2002 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Explained

Number:25
Award:Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Date:2003
Film:Swept Away
Most Wins:Rollerball and Swept Away (3)
Most Nominations:Pinocchio (9)
Last:2001
Next:2003

The 25th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2003 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2002.[1] [2] Pinocchio received the most nominations with nine. All nominees and winners, with respective percentages of votes for each category, are listed below. Dishonourable mentions are also featured for Worst Picture (56 total).

Winners and nominees

Worst Film

FilmPercentage of Votes
Swept Away (Screen Gems)37%
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Warner Bros.)3%
(Fox)17%
The Master of Disguise (Sony)20%
Pinocchio (Medusa Distribuzione, Miramax)23%

Dishonourable Mentions

Worst Director

RecipientPercentage of Votes
John McTiernan for Rollerball33%
Roberto Benigni for Pinocchio24%
Brian De Palma for Femme Fatale3%
Guy Ritchie for Swept Away30%
Ron Underwood for The Adventures of Pluto Nash10%

Worst Actor

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Tom Green in Stealing Harvard29%
Roberto Benigni & Breckin Meyer channelling Martin Short as the dubbed English voice of Roberto Benigni in Pinocchio13%
Dana Carvey in The Master of Disguise16%
Eddie Murphy in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, I Spy, and Showtime19%
Steven Seagal in Half Past Dead23%

Worst Actress

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Madonna in Swept Away46%
Lucy Liu in 7%
Jennifer Lopez in Enough17%
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in Femme Fatale and Rollerball10%
Britney Spears in Crossroads20%

Worst Supporting Actor

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Hayden Christensen in 40%
Peter Falk in Undisputed3%
John Malkovich in Knockaround Guys20%
Randy Quaid in The Adventures of Pluto Nash23%
Christopher Walken in The Country Bears14%

Worst Supporting Actress

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Madonna in Die Another Day47%
Aaliyah in Queen of the Damned23%
Lara Flynn Boyle in Men in Black II20%
Deborah Harry in Deuces Wild7%
Isabella Rossellini in Empire3%

Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More Than $100M Worldwide Using Hollywood Math

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Scooby-Doo (Warner Bros.), story by James Gunn and Craig Titley, screenplay by Gunn; based on the Scooby-Doo franchise33%
Men in Black II (Columbia), story by Robert Gordon, screenplay by Gordon and Barry Fanaro24%
Pinocchio (Medusa Distribuzione, Miramax), written by Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni20%
(Fox), story by George Lucas, screenplay by Lucas and Jonathan Hales13%
XXX (Sony), written by Rich Wilkes10%

Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy

RecipientPercentage of Votes
(Fox)24%
The Master of Disguise (Sony)24%
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Warner Bros.)17%
Pinocchio (Medusa Distribuzione, Miramax)15%
Scooby-Doo (Warner Bros.)20%

Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits

RecipientPercentage of Votes
"The Penis Song" by Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair from The Sweetest Thing40%
"Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" by Will Smith from Men in Black II10%
"The Chanukkah Song Part 3" by Adam Sandler from Eight Crazy Nights20%
"Die Another Day" by Madonna from Die Another Day13%
"I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" by Britney Spears from Crossroads17%

Most Intrusive Musical Score

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Warner Bros.)31%
Pinocchio (Medusa Distribuzione, Miramax)12%
Punch-Drunk Love (Columbia)16%
Scooby-Doo (Warner Bros.)22%
Swept Away (Screen Gems)19%

Worst On-Screen Couple

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Madonna and Adriano Giannini in Swept Away29%
Woody Allen and any actress decades younger in Hollywood Ending19%
Roberto Benigni and his dubbed English voice in Pinocchio3%
Eddie Murphy and anyone forced to co-star with him in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, I Spy, and Showtime26%
Britney Spears and Anson Mount in Crossroads22%

Worst Fake Accent (Male)

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Harrison Ford in 42%
Dan Aykroyd in Crossroads6%
Dana Carvey in The Master of Disguise29%
John Malkovich in Knockaround Guys13%
Rob Schneider in Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights and The Hot Chick10%

Worst Fake Accent (Female)

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in Femme Fatale and Rollerball40%
Illeana Douglas in The New Guy20%
Ashley Judd in Frida17%
Isabella Rossellini in Empire10%
Maggie Smith in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood13%

Most Annoying Non-Human Character

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Scrappy-Doo in Scooby-Doo35%
Dobby the House Elf in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets9%
Jar Jar Binks in 29%
The New and Not Improved Computer-Generated Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo12%
Whitey in Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights15%

Worst Sequel

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Analyze That (Warner Bros.)40%
(Dimension)17%
Jason X (New Line)13%
Men in Black II (Columbia)20%
Pokémon 4Ever (Toho)10%

Worst Remake

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Rollerball (MGM)40%
Mr. Deeds (Columbia)13%
Pinocchio (Medusa Distribuzione, Miramax)17%
Swept Away (Screen Gems)23%
The Truth About Charlie (Universal)7%

Worst On-Screen Group

RecipientPercentage of Votes
The Most Miscast Voice Ensemble in Motion Picture History in Pinocchio33%
The Country Bears in The Country Bears20%
The Entire Cast of 30%
Those Meddling Kids in Scooby-Doo7%
The Ya-Yas in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood10%

Most Distracting Celebrity Cameo Appearance

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Michael Jackson in Men in Black II37%
Pamela Anderson in Scooby-Doo17%
Elton John in The Country Bears13%
Madonna in Die Another Day23%
John McEnroe in Mr. Deeds10%

Worst Resurrection of a TV Show

RecipientPercentage of Votes
I Spy (Columbia)67%
Scooby-Doo (Warner Bros.)33%

Films with multiple wins and nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilm
9Pinocchio
7Scooby-Doo
6The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Swept Away
5Men in Black II
4Crossroads
The Master of Disguise
Rollerball
3The Country Bears
Die Another Day
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Eight Crazy Nights
Femme Fatale
I Spy
2Empire
Knockaround Guys
Mr. Deeds
Showtime

The following films received multiple wins:

WinsFilm
3Rollerball
Swept Away
2Scooby-Doo

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Winners - 2002 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20061112232158/http://www.thestinkers.com/2002.html . The Stinkers . November 12, 2006 . January 22, 2024.
  2. Web site: Past Winners Database . https://web.archive.org/web/20070815213025/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2002/2002st.htm . dead . 15 August 2007 . The Envelope at L.A. Times . 7 October 2019.