Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
Award to the worst director of the previous year
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director | |
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Worst Director award at the 29th Razzie Awards | |
Awarded for | Worst in film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Golden Raspberry Award Foundation |
First awarded | 1980 (Robert Greenwald for Xanadu) |
Currently held by | Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
Website | www |
The Razzie Award for Worst Director is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards[1] 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.
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year | Director | Film |
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1980 (1st) | ||
Robert Greenwald | Xanadu | |
John G. Avildsen | The Formula | |
Brian De Palma | Dressed to Kill | |
Richard Fleischer | The Jazz Singer | |
William Friedkin | Cruising | |
Stanley Kubrick | The Shining | |
Michael Ritchie | The Island | |
John Trent | Middle Age Crazy | |
Nancy Walker | Can't Stop the Music | |
Gordon Willis | Windows | |
1981 (2nd) | ||
Michael Cimino | Heaven's Gate | |
John Derek | Tarzan, the Ape Man | |
Blake Edwards | S.O.B. | |
Frank Perry | Mommie Dearest | |
Franco Zeffirelli | Endless Love | |
1982 (3rd) | ||
Ken Annakin | The Pirate Movie | |
Terence Young | Inchon | |
Matt Cimber | Butterfly | |
John Huston | Annie | |
Hal Needham | Megaforce | |
1983 (4th) | ||
Peter Sasdy | The Lonely Lady | |
Joe Alves | Jaws 3-D | |
Brian De Palma | Scarface | |
John Herzfeld | Two of a Kind | |
Hal Needham | Stroker Ace | |
1984 (5th) | ||
John Derek | Bolero | |
Bob Clark | Rhinestone | |
Brian De Palma | Body Double | |
John Guillermin | Sheena | |
Hal Needham | Cannonball Run II | |
1985 (6th) | ||
Sylvester Stallone | Rocky IV | |
Richard Brooks | Fever Pitch | |
Michael Cimino | Year of the Dragon | |
George Pan Cosmatos | Rambo: First Blood Part II | |
Hugh Hudson | Revolution | |
1986 (7th) | ||
Prince | Under the Cherry Moon[2] | |
Jim Goddard | Shanghai Surprise | |
Willard Huyck | Howard the Duck | |
Stephen King | Maximum Overdrive | |
Michelle Manning | Blue City | |
1987 (8th) | ||
Norman Mailer | Tough Guys Don't Dance | |
Elaine May | Ishtar[3] | |
James Foley | Who's That Girl | |
Joseph Sargent | Jaws: The Revenge | |
Paul Weiland | Leonard Part 6 | |
1988 (9th) | ||
Blake Edwards | Sunset | |
Stewart Raffill | Mac and Me | |
Michael Dinner | Hot to Trot | |
Roger Donaldson | Cocktail | |
Peter MacDonald | Rambo III | |
1989 (10th) | ||
William Shatner | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | |
John G. Avildsen | The Karate Kid Part III | |
Jim Drake | Speed Zone | |
Rowdy Herrington | Road House | |
Eddie Murphy | Harlem Nights |
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year | Director | Film |
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2010 (31st) | ||
M. Night Shyamalan | The Last Airbender | |
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer | Vampires Suck | |
Michael Patrick King | Sex and the City 2 | |
David Slade | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | |
Sylvester Stallone | The Expendables | |
2011 (32nd) | ||
Dennis Dugan | Jack and Jill | |
Just Go with It | ||
Michael Bay | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | |
Tom Brady | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star | |
Bill Condon | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | |
Garry Marshall | New Year's Eve | |
2012 (33rd) | ||
Bill Condon | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | |
Sean Anders | That's My Boy | |
Peter Berg | Battleship | |
Tyler Perry | Good Deeds | |
Madea's Witness Protection | ||
John Putch | Atlas Shrugged: Part II | |
2013 (34th) | ||
All 13 directors (Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken) | Movie 43 | |
Dennis Dugan | Grown Ups 2 | |
Tyler Perry | A Madea Christmas | |
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | ||
M. Night Shyamalan | After Earth | |
Gore Verbinski | The Lone Ranger | |
2014 (35th) | ||
Michael Bay | Transformers: Age of Extinction | |
Darren Doane | Saving Christmas | |
Renny Harlin | The Legend of Hercules | |
Jonathan Liebesman | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
Seth MacFarlane | A Million Ways to Die in the West | |
2015 (36th) | ||
Josh Trank | Fantastic Four | |
Andy Fickman | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | |
Tom Six | The Human Centipede 3 | |
Sam Taylor-Johnson | Fifty Shades of Grey | |
The Wachowskis | Jupiter Ascending | |
2016 (37th) | ||
Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley | Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party | |
Roland Emmerich | Independence Day: Resurgence | |
Tyler Perry | Boo! A Madea Halloween | |
Alex Proyas | Gods of Egypt | |
Zack Snyder | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | |
Ben Stiller | Zoolander 2 | |
2017 (38th) | ||
Tony Leondis | The Emoji Movie[8] | |
Darren Aronofsky | Mother! | |
Michael Bay | Transformers: The Last Knight | |
James Foley | Fifty Shades Darker | |
