Well folks, as I'm sure you are awaiting the Oscar nominations this morning, I figured I'd go ahead and give ya the Raspberry nominations for ya to laugh at and/or disagree with... Enjoy...
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19th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Award Nominations
KEY: Names in Italics = Previous RAZZIE "Winners"
Names with ( * ) = Previous RAZZIE Nominees
Names with # = Previous OSCAR Winners and/or Nominees
Worst Picture
•AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN! (Hollywood Pictures),
Produced by Ben Myron
•ARMAGEDDON (Touchstone), Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd
and Michael Bay
•THE AVENGERS (Warner Bros.), Produced by Jerry Weintraub
•GODZILLA (Tri-Star), Produced by Dean Devlin*
•SPICE WORLD (Columbia), Produced by Uri Fruchtmann and Barnaby Thompson
Worst Actor
•Ralph Fiennes# THE AVENGERS
•Ryan O'Neal #* AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN!
•Ryan Phillippe, 54 (Miramax)
•Adam Sandler* THE WATERBOY (Touchstone)
•Bruce Willis* ARMAGEDDON, MERCURY RISING (Universal) and THE SIEGE
(20th Century-Fox)
Worst Actress
•Yasmine Bleeth, BASE-ketball (Universal)
•Anne Heche, PSYCHO (Universal)
•Jessica Lange# HUSH (Columbia)
•The Spice Girls (A 5-Member Girl Group w/The Talent of ONE Bad Actress
Between Them!) SPICE WORLD
•Uma Thurman#* THE AVENGERS
Worst Screen "Couple"
•Ben Affleck# and Liv Tyler, ARMAGEDDON
•Any Combination of Two Characters, Body Parts or Fashion Accessories,
SPICE WORLD
•Any Combination of Two People Playing Themselves (or Playing WITH
Themselves), AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN. HOLLYWOOD, BURN!
•Leonardo DiCaprio# (as Twins!) THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (MGM/UA)
•Ralph Fiennes# and Uma Thurman#* THE AVENGERS
Worst Supporting Actor
•Sean Connery# THE AVENGERS
•Joe Ezterhas (As Himself) AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN!
•Roger Moore, SPICE WORLD
•Joe Pesci # LETHAL WEAPON 4 (Warner Bros.)
•Sylvester Stallone # (As Himself) AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN,
HOLLYWOOD, BURN!
Worst Supporting Actress
•Ellen Albertini Dow (As "Disco Dottie") 54
•Jenny McCarthy, BASE-ketball
•Maria Pitillo, GODZILLA
•Liv Tyler, ARMAGEDDON
•Raquel Welch, CHAIRMAN of THE BOARD (Trimark)
Special Award: "1998 -- The Worst Movie-Going Year EVER!" (New Category, Dis-Honoring The Worst Movie Trends of The Year)
•GIDGETS 'n' GEEZERS (58-Year-Old Leading Men Wooing 28-Year-Old Leading Ladies)
•IF YOU'VE SEEN THE TRAILER, WHY BOTHER TO SEE THE MOVIE?!? (Previews That Give Away The Film's ENTIRE Plot )
•30-MINUTES of STORY -- CONVEYED IN LESS THAN 3 HOURS! (L-O-N-G-E-R Movies...Shorter Plotz )
•THX: THE AUDIO IS DEAFENING! (Movie Sound So Loud It Constitutes Assault w/a Deadening Weapon)
•YO QUIERO TACKY TIE-INS! (Mega-Zillion-Dollar Cross-Promotional Overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, ETC.)
Worst Director
•Michael Bay, ARMAGEDDON
•Jeremiah Chechik, THE AVENGERS
•Roland Emmerich* GODZILLA
•Alan Smithee (a.k.a. Arthur Hiller # ) AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN,
HOLLYWOOD BURN!
•Gus Van Sant# PSYCHO
Worst Re-Make or Sequel (Including Films Based on TV Shows)
•THE AVENGERS
•GODZILLA
•LOST IN SPACE (New Line)
•MEET JOE BLACK (Universal)
•PSYCHO
The Joe Eszterhas Dis-Honorarial Worst Screenplay Award
•AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN! Written by Joe Eszterhas
•ARMAGEDDON, Screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams
•THE AVENGERS Written by Don MacPherson
•GODZILLA Screenplay by Dean Devlin* and Roland Emmerich*
•SPICE WORLD Written by Kim Fuller from an Idea by Fuller and The Spice
Girls
Worst New Star
•Barney, BARNEY'S GREAT ADVENTURE (Polygram)
•Carrot Top, CHAIRMAN of THE BOARD (Trimark)
•Joe Ezsterhas (As Himself) AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN!
•The Spice Girls, SPICE WORLD
•Jerry Springer, RINGMASTER (Artisan Entertainment)
Worst "Original" Song
•"Barney, The Song" from BARNEY'S GREAT ADVENTURE, Written by Jerry
Herman
•"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from ARMAGEDDON, Written by Diane Warren
#*
•"I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" from BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN! Written by Joe
Eszterhas and Gary G. Wiz
•"Storm" from THE AVENGERS, Written by Bruce Wooley, Chris Elliott*,
Marius deVries, Betsy Cook and Andy Caine
•"Too Much" from SPICE WORLD, Written by The Spice Girls, Andy Watkins
and Paul Wilson
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Nominations per Picture
•AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN- 9
•THE AVENGERS - 8
•ARMAGEDDON - 7
•SPICE WORLD - 6
•GODZILLA - 5
•PSYCHO - 3
•54, BARNEY, BASEketball and CHAIRMAN of THE BORED -2 Each
Studio Tally
•DISNEY (All Divisions) - 19
•SONY-COLUMBIA/TRI-STAR - 12
•WARNER BROS. - 9
•UNIVERSAL - 7
