1997 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

Last updated
20th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Date1998
Highlights
Worst Film Batman & Robin
Most awardsBatman & Robin (4)
Most nominationsBatman & Robin (5)
  •   1996
  • Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
  • 1998  

The 20th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1998 to honor the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1997. This was the first year that the ballots would be open to the public, which is why percentages of votes for each candidate were listed besides most categories. To celebrate the 20th award ballot, the Lifetime Non-Achievement Award was given out to Chevy Chase and a multitude of other categories, including Worst On-Screen Couple and Worst Director, were introduced. Founder Ray Wright listed Batman & Robin and Crash among his five worst movies of the 1990s, which also included It's Pat , Pokémon: The First Movie , and Nothing but Trouble . While Batman & Robin was a preliminary target and took home several awards, Crash was largely ignored aside from the Founders Award because it was a low-key indie film. [1] [2] The founders also admitted that if they had expanded the Worst Picture ballot to 10 nominees, they would have included B.A.P.S. , Excess Baggage , Flubber , Jungle 2 Jungle , and McHale's Navy . [3]

Contents

Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonorable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (30 total). All winners are highlighted.

Winners and Nominees

Worst Picture

Film [4] Production company(s)Percentage of Votes
Batman & Robin Warner Bros. 43%
The Fifth Element Columbia 12%
Lost Highway Universal Pictures, October Films 8%
The Postman Warner Bros.18%
Starship Troopers TriStar 19%

Dishonourable Mentions

Worst Director

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Joel Schumacher for Batman & Robin 33%
Luc Besson for The Fifth Element 7%
Kevin Costner for The Postman 22%
Jan de Bont for Speed 2: Cruise Control 29%
David Lynch for Lost Highway 9%

Worst Actor

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Tom Arnold for McHale's Navy 37%
John Leguizamo for The Pest 17%
Joe Pesci for Gone Fishin' 12%
Steven Seagal for Fire Down Below 24%
John Travolta for Mad City 10%

Worst Actress

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Alicia Silverstone for Excess Baggage 30%
Halle Berry for B.A.P.S. 28%
Lauren Holly for Turbulence 18%
Bette Midler for That Old Feeling 13%
Sigourney Weaver for Alien Resurrection 11%

Worst Supporting Actor

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Jon Voight for Anaconda 31%
Robert Downey Jr. for Hugo Pool 17%
Roddy McDowall for The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo 20%
Dean Stockwell for McHale's Navy 10%
Chris Tucker for The Fifth Element 22%

Worst Supporting Actress

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Alicia Silverstone for Batman & Robin 45%
Milla Jovovich for The Fifth Element 19%
Frances McDormand for Paradise Road 15%
Sarah Jessica Parker for 'Til There Was You 7%
Winona Ryder for Alien Resurrection 14%

Worst Sequel

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Speed 2: Cruise Control (Fox)31%
Alien Resurrection (Fox)10%
An American Werewolf in Paris (Hollywood)14%
Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.)23%
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Universal)22%

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

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.), written by Akiva Goldsman; based on characters created by DC Comics 27%
Flubber (Disney), written by John Hughes; based on A Situation of Gravity / The Absent-Minded Professor 17%
George of the Jungle (Disney), story by Dana Olsen; screenplay by Olsen and Audrey Wells; based on the TV series George of the Jungle 21%
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Universal), written by David Koepp; based on Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World 12%
Speed 2: Cruise Control (Fox), story by Jan de Bont and Randall McCormick; screenplay by McCormick and Jeff Nathanson; based on characters created by Graham Yost 23%

Worst Resurrection of a TV Show

RecipientPercentage of Votes
McHale's Navy (Universal)43%
Bean (Gramercy)19%
Mr. Magoo (Disney)38%

Worst On-Screen Couple

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman in Double Team 46%
Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley in For Richer or Poorer 12%
Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in That Old Feeling 8%
Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro in Excess Baggage 18%
Mark Wahlberg and his fake 13-inch appendage in Boogie Nights 16%

The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (Warner Bros.)39%
Alien Resurrection (Fox)6%
Home Alone 3 (Fox)24%
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Sony)21%
Vegas Vacation (Warner Bros.)10%

Most Annoying Fake Accent

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Jon Voight for Anaconda and Most Wanted 31%
Richard Gere in The Jackal 19%
Frances McDormand in Paradise Road 10%
Viggo Mortensen in G.I. Jane 13%
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own and Seven Years in Tibet 27%

Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy

RecipientPercentage of Votes
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (MGM, Orion)26%
Fathers' Day (Warner Bros.)25%
Gone Fishin' (Hollywood)16%
Mr. Magoo (Disney)19%
RocketMan (Disney)14%

Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Pamela Anderson Lee's Homemade Porno Video35%
Another 9 1/2 Weeks 24%
Casper: A Spirited Beginning 10%
Ernest Goes to Africa 16%
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island 15%

Lifetime Non-Achievement Award - The Hall of Shame

RecipientPercentage of Votes
Chevy Chase 37%
Mel Brooks 13%
Whoopi Goldberg 26%
Burt Reynolds 24%

The Founders Award - What Were They Thinking and Why?

Films with multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilm
5 Batman & Robin
4 Alien Resurrection
The Fifth Element
3 McHale's Navy
2 Anaconda
Excess Baggage
Gone Fishin'
Lost Highway
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Mr. Magoo
Paradise Road
The Postman
That Old Feeling

The following films received multiple awards:

WinsFilm
4 Batman & Robin
2 Anaconda
McHale's Navy

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