These are truly the best of the worst in terms of the film industry, with a trophy to prove it.
- 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
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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
- "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
- "(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
- 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)
- 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)
- 1986: "The six guys and gals in the duck suit" note (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 (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
- 1982: The Pirate Movie
- Butterfly
- Death Wish II
- Monsignor
- The Thing
- 1983: The Lonely Lady
- 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
- 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
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- 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)
- Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content) - The Cat in the Hat
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Worst Actor of the Decade: Sylvester Stallone
- 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
- Worst Actor of the Century: Sylvester Stallone
- 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
- Worst Razzie Loser of Our First 25 Years: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 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
- Freddy Got Fingered
- Gigli
- I Know Who Killed Me
- Swept Away
- Worst Actor of the Decade: Eddie Murphy