Golden Raspberry Awards
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| Golden Raspberry Awards | |
| Image:GoldenRazzie Logo.PNG Razzie Award | |
| Awarded for | Worst in film |
| Presented by | Golden Raspberry Award Foundation |
| Country | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
| First awarded | 1981 |
| Official website | |
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The Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies, first awarded in 1981, were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to counterpoint the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. It usually takes the form of a raspberry spray-painted gold and mounted on a plastic base.
Current awards are voted upon by the membership of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (GRAF), and membership is openly available to the public, as opposed to the Academy Awards. Traditionally, nominations are announced one day before the Motion Picture Academy announces its Oscar nominations, and the awards are presented one day before the Oscar ceremony.
The term "raspberry" is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry."
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[edit] Categories
The Official Categories of the Razzies are:
- Worst Picture
- Worst Director
- Worst Actor
- Worst Actress
- Worst Supporting Actor
- Worst Supporting Actress
- Worst Screen Couple
- Worst Screenplay
- Worst Prequel or Sequel
- Worst Remake or Rip-off
- Worst New Star (This category is now rarely awarded.)
- Worst Original Song (This category is now rarely awarded.)
[edit] Special categories
Over the years, "Special" categories have also been introduced and are handed out only once for the year it was introduced. Such special awards include, Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets (2005), Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content!) (2003), Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie (2002), Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property (1997), Worst Excuse For Family Entertainment (2006), and others.
In 2006 a new category was made, criticizing Tom Cruise for his odd behavior during media appearances, most notably jumping up and down on a couch on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Head Razzberry John Wilson acknowledged that the Cruise-dominated nods in the new Razzie category of Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets was the Razzies' way of offering social satire.
[edit] Other types of awards
Over the years, the Golden Raspberry Awards have awarded special awards next to the actual Razzie Awards as well.
[edit] Worst Career Achievement Award
This award was awarded only four times, in 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1987, to Ronald Reagan, Linda Blair, Irwin Allen, and "Bruce the Rubber Shark" from Jaws.[1]
[edit] Governor's Award
This is a special award given by Razzie Award Governor John Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzie's other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for "Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography" in the film From Justin to Kelly.
| Golden Raspberry Awards |
| 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 |
| 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 |
| 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 |
[edit] Stars who have accepted the honor
Many actors, directors, and producers have been awarded a Golden Raspberry. In a few cases, some of the winners have accepted their award in person:
- 1988: Bill Cosby won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Screenplay for Leonard Part 6, a botched spoof of spy flicks that Cosby himself had condemned on several talk shows. Cosby became the first person to personally accept his Razzies, which he did a few weeks after the actual ceremony on Fox's The Late Show.
- 1993: Tom Selleck accepted his Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance as King Ferdinand of Spain in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery during an episode of The Chevy Chase Show.
- 1998: Screenwriter Brian Helgeland became the first person to win a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year. He won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for L.A. Confidential and the Razzie for Worst Screenplay for Kevin Costner's The Postman. He did not attend the Razzie ceremony, but wanted to have the Razzie to display it next to his Oscar to remind him of "the quixotic nature" of Hollywood. He was later officially presented his Razzie at his offices on the Warner Bros. lot.
- 2000: Wild Wild West earned five Razzies (including Worst Picture) that year. Robert Conrad, who starred in the 1960s The Wild Wild West television series and despised the film version, accepted three of the five Razzies.
- 2001: Tom Green accepted all five of his Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, for Freddy Got Fingered. He declared, "I want to say I didn't deserve this any more than anyone else here... dear god, I want to say that. I don't think it would be true, though." He turned up in a white Cadillac and brought his own length of red carpet. Green's speech included a never-ending piece of music played on the harmonica, and he was eventually dragged off stage.[2]
- 2004: Ben Affleck, after winning Worst Actor for his work in Gigli, Daredevil, and Paycheck, asked why he did not get his trophy. He was presented the Razzie live on Larry King Live a week later, which he promptly broke. The broken Razzie was sold on eBay for enough money to cover the hall rental for the next year's ceremonies.
- 2005: Halle Berry gave an acceptance speech at the Razzie ceremony, clutching her Oscar (2002 Best Actress for Monster's Ball) in one hand and her Razzie in the other. Berry had won the award for worst actress for her performance in Catwoman. Shortly afterwards, John Wilson released a statement to the press praising Halle Berry's other performances and stating that he looks forward to Berry giving other Oscar-worthy performances.
[edit] Razzie/Oscar connection
- The only two actors to be nominated for an Oscar and Razzie for the same performance are James Coco for Only When I Laugh in 1982 and Amy Irving for Yentl in 1984. Neither won either award.
- In addition, Christopher Walken and Alec Baldwin were both nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor in the same year, albeit for different films. Walken was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for Catch Me if You Can and Worst Supporting Actor for The Country Bears. Baldwin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2003 for The Cooler and Worst Supporting Actor for The Cat in the Hat.
- The actors to have won both a Razzie and an Oscar for acting are Faye Dunaway, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Roberto Benigni, Halle Berry, and Liza Minnelli. In addition Sofia Coppola, Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, and Prince are also Oscar and Razzie winners, but only one of the two awards was in acting.
- The 2003 film Gigli became the first film to "win" all the top five categories at the Razzies, (Worst Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay) basically making it the Razzie equivalent of 1934's It Happened One Night, which was the first film to win the "Oscar grand slam" (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay). Thus far, only Gigli has "won" the "Razzie grand slam".
[edit] Special nominations
- Showgirls (1995) has received the most Razzie nominations and awards, at 14 nominations and eight wins. The film Battlefield Earth originally was awarded seven Razzie Awards (from eight nominations) in 2000 and was later awarded an eighth Razzie in 2005.
- Actor Sylvester Stallone has received 30 nominations and ten wins and is the actor with the largest number of nominations and wins.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=14, visited 2007-04-30.
- ^ Green gets fingered for Razzies at BBC News
[edit] External links
- Golden Raspberry Official Website
- Razzie Awards page on the Internet Movie Databasecs:Zlatá malina
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