| Awarded For: | Worst in film |
| Presenter: | Golden Raspberry Award Foundation |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Holder: | Jon Voight, Mercy (2023) |
The Razzie Award for Worst Actor is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst actor of the previous year. The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, along with the film(s) for which they were nominated.[1]
The category of "actor" has expanded to include the subjects of documentary films; this process has been criticized.[2] Five winners of this award have come from appearances as themselves: George W. Bush, Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, Mike Lindell and LeBron James. Four of these came from appearances in documentaries; LeBron James' came from .
| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (11th) | Andrew Dice Clay | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Ford Fairlane |
| Prince | Graffiti Bridge | The Kid | |
| Mickey Rourke | Desperate Hours | Michael Bosworth | |
| Wild Orchid | James Wheeler | ||
| George C. Scott | The Exorcist III | Lt. William Kinderman | |
| Sylvester Stallone | Rocky V | Rocky Balboa | |
| 1991 (12th) | Kevin Costner | Robin Hood | |
| Andrew Dice Clay | Dice Rules | Himself | |
| Sylvester Stallone | Oscar | Angelo "Snaps" Provolone | |
| Vanilla Ice | Cool as Ice | Johnny Van Owen | |
| Bruce Willis | Hudson Hawk | Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins | |
| 1992 (13th) | Sylvester Stallone | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | Sgt. Joe Bomowski |
| Kevin Costner | The Bodyguard | Frank Farmer | |
| Michael Douglas | Basic Instinct | Det. Nick Curran | |
| Shining Through | Ed Leland | ||
| Jack Nicholson | Hoffa | Jimmy Hoffa | |
| Man Trouble | Eugene Earl Axline | ||
| Tom Selleck | Folks! | Jon Aldrich | |
| 1993 (14th) | Burt Reynolds | Cop and a Half | Det. Nick McKenna |
| William Baldwin | Sliver | Zeke Hawkins | |
| Willem Dafoe | Body of Evidence | Frank Dulaney | |
| Robert Redford | Indecent Proposal | John Gage | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Last Action Hero | Jack Slater | |
| 1994 (15th) | Kevin Costner | Wyatt Earp | Wyatt Earp |
| Macaulay Culkin | Getting Even with Dad | Timmy Gleason | |
| The Pagemaster | Richard Tyler | ||
| Richie Rich | Richie Rich | ||
| Steven Seagal | On Deadly Ground | Forrest Taft | |
| Sylvester Stallone | The Specialist | Ray Quick | |
| Bruce Willis | Color of Night | Dr. Bill Capa | |
| North | Narrator / Easter Bunny / Gabby / Tourist / Sleigh Driver / Joey Fingers / FedEx Driver | ||
| 1995 (16th) | Pauly Shore | Jury Duty | Tommy Collins |
| Kevin Costner | Waterworld | The Mariner | |
| Kyle MacLachlan | Showgirls | Zack Carey | |
| Keanu Reeves | Johnny Mnemonic | Johnny Mnemonic | |
| A Walk in the Clouds | Paul Sutton | ||
| Sylvester Stallone | Assassins | Robert Rath | |
| Judge Dredd | Judge Joseph Dredd | ||
| 1996 (17th) | Tom Arnold (tie) | Big Bully | Rosco "Fang" Bigger |
| Carpool | Franklin Laszlo | ||
| The Stupids | Stanley Stupid | ||
| Pauly Shore (tie) | Bio-Dome | Bud Macintosh | |
| Keanu Reeves | Chain Reaction | Eddie Kasalivich | |
| Adam Sandler | Bulletproof | Archie Moses | |
| Happy Gilmore | Happy Gilmore | ||
| Sylvester Stallone | Daylight | Kit Latura | |
