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List of people who have accepted Golden Raspberry Awards

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List of people who have accepted Golden Raspberry Awards

With few exceptions, most winners neither attend the Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony nor personally accept their award, which single out the worst films of the year. According to Razzies tradition, the ceremony precedes the corresponding Academy Award function by one day. Comedian Bill Cosby became the first to accept a Razzie award, presented during the Fox network Late Show in 1988 for his work on Leonard Part 6. Director Paul Verhoeven became the first recipient to claim an award in person, accepting both the Worst Picture and Worst Director awards for his 1995 film Showgirls. Screenwriter J. David Shapiro has twice accepted Razzie recognition for Battlefield Earth, in 2001 and 2010.

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1988
Role(s)
Bill Cosby
Notes
Worst Picture
1993
Role(s)
Tom Selleck
Notes
Worst Supporting Actor
Role(s)
Jack Feldman, Alan Menken
Notes
Worst Original Song
1996
Role(s)
Paul Verhoeven
Notes
Worst Picture
1998
Role(s)
Brian Helgeland
Notes
Worst Screenplay
2001
Role(s)
J. David Shapiro
Notes
Worst Screenplay
2002
2004
Role(s)
Ben Affleck
Notes
Worst Actor
2005
Role(s)
Halle Berry
Notes
Worst Actress
Role(s)
Worst Screenplay
2009
Role(s)
Uwe Boll
Notes
Worst Director
2010
Role(s)
Sandra Bullock
Notes
Worst Actress
Role(s)
J. David Shapiro
Notes
Worst Picture of the Decade
2011
Role(s)
David Eigenberg
Notes
Worst Screen Couple/Screen Ensemble
2016
Role(s)
Jamie Dornan
Notes
Worst Actor
2017
Role(s)
Dinesh D'Souza
Notes
Worst Picture
2018
Role(s)
Dwayne Johnson
Notes
The Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It
Year
Image
Recipient
Category
Film
Attended ceremony?
Notes
1988
Bill Cosby
Worst Picture
Leonard Part 6
No
Bill Cosby was recognized at the 8th Golden Raspberry Awards with awards for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actor, for the 1987 film Leonard Part 6. Cosby became the first recipient to claim an award. Given that the actual Golden Raspberry trophies, which are spray-painted and deemed by the foundation as worth $4 , Cosby wanted more,
Worst Actor
Worst Screenplay
1993
Tom Selleck
Worst Supporting Actor
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
No
Tom Selleck accepted his award for Worst Supporting Actor for playing Ferdinand II of Aragon in the 1992 film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. His award was presented to him when he appeared on The Chevy Chase Show.
Jack Feldman, Alan Menken
Worst Original Song
Newsies
No
Feldman requested his Razzie for "High Times, Hard Times" in 2016, so he could put it alongside the Tony Award he got for the stage adaptation of Newsies in his office. His composer partner Alan Menken has also spoken proudly of the Golden Raspberry, especially as he won it in the same weekend of his two Academy Awards for Aladdin. Menken eventuall
1996
Paul Verhoeven
Worst Picture
Showgirls
Yes
Paul Verhoeven was the first person to go to the ceremony to receive his awards; he accepted Worst Picture and Worst Director awards for the 1995 film Showgirls, at the awards ceremony at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The audience gave Verhoeven two standing ovations after he told them he was driven out of the Netherlands for being "sick and perve
Worst Director
1998
Brian Helgeland
Worst Screenplay
The Postman
No
In 1998, Brian Helgeland accepted his award for Worst Screenplay for his work on the film The Postman. Helgeland learned of the award while being interviewed regarding his win at the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L . Confidential that same weekend, and said he wanted to put his Oscar and his Razzie side-by-side to remind him of "th
2001
J. David Shapiro
Worst Screenplay
Battlefield Earth
No
John Wilson delivered Battlefield Earth's screenwriter J . Shapiro his award for Worst Screenplay at Mark Ebner's radio program. Shapiro commented that John Travolta had called the script "the Schindler's List of science fiction".
2002
Tom Green
Worst Picture
Freddy Got Fingered
Yes
Tom Green's 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered won in five categories at the 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple, and Worst Screenplay. Green attended the awards in person, and brought with him a cheap red carpet which he unrolled as he entered the theater where the awards were being pr
Worst Director
Worst Actor
Worst Screenplay
Worst Screen Couple
2004
Ben Affleck
Worst Actor
Gigli
No
At the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards, Ben Affleck was recognized in the Worst Actor category for his performances in films Gigli, Daredevil, and Paycheck. In early March 2004, Affleck joked on the radio, complaining he was "stiffed" because he had not been given his Worst Actor trophy. He said he should have at least been given "a golden sack of gra
Daredevil
Paycheck
2005
Halle Berry
Worst Actress
Catwoman
Yes
The 2004 film Catwoman received multiple dishonors at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actress and Worst Screenplay. Halle Berry accepted her award for Worst Actress at the ceremony in person. Holding her Academy Award for her performance in Monster's Ball in one hand and her Golden Raspberry Award tr
Michael Ferris
Worst Screenplay
2009
Uwe Boll
Worst Director
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
No
At the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, Uwe Boll was recognized in the Worst Director category for his films In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Postal, and 1968 Tunnel Rats in addition to receiving the non-competitive/(dis)honorary Worst Career Achievement Award. Boll later posted a video from the set of his film Darfur in which he acknow
Postal
1968 Tunnel Rats
Worst Career Achievement
2010
Sandra Bullock
Worst Actress
All About Steve
Yes
After her Worst Actress nomination for All About Steve, Sandra Bullock expressed interest in coming up to pick up her award. She eventually won, and showed up stating "I didn't realize that, in Hollywood, all you had to do was say you'd show up, and then you'd get the award. If I'd known that, I would have said I was appearing at the Oscars a long
Worst Screen Couple
J. David Shapiro
Worst Picture of the Decade
Battlefield Earth
Yes
In 2010, Shapiro appeared at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards to accept Battlefield Earth's award for Worst Picture of the Decade, and during his speech even quoted a review by The New York Times: "Battlefield Earth is about the extinction of the human race, and after seeing this movie I'm all for it".
2011
David Eigenberg
Worst Screen Couple/Screen Ensemble
Sex and the City 2
No
After the ceremony, Eigenberg expressed interest in receiving the award in person; according to John Wilson, "He said that he had never won an award of any kind and if this was what he won, he would accept it." Eigenberg then collaborated with Wilson to make a humorous acceptance video which was posted on the official YouTube channel of the Golden
2016
Jamie Dornan
Worst Actor
Fifty Shades of Grey
No
Dornan was presented with one of the two awards in February 2018, during an appearance on Conan, while promoting the final film of the Fifty Shades trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed. He subsequently broke the top off his award, but quickly put it back together.
Worst Screen Combo
2017
Dinesh D'Souza
Worst Picture
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
No
Dinesh D'Souza was recognized at the 37th Golden Raspberry Awards with awards Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Actor, for the 2016 documentary Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. He appeared in the video announcing the award winners, accepting the Razzies his documentary had received. D'Souza mockingly stated, "Th
Worst Director
Worst Actor
2018
Dwayne Johnson
The Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It
Baywatch
No
At the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, Baywatch was recognized with the special award, for The Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It. The day after the Razzies ceremony, Dwayne Johnson, who was the star and producer of the film, posted a video to Twitter saying that he humbly accepts the award. Johnson would also be sent his trophy.
2025
Francis Ford Coppola
Worst Director
Megalopolis
No
Coppola accepted his award via Instagram one day prior to the ceremony, stating in a caption, "In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the enormous pool of young talent at its disposal, may not c
Lady Gaga
Worst Screen Combo
Joker: Folie à Deux
No
Lady Gaga received nominations for her role in Joker: Folie à Deux in the categories of Worst Actress and Worst Screen Combo, "winning" the latter. Hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live in March 2025, Lady Gaga made reference to the award during her opening monologue, saying "I’ve been very diligent about selecting films that would showcase my
Dakota Johnson
Worst Actress
Madame Web
No
On the Good Hang podcast with Amy Poehler, Johnson told Poehler about winning the award and said she did accept it, asking the Razzies to send her the award.

