19th Golden Raspberry Awards

The 19th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 20, 1999 at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1998. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.

Worst Picture

' (Hollywood Pictures)"'
* "Armageddon" (Touchstone)
* "The Avengers" (Warner Bros.)
* "Godzilla" (TriStar)
* "Spice World" (Columbia)

Worst Actor

Bruce Willis in "Armageddon", "Mercury Rising", and "The Siege"
* Ralph Fiennes in "The Avengers"
* Ryan O'Neal in ""
* Ryan Phillippe in 54
* Adam Sandler in "The Waterboy"

Worst Actress

The Spice Girls in "Spice World"
* Anne Heche in Psycho
* Yasmine Bleeth in "BASEketball"
* Jessica Lange in "Hush"
* Uma Thurman in "The Avengers"

Worst Supporting Actor

Joe Eszterhas (as himself) in ""
* Sean Connery in "The Avengers"
* Roger Moore in "Spice World"
* Joe Pesci in "Lethal Weapon 4"
* Sylvester Stallone (as himself) in ""

Worst Supporting Actress

Maria Pitillo in "Godzilla"
* Ellen Albertini Dow in "54"
* Jenny McCarthy in "BASEketball"
* Liv Tyler in "Armageddon"
* Raquel Welch in "Chairman of the Board"

Worst Screen Couple

Leonardo DiCaprio (as twins) in "The Man in the Iron Mask" (MGM/UA)
* Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in "Armageddon"
* "Any combination of two characters, body parts or fashion accessories" in "Spice World"
* "Any combination of two people playing themselves (or playing "with" themselves)" in ""
* Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in "The Avengers"

Worst Director

Gus Van Sant for "Psycho"
* Michael Bay for "Armageddon"
* Jeremiah S. Chechik for "The Avengers"
* Roland Emmerich for "Godzilla"
* Alan Smithee (also known as Arthur Hiller) for ""

Worst Remake or Sequel

"The Avengers" (tie) and "Godzilla" (tie) and "Psycho" (tie) (The first occurrence of a three-way tie in Razzie history.)
* "Lost in Space"
* "Meet Joe Black"

Worst Screenplay

', written by Joe Eszterhas"'
* "Armageddon", screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams
* "The Avengers", written by Don MacPherson
* "Godzilla", screenplay by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich
* "Spice World", written by Kim Fuller, idea by Fuller and the Spice Girls

Worst New Star

Joe Eszterhas (as himself) in '
* Jerry Springer in "Ringmaster"
* Barney in "Barney's Great Adventure"
* Carrot Top in "Chairman of the Board"
* The Spice Girls in "Spice World"

Worst Original Song

"I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" from ', written by Joe Eszterhas and Gary G-Wiz"'
* "Barney, the Song" from "Barney's Great Adventure", written by Jerry Herman
* "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from "Armageddon", written by Diane Warren
* "Storm" from "The Avengers", written by Bruce Woolley, Chris Elliott, Marius deVries, Betsy Cook, and Andy Caine
* "Too Much" from "Spice World", written by the Spice Girls, Andy Watkins, and Paul Wilson

Worst Movie Trends of the Year

"Gidgets 'n' geezers (58-year-old leading men wooing 28-year-old leading ladies)"
* "If you've seen the trailer, why bother to see the movie? (previews that give away the film's entire plot)"
* "30 minutes of story – conveyed in less than three hours (l-o-n-g-e-r movies... shorter plots)"
* "THX: The audio is deafening. (movie sound so loud it constitutes assault with a deafening weapon)"
* "Yo quiero tacky tie-ins (Mega-zillion-dollar cross-promotional overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, etc.)"

ee also

*71st Academy Awards