was performing them.)
  • American Siege
  • Apex
  • Deadlock
  • Fortress
  • Midnight in the Switchgrass
  • Out of Death
  • Survive the Game

Anniversary Awards

• 1989
  • Worst Actor of the Decade: Sylvester Stallone
    • Christopher Atkins
    • Ryan O'Neal
    • Prince
    • John Travolta
  • Worst Actress of the Decade: Bo Derek
    • Faye Dunaway
    • Madonna
    • Brooke Shields
    • Pia Zadora
  • Worst Picture of the Decade: Mommie Dearest
    • Bolero
    • Howard the Duck
    • The Lonely Lady
    • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • Worst New Star of the Decade: Pia Zadora
    • Christopher Atkins
    • Madonna
    • Prince
    • Diana Scarwid
• 1999
  • Worst Actor of the Century: Sylvester Stallone
    • Kevin Costner
    • Prince
    • William Shatner
    • Pauly Shore
  • Worst Actress of the Century: Madonna
    • Elizabeth Berkley
    • Bo Derek
    • Brooke Shields
    • Pia Zadora
  • Worst Picture of the Decade: Showgirls
    • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
    • Hudson Hawk
    • The Postman
    • Striptease
  • Worst New Star of the Decade: Pauly Shore
    • Elizabeth Berkley
    • Ahmed Best
    • Sofia Coppola
    • Dennis Rodman
• 2004
  • Worst Razzie Loser of Our First 25 Years: Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • Kim Basinger
    • Angelina Jolie
    • Ryan O'Neal
    • Keanu Reeves
  • Worst "Drama" of Our First 25 Years: Battlefield Earth
    • The Lonely Lady
    • Mommie Dearest
    • Showgirls
    • Swept Away
  • Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years: Gigli
    • The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    • The Cat in the Hat
    • Freddy Got Fingered
    • Leonard Part 6
  • Worst "Musical" of Our First 25 Years: From Justin to Kelly
    • Can't Stop The Music
    • Glitter
    • Rhinestone
    • Spice World
    • Xanadu
• 2009
  • Worst Actor of the Decade: Eddie Murphy
    • Ben Affleck
    • Mike Myers
    • Rob Schneider
    • John Travolta
  • Worst Actress of the Decade: Paris Hilton
    • Mariah Carey
    • Lindsay Lohan
    • Jennifer Lopez
    • Madonna
  • Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth ^note  Accepted by co-writer J. David Shapiro at the ceremony.
    • Freddy Got Fingered
    • Gigli
    • I Know Who Killed Me
    • Swept Away

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