References

  1. Jointly nominated with Joaquin Phoenix.
  2. BBC News
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4301783.stm
  3. Agence France-Presse
  4. World Entertainment News Network
  5. Newsday
  6. Atlanta Journal and Constitution
  7. Columbus Dispatch
  8. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  9. Denver Rocky Mountain News
  10. Newsweek
  11. St. Petersburg Times
  12. AllAfrica English
  13. The Chevy Chase Show
  14. "Not gonna humble brag, folks: Won in a walk and crushed the competition", Jack Feldman (@krupyoutoo)
    https://twitter.com/krupyoutoo/status/765616876600827904
  15. Tulsa World
    https://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/artsandentertainment/newsies-goes-from-razzies-to-riches/article_ce66df7b-4bd0-5547-8a99-3be16773ba20.html
  16. Los Angeles Times
    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/preview/la-et-cm-spring-arts-preview-theater-newsies-20150315-story.html
  17. Alan Menken receives the only award that was missing in his collection – The Razzie Award!
    https://soundtrackfest.com/en/micro/alan-menken-receives-the-only-award-that-was-missing-in-his-collection-the-razzie-award/
  18. St. Petersburg Times
  19. United Press International
  20. Los Angeles Times
    https://web.archive.org/web/20100324130603/http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2010/01/razzie-awards-razzies-nominations-7594106284-news-story-article.html#more
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