January 22, 2024 – Razzie Awards

The Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies, announced their nominees today! You can see the list here. The Razzies are an awards show that honors the worst of cinematic failures. They were co-founded by UCLA film grads and film industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy. Wilson was inspired to create the awards after seeing a double feature of particularly bad movies, Can’t Stop the Music and Xanadu in 1980. He held a big Academy Awards watch party at his home in Los Angeles every year, and in 1981 held the first impromptu Razzie award ceremony in his living room. The tradition continued every year, and by the 4th Golden Razzie Award Ceremony, it was starting to get coverage on CNN and other wire services.
The Razzie ceremony is typically held the night before the Oscars. The awards themselves are a golf-ball-sized raspberry sitting on top of a Super 8 mm film reel, all of which is spray-painted gold. They cost about $4.79 each to make. To date, Sylvester Stallone is the most awarded actor ever with 10 Golden Raspberry awards.
Three people have won both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same weekend – composer Alan Menken in 1993, screenwriter Brian Helgeland in 1997, and Sandra Bullock in 2010. All won awards for different films. 1987’s Wall Street is the only movie to win both awards. Michael Douglass won an Oscar for Best Actor, while his co-star Darryl Hannah won the Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress.
Most winners obviously don’t attend the Golden Raspberry Award Ceremony or personally accept their award. The first recipient to claim their reward was director Paul Verhoeven, who accepted both Worst Picture and Worst Director for Showgirls in 1995. Other’s who have accepted their Razzies in person include Tom Green, Halle Berry, and Sandra Bullock.
This year’s ceremony will be held March 9. The nominees for worst picture are: The Exorcist: Believer, Expendables 4, Meg 2: The Trench, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Learn more here.