Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

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Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards logo, Apr2013.jpg
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards logo
Awarded forWorst in film
CountryUnited States
Presented byHastings Bad Cinema Society
First awarded1978;45 years ago (1978)
Last awarded2006;17 years ago (2006)

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards (formerly known as the Hastings Bad Cinema Society) [1] was a Los Angeles-based group of film buffs and film critics devoted to honoring the worst films of the year.

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The society was founded by Mike Lancaster and Ray Wright, two former ushers who met in the late 1970s at what is now the Pacific Hastings Theater in Pasadena, California (from which the society originally got its name). [2] [3] [4] [5]

History

Founding

Lancaster and Wright offered the annual Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, which was a parody of the Academy Awards. The Stinkers were similar to the Golden Raspberry Awards (the "Razzies"), which debuted four years after the Stinkers. Aside from the usual categories one might expect in an Oscar parody (Worst Picture, Worst Actor, etc.), the Stinkers offered other categories such as Worst Fake Accent, [6] Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, Least 'Special' Special Effects and Worst On-Screen Hairstyle. [7] [8] Unlike the Razzies, the Stinkers did not have an awards ceremony. [9]

The Stinkers' first ballots

A Stinkers trophy, originally introduced to "honour" Tom Green for Freddy Got Fingered. Since he never accepted it, they then offered it to Halle Berry for Catwoman to no avail. Trophy Created for Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, early 2002.jpg
A Stinkers trophy, originally introduced to "honour" Tom Green for Freddy Got Fingered . Since he never accepted it, they then offered it to Halle Berry for Catwoman to no avail.

The Stinkers' first ballots were handed out to the public in 1997. In the years that followed, the Razzies and Stinkers rarely agreed on a list of nominees or winners. The Stinkers initially opened their balloting to the general moviegoing public but soon discovered that most people surveyed hadn't seen many of the films on the ballot and often just voted for the person they hated the most, usually someone like Mariah Carey, [10] the Spice Girls or anyone connected with the film Gigli . [11]

In 2001 the Stinkers created 100 Years, 100 Stinkers: The Worst Films of the 20th Century , a list that parodied AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. [12] [13] The next year the Stinkers made a special trophy of a miniature flushing toilet for comedian actor Tom Green. [14] Green's Freddy Got Fingered was nominated for seven awards and won Worst Film, Worst Sense of Direction, Worst Actor and Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy. That same year the Stinkers gave a special award to David Manning, the controversial Sony Pictures fictitious movie critic. [15] The Stinkers included in 2003 another special category for Worst Performance by a Child, dedicated to child actor Spencer Breslin. [16]

In 2004, the Stinkers went to a more selective way of obtaining votes. They dismantled their membership and offered ballots by invitation only to a small, select group of film geeks and critics, who had seen a majority of the films during the year.

Nominating Paris Hilton

In 2006, the Stinkers refused to nominate hotel heiress Paris Hilton for her supporting role in the horror film House of Wax . Said Lancaster, "To get on the Stinkers ballot you are judged on your performance, not your tabloid persona. Anyone that would put Paris Hilton on a list of the five worst supporting actresses in 2005 didn't see a lot of movies in 2005. I could list twelve actresses who gave worse supporting performances than Paris Hilton." [4]

The next year, the Stinkers did nominate Hilton for Worst Actress for her performance in the barely released National Lampoon's Pledge This! . [17]

Closure

In late January 2007, following the announcement of the year's winners, the Stinkers website announced it would be officially closed down after ten years on the internet. On July 1, 2007, four months after the announcement of the worst of 2006 winners, the site was taken down.[ citation needed ]

Award categories

Motion picture

Special awards

Special categories have also been introduced for specific years. Some have been in multiple ballots while others were used one time.

Recurring special awards

  • Founders Award – What Were They Thinking and Why?
1993: Short Cuts
1994: I'll Do Anything and Prêt-à-Porter
1995: Johnny Mnemonic
1996: The Phantom and The Stupids
1997: Cats Don't Dance , Crash , Jungle 2 Jungle , and Year of the Horse [18]
1998: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, for giving the Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan; the Motion Picture Association of America for rating Babe: Pig in the City G and Orgazmo NC-17; and Universal Pictures for its shot-for-shot remake of Psycho [19]
1999: The Motion Picture Association of America for rating Eyes Wide Shut R. [20]
  • Founders Award
2000: Motion Picture Association of America for rating Scary Movie R. [21]
2001: David Manning, Sony Pictures' fictitious movie critic. [22]
  • The Spencer Breslin Award (Worst Performance by a Child Actor)
2003: Spencer Breslin ( The Cat in the Hat )
Other nominations: Dakota Fanning ( The Cat in the Hat and Uptown Girls ), Lydia Jordan ( Gods and Generals ), Frankie Muniz ( Agent Cody Banks ), and Daryl Sabara ( Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over )
2004: Soren Fulton ( Thunderbirds )
2005: Adrian Alonso ( The Legend of Zorro )
Other nominations: Jake Church ( Brokeback Mountain ), Jacob Davich ( The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D ), Aaron Michael Drozin ( Fun with Dick and Jane ), and Max Thieriot ( The Pacifier )
2006: Spencer Breslin ( The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause , The Shaggy Dog , and Zoom )
Other nominations: Tristan Lake Leabu ( Superman Returns ), Grayson Russell ( Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ), Dominique Saldana ( Unaccompanied Minors ), and Houston Tumlin ( Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby )

One-off Special Awards

YearCategoryWinnerNominees (if any)
1993Worst Fake Beards Gettysburg
1996Biggest Acting Stretch Ellen DeGeneres plays a heterosexual woman ( Mr. Wrong )
1997Lifetime Non-Achievement Award - The Hall of Shame Chevy Chase Mel Brooks
Whoopi Goldberg
Burt Reynolds
1999Biggest Disappointment (Films that didn't live up to their hype) The Blair Witch Project Eyes Wide Shut
Pokémon the First Movie
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Wild Wild West
2005Less Than Dynamic Duo (not to be confused with Worst On-Screen Couple) Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy in The Man Sandra Bullock and Regina King in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps in The Honeymooners
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers
Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville in The Dukes of Hazzard
Special "Annie" Award for Ticket Price Gouging The Producers ($2.50 more than other movies playing at the same selected theatres!)
2006Worst Movie Title Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Snakes on a Plane

Ceremonies

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