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  Golden Raspberry Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer.
The term "raspberry" is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry."
It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for "Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography" in the film From Justin to Kelly.
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 Encyclopedia: Golden Turkey Award
The Golden Turkey Award is an award given to poor movies and directors.
The award began with the publication of the book The Golden Turkey Awards by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved.
The Golden Turkey Award is an award given to poor movies and directorss.
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 : RevolutionSF - Saturn and Golden Raspberry Awards To Merge : Humor
This changed on December 3, 2000, with the announcement of the merger between the Saturn Awards, the annual award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films for achievement in genre films and television, and the Golden Raspberry Awards, which celebrate the very worst of Hollywood.
Raoul Duke, representative for the Golden Raspberry Awards, concurred.
In a concession to Saturn history, the emcee is Golden Raspberry winner of "Worst Actor of the Century" William Shatner, who plans to join Priceline.com associate and eyewear poster child Lisa Loeb in a interpretive dance adaptation of "Pac-Man Fever" to open the show.
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 Koogle - Open Directory Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chlotrudis Awards - Honors and supports independent and foreign films; seeking to recognize movies based on their artistic merit, not tickets sales.
The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation - Presenters of "The Razzie Awards," saluting the worst that Hollywood has to offer each year.
Internet Movie Awards - People are given the opportunity to vote for their favorite actor and film in a given 6 month period.
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 MoneySearch.org - Unclaimed Money and Unclaimed Funds Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chlotrudis Awards: Honors and supports independent and foreign films; seeking to recognize movies based on their artistic merit, not tickets sales.
Internet Movie Awards: People are given the opportunity to vote for their favorite actor and film in a given 6 month period.
The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation: Presenters of "The Razzie Awards," saluting the worst that Hollywood has to offer each year.
moneysearch.org /Top/Arts/Movies/Awards   (501 words)

  
 AM Archive - The Golden Raspberry awards
But choosing the year's best is probably easier than choosing the worst - something that's not deterred the several hundred members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation from selecting the most abysmal movies and performances of the decade.
This year the 500 industry insiders who vote for the Awards, looked at the bigger picture, selecting the worst film of the decade along with the worst actor and actress of the century.
The founder of the Golden Raspberries, John Wilson, says the 'Worst Actor of the Century' was no contest.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s113571.htm   (610 words)

  
 This Week’s Attitude
Additionally, there are the awards shows specifically aimed at young adult and teen audiences, such as the MTV Movie and People’s Choice awards shows, and even more inane prizes (i.e.
In my youth the only major culturally-related awards shows I recall are the Oscars®, the Grammys® for the best in music, the Emmys®, television’s honors, and the Tony Awards, which spotlight the best shows on the Great White Way.
And when a majority of winners don’t even bother to grace the ceremony with their presence, it should be a wake up call to future awards producers that enough is enough.
www.canarsiecourier.com /news/2002/0110/Attitude   (605 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - Festival pages
Almost Famous, the loosely autobiographical story of former teenage Rolling Stone journalist Cameron Crowe, was chosen December 20 as the best film of 2000 by the San Diego Film Critics Society.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced December 21 its nominees for the 58th annual Golden Globes, the ceremony considered the harbinger of Oscar glory.
In the film world, end of the year means only one thing: a flurry of critics awards and "ten best" lists, all building momentum to the grand kahuna of them all: the nominations for the Academy Award.
www.filmfestivals.com /htm/archives/4jan01/festivals_wrapup.html   (275 words)

  
 WILD WILD WEST : Wildest Page : The Action God spices up The Razzies Awards...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But the 20th annual Golden Raspberry Awards are not your ordinary awards show.
The computer-generated boob didn't pick up his award; then again, the only nominee who has ever accepted a Razzie in person was director Paul Verhoeven, who had the guts to take the blame and the 1996 Razzie for "Showgirls."
Robert Conrad, who played the original James West in the hit 1960s TV series "The Wild, Wild West," took the stage three times to accept awards on behalf of the ridiculous 1999 film version, which he was not in.
www.wildwildwest.org /film/articles/razzies/razzies_art.html   (269 words)

