Let’s be honest: the award show you really care about is the Razzies, that gleefully critical group that year after year honors the very worst in cinema. These rancid turkeys scrape the bottom of the barrel and make us wanna rinse our eyes out with soap after leaving the theater. Take a tour through our photo gallery above to find out what masterpieces of filmmaking earned the dubious honor of Worst Picture at the Golden Raspberry Awards, from the most recent “winner” to the very first.
The very first Razzies ceremony was held in 1981 immediately after the Oscar telecast wrapped up. It started as a party at the home of publicist John J. B. Wilson, who gave his guests homemade ballots and announced the results from a cardboard podium. While the Academy was honoring “Ordinary People” (1980), Wilson and his pals bestowed their prize on the grade-A ham “Can’t Stop the Music” (1980).
Since then, the Razzie Awards have grown in esteem, broadening their membership and holding their ceremony at larger venues. It’s become an annual tradition to roast the year’s worst cinematic tragedies the night before the Academy honors the very best. Some celebrities have even been known to join in the fun, like Sandra Bullock, who showed up to accept her Worst Actress prize for “All About Steve” (2009) the same year she won the Oscar for “The Blind Side” (2009).
So lets raise a cheap glass of champagne to these remarkably bad titles. Take a look back at every Razzie Worst Picture winner from 1981 to today and see if your least favorite was awful enough to win.
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Image Credit: Working Title/Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock A live-action adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical about the Jellicles, a tribe of felines who must decide who ascends to heaven and return to live a new life.
2019 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Cats”
“The Fanatic”
“The Haunting of Sharon Tate”
“A Madea Family Funeral”
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HOLMES & WATSON (2018)
Image Credit: Giles Keyte Columbia/Sony/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
2018 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Gotti”
“The Happytime Murders”
“Holmes & Watson”
“Robin Hood”
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THE EMOJI MOVIE (2017)
Image Credit: Sony Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
2017 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Baywatch”
“The Emoji Movie”
“Fifty Shades Darker”
“The Mummy”
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HILLARY’S AMERICA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (2016)
Image Credit: D’Souza Media “Documentarian” Dinesh D’Souza analyzes the history of the Democratic party and what he thinks are Hillary Clinton’s true motivations.
2016 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
“Dirty Grandpa”
“Gods of Egypt”
“Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party”
“Independence Day: Resurgence”
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FANTASTIC FOUR/FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (2015)
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox/Marvel/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock; Chuck Zlotnick/Focus/Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock “Fantastic Four”:
Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
“Fifty Shades of Grey”:
Literate student Anastasia Steele’s life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
2015 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Fantastic Four”
“Fifty Shades of Grey”
“Jupiter Ascending”
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2”
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SAVING CHRISTMAS (2014)
Image Credit: Camfam/Provident/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock His annual Christmas party faltering because of his cynical brother-in-law, former “Growing Pains” star Kirk Cameron attempts to save the day by showing him that Jesus Christ remains a crucial component of the over-commercialized holiday.
2014 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Left Behind”
“The Legend of Hercules”
“Saving Christmas”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
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MOVIE 43 (2013)
Image Credit: Greenestreet Films/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
2013 Worst Picture Nominees:
“After Earth”
“Grown Ups 2”
“The Lone Ranger”
“Movie 43”
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 (2012)
Image Credit: Courtesty Summit Entertainment After the birth of Renesmee/Nessie, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
2012 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Battleship”
“The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure”
“That’s My Boy”
“A Thousand Words”
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JACK AND JILL (2011)
Image Credit: Snap Stills/REX/Shutterstock Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his fraternal twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.
2011 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star”
“Jack and Jill”
“New Year’s Eve”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
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THE LAST AIRBENDER (2010)
Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
2010 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Bounty Hunter”
“The Last Airbender”
“Sex and the City 2”
“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”
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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (2009)
Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers war.
2009 Worst Picture Nominees:
“All About Steve”
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra”
“Land of the Lost”
“Old Dogs”
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THE LOVE GURU (2008)
Image Credit: George Kraychyk/Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Pitka, an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
2008 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
“The Happening”
“The Hottie & the Nottie”
“In the Name of the King”
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I KNOW WHO KILLED ME (2007)
Image Credit: Tri-Star/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely.
2007 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Bratz”
“Daddy Day Camp”
“I Know Who Killed Me”
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry”
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BASIC INSTINCT 2 (2006)
Image Credit: Jaap Buitendijk/Sony/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Novelist Catharine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
2006 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Basic Instinct 2”
“BloodRayne”
“Lady in the Water”
“Little Man”
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DIRTY LOVE (2005)
Image Credit: Big Screen Ent/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A jilted photographer sets off on a mission to get back at her philandering model boyfriend and along the way discovers that not all love is created equal.
2005 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo”
“Dirty Love”
“The Dukes of Hazzard”
“House of Wax”
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CATWOMAN (2004)
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Dc Comics/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.
2004 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Alexander”
“Catwoman”
“Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2”
“Surviving Christmas”
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GIGLI (2003)
Image Credit: Columbia/Revolution Studios/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn’t mess up the job.
2003 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Cat in the Hat”
“Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle”
“From Justin to Kelly”
“Gigli”
“The Real Cancun” -
SWEPT AWAY (2002)
Image Credit: Daniel Smith/Ska/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor.
