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Golden Raspberry Awards
John Wilson at 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
DescriptionWorst in film
CountryUnited States
Presented byGolden Raspberry Award Foundation
First awarded1981
Websitehttp://www.razzies.com/

The Golden Raspberry Awards, frequently called the Razzies, were created by John Wilson in 1980 (and first awarded in 1981), intended to counterpoint the Academy Awards by dishonoring (or honoring) the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry."

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, as a complement to the Oscars.

The Razzie

The award usually takes the form of a plastic raspberry and roll of film spray-painted gold and mounted on a plastic base — nominally valued at US$4.89.[1]

Nomination

Paid members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the winners;[2] individuals may become members of the foundation by visiting the organization's website at www.razzies.com.[3] For 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, and professionals from the film industry.[4][2] Voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries.[5]

Categories

The Official Categories of the Razzies are:

Special categories

Special categories have also been introduced for specific years. Such special awards include Worst Screenplay Grossing Over $100 Million (1996), Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property (1997), Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie (2002), Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content!) (2003), Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets (2005), Worst Excuse For Family Entertainment (2006), Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie (2007) and others.

Other types of awards

Over the years, the Golden Raspberry Awards have awarded special awards next to the actual Razzie Awards as well.

Worst Career Achievement Award

This award has been given only five times, in 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, and 2009 to Ronald Reagan, Linda Blair, Irwin Allen, "Bruce the Rubber Shark" from Jaws [6] and director Uwe Boll [7] who received his for his achievement as "Germany's answer to Ed Wood".

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.

Stars who have accepted the award

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, although only three have done so at the award ceremony itself - Paul Verhoeven, Tom Green and Halle Berry.

  • 1987: 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 arranged for the Fox network to reproduce the Razzies in gold and Italian marble, at a cost of $27,500, and accepted them on The Late Show.[8]
  • 1995: Director Paul Verhoeven became the first winner to actually show up at the Razzie ceremony, when he personally accepted his award for Worst Director for the film Showgirls. He also accepted the Worst Picture Award for the movie.
  • 2000: Although he didn't officially accept the award, Barry Pepper stated (after the fact) that had he known he was going to win the 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor (which he did win, for Battlefield Earth), he would have gladly shown up at the ceremony and accepted his award in person.
  • 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.[9]
  • 2004: Halle Berry accepted her Razzie for Worst Actress for the film Catwoman. She gave a speech, similar to when she won the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for Monster's Ball, carrying her Oscar in one hand and her Razzie in the other.[10] While onstage, she called the film a "piece of shit, god-awful movie", which met laughter and applause.[11] 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.

See also

Other mock awards

References

  1. ^ Razzies© 2007 Nominees
  2. ^ a b Marrs, John (February 25, 2009). "'They have no excuse to be as bad as they are' -The Golden Raspberry awards aren't just a refreshing antidote to the Oscars, they can help sell films too. John Marrs talks to the Razzies' founder, John Wilson". The Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  3. ^ Kaltenbach, Chris (March 21, 2002). "Russell and Denzel Don't Have a Chance Here". Sun-Sentinel. Sun-Sentinel Company. p. 3E.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference margulies was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Telegraph Herald staff (February 22, 2009). "Hilton, Myers top Razzies". Telegraph Herald. p. A2.
  6. ^ http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=14, visited 2007-04-30.
  7. ^ John Wilson (2009-01-21). "Razzies 2008 Nominees for Worst Career Achievement". Retrieved 2009-01-22.
  8. ^ http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=355&PN=1
  9. ^ Green gets fingered for Razzies at BBC News
  10. ^ Interview with Halle Berry explaining why she attended the ceremony.
  11. ^ Daily Cognition: Top 10 Movies That Went Wrong.
  12. ^ Kim Kardashian's blog
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