Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
Current: 31st Golden Raspberry Awards
Presentation of Worst Director at 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
Description	Worst in film
Country	United States
Presented by	Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
First awarded	1981
Website	http://www.razzies.com/

The Razzie Award for Worst Director is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst director of the previous year. The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, along with the film(s) for which they were nominated.

There are only two winners (as of today) that accepted their awards in person. They are Paul Verhoeven of Showgirls, and Tom Green of Freddy Got Fingered.

1980s

• 1980 Robert Greenwald for Xanadu
  • John G. Avildsen for The Formula
  • Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill
  • William Friedkin for Cruising
  • Sidney Furie and Richard Fleischer for The Jazz Singer
  • Stanley Kubrick for The Shining
  • Michael Ritchie for The Island
  • John Trent for Middle Age Crazy
  • Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music
  • Gordon Willis for Windows
• 1981 Michael Cimino for Heaven's Gate
  • John Derek for Tarzan, the Ape Man
  • Blake Edwards for S.O.B.
  • Frank Perry for Mommie Dearest
  • Franco Zeffirelli for Endless Love
• 1982 Ken Annakin for The Pirate Movie (tie)
  
• 1982 Terence Young for Inchon (tie)
  • Matt Cimber for Butterfly
  • John Huston for Annie
  • Hal Needham for Megaforce
• 1983 Peter Sasdy for The Lonely Lady
  • Joe Alves for Jaws 3-D
  • Brian De Palma for Scarface
  • John Herzfeld for Two of a Kind
  • Hal Needham for Stroker Ace
• 1984 John Derek for Bolero
  • Bob Clark for Rhinestone
  • Brian De Palma for Body Double
  • John Guillermin for Sheena
  • Hal Needham for Cannonball Run II
• 1985 Sylvester Stallone for Rocky IV
  • Richard Brooks for Fever Pitch
  • Michael Cimino for Year of the Dragon
  • George Pan Cosmatos for Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • Hugh Hudson for Revolution
• 1986 Prince for Under the Cherry Moon
  • Jim Goddard for Shanghai Surprise
  • Willard Huyck for Howard the Duck
  • Stephen King for Maximum Overdrive
  • Michelle Manning for Blue City
• 1987 Norman Mailer for Tough Guys Don't Dance (tie)
  
• 1987 Elaine May for Ishtar (tie)
  • James Foley for Who's That Girl?
  • Joseph Sargent for Jaws: The Revenge
  • Paul Weiland for Leonard Part 6
• 1988 Blake Edwards for Sunset (tie)
  
• 1988 Stewart Raffill for Mac and Me (tie)
  • Michael Dinner for Hot to Trot
  • Roger Donaldson for Cocktail
  • Peter MacDonald for Rambo III
• 1989 William Shatner for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • John G. Avildsen for The Karate Kid, Part III
  • Jim Drake for Speed Zone!
  • Rowdy Herrington for Road House
  • Eddie Murphy for Harlem Nights

1990s

• 1990 John Derek for Ghosts Can't Do It
  • John G. Avildsen for Rocky V
  • Brian De Palma for The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Renny Harlin for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
  • Prince for Graffiti Bridge
• 1991 Michael Lehmann for Hudson Hawk
  • Dan Aykroyd for Nothing but Trouble
  • William A. Graham for Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • David Kellogg for Cool as Ice
  • John Landis for Oscar
• 1992 David Seltzer for Shining Through
  • Danny DeVito for Hoffa
  • John Glen for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
  • Barry Levinson for Toys
  • Kenny Ortega for Newsies
• 1993 Jennifer Lynch for Boxing Helena
  • Uli Edel for Body of Evidence
  • Adrian Lyne for Indecent Proposal
  • John McTiernan for Last Action Hero
  • Phillip Noyce for Sliver
• 1994 Steven Seagal for On Deadly Ground
  • Lawrence Kasdan for Wyatt Earp
  • John Landis for Beverly Hills Cop III
  • Rob Reiner for North
  • Richard Rush for Color of Night
• 1995 Paul Verhoeven for Showgirls (award accepted in person)
  • Renny Harlin for Cutthroat Island
  • Roland Joffé for The Scarlet Letter
  • Frank Marshall for Congo
  • Kevin Reynolds for Waterworld
• 1996 Andrew Bergman for Striptease
  • John Frankenheimer for The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Stephen Frears for Mary Reilly
  • John Landis for The Stupids
  • Brian Levant for Jingle All the Way
• 1997 Kevin Costner for The Postman
  • Jan de Bont for Speed 2: Cruise Control
  • Luis Llosa for Anaconda
  • Joel Schumacher for Batman & Robin
  • Oliver Stone for U Turn
• 1998 Gus Van Sant for Psycho
  • Michael Bay for Armageddon
  • Jeremiah S. Chechik for The Avengers
  • Roland Emmerich for Godzilla
  • Alan Smithee (also known as Arthur Hiller) for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
• 1999 Barry Sonnenfeld for Wild Wild West
  • Jan de Bont for The Haunting
  • Dennis Dugan for Big Daddy
  • Peter Hyams for End of Days
  • George Lucas for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

2000s

• 2000 Roger Christian for Battlefield Earth
  • Joe Berlinger for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • Steven Brill for Little Nicky
  • Brian De Palma for Mission to Mars
  • John Schlesinger for The Next Best Thing
• 2001 Tom Green for Freddy Got Fingered
  • Michael Bay for Pearl Harbor
  • Peter Chelsom for Town & Country
  • Vondie Curtis-Hall for Glitter
  • Renny Harlin for Driven
• 2002 Guy Ritchie for Swept Away
  • Roberto Benigni for Pinocchio
  • Tamra Davis for Crossroads
  • George Lucas for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
  • Ron Underwood for The Adventures of Pluto Nash
• 2003 Martin Brest for Gigli
  • Robert Iscove for From Justin to Kelly
  • Mort Nathan for Boat Trip
  • The Wachowski brothers for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
  • Bo Welch for The Cat in the Hat
• 2004 Pitof for Catwoman
  • Bob Clark for SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
  • Renny Harlin and/or Paul Schrader for Exorcist: The Beginning
  • Oliver Stone for Alexander
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans for White Chicks
• 2005 John Mallory Asher for Dirty Love
  • Uwe Boll for Alone in the Dark
  • Jay Chandrasekhar for The Dukes of Hazzard
  • Nora Ephron for Bewitched
  • Lawrence Guterman for Son of the Mask
• 2006 M. Night Shyamalan for Lady in the Water
  • Uwe Boll for BloodRayne
  • Michael Caton-Jones for Basic Instinct 2
  • Ron Howard for The Da Vinci Code
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans for Little Man
• 2007 Chris Sivertson for I Know Who Killed Me
  • Dennis Dugan for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
  • Roland Joffé for Captivity
  • Brian Robbins for Norbit
  • Fred Savage for Daddy Day Camp
• 2008 Uwe Boll for 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, and Postal
  • Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans
  • Tom Putnam for The Hottie and the Nottie
  • Marco Schnabel for The Love Guru
  • M. Night Shyamalan for The Happening
• 2009 Michael Bay for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  • Walt Becker for Old Dogs
  • Brad Silberling for Land of the Lost
  • Stephen Sommers for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • Phil Traill for All About Steve

2010s

• 2010 M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender
  • Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for Vampires Suck
  • Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City 2
  • David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
  • Sylvester Stallone for The Expendables