19th Golden Raspberry Awards explained

Number:19
Award:Golden Raspberry Awards
Date:March 20, 1999
Site:Huntley Hotel Garden Room, Santa Monica, California
Film:
Most Wins: (5)
Most Nominations: and The Avengers (both 9)
Last:18th
Next:20th

The 19th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 20, 1999, at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst movie industry had to offer in 1998.[1] [2]

Awards and nominations

CategoryRecipient
Worst Picture (Hollywood Pictures)
Armageddon (Touchstone)
The Avengers (Warner Bros.)
Godzilla (TriStar)
Spice World (Columbia)
Worst ActorBruce Willis in Armageddon, Mercury Rising, and The Siege as Harry Stamper, Art Jeffries and William Devereaux
Ralph Fiennes in The Avengers as John Steed
Ryan O'Neal in as James Edmunds
Ryan Phillippe in 54 as Shane O'Shea
Adam Sandler in The Waterboy as Bobby Boucher
Worst ActressThe Spice Girls in Spice World as themselves
Yasmine Bleeth in BASEketball as Jenna Reed
Anne Heche in Psycho as Marion Crane
Jessica Lange in Hush as Martha Baring
Uma Thurman in The Avengers as Emma Peel
Worst Supporting ActorJoe Eszterhas (as himself) in
Sean Connery in The Avengers as Sir August de Wynter
Roger Moore in Spice World as The Chief
Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 4 as Leo Getz
Sylvester Stallone (as himself) in
Worst Supporting ActressMaria Pitillo in Godzilla as Audrey Timmonds
Ellen Albertini Dow in 54 as Disco Dottie
Jenny McCarthy in BASEketball as Yvette Denslow
Liv Tyler in Armageddon as Grace Stamper
Raquel Welch in Chairman of the Board as Grace Kosik
Worst Screen CoupleLeonardo DiCaprio and himself (as twins) in The Man in the Iron Mask
Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon
"Any combination of two characters, body parts or fashion accessories" in Spice World
"Any combination of two people playing themselves (or playing with themselves)" in
Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers
Worst Remake or SequelThe Avengers (Warner Bros.) (tie)
Godzilla (TriStar) (tie)
Psycho (Universal) (tie) (The only three-way tie in the awards' history.)
Lost in Space (New Line Cinema)
Meet Joe Black (Universal) (remake of Death Takes a Holiday)
Worst DirectorGus Van Sant for Psycho
Michael Bay for Armageddon
Jeremiah S. Chechik for The Avengers
Roland Emmerich for Godzilla
Alan Smithee (also known as Arthur Hiller) for
Worst Screenplay, written by Joe Eszterhas
Armageddon, screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams, story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh, adaptation by Tony Gilroy and Shane Salerno
The Avengers, written by Don MacPherson, based on the television series created by Sydney Newman
Godzilla, screenplay by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, story by Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
Spice World, written by Kim Fuller, idea by Fuller and the Spice Girls
Worst New StarJoe Eszterhas (as himself) in (tie)
Jerry Springer in Ringmaster as Jerry Farrelly (tie)
Barney in Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie as himself
Carrot Top in Chairman of the Board as Edison
The Spice Girls in Spice World as themselves
Worst Original Song"I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz" from , written by Joe Eszterhas and Gary G-Wiz
"Barney, the Song" from Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie, written by Jerry Herman
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon, written by Diane Warren (also Oscar-nominated)
"Storm" from The Avengers, written by Bruce Woolley, Chris Elliott, Marius deVries, Betsy Cook, and Andy Caine
"Too Much" from Spice World, written by the Spice Girls, Andy Watkins, and Paul Wilson
Worst Movie Trends of the Year"Gidgets 'n' geezers (58-year-old leading men wooing 28-year-old leading ladies)" (referring to the likes of A Perfect Murder, Six Days, Seven Nights and Stepmom)
"If you've seen the trailer, why bother to see the movie?!? (previews that give away the film's entire plot)"
"30 minutes of story – conveyed in less than three hours! (l-o-n-g-e-r movies... shorter plots)"
"THX: The audio is deafening! (movie sound so loud it constitutes assault with a deafening weapon)"
"Yo quiero tacky tie-ins! (Mega-zillion-dollar cross-promotional overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, etc.)"

Films with multiple nominations

These films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilms
9
The Avengers
8Armageddon
7Spice World
6Godzilla
3Psycho
254
Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie
BASEketball
Chairman of the Board

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Breaking Celeb News, Entertainment News, and Celebrity Gossip. 20 March 1999. 31 October 2016.
  2. Web site: Topic Closed1998 RAZZIE Nominees & "Winners". 31 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20120831204759/http://www.razzies.com/forum/1998-razzie-nominees-winners_topic348.html. 2012-08-31. dead.