| 1997 (18th) | Kevin Costner | The Postman | The Postman (Gordon Krantz) |
| Val Kilmer | The Saint | Simon Templar | |
| Shaquille O'Neal | Steel | John Henry Irons / Steel | |
| Steven Seagal | Fire Down Below | Jack Taggart | |
| Jon Voight | Anaconda | Paul Sarone | |
| 1998 (19th) | Bruce Willis | Armageddon | Harry Stamper |
| Mercury Rising | Art Jeffries | ||
| The Siege | Gen. William Devereaux | ||
| Ralph Fiennes | The Avengers | John Steed | |
| Ryan O'Neal | James Edmunds | ||
| Ryan Phillippe | 54 | Shane O'Shea | |
| Adam Sandler | The Waterboy | Bobby Boucher | |
| 1999 (20th) | Adam Sandler | Big Daddy | Sonny Koufax |
| Kevin Costner | For Love of the Game | Billy Chapel | |
| Message in a Bottle | Garret Blake | ||
| Kevin Kline | Wild Wild West | Artemus Gordon | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | End of Days | Jericho Cane | |
| Robin Williams | Bicentennial Man | Andrew Martin | |
| Jakob the Liar | Jakob |
| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (21st) | John Travolta | Battlefield Earth | Terl |
| Lucky Numbers | Russ Richards | ||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | The Beach | Richard | |
| Adam Sandler | Little Nicky | Nicky | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | The 6th Day | Adam Gibson | |
| Sylvester Stallone | Get Carter | Jack Carter | |
| 2001 (22nd) | Tom Green | Freddy Got Fingered | Gordon "Gord" Brody |
| Ben Affleck | Pearl Harbor | Capt. Rafe McCawley | |
| Kevin Costner | 3000 Miles to Graceland | Thomas J. Murphy | |
| Keanu Reeves | Hardball | Conor O'Neill | |
| Sweet November | Nelson Moss | ||
| John Travolta | Domestic Disturbance | Frank Morrison | |
| Swordfish | Gabriel Shear | ||
| 2002 (23rd) | Roberto Benigni (dubbed Godzilla-style by Breckin Meyer)[3] | Pinocchio | Pinocchio |
| Adriano Giannini | Swept Away | Giuseppe | |
| Eddie Murphy | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Pluto Nash / Rex Crater | |
| I Spy | Kelly Robinson | ||
| Showtime | Off. Trey Sellars | ||
| Adam Sandler | Eight Crazy Nights | Davey Stone / Whitey Duvall / Eleanore Duvall / Deer | |
| Mr. Deeds | Longfellow Deeds | ||
| Steven Seagal | Half Past Dead | Sasha Petrosevitch | |
| 2003 (24th) | Ben Affleck | Daredevil | Matt Murdock / Daredevil |
| Gigli | Larry Gigli | ||
| Paycheck | Michael Jennings | ||
| Cuba Gooding Jr. | Boat Trip | Jerry Robinson | |
| The Fighting Temptations | Darrin Hill | ||
| Radio | James Robert "Radio" Kennedy | ||
| Justin Guarini | From Justin to Kelly | Justin Bell | |
| Ashton Kutcher | Cheaper by the Dozen | Hank | |
| Just Married | Tom Leezak | ||
| My Boss's Daughter | Tom Stansfield | ||
| Mike Myers | The Cat in the Hat | The Cat in the Hat | |
| 2004 (25th) | George W. Bush | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Himself |
| Ben Affleck | Jersey Girl | Oliver "Ollie" Trinke | |
| Surviving Christmas | Drew Latham | ||
| Vin Diesel | The Chronicles of Riddick | Riddick | |
| Colin Farrell | Alexander | Alexander the Great | |
| Ben Stiller | Along Came Polly | Reuben Feffer | |
| Arturo Mendez | |||
| White Goodman | |||
| Envy | Tim Dingman | ||
| Starsky & Hutch | David Starsky | ||
| 2005 (26th) | Rob Schneider | Deuce Bigalow | |
| Tom Cruise | War of the Worlds | Ray Ferrier | |
| Will Ferrell | Bewitched | Jack Wyatt / Darrin Stephens | |
