The Golden Raspberry Award
Foundation presents
The 20th ANNUAL RAZZIES® Dis-Honoring Worst
Achievements in Film for 1999, The 1990's and The 20th
Century
CONTACT: JOHN
WILSON/GRAF
E-Mail: headberry@razzies.com
RAZZIES® GO WILD
OVER 'WEST' ALSO
NAMING THE WORST of THE 90's - AND THE CENTURY!
Celebrating two
decades as Tinseltown's Tackiest Anti-Awards Show, The
Golden Raspberry Award
Foun-dation chose The Traditional Day BEFORE That
Other Award Show to
unveil "winners" of its 20th Annual RAZZIE®
Awards, Dis-Honoring
Worst Achievements in Film. For 1999, The 1990's and The
20th Century.
To the surprise of no
one unfortunate enough to have seen it, the Most-RAZZed movie of 1999
turned out to be WILD WILD WEST. A wretched remake
of the mid-60's TV hit
as a behemothly over-budget, special-effects-laden box
office bomb, WEST
"won" five RAZZIES, including not only Worst
Picture of The Year
but also Worst Director ("Berry" Sonnenfeld),
Worst Screenplay, Worst Song (for its rap-style title
tune) and Worst Screen Couple for co-stars Kevin Kline and Will Smith,
who Roger Ebert said had "so little screen chemistry they seem to be
acting in front of rear screen projections of each
other!"
Other 1999 RAZZIES
went to: Adam Sandler for Worst Actor as an amazingly idiotic adoptive
father in BIG
DADDY; Heather Donahue as Worst Actress, playing the
increasingly irksome director of a doomed documentary in
THE BLAIR WITCH
PROJECT;
Computer-created creature and Internet Whipping Boy
Jar-Jar Binks of STAR
WARS: EPISODE I as Worst Supporting Actor; And tank-topped "nuclear
physicist" Denise Richards of THE WORLD IS NOT
ENOUGH for Worst
Supporting Actress.
Special RAZZIES were
also awarded to Pauly Shore as The Worst New Star of
The 1990's, SHOWGIRLS as the decade's Worst Picture and Perpetual RAZZIE
Targets Sylvester Stallone and Madonna as the Worst Actor and Actress of The
20th Century. The Worst Picture(s) of The Century are yet-to-be
determined. They are being voted on right now by the
general public in a poll
entitled 100 YEARS, 100 STINKERS being conducted on
The RAZZIE Website (WWW.RAZZIES.COM.)
More than 6,250 people have already participated, and results will
be unveiled at mid-year 2000.
RAZZIE nominations
and "winners" were determined by mailing
ballots to more than
465 G.R.A.F. members (film fans, film journalists and
film professionals)
in 34 US states and eight foreign countries. The RAZZIES
were founded in
1980 by John Wilson, a UCLA Film School graduate and
author of EVERYTHING
I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES. The actual RAZZIE Award,
a gold-spray-painted
plastic raspberry atop a mangled Super 8 film reel, now
has an
inflation-adjusted estimated street value of about
$4.27.
For more information
on The GRAF, their awards and/or their history, please
visit the web RAZZIE
website, one of the more heavily trafficked humorous
destinations in
cyberspace. Recently up-dated and revised, it is now
operated by Tianna
Thomas of HitsitesWeb Solutions. To arrange an
interview with Wilson, or get additional information
Straight from The Head RAZZberry, please contact the e-mail address atop this
release
WORST PICTURE of
1999
WILD WILD WEST
(Warner Bros.)
Produced by Jon Peters and "Berry" Sonnenfeld.
WORST ACTOR of
1999
Adam Sandler/BIG
DADDY
WORST ACTRESS of
1999
Heather Donahue/THE
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
WORST SCREEN
COUPLE of 1999
Kevin Kline &
Will Smith/WILD WILD WEST
WORST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS of 1999
Denise Richards/THE
WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
WORST SUPPORTING
ACTOR of 1999
Jar-Jar Binks (Voice
by Ahmed Best) /STAR WARS: EPISODE I, THE PHANTOM MENACE
WORST DIRECTOR of
1999
"Berry"
Sonnenfeld/WILD WILD WEST
WORST SCREENPLAY
of 1999
WILD WILD WEST by Jim
Thomas & John Thomas, S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey
Price & Peter S. Seaman
WORST 'ORIGINAL'
SONG OF 1999
"Wild Wild
West" from WILD WILD WEST by Stevie Wonder, Kool Mo Dee
and Will Smith
WORST ACTOR of THE
CENTURY
Sylvester Stallone/AN
ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN! ASSASSINS, CLIFFHANGER, COBRA,
DAYLIGHT, JUDGE DREDD, LOCK-UP, OSCAR, OVER THE TOP,
RAMBO II, RAMBO III, RHINESTONE, ROCKY IV, ROCKY V,
THE SPECIALIST, STOP
OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT and TANGO & CASH (17 Titles)
WORST ACTRESS of
THE CENTURY
Madonna/BLOODHOUNDS
OF BROADWAY, BODY of EVIDENCE, FOUR ROOMS, SHANGHAI SURPRISE,
TRUTH OR DARE and
WHO'S THAT GIRL?
WORST PICTURE of
THE DECADE
SHOWGIRLS (MGM/UA)
("Winner" of 7 1995 RAZZIES®)
WORST NEW STAR of
THE DECADE
Pauly Shore/BIO-DOME,
ENCINO MAN, JURY DUTY, THE SON-IN-LAW and YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW
AWARD TOTALS by
TITLE:
WILD WILD WEST - 5
(Worst Picture, Screen
Couple, Director, Song and Screenplay) BIG DADDY, THE BLAIR WITCH
PROJECT, SHOWGIRLS, STAR WARS: EPISODE I and THE
WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH - 1 EACH
© 2000 John Wilson
and The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation |