| Number: | 17 |
| Award: | Golden Raspberry Awards |
| Date: | March 23, 1997 |
| Site: | Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California |
| Film: | Striptease |
| Most Wins: | Striptease (6) |
| Most Nominations: | Striptease (7) |
| Last: | 16th |
| Next: | 18th |
The 17th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 1997, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1996. Striptease took home the most Razzies of the evening, winning 6 out of 7 nominations, including Worst Picture.
| Category | Nominees |
|---|---|
| Worst Picture | Striptease (Columbia/Castle Rock) |
| Barb Wire (Gramercy Pictures) | |
| Ed (Universal) | |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau (New Line) | |
| The Stupids (New Line/Savoy) | |
| Worst Actor | Tom Arnold in Big Bully, Carpool and The Stupids as Rosco "Fang" Bigger, Franklin Laszlo and Stanley Stupid (respectively) (tie) |
| Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome as Bud Macintosh (tie) | |
| Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction as Eddie Kasalivich | |
| Adam Sandler in Bulletproof and Happy Gilmore as Archie Moses and Happy Gilmore | |
| Sylvester Stallone in Daylight as Kit Latura | |
| Worst Actress | Demi Moore in The Juror and Striptease as Annie Laird and Erin Grant (respectively) |
| Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski | |
| Whoopi Goldberg in Bogus, Eddie and Theodore Rex as Harriet Franklin, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin and Katie Coltrane (respectively) | |
| Melanie Griffith in Two Much as Betty Kerner | |
| Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly as Mary Reilly | |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau as Dr. Moreau |
| Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness and The Island of Dr. Moreau as John Henry Patterson and Dr. Montgomery (respectively) | |
| Burt Reynolds in Striptease as Congressman David Dilbeck | |
| Steven Seagal in Executive Decision as Lt. Col. Austin Travis | |
| Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk till Dawn as Richie Gecko | |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Melanie Griffith in Mulholland Falls as Katherine Hoover |
| Faye Dunaway in The Chamber and Dunston Checks In as Lee Cayhall Bowen and Mrs. Elena Dubrow (respectively) | |
| Jami Gertz in Twister as Melissa Reeves | |
| Daryl Hannah in Two Much as Liz Kerner | |
| Teri Hatcher in Heaven's Prisoners and 2 Days in the Valley as Claudette Rocque and Becky Foxx (respectively) | |
| Worst Screen Couple | Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds in Striptease |
| Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" in Barb Wire | |
| Beavis and Butt-head in Beavis and Butt-head Do America | |
| Marlon Brando and "That Darn Dwarf" (Nelson de la Rosa) in The Island of Dr. Moreau | |
| Matt LeBlanc and Ed (the mechanical monkey) in Ed | |
| Worst Director | Andrew Bergman for Striptease |
| John Frankenheimer for The Island of Dr. Moreau | |
| Stephen Frears for Mary Reilly | |
| John Landis for The Stupids | |
| Brian Levant for Jingle All the Way | |
| Worst Screenplay | Striptease, screenplay by Andrew Bergman, based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen |
| Barb Wire, screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken, story by Chaiken, based upon the characters appearing in the Dark Horse comic | |
| Ed, screenplay by David Mickey Evans, story by Ken Richards and Janus Cercone | |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau, screenplay by Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson, based on the novel by H. G. Wells | |
| The Stupids, written by Brent Forrester, based on characters created by James Marshall and Harry Allard | |
| Worst New Star | Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski |
| Beavis and Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | |
| Ellen DeGeneres in Mr. Wrong as Martha Alston | |
| Friends cast members turned movie-star-wanna-be's (Jennifer Aniston in She's the One, Lisa Kudrow in Mother, Matt LeBlanc in Ed, and David Schwimmer in The Pallbearer) | |
| The new "serious" Sharon Stone in Diabolique and Last Dance as Nicole Horner and Cindy Liggett (respectively) | |
| Worst Original Song | "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy (Whose Kitty Cat Are You?)" from Striptease, written by Marvin Montgomery |
| "Welcome to Planet Boom! (a.k.a. This Boom's for You)" from Barb Wire, written by Tommy Lee | |
| "Whenever There is Love (Love Theme from Daylight)" from Daylight, written by Bruce Roberts and Sam Roman | |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | Twister (Warner Bros.), written by Michael Crichton & Anne-Marie Martin |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), animation screenplay by Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker & Noni White | |
| Independence Day (20th Century Fox), written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich | |
| Mission: Impossible (Paramount), based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, story by David Koepp and Steven Zaillian, screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne | |
| A Time to Kill (Warner Bros.), screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, based on the novel by John Grisham |
These films received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Films |
|---|---|
| 7 | Striptease |
| 6 | Barb Wire |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | |
| 4 | Ed |
| The Stupids | |
| 2 | Beavis and Butt-head Do America |
| Daylight | |
| Mary Reilly | |
| Twister | |
| Two Much |