| Kicking & Screaming | Phil Weston | ||
| Dwayne Johnson | Doom | Asher "Sarge" Mahonin | |
| Jamie Kennedy | Son of the Mask | Tim Avery | |
| 2006 (27th) | Marlon Wayans & Shawn Wayans | Little Man | Calvin Simms and Darryl Edwards |
| Tim Allen | Santa Claus / Scott Calvin | ||
| The Shaggy Dog | Dave Douglas | ||
| Zoom | Jack Shepard / Captain Zoom | ||
| Nicolas Cage | The Wicker Man | Edward Malus | |
| Larry the Cable Guy | Larry | ||
| Rob Schneider | The Benchwarmers | Gus Matthews | |
| Little Man | D-Rex | ||
| 2007 (28th) | Eddie Murphy | Norbit | Norbit Albert Rice |
| Nicolas Cage | Ghost Rider | Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider | |
| Benjamin Franklin Gates | |||
| Next | Cris Johnson | ||
| Jim Carrey | The Number 23 | Walter Sparrow / Det. Fingerling | |
| Cuba Gooding Jr. | Daddy Day Camp | Charlie Hinton | |
| Norbit | Deion Hughes | ||
| Adam Sandler | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Chuck Levine | |
| 2008 (29th) | Mike Myers | The Love Guru | Guru Maurice Pitka |
| Larry the Cable Guy | Witless Protection | Larry Stalder | |
| Eddie Murphy | Meet Dave | Dave Ming Cheng / The Captain | |
| Al Pacino | 88 Minutes | Dr. Jack Gramm | |
| Righteous Kill | Det. David "Rooster" Fisk | ||
| Mark Wahlberg | The Happening | Elliot Moore | |
| Max Payne | Max Payne | ||
| 2009 (30th) | Jonas Brothers | Themselves | |
| Will Ferrell | Land of the Lost | Dr. Rick Marshall | |
| Steve Martin | The Pink Panther 2 | Jacques Clouseau | |
| Eddie Murphy | Imagine That | Evan Danielson | |
| John Travolta | Old Dogs | Charlie Reed |
| Year | Actor | Film | Character | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (41st) | rowspan | Mike Lindell (The "My Pillow Guy") | Absolute Proof | Himself |
| Robert Downey Jr. | Dolittle | Dr. John Dolittle | ||
| Michele Morrone | 365 Days | Don Massimo Torricelli | ||
| Adam Sandler | Hubie Halloween | Hubie Dubois | ||
| David Spade | The Wrong Missy | Tim Morris | ||
| 2021 (42nd) | ||||
| LeBron James | Himself | |||
| Scott Eastwood | Dangerous | Dylan "D" Forrester | ||
| Roe Hartrampf | Diana the Musical | Charles, Prince of Wales | ||
| Ben Platt | Dear Evan Hansen | Evan Hansen | ||
| Mark Wahlberg | Infinite | Evan McCauley & Heinrich Treadway (2020) | ||
| 2022 (43rd) | ||||
| Jared Leto | Morbius | Dr. Michael Morbius/Morbius, the Living Vampire | ||
| Pete Davidson | Marmaduke | Marmaduke (voice only) | ||
| Tom Hanks | Disney's Pinocchio | Geppetto | ||
| Machine Gun Kelly | Good Mourning | London Clash | ||
| Sylvester Stallone | Samaritan | Joe Smith/Samaritan/Nemesis | ||
| 2023 (44th) | ||||
| Jon Voight | Mercy | Patrick Quinn | ||
| Russell Crowe | The Pope's Exorcist | Gabriele Amorth | ||
| Vin Diesel | Fast X | Dominic Toretto | ||
| Chris Evans | Ghosted | Cole Turner | ||
| Jason Statham | Jonas Taylor |
| Record | Actor | Film | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Jon Voight | Mercy | 85 years, 71 days | |
| Oldest nominee | 85 years, 24 days | |||
| Youngest winner | Jaden Smith | After Earth | 15 years, 236 days | |
| Youngest nominee | Gary Coleman | On the Right Track | 14 years, 49 days |
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1.Not actually "acting" performances, but the subjects of documentary films.