  
 World Awards, Awards of the World, World Class Awards, Awards Websites, Awards Worldwide - 123World.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Click on the respective alphabet to begin your search for a particular award or scroll down to the appropriate section beginning with that alphabet.
We have made sincere efforts to list the links of all the awards of the world on the net.
However, if you do not find the official site of the awards you are looking for, then use the feedback link at the bottom of this page to apprise us of the same.
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 2000 Golden Raspberry Awards
Though the stars weren’t fretting about what to wear for the Razzie’s ceremony on Saturday, March 25 (always held on the eve of the Academy Awards has been at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, some nervous twitches must have rattled them wherever they may have been on this fateful night.
Dis-Honoring Hollywood’s worst achievements has been The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation’s founder, John Wilson, job for twenty years.
To add some more salt to their well deserved wounds, the original and only Jim West, Robert Conrad, graciously accepted the Razzie Awards, " a gold-spray painted plastic raspberry atop a mangled Super 8 film reel with a street value of about $4.27" on the loser’s behalf.
www.plume-noire.com /movies/awards/razzies.htm   (330 words)

  
 Berry Good Loser at the Razzies - Feb 27, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Berry checked her ego at the door at the 25th Annual Razzie Awards, showing up Saturday in Hollywood to personally accept a spray-painted golf ball dishonoring her work as Worst Actress in Catwoman.
Indeed, Berry, who took the stage at the Ivar Theatre with her Academy Award in one hand, the Golden Raspberry in the other and her agent in tow, had company in Razzie hell.
Voting members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, a consortium of 675 dues-paying film buffs from around the world, reserved their scorn for the featured talking heads.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,16013,00.html   (660 words)

  
 Will Smith, Jar Jar Razzed :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But unfortunately, their worst work won't be forgotten either, not if the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation has anything to say about it.
The Golden Raspberrys also announced nominations for the worst actor and actress of the entire blinkin' 20th century.
The actual award, a gold-spray-painted plastic raspberry atop a mangled Super 8 film reel, reportedly is worth about $4.27.
www.hollywood.com /news/detail/article/311963   (854 words)

  
 Lodger's Oscar Picks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For the 2000 Oscars, held of course just recently in March of 2001, I had a little get together at the Filethirteen Lodgeyland Studios with my homies Mark Brauner, Trish the Dish, Miss Xanna Don't and her partner Ann in attendance.
The Academy Awards finally began at 7:30 CST with a piece that was little more than a self-referential video homage to the Oscars.
While I do think he deserves to be awarded for his fine acting skills, he was in a rather racist stereotype of a role which did not deserve any accolades.
www.filethirteen.com /events/oscars2k.htm   (2261 words)

  
 Razzies.com - Home of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
While the Hoity-Toity of Hollywood are holding their breath awaiting next Sunday's 74th Annual Academy Awards, the Hoi Polloi of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have already picked Tinsel Town's Top Turkeys in The 22nd Annual RAZZIE Awards.
Four Awards went to Green himself, expected to be the first onscreen talent in The Annual Derby of Dis-Honor's 22 year history to attend and accept his Awards in person.
Results were determined by sending ballots to more than 520 Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members throughout 38 U.S. states and 10 foreign countries.
www.razzies.com /asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=66   (443 words)

  
 Catwoman & Fahrenheit 9/11 "Win" Razzies - ComingSoon.net
Complete with presenters in tuxedoes and evening gowns and bitingly vicious real critics' quotes on each of the nominees, The Silver Anniversary of the Golden Raspberry Awards proved to be a memorable comic evening.
Hoisting her Academy Award in one hand and newly won Razzie in the other, Halle Berry reveled in a career low point.
And California's current governor Ah-Nuld Schwarzenegger finally "won" a Golden Raspberry as Worst Razzie "Loser" of The First 25 Years — eligibility for which was determined by having amassed the most nominations over the years without previously "winning" a statuette.
comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=8532   (615 words)

  
 2001 Golden Raspberry Awards
Following the splendour of last year's ceremony in the heart of Hollywood, this year The Razzies returned to Santa Monica to award Golden Raspberry awards to the worst of film in 2000.
Travolta, who didn't hesitate to compare his work to 2001 and Blade Runner and is already thinking of a sequel, did not honor us with his presence.
But in pure Razzie spirit, his golden statuette was accepted by his B.E. action figure.
www.plume-noire.com /movies/awards/raspberryawards2001.html   (207 words)

  
 Salon | Media Circus: And the loser is...
Since 1980, the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, otherwise known as the Razzies, has announced its awards the day before the Oscars for the worst achievement in film.
Winners have included some of the most powerful people in show business, while the Razzies' membership is mostly a motley crew of low-paid workers on the fringes of the film industry.
But I'm proud to say that I was in at the pre-production stage of the very first Razzie Awards 18 years ago, which basically involved helping Wilson collect a bunch of cardboard boxes from the dumpster behind our local Kmart.
www.salon.com /media/1998/03/06media.html   (782 words)

