1st Golden Raspberry Awards

The 1st Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 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 before The Oscars, but John Hinckley's attempt on Ronald 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 by Allan Carr
* "Cruising" (Lorimar/United Artists), produced by Jerry Weintraub
* "The Formula" (MGM/United Artists), produced by Steve Shagan
* "Friday the 13th" (Paramount), produced by Sean S. Cunningham
* "The Jazz Singer" (AFD), produced by Jerry Leider
* "The Nude Bomb" (Universal), produced by Jennings Lang
* "Raise the Titanic!" (AFD), produced by William Frye
* "Saturn 3" (AFD), produced by Stanley Donen
* "Windows" (United Artists), produced by Michael Lobell
* "Xanadu" (Universal), produced by Lawrence 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 and Richard 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 by Bronte Woodward and Allan Carr
* "A Change of Seasons", written by Erich Segal, Ronni Kern and Fred Segal
* "Cruising", written by William Friedkin
* "The Formula", written by Steve Shagan
* "It's My Turn", written by Eleanor Bergstein
* "Middle Age Crazy", written by Carl Kleinschmidt
* "Raise the Titanic!", written by Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes
* "Touched by Love", written by Hesper Anderson
* "Windows", written by Barry Siegel
* "Xanadu", written by Richard C. Danus and Marc C. Rubel

Worst "Original" Song

"The Man with Bogart's Face" from "The Man with Bogart's Face", music by George Duning, lyrics by Andrew Fenady
* "(You) Can't Stop the Music" from "Can't Stop the Music", music and lyrics by Jacques Morali
* "Suspended in Time" from "Xanadu", music and lyrics by John Farrar
* "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from "A Change of Seasons", music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman
* "You, Baby, Baby!" from "The Jazz Singer", music and lyrics by Neil 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

*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 the Internet Movie Database