Alex Kurtzman | The Mummy | |
2018 (39th) | ||
Etan Cohen | Holmes & Watson[9] | |
Kevin Connolly | Gotti | |
James Foley | Fifty Shades Freed | |
Brian Henson | The Happytime Murders | |
The Spierig Brothers | Winchester | |
2019 (40th) | ||
Tom Hooper | Cats[10] | |
Fred Durst | The Fanatic | |
James Franco | Zeroville | |
Adrian Grünberg | Rambo: Last Blood | |
Neil Marshall | Hellboy |
2020s
Year | Director | Film |
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2020 (41st) | ||
Sia | Music[11] | |
Charles Band | Corona Zombies | |
Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King | ||
Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 | ||
Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes | 365 Days | |
Stephen Gaghan | Dolittle | |
Ron Howard | Hillbilly Elegy | |
2021 (42nd) | ||
Christopher Ashley | Diana the Musical | |
Stephen Chbosky | Dear Evan Hansen | |
Coke Daniels | Karen | |
Renny Harlin | The Misfits | |
Joe Wright | The Woman in the Window | |
2022 (43rd) | ||
Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun | Good Mourning[12] | |
Judd Apatow | The Bubble | |
Andrew Dominik | Blonde | |
Daniel Espinosa | Morbius | |
Robert Zemeckis | Disney's Pinocchio | |
2023 (44th) | ||
Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey | |
David Gordon Green | The Exorcist: Believer | |
Peyton Reed | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | |
Scott Waugh | Expend4bles | |
Ben Wheatley | Meg 2: The Trench |
Age superlatives
Record | Director | Film | Age |
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Oldest winner | Ken Annakin | The Pirate Movie | 68 years, 244 days |
Oldest nominee | Garry Marshall | New Year's Eve | 77 years, 104 days |
Youngest winner | Jennifer Lynch | Boxing Helena | 25 years, 347 days |
Youngest nominee |
Multiple wins
2 wins
Multiple nominations
6 nominations 5 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations
| 2 nominations
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References
- ^ » RazzieWatch: Worst-Director Showdown-Grantland.com
- ^ The 10 Most Notorious Movies That Won Razzie Awards – Taste of Cinema
- ^ Retrospective puts May center stage-The Boston Globe
- ^ The 10 Most Notorious Movies That Won Razzie Awards - Taste of Cinema
- ^ Shyamalan to find form with new apacolyptic thriller-Retuers
- ^ Postal is getting a remake for PC, Mac and PS4 • Eurogamer.net
- ^ Michael Bay Selling His 1966 Camaro SS Bumblebee at Barrett-Jackson-The News Wheel
- ^ 2018 Razzie Award Winners Full List of Winners in All 9 categories-GoldDerby
- ^ 2019 Razzie Winners List: Watch the Announcement Video Here-GoldDerby
- ^ Razzies 2020 winners list: Cats wins Worst Picture at Razzie Awards|EW.com
- ^ Razzie Awards 2021 Winners: MUSIC, 365 DAYS WIN BIG AT 41ST GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS < < Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Tom Hanks, Morbius, and Blonde all tie for the biggest loser at the 2023 Razzie Awards|EW.com
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Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- Robert Greenwald – Xanadu (1980)
- Michael Cimino – Heaven's Gate (1981)
- Ken Annakin – The Pirate Movie / Terence Young – Inchon (1982)
- Peter Sasdy – The Lonely Lady (1983)
- John Derek – Bolero (1984)
- Sylvester Stallone – Rocky IV (1985)
- Prince – Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
- Norman Mailer – Tough Guys Don't Dance / Elaine May – Ishtar (1987)
- Blake Edwards – Sunset / Stewart Raffill – Mac and Me (1988)
- William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
- John Derek – Ghosts Can't Do It (1990)
- Michael Lehmann – Hudson Hawk (1991)
- David Seltzer – Shining Through (1992)
- Jennifer Lynch – Boxing Helena (1993)
- Steven Seagal – On Deadly Ground (1994)
- Paul Verhoeven – Showgirls (1995)
- Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
- Kevin Costner – The Postman (1997)
- Gus Van Sant – Psycho (1998)
- Barry Sonnenfeld – Wild Wild West (1999)
- Roger Christian – Battlefield Earth (2000)
- Tom Green – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
- Guy Ritchie – Swept Away (2002)
- Martin Brest – Gigli (2003)
- Pitof – Catwoman (2004)
- John Asher – Dirty Love (2005)
- M. Night Shyamalan – Lady in the Water (2006)
- Chris Sivertson – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
- Uwe Boll – In the Name of the King, Postal, and Tunnel Rats (2008)
- Michael Bay – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
- Dennis Dugan – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011)
- Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
- Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken – Movie 43 (2013)
- Michael Bay – Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
- Josh Trank – Fantastic Four (2015)
- Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
- Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie (2017)
- Etan Cohen – Holmes & Watson (2018)
- Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
- Sia – Music (2020/21)
- Christopher Ashley – Diana the Musical (2021)
- Colson Baker and Mod Sun – Good Mourning (2022)
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)