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Razzie Award for Worst Director
The Razzie Award for Worst Director is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst director of the previous year. The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, along with the film(s) for which they were nominated.
1980 Robert Greenwald for Xanadu
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Xanadu
Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It is an unofficial remake of the 1947 film Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth, as well as an unofficial sequel to the 1944 film Cover Girl in which Gene Kelly plays the same...
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Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 western movie based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film's production was plagued by cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about...
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Inchon
Inchon (also called Inchon!) is a 1982 film directed by Terence Young about the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War. The film opens with a disclaimer that it is a fictional depiction of events. The protagonist of the film is General Douglas...
The Pirate Movie
The Pirate Movie is a 1982 musical and comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. The film is loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The original music score is...
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The Lonely Lady
The Lonely Lady is a 1983 film directed by Peter Sasdy and adapted to screen by Ellen Shepard from the novel written by Harold Robbins. The original music score was composed by Charlie Calello.
Jerilee Randall (Pia Zadora) is an innocent schoolgirl...
Bolero
Bolero is a 1984 film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the protagonist's sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity.
Bolero...
Rocky IV
Rocky IV is a 1985 film that was the fourth and most financially successful entry in the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa (played again by Sylvester Stallone), plans to retire from boxing after regaining his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III. An...
Under the Cherry Moon
Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 movie directed by and starring Prince as a gigolo named Christopher "Chris" Tracy and Time member Jerome Benton as his partner, Tricky . Together the pair swindle wealthy French women. The situation gets complicated...
Ishtar
Ishtar is a 1987 comedy film, directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke", a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco looking for work and stumble into a four-party Cold War...
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film from Cannon Films written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned both by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of...
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Mac and Me
Mac and Me is a 1988 family film about a disabled boy and an extraterrestrial juvenile. The decision to create it was based largely on the success of E.T. (1982). The title itself, Mac and Me, comes from the working title for E.T. — E.T. and Me.
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Sunset
Sunset is a 1988 film released by TriStar Pictures. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the movie stars Bruce Willis as legendary western actor Tom Mix and James Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
The story is based on Rod Amateau's novel...
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 film released by Paramount Pictures and the fifth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series. The film was directed by William Shatner, following two films directed by his co-star,...
Ghosts Can't Do It
Ghosts Can't Do It is a 1990 film starring Bo Derek and Anthony Quinn, directed by John Derek.
It was awarded Razzie Awards for worst picture (Tied with The Adventures of Ford Fairlane), worst actress (Bo Derek), worst director and worst supporting...
Hudson Hawk
Hudson Hawk is a 1991 film, directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Richard E. Grant, and Sandra...
Shining Through
Shining Through is a 1992 World War II film drama, directed and written by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the film's plot is considerably different. The...
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena is the 1993 debut feature film by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. The film stars Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena.
Nick Cavanaugh (Sands) is a lonely Atlanta surgeon obsessed with a girl named Helena ...
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On Deadly Ground
On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Billy Bob Thornton. Despite holding #1 position at...
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Showgirls
Showgirls is a 1995 film directed by Paul Verhoeven. It stars former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon. The film centres on a drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl....
Striptease
Striptease is a 1996 erotic comedy film starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Ving Rhames. The film was directed by Andrew Bergman. Based on the book Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen, it is about a stripper who becomes involved in both a child custody...
The Postman
The Postman is a 1997 film adaptation of the award-winning post-apocalyptic-themed novel of the same name, written in 1985 by author David Brin. It was filmed in northeastern Washington (Metaline Falls), Fidalgo Island, Washington, central Oregon...
Psycho
Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Both films are adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which were in turn...
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West (1999) is a science fiction Western action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline (who appears in a dual roles as both the protagonist Artemus Gordon and as President Ulysses S. Grant), Kenneth...
Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is an American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard that was released on May 12, 2000. Directed by Roger Christian, the film stars John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, and Barry...
Freddy Got Fingered
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) is a film directed, co-written by and starring Tom Green. Some of the scenes are similar to the antics seen in his own The Tom Green Show and scenes in Road Trip. It is largely built around gross-out and shock humor. Much...
Swept Away
Swept Away is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Madonna, Adriano Giannini, and Bruce Greenwood. It was released by Screen Gems and produced by Matthew Vaughn.
The working title for the film was Love, Sex, Drugs and...
Gigli
Gigli (pronounced jee-lee) is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan. Its title is an homage to Nick Gigli, a minor character from...
Catwoman
Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Pitof and released by Warner Brothers & Village Roadshow Pictures on July 23, 2004. The film was inspired by the DC Comics character of the same name, who is traditionally a supervillain and...
Dirty Love
Dirty Love is a 2005 comedy film, written by and starring Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Mallory Asher. At the time of filming the couple were married but have since filed for divorce. The film heavily plays off McCarthy's reputation for...
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water is a 2006 thriller/fantasy film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), a former doctor, became a handyman at the Cove, a Philadelphia poolside apartment complex, after his wife and children were...
I Know Who Killed Me
I Know Who Killed Me is a 2007 American mystery/thriller directed by Chris Sivertson.
In 2008, the film won eight Golden Raspberry Awards, a new record (beating Showgirls, Battlefield Earth, and Gigli) including Worst Film, Worst Actress and the...
In the Name of the King
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is a 2007 fantasy film supposedly inspired by the Dungeon Siege video game series, which was directed by Uwe Boll. It was produced by Brightlight Pictures and distributed by Freestyle Releasing and...
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Postal
Postal is a 2007 black comedy film co-written and directed by Uwe Boll.
Like the majority of Boll's previous films, Postal is a film adaptation of a video game, this time Running With Scissors' controversial Postal, though the film draws more...
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1968 Tunnel Rats
1968 Tunnel Rats (originally titled Tunnel Rats) is a war film directed by Uwe Boll. The film is based on the factual duties of tunnel rats during the Vietnam War. Unlike his most well known films 1968 Tunnel Rats is not based on a video game but...
