The 19th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1997 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1996. Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (35 total). All winners are highlighted.
Winners and Nominees
Worst Picture FilmProduction company(s) Striptease Columbia Independence Day 20th Century Fox Jack Hollywood Pictures The Stupids New Line Cinema Twister Warner Bros.
Dishonourable Mentions
Barb Wire (Gramercy) Big Bully (Warner Bros.) Bio-Dome (MGM) Black Sheep (Paramount) Bogus (Warner Bros.) Bulletproof (Universal) The Cable Guy (Columbia) Carpool (Warner Bros.) Chain Reaction (20th Century Fox) The Crow: City of Angels (Miramax) Daylight (Universal) Diabolique (Warner Bros.) Ed (Universal) Eddie (Hollywood) The English Patient (Miramax) Evita (Hollywood) Executive Decision (Warner Bros.) Fargo (Gramercy) Flipper (Universal) From Dusk till Dawn (Miramax) Happy Gilmore (Universal) The Island of Dr. Moreau (New Line) Jingle All The Way (20th Century Fox) Joe's Apartment (Warner Bros.) The Juror (Columbia) Kazaam (Touchstone) Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Paramount) Kingpin (MGM) Little Indian, Big City (Buena Vista) Mars Attacks! (Warner Bros.) Mary Reilly (TriStar) Mission: Impossible (Paramount) Mr. Wrong (Touchstone) Theodore Rex (New Line) Two Much (Touchstone)
Other Categories Tom Arnold for Big Bully, Carpool and The Stupids Adam Sandler for Happy Gilmore Arnold Schwarzenegger for Jingle All The Way Pauly Shore for Bio-Dome Sylvester Stallone for Daylight Whoopi Goldberg for Bogus, Eddie and Theodore Rex Ellen DeGeneres for Mr. Wrong Pamela Anderson for Barb Wire Demi Moore for The Juror and Striptease Julia Roberts for Mary Reilly Marlon Brando for The Island of Dr. Moreau James Caan for Bulletproof Francis Capra for Kazaam Burt Reynolds for Striptease Quentin Tarantino for From Dusk till Dawn Jami Gertz for Twister Faye Dunaway for The Chamber and Dunston Checks In Brenda Fricker for A Time to Kill Melanie Griffith for Mulholland Falls and Two Much Rita Wilson for Jingle All The Way Twister (Warner Bros.), written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin Independence Day (20th Century Fox), written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich Mission: Impossible (Paramount), story by David Koepp and Steven Zaillian; screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne; based on the TV series Mission: Impossible Sgt. Bilko (Universal) Flipper (Universal) Mission: Impossible (Paramount) Ellen DeGeneres plays a heterosexual woman (Mr. Wrong) Bio-Dome (MGM) The Cable Guy (Columbia) Jingle All the Way (20th Century Fox) The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Paramount) The Stupids (New Line) Stephen Baldwin in Bio-Dome Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau Francis Capra in Kazaam The Evening Star (Paramount) All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (MGM/UA) The Crow: City of Angels (Miramax) D3: The Mighty Ducks (Disney) Escape from L.A. (Paramount) The Crow: City of Angels (Miramax) D3: The Mighty Ducks (Disney) Homeward Bound II (Disney) Muppet Treasure Island (Disney) A Very Brady Sequel (Paramount) The Phantom (Paramount) The Stupids (New Line)
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