1998 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

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21st Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Date1999
Highlights
Worst FilmSpice World
Most awardsArmageddon, The Avengers, Godzilla, and Spice World (2)
Most nominationsThe Avengers (8)
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The 21st Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1999 to honor the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1998.

According to founders Ray Wright and Mike Lancaster, they were quite surprised by how The Avengers lost to Spice World in the run for Worst Picture. They also stated that while pressured to include Armageddon and Godzilla on the Worst Picture ballot, they ultimately felt that Blues Brothers 2000 was more deserving. They then admitted that if they expanded the Worst Picture category to ten films, they would have added Armaggeddon, Babe: Pig in the City, Godzilla, Krippendorf's Tribe, and Meet the Deedles to the ballot. Lancaster put Lost in Space as the one 1998 film among his five worst movies of the 1990s, alongside It's Pat, Kids, Nothing but Trouble, and Ready to Wear.[1]

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 (39 total). All winners are highlighted.

Winners and Nominees[edit]

Worst Picture[edit]

Film[2] Production company(s) Percentage of Votes
Spice World Columbia 44%
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Hollywood Pictures 9%
The Avengers Warner Bros. 25%
Blues Brothers 2000 Universal Pictures 10%
