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
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CONTACT: JOHN WILSON/GRAF
E-Mail: HeadBerry@razzies.com
‘WILD
WILD WEST’ STAR ATTENDS AS
RAZZIES®
ANNOUNCE WORST IN FILM ‘WINNERS’
FOR
1999, 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!” Three of WEST’s Dis-Honors were accepted
by the star of the original TV series, Robert Conrad.
Other 1999 RAZZIES went to: Adam Sandler, Worst Actor as
an amazingly idiotic adoptive father in BIG DADDY; Heather
Donahue, Worst Actress, playing the increasingly irksome
director of a doomed documentary in 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, 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 Worst Actor and Actress of The ENTIRE 20th Century.
.
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
Hitsites, Inc. To arrange an interview with Wilson, or get
additional information Straight from The Head RAZZberry, please
contact the E-mail address atop this release.
© 2000, John
Wilson and The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation.
20th
Annual RAZZIE® Award “Winners”
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.
