1980 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Explained

The 3rd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1981 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1980.^[1] The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in 2006.^[2] Listed as follows are the original ballot's picks for Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (24 total), and all nominees included in the expanded ballot. All winners are highlighted.

Original Ballot

Worst Picture

Film	Production company(s)
*Popeye*	Paramount Pictures
The Apple	The Cannon Group
Can't Stop the Music	Associated Film Distribution
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu	Warner Bros.
Wholly Moses	Columbia Pictures

Dishonourable Mentions

Expanded Ballot

Worst Picture

Film	Production company(s)
*Popeye*	Paramount
The Apple	Cannon
Caligula	Analysis
Can't Stop the Music	AFD
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu	Warner Bros.

Other Categories

Steve Guttenberg in Can't Stop the Music Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon Robby Benson in Die Laughing and Tribute Peter Sellers in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Robin Williams in Popeye	Brooke Shields in Can't Stop the Music Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill Faye Dunaway in The First Deadly Sin Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 Robin Johnson in Times Square
Bruce Jenner in Can't Stop the Music Marlon Brando in The Formula Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II Ron Leibman in Up the Academy Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer	Rhonda Bates in Roadie Elizabeth Ashley in Windows Anne Bancroft in Fatso Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose Elizabeth Taylor in The Mirror Crack'd
Menahem Golan for The Apple Robert Altman for Popeye Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione for Caligula Peter Sellers and Piers Haggard for The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music	The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Bros.) The Apple (Cannon) Can't Stop the Music (AFD) Popeye (Paramount) Up the Academy (Warner Bros.)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Bros.) First Family (Warner Bros.) Just Tell Me What You Want (Warner Bros.) Simon (Warner Bros.) Up the Academy (Warner Bros.)	"He Needs Me" by Shelley Duvall from Popeye "B.I.M." by Alan Young and Grace Kennedy from The Apple "Milkshake" by Village People from Can't Stop the Music "Mr. Weinstein" by Robby Benson from Die Laughing "Universal Melody" by George Gilmour and Mary Hylan from The Apple
The Blue Lagoon (United Artists) The Apple (Cannon) Cruising (United Artists) First Family (Warner Bros.) Smokey and the Bandit II (Universal)	Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson in Flash Gordon Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon in Coast to Coast Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving in The Competition
Robby Benson in Die Laughing Marlon Brando in The Formula Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II Charles Haid in Altered States Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer	Sally Field in Smokey and the Bandit II Sarah Holcomb in Caddyshack Kaki Hunter in Roadie Robin Johnson in Times Square Rita Taggart in Die Laughing
Any Which Way You Can (Warner Bros.) Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (Paramount) Herbie Goes Bananas (Disney) Oh, God! Book II (Warner Bros.) Smokey and the Bandit II (Universal)	Popeye (Paramount) Flash Gordon (Universal) The Jazz Singer (AFD)
Louanne Sirota in Oh, God! Book II John Adames in Gloria Ricky Schroder in The Last Flight of Noah's Ark Jill Whelan in Airplane!	The Apple (Cannon) Galaxina (CIP) The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (Disney) Xanadu (Universal)

Notes and References

Web site: Past Winners Database . . https://web.archive.org/web/20070106174635/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1980/1980st.htm . 2007-01-06 . dead.
Web site: STINKERS BALLOT EXPANSION PROJECT: 1980 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061231033305/http://www.thestinkers.com/1980.html . The Stinkers . December 31, 2006 . September 5, 2024.