1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

The 4th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1982 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1981. The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in 2007, some time between the 2006 ballot and the closure of the site. Listed as follows are the original ballot's picks for Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (29 total), and all nominees included in the expanded ballot. All winners are highlighted.

Original ballot

Worst Picture

Film	Production company(s)
Tarzan, the Ape Man	MGM, United Artists
Caveman	MGM, United Artists
Heartbeeps	Universal Pictures
Heaven's Gate	United Artists
History of the World, Part 1	20th Century Fox

Dishonourable Mentions

• All Night Long (Universal)
• Beatlemania: The Movie (American Cinema Releasing)
• Blow Out (Filmways)
• The Cannonball Run (Fox)
• Chariots of Fire (Warner Bros.)
• Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (Fox)
• Clash of the Titans (United Artists)
• Comin' at Ya (Filmways)
• Condorman (Disney)
• The Devil and Max Devlin (Disney)
• Endless Love (Universal, PolyGram)
• Going Ape! (Paramount)
• Halloween II (Universal)
• The Hand (Orion, Warner Bros.)
• Hardly Working (Fox)
• Heavy Metal (Columbia)
• Honky Tonk Freeway (Universal)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Universal)
• Legend of the Lone Ranger (Universal)
• Modern Problems (Fox)
• Mommie Dearest (Paramount)
• Neighbors (Columbia)
• On the Right Track (Fox)
• Paternity (Paramount)
• Porky's (Fox)
• Saturday the 14th (New World)
• Shock Treatment (Fox)
• Under The Rainbow (Warner Bros.)
• Zorro the Gay Blade (Fox)

Expanded ballot

Category	Recipient
Worst Picture	Mommie Dearest (Paramount)
	Endless Love (Universal, PolyGram)
	Heartbeeps (Universal)
	Heaven's Gate (United Artists)
	Tarzan, the Ape Man (MGM/UA)
Worst Director	Michael Cimino for Heaven's Gate
	John Derek for Tarzan, the Ape Man
	Jerry Lewis for Hardly Working
	Frank Perry for Mommie Dearest
	Franco Zeffirelli for Endless Love
Worst Actor	Klinton Spilsbury in Legend of the Lone Ranger
	James Caan in Thief
	Andy Kaufman in Heartbeeps
	Jerry Lewis in Hardly Working
	Treat Williams in Prince of the City
Worst Actress	Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest
	Carol Burnett in Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
	Bo Derek in Tarzan, the Ape Man
	Brooke Shields in Endless Love
	Tuesday Weld in Thief
Worst Supporting Actor	Ron Leibman in Zorro, the Gay Blade
	Billy Barty in Under The Rainbow
	Danny DeVito in Going Ape!
	Barry Humphries in Shock Treatment
	Brian Keith in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Worst Supporting Actress	Brenda Vaccaro in Zorro, the Gay Blade
	Lynn-Holly Johnson in For Your Eyes Only and The Watcher in the Woods
	Edith Massey in Polyester
	Paula Prentiss in Buddy Buddy and Saturday the 14th
	Diana Scarwid in Mommie Dearest
Worst Screenplay	Mommie Dearest (Paramount), written by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchne, Frank Perry, and Frank Yablans; based on the memoir Mommie Dearest
	Endless Love (Universal, PolyGram), written by Judith Rascoe
	Heartbeeps (Universal), written by John Hill
	Heaven's Gate (United Artists), written by Michael Cimino
	Tarzan, the Ape Man (MGM/UA), written by Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard; based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy	History of the World, Part 1 (Fox)
	Caveman (MGM/UA)
	Hardly Working (Fox)
	Heartbeeps (Universal)
	Neighbors (Columbia)
Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits	"Baby Talk" by David Frishberg from Paternity
	"Bitchin' in the Kitchen" by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper from Shock Treatment
	"Faster Faster" by Paul Jabara from Honky Tonk Freeway
	"The Inquisition" by Mel Brooks from History of the World, Part 1
	"The Man in The Mask" by Merle Haggard from The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Most Intrusive Musical Score	Thief (United Artists)
	Going Ape! (Paramount)
	Heaven's Gate (United Artists)
	Neighbors (Columbia)
	Under the Rainbow (Warner Bros.)
Worst On-Screen Couple	Ron Leibman and Brenda Vaccaro in Zorro, The Gay Blade
	Alan Arkin and Carol Burnett in Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
	James Caan and Tuesday Weld in Thief
	Martin Hewitt and Brooke Shields or Shirley Knight in Endless Love
	Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters in Heartbeeps
Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male)	Billy Barty in Under The Rainbow
	James Caan in Thief
	Barry Humphries in Shock Treatment
	Andy Kaufman in Heartbeeps
	Walter Matthau in Buddy Buddy
Most Annoying Fake Accent (Female)	Tuesday Weld in Thief
	Elizabeth Ashley in Paternity
	Beverly D'Angelo in Honky Tonk Freeway
	Daryl Hannah in Hard Country
	Lisa Hartman in Deadly Blessing
Worst Sequel	Shock Treatment (Fox)
	Friday the 13th Part 2 (Paramount)
	Halloween II (Universal)
Worst Remake	Tarzan, the Ape Man (MGM/UA)
	The Cannonball Run (a remake/ripoff of The Gumball Rally) (Fox)
	The Legend of the Lone Ranger (Universal)
Worst Performance by a Child in a Feature Role	Kyle Richards in The Watcher in the Woods
	Peter Billingsley in Honky Tonk Freeway
	Kevin Brando in Saturday the 14th
	Patrick Piccininni in Private Lessons
	Ricky Schroder in The Earthling
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle	Barry Humphries in Shock Treatment
	Alan Arkin in Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
	Kevin Brando in Saturday the 14th
	Mara Hobel in The Hand
Least "Special" Special Effects	Caveman (MGM/UA)
	Clash of the Titans (United Artists)
	Ghost Story (Universal)
	Modern Problems (Fox)
	Saturday the 14th (New World)