1st Golden Raspberry Awards

1st Golden Raspberry Awards
1st Golden Raspberry Awards
Date	March 31, 1981
Site	John Wilson's living room alcove
Hosted by	John J. B. Wilson
Highlights
Worst Picture	Can't Stop the Music
Most awards	Can't Stop the Music and The Jazz Singer (2)
Most nominations	Can't Stop the Music (7)
	; Golden Raspberry Awards; 2nd →;

The 1st Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 31, 1981, at John Wilson's living room alcove to recognize the worst the film industry had to offer in 1980. Each category included as many as ten nominees; the maximum was lowered to five the following year to mirror the Oscars.

Winners and nominees[edit]

Worst Picture Can't Stop the Music Cruising The Formula Friday the 13th The Jazz Singer The Nude Bomb Raise the Titanic Saturn 3 Windows Xanadu	Worst Director Robert Greenwald – Xanadu John G. Avildsen – The Formula Brian De Palma – Dressed to Kill William Friedkin – Cruising Sidney J. Furie and Richard Fleischer – The Jazz Singer Stanley Kubrick – The Shining Michael Ritchie – The Island John Trent – Middle Age Crazy Nancy Walker – Can't Stop the Music Gordon Willis – Windows
Worst Actor *Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer* as Yussel Rabinovitch/Jess Robin** Michael Beck – Xanadu as Sonny Malone Robert Blake – Coast to Coast as Charles Callahan Michael Caine – Dressed to Kill and The Island as Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi and Blair Maynard (respectively) Kirk Douglas – Saturn 3 as Adam Richard Dreyfuss – The Competition as Paul Dietrich Anthony Hopkins – A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans Bruce Jenner – Can't Stop the Music as Ron White Sam J. Jones – Flash Gordon as Flash Gordon	Worst Actress *Brooke Shields – The Blue Lagoon* as Emmeline** Nancy Allen – Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake Faye Dunaway – The First Deadly Sin as Barbara Delaney ~~Shelley Duvall – The Shining as Wendy Torrance~~^[a] Farrah Fawcett – Saturn 3 as Alex Sondra Locke – Bronco Billy as Antoinette Lily Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu as Kira Valerie Perrine – Can't Stop the Music as Samantha Simpson Deborah Raffin – Touched by Love as Lena Canada Talia Shire – Windows as Emily Hollander
Worst Supporting Actor *John Adames – Gloria* as Phil Dawn (tie) Laurence Olivier – The Jazz Singer as Cantor Rabinovitch** (tie) Marlon Brando – The Formula as Adam Stieffel Charles Grodin – Seems Like Old Times as Ira Parks David Selby – Raise the Titanic as Dr. Gene Seagram	Worst Supporting Actress *Amy Irving – Honeysuckle Rose* as Lily Ramsey** Elizabeth Ashley – Windows as Andrea Glassen Georg Stanford Brown – Stir Crazy as Rory Schutlebrand Betsy Palmer – Friday the 13th as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees Marilyn Sokol – Can't Stop the Music as Lulu Brecht
Worst Screenplay Can't Stop the Music – Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr A Change of Seasons – Erich Segal and Ronni Kern and Fred Segal Cruising – William Friedkin The Formula – Steve Shagan It's My Turn – Eleanor Bergstein Middle Age Crazy – Carl Kleinschmidt Raise the Titanic – Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes, from the novel by Clive Cussler Touched by Love – Hesper Anderson Windows – Barry Siegel Xanadu – Richard C. Danus and Marc R. Rubel	Worst Original Song *"The Man with Bogart's Face" from The Man with Bogart's Face* – Music by George Duning; Lyrics by Andrew Fenady** "(You) Can't Stop the Music" from Can't Stop the Music – Music and Lyrics by Jacques Morali "Suspended in Time" from Xanadu – Music and Lyrics by John Farrar "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from A Change of Seasons – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman "You, Baby, Baby!" from The Jazz Singer – Music and Lyrics by Neil Diamond

Films with multiple nominations[edit]

These films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Films
7	Can't Stop the Music
6	Xanadu
5	The Jazz Singer
5	Windows
4	The Formula
3	A Change of Seasons
	Cruising
	Dressed to Kill
	Raise the Titanic
	Saturn 3
2	Friday the 13th
	The Island
	Middle Age Crazy
	The Shining
	Touched by Love

Criticism[edit]

The awards are often criticized for nominating The Shining in two categories: for Shelley Duvall in Worst Actress, and Stanley Kubrick in Worst Director.^[2] In 2022, the awards committee rescinded Duvall's nomination.^[3]^[4] The nominations for Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill have also been criticized.^[5]

Notes[edit]

^ The Razzie committee officially rescinded the nomination on March 31, 2022, stating "We have since discovered that Duvall's performance was impacted by Stanley Kubrick's treatment of her throughout the production." The retraction of the nomination was in response to public backlash the Razzies received after refusing to retract Bruce Willis's win for "Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie" (a one-off category for his roles in eight films released that calendar year), after Willis's family announced that the star had been diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive brain condition, and was subsequently retiring from acting on March 30, 2022. The Razzie committee retracted both Willis's win and Duvall's nomination the following day.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Chitwood, Adam (March 31, 2022). "Razzie Awards Backtrack, Rescind Bruce Willis Award – and Shelly Duvall Nomination as Well". The Wrap. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
^ Disalvo, Tom (March 27, 2022). "From 'The Shining' To 'Jaws:' 10 Times The Razzies Got It Wrong". Collider. Valnet. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
^ Wilson, John (May 28, 2020). "A SHINING RAZZIE THROWBACK!". The Razzies. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
^ Ables, Kelsey (April 2, 2022). "Razzies void Shelley Duvall's 'The Shining' nomination. Here's why". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
^ Gleadow, Ewan (May 29, 2020). "Dressed to Kill Review". Cult Following. Retrieved November 14, 2022.

External links[edit]

Official summary of awards
Nomination and award listing Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database

[a-2] The Razzie committee officially rescinded the nomination on March 31, 2022, stating "We have since discovered that Duvall's performance was impacted by Stanley Kubrick's treatment of her throughout the production." The retraction of the nomination was in response to public backlash the Razzies received after refusing to retract Bruce Willis's win for "Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie" (a one-off category for his roles in eight films released that calendar year), after Willis's family announced that the star had been diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive brain condition, and was subsequently retiring from acting on March 30, 2022. The Razzie committee retracted both Willis's win and Duvall's nomination the following day.^[1]

[1] Chitwood, Adam (March 31, 2022). "Razzie Awards Backtrack, Rescind Bruce Willis Award – and Shelly Duvall Nomination as Well". The Wrap. Retrieved March 31, 2022.

[3] Disalvo, Tom (March 27, 2022). "From 'The Shining' To 'Jaws:' 10 Times The Razzies Got It Wrong". Collider. Valnet. Retrieved September 25, 2022.

[4] Wilson, John (May 28, 2020). "A SHINING RAZZIE THROWBACK!". The Razzies. Retrieved September 25, 2022.

[5] Ables, Kelsey (April 2, 2022). "Razzies void Shelley Duvall's 'The Shining' nomination. Here's why". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 25, 2022.

[6] Gleadow, Ewan (May 29, 2020). "Dressed to Kill Review". Cult Following. Retrieved November 14, 2022.

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