- 1st Golden Raspberry Awards
The 1st
Golden Raspberry Awards were held onMarch 31 ,1981 . They were presented at John Wilson's living room alcove and recognized the worst the film industry had to offer of 1980. The event was scheduled the day beforeThe Oscars , butJohn Hinckley 's attempt onRonald Reagan 's life delayed the Oscars, and thus the Razzies, by a day. The recipients are denoted in bold:Worst Picture
"
Can't Stop the Music " (AFD), produced byAllan Carr
* "Cruising" (Lorimar/United Artists ), produced byJerry Weintraub
* "The Formula" (MGM/United Artists ), produced bySteve Shagan
* "Friday the 13th" (Paramount), produced bySean S. Cunningham
* "The Jazz Singer" (AFD), produced byJerry Leider
* "The Nude Bomb " (Universal), produced byJennings Lang
* "Raise the Titanic!" (AFD), produced byWilliam Frye
* "Saturn 3 " (AFD), produced byStanley Donen
* "Windows" (United Artists ), produced byMichael Lobell
* "Xanadu" (Universal), produced byLawrence Gordon Worst Actor
Neil Diamond in "The Jazz Singer"
*Michael Beck in "Xanadu"
* Robert Blake in "Coast to Coast"
*Michael Caine in "Dressed to Kill" and "The Island"
*Kirk Douglas in "Saturn 3 "
*Richard Dreyfuss in "The Competition"
*Anthony Hopkins in "A Change of Seasons"
*Bruce Jenner in "Can't Stop the Music "
*Sam J. Jones in "Flash Gordon"Worst Actress
Brooke Shields in "The Blue Lagoon"
* Nancy Allen in "Dressed to Kill"
*Faye Dunaway in "First Deadly Sin "
*Shelley Duvall in "The Shining"
*Farrah Fawcett in "Saturn 3 "
*Sondra Locke in "Bronco Billy "
*Olivia Newton-John in "Xanadu"
*Valerie Perrine in "Can't Stop the Music "
*Deborah Raffin in "Touched by Love "
*Talia Shire in "Windows"Worst Supporting Actor
John Adames in "Gloria" (tie)Laurence Olivier in "The Jazz Singer" (tie)
*Marlon Brando in "The Formula "
*Charles Grodin in "Seems Like Old Times"
*David Selby in "Raise the Titanic! "Worst Supporting Actress
Amy Irving in "Honeysuckle Rose"
*Elizabeth Ashley in "Windows"
*Georg Sanford Brown in "Stir Crazy"
*Betsy Palmer in "Friday the 13th"
*Marilyn Sokol in "Can't Stop the Music "Worst Director
Robert Greenwald for "Xanadu"
*John G. Avildsen for "The Formula "
*Brian De Palma for "Dressed to Kill"
*William Friedkin for "Cruising"
*Sidney Furie andRichard Fleischer for "The Jazz Singer"
*Stanley Kubrick for "The Shining"
*Michael Ritchie for "The Island"
*John Trent for "Middle Age Crazy "
*Nancy Walker for "Can't Stop the Music "
*Gordon Willis for "Windows"Worst Screenplay
"
Can't Stop the Music ", written byBronte Woodward andAllan Carr
* "A Change of Seasons", written byErich Segal ,Ronni Kern andFred Segal
* "Cruising", written byWilliam Friedkin
* "The Formula ", written bySteve Shagan
* "It's My Turn", written byEleanor Bergstein
* "Middle Age Crazy ", written byCarl Kleinschmidt
* "Raise the Titanic! ", written by Adam Kennedy andEric Hughes
* "Touched by Love ", written byHesper Anderson
* "Windows", written byBarry Siegel
* "Xanadu", written byRichard C. Danus andMarc C. Rubel Worst "Original" Song
"The Man with Bogart's Face" from "
The Man with Bogart's Face ", music byGeorge Duning , lyrics byAndrew Fenady
* "(You) Can't Stop the Music" from "Can't Stop the Music ", music and lyrics byJacques Morali
* "Suspended in Time" from "Xanadu", music and lyrics byJohn Farrar
* "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from "A Change of Seasons", music byHenry Mancini , lyrics byMarilyn Bergman andAlan Bergman
* "You, Baby, Baby!" from "The Jazz Singer", music and lyrics byNeil Diamond Worst Career Achievement Award
Ronald Reagan , retired movie star
* The ironic award had the unfortunate timing of being given the day after the President was shot.----
ee also
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53rd Academy Awards External links
* [http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=20 Official summary of awards]
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Razzie_Awards/1981 Nomination and award listing] at theInternet Movie Database
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