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 recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1998. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.

Worst Picture

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Hollywood Pictures)

• Armageddon (Touchstone)
• The Avengers (Warner Bros.)
• Godzilla (TriStar)
• Spiceworld (Columbia)

Worst Actor

Bruce Willis in Armageddon, Mercury Rising and The Siege

• Ralph Fiennes in The Avengers
• Ryan O'Neal in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
• Ryan Phillippe in 54
• Adam Sandler in The Waterboy

Worst Actress

The Spice Girls in Spiceworld

• Yasmine Bleeth in BASEketball
• Anne Heche in Psycho
• Jessica Lange in Hush
• Uma Thurman in The Avengers

Worst Supporting Actor

Joe Eszterhas (as himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

• Sean Connery in The Avengers
• Roger Moore in Spiceworld
• Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 4
• Sylvester Stallone (as himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

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 Spiceworld
• Any Combination of Two People Playing Themselves (or Playing WITH Themselves) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
• Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers

Worst Director

Gus Van Sant for Psycho

• Michael Bay for Armageddon
• Jeremiah Chechik for The Avengers
• Roland Emmerich for Godzilla
• Alan Smithee (also known as Arthur Hiller) for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

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 3 Hours" (L-o-n-g-e-r movies...shorter plots)
• "THX: The Audio Is Deafening" (Movie sound so loud it constitutes assault w/a deadening weapon)
• "Yo Quiero Tacky Tie-ins" (Mega-zillion-dollar cross-promotional overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, etc)

Worst Remake or Sequel

(Interesting note: All five of the nominees for this year were remakes, there were no sequels cited. It was also the first time in the history of the Razzie Awards that there was a three-way tie.)

The Avengers (tie)

Godzilla (tie)

Psycho (tie)

• Lost in Space
• Meet Joe Black

Worst Screenplay

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn by Joe Eszterhas

• Armageddon by Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams
• The Avengers by Don MacPherson
• Godzilla by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich
• Spiceworld by Kim Fuller, from an idea by Fuller and the Spice Girls

Worst New Star

Joe Eszterhas (As Himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

• Jerry Springer in Ringmaster
• Barney in Barney's Great Adventure
• Carrot Top in Chairman of The Board
• The Spice Girls in Spiceworld

Worst Original Song

"I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" from An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, 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 Wooley, Chris Elliott, Marius deVries, Betsy Cook and Andy Caine
• "Too Much" from Spiceworld, written by the Spice Girls, Andy Watkins and Paul Wilson

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See also

• 71st Academy Awards