2002 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Adventures of Pluto Nash”
“Crossroads”
“Pinocchio”
“Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones”
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FREDDY GOT FINGERED (2001)
Image Credit: Chris Helcermanas-Benge/New Regency/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
2001 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Driven”
“Freddy Got Fingered”
“Glitter”
“Pearl Harbor”
“3000 Miles to Graceland”
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BATTLEFIELD EARTH (2000)
Image Credit: Morgan Creek/REX/Shutterstock It’s the year 3000 A.D.; the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, whom are unaware that their “man-animals” are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.
2000 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Battlefield Earth”
“Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2”
“The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas”
“Little Nicky”
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WILD WILD WEST (1999)
Image Credit: Murray Close/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth century inventor-villain.
1999 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Big Daddy”
“The Blair Witch Project”
“The Haunting”
“Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”
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AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (1998)
Image Credit: Hollywood Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he’s an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.
1998 Worst Picture Nominees:
“An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn”
“Armageddon”
“The Avengers”
“Godzilla”
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THE POSTMAN (1997)
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A nameless drifter dons a postman’s uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America.
1997 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Anaconda”
“Batman and Robin”
“Fire Down Below”
“The Postman”
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STRIPTEASE (1996)
Image Credit: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.
1996 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Barb Wire”
“Ed”
“The Island of Dr. Moreau”
“Striptease”
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SHOWGIRLS (1995)
Image Credit: Murray Close/Mgm/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
1995 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Congo”
“It’s Pat”
“The Scarlet Letter”
“Showgirls”
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COLOR OF NIGHT (1994)
Image Credit: Cinergi/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend’s therapy group, all of whom have a connection with a mysterious young woman that Capa begins having intense sexual encounters with.
1994 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Color of Night”
“North”
“On Deadly Ground”
“The Specialist”
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INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993)
Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A billionaire offers one million dollars to a young married couple for one night with the wife.
1993 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Body of Evidence”
“Cliffhanger”
“Indecent Proposal”
“Last Action Hero”
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SHINING THROUGH (1992)
Image Credit: Keith Hamshere/20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock An American woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage goes undercover in Nazi Germany.
1992 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Bodyguard”
“Christopher Columbus: The Discovery”
“Final Analysis”
“Newsies”
“Shining Through” -
HUDSON HAWK (1991)
Image Credit: Snap/REX/Shutterstock A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
1991 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Cool as Ice”
“Dice Rules”
“Hudson Hawk”
“Nothing But Trouble”
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THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE/GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT (1990)
Image Credit: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane”:
A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry.
“Ghosts Can’t Do It”:
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving, young, hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.
1990 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Adventures of Ford Fairlane”
“The Bonfire of the Vanities”
“Ghosts Can’t Do It”
“Graffiti Bridge”
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STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989)
Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s long-lost half-brother, who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
1989 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Karate Kid Part III”
“Lock Up”
“Road House”
“Speed Zone”
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COCKTAIL (1988)
Image Credit: Touchstone/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
1988 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Caddyshack II”
“Cocktail”
“Hot to Trot”
“Mac and Me”
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LEONARD PART 6 (1987)
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.
1987 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Ishtar”
“Jaws: The Revenge”
“Leonard Part 6”
“Tough Guys Don’t Dance”
“Who’s That Girl” -
HOWARD THE DUCK/UNDER THE CHERRY MOON (1986)
Image Credit: Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock; Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock “Howard the Duck”:
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth, where he must stop a hellish alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a cute struggling female rock singer who fancies him.
“Under the Cherry Moon”:
Two cousins in the Mediterranean enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women go after a young woman set to inherit $50,000,000 from her father.
1986 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Blue City”
“Cobra”
“Howard the Duck”
“Shanghai Surprise”
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RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (1985)
Image Credit: Moviestore Collection/REX/Shutterstock John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he’d want to return — the jungles of Vietnam.
1985 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Fever Pitch”
“Rambo: First Blood Part II”
“Revolution”
“Rocky IV”
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BOLERO (1984)
Image Credit: Cannon/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
1984 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Bolero”
“Cannonball Run II”
“Rhinestone”
“Sheena”
“Where the Boys Are ’84” -
THE LONELY LADY (1983)
Image Credit: Kga/Robbins/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock A young aspiring screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of achieving success in Hollywood. She goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and have it produced.
1983 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Hercules”
“Jaws 3D”
“The Lonely Lady”
“Stoker Ace”
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INCHON (1982)
Image Credit: John Howard/One Way Prods/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.
1982 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Annie”
“Butterfly”
“Inchon”
“Megaforce”
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MOMMIE DEAREST (1981)
Image Credit: Paramount/REX/Shutterstock The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
1981 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Endless Love”
“Heaven’s Gate”
“The Legend of the Lone Ranger”
“Mommie Dearest”
“Tarzan, the Ape Man” -
CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC (1980)
Image Credit: ITV/REX/Shutterstock A pseudo autobiography of disco’s The Village People.
1980 Worst Picture Nominees:
“Can’t Stop the Music”
“Cruising”
“The Formula”
“Friday the 13th”
“The Nude Bomb”
“The Jazz Singer”
“Raise the Titanic”
“Saturn 3”
“Windows”
“Xanadu”
