The 20th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1998 to honor the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1997. This was the first year that the ballots would be open to the public, which is why percentages of votes for each candidate were listed besides most categories. To celebrate the 20th award ballot, the Lifetime Non-Achievement Award was given out to Chevy Chase and a multitude of other categories, including Worst On-Screen Couple and Worst Director, were introduced. Founder Ray Wright listed Batman & Robin and Crash among his five worst movies of the 1990s, which also included It's Pat, Pokémon: The First Movie, and Nothing but Trouble. While Batman & Robin was a preliminary target and took home several awards, Crash was largely ignored aside from the Founders Award because it was a low-key indie film. The founders also admitted that if they had expanded the Worst Picture ballot to 10 nominees, they would have included B.A.P.S., Excess Baggage, Flubber, Jungle 2 Jungle, and McHale's Navy.
Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonorable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (30 total). All winners are highlighted.
Winners and Nominees
Worst Picture FilmProduction company(s) Percentage of Votes Batman & Robin Warner Bros. 43% The Fifth Element Columbia 12% Lost Highway Universal Pictures, October Films 8% The Postman Warner Bros. 18% Starship Troopers TriStar 19%
Dishonourable Mentions
Alien Resurrection (Fox) An American Werewolf in Paris (Hollywood) Anaconda (Columbia) B.A.P.S. (New Line) Bean (Gramercy) Booty Call (Columbia) Con Air (Touchstone) Double Team (Columbia) Excess Baggage (Columbia) Face/Off (Paramount) Fathers' Day (Warner Bros.) Fire Down Below (Warner Bros.) Flubber (Disney) For Richer or Poorer (Universal) Free Willy 3 (Warner Bros.) Gone Fishin' (Hollywood) Home Alone 3 (Fox) I Know What You Did Last Summer (Columbia) Jungle 2 Jungle (Disney) McHale's Navy (Universal) Mr. Magoo (Disney) The Pest (TriStar) RocketMan (Disney) A Smile Like Yours (Paramount) Speed 2: Cruise Control (Fox) Steel (Warner Bros.) 'Til There Was You (Paramount) Turbulence (MGM) U Turn (TriStar) Vegas Vacation (Warner Bros.)
Worst Director Recipient Percentage of Votes Joel Schumacher for Batman & Robin 33%Luc Besson for The Fifth Element 7%Kevin Costner for The Postman 22%Jan de Bont for Speed 2: Cruise Control 29%David Lynch for Lost Highway 9%
Worst Actor Recipient Percentage of Votes Tom Arnold for McHale's Navy 37%John Leguizamo for The Pest 17%Joe Pesci for Gone Fishin' 12%Steven Seagal for Fire Down Below 24%John Travolta for Mad City 10%
Worst Actress Recipient Percentage of Votes Alicia Silverstone for Excess Baggage 30%Halle Berry for B.A.P.S. 28%Lauren Holly for Turbulence 18%Bette Midler for That Old Feeling 13%Sigourney Weaver for Alien Resurrection 11%
Worst Supporting Actor Recipient Percentage of Votes Jon Voight for Anaconda 31%Robert Downey Jr. for Hugo Pool 17%Roddy McDowall for The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo 20%Dean Stockwell for McHale's Navy 10%Chris Tucker for The Fifth Element 22%
Worst Supporting Actress Recipient Percentage of Votes Alicia Silverstone for Batman & Robin 45%Milla Jovovich for The Fifth Element 19%Frances McDormand for Paradise Road 15%Sarah Jessica Parker for 'Til There Was You 7%Winona Ryder for Alien Resurrection 14%
Worst Sequel {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Recipient ! Percentage of Votes |- |- style="background:#B0C4DE;" | ''Speed 2: Cruise Control (Fox)| 31%|- |Alien Resurrection (Fox) | 10% |- |An American Werewolf in Paris (Hollywood) | 14% |- |Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.) | 23% |- |The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Universal) | 22%
Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing Over $100M Worldwide Using Hollywood Math {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Recipient ! Percentage of Votes |- |- style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.), written by Akiva Goldsman; based on characters created by DC Comics| 27%|- |Flubber (Disney), written by John Hughes; based on A Situation of Gravity / The Absent-Minded Professor | 17% |- |George of the Jungle (Disney), story by Dana Olsen; screenplay by Olsen and Audrey Wells; based on the TV series George of the Jungle | 21% |- |The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Universal), written by David Koepp; based on Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World | 12% |- |Dante's Peak (Universal), Director by Roger Donalson | 34% |- |Speed 2: Cruise Control (Fox), story by Jan de Bont and Randall McCormick; screenplay by McCormick and Jeff Nathanson; based on characters created by Graham Yost | 23%
Worst Resurrection of a TV Show {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Recipient ! Percentage of Votes |- |- style="background:#B0C4DE;" | McHale's Navy (Universal)| 43%|- |Bean (Gramercy) | 19% |- |Mr. Magoo (Disney) | 38%
Worst On-Screen Couple Recipient Percentage of Votes Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman in Double Team 46%Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley in For Richer or Poorer 12%Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in That Old Feeling 8%Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro in Excess Baggage 18%Mark Wahlberg and his fake 13-inch appendage in Boogie Nights 16%
The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Recipient ! Percentage of Votes |- |- style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Free Willy 3: The Rescue (Warner Bros.)| 39%|- |Alien Resurrection (Fox) | 6% |- |Home Alone 3 (Fox) | 24% |- |Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Sony) | 21% |- |Vegas Vacation (Warner Bros.) | 10%
Most Annoying Fake Accent Recipient Percentage of Votes Jon Voight for Anaconda and Most Wanted 31%Richard Gere in The Jackal 19%Frances McDormand in Paradise Road 10%Viggo Mortensen in G.I. Jane 13%Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own and Seven Years in Tibet 27%
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy Recipient Percentage of Votes 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (MGM, Orion) 26%Fathers' Day (Warner Bros.) 25%Gone Fishin' (Hollywood) 16%Mr. Magoo (Disney) 19%RocketMan (Disney) 14%
Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release Recipient Percentage of Votes Pamela Anderson Lee's Homemade Porno Video 35%Another 9 1/2 Weeks 24%Casper: A Spirited Beginning 10%Ernest Goes to Africa 16%The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island 15%
Lifetime Non-Achievement Award - The Hall of Shame Recipient Percentage of Votes Chevy Chase 37%Mel Brooks 13%Whoopi Goldberg 26%Burt Reynolds 24%
The Founders Award - What Were They Thinking and Why? Cats Don't Dance (Warner Bros.) Crash (Fine Line) Jungle 2 Jungle (Disney) Year of the Horse'' (Universal, October)
Films with multiple nominations and wins The following films received multiple nominations:
Nominations Film 5 Batman & Robin 4 Alien Resurrection The Fifth Element 3 McHale's Navy 2 Anaconda Excess Baggage Gone Fishin' Lost Highway The Lost World: Jurassic Park Dante's Peak Mr. Magoo Paradise Road The Postman That Old Feeling
The following films received multiple awards:
Wins Film 4 Batman & Robin 2 Anaconda McHale's Navy
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