  
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Brokeback Mountain scooped four awards out of a total of seven nominations at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton last night.
Shelley Winters, who won Academy Awards for her supporting performances for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965) died this morning of heart failure.
Among the nominations for the Screen Actors’ Guild Awards Steven Spielberg's Munich is conspicuously missing as Eric Bana's exceptional performance as a Mossad agent on a revenge mission for the Israeli government passes unacknowledged.
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 Feinstein statement on gay marriage nets her 'Pink Brick' award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Organizers of the gay pride parade held in the city every June announced Thursday that Feinstein was the winner of this year's "Pink Brick" award, a dubious honor bestowed on the public figure a San Francisco group decides has done the most to damage the gay rights cause.
Feinstein's competition for the prize, which is the gay community's answer to Hollywood's "Golden Raspberry" awards honoring the worst in film, was the Rev. Lou Sheldon, a vocal opponent of gay rights, and the Traditional Values Coalition, the Orange County-based organization Sheldon leads.
The year Schlessinger won because of her opposition to same-sex couples adopting children, the group organized a postcard campaign for parade goers to urge radio stations to stop carrying Dr. Laura's show.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/07/state/n162533D32.DTL   (711 words)

  
 moVia's monthly movie cyberzine
Okay so after spending more than four hours with the 72nd Academy Awards, you're probably well aware of 1999's most acclaimed films.
Perhaps that's why their big winners were big losers at the Academy Awards.
While most of us non-academy members are considered outsiders at the world's biggest award show, the Razzies are less exclusive.
www.geocities.com /moVias/n3.html   (190 words)

  
 SouthFlorida.com: Razzies are awarded to Bush and 'Catwoman'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There were two unlikely winners Saturday at the 25th annual Razzie Awards saluting the year's worst moviegoing experiences: a recent Oscar winner and a recently reelected president of the United States.
The tongue-in-cheek Razzies were handed out in Hollywood by the Golden Raspberry Foundation, which times its announcements to Academy Award weekend to remind people of the films and performances that did not come close to measuring up to Oscar consideration.
And, since this was the Razzies' silver anniversary, awards also were given to the worst films of the last 25 years: "Gigli" (comedy, 2003), "Battlefield Earth" (drama, 2000) and "From Justin to Kelly" (musical, 2003).
www.southflorida.com /custom/envelope/briefs/cl-me-razzies27feb27,0,2541273.story   (271 words)

  
 Travolta Sets Sights on "Battlefield Earth 2" - Oct 18, 2000 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oct 18, 2000, 3:15 PM PT Has John Travolta been possessed by the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard?
What else could explain the erstwhile Sweathog's announced desire to do a sequel to the universally reviled Battlefield Earth, the sci-fi turkey that bombed the box office this summer.
Regarded as one of the worst films ever committed to celluloid, and the leading candidate to sweep the Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the anti-Oscars, Battlefield Earth was a labor of love for Travolta, who said he always dreamed of making the film.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7255,00.html   (541 words)

  
 Raspberry "Battlefields" Forever - Feb 12, 2001 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Battlefield Earth, Travolta's big-budget sci-fi stinker--which gave anxious movie critics an excuse to unleash phrases like "stomach-wrenching disaster" and "heaping mass of celluloid excrement" (well, okay, so that was us)--topped all nominees Monday for the 21st Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka "The Razzies"), scoring eight nominations including Worst Picture.
"Ninety-three percent of all ballots that came in picked it for worst picture, which is a record," says John Wilson, head of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation.
The handmade, gold-spray-painted raspberry trophies (estimated street value: $4.27) will be handed out March 24.
movies.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7809,00.html   (753 words)

  
 Madonna's Awards & Achievements » all about Madonna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From the Evita Soundtrack in 1996 to Music in 2000 Madonna had 3 consecutive #1 albums on the UK albums chart, an all time record for a female artist.
In 1986, Madonna received the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards honoring her for outstanding achievements in the realm of music video.
Madonna is the most successful act in the history of MTV's Video Music Awards with an all time record 67 VMA nominations and 19 VMA wins.
www.allaboutmadonna.com /awards.php   (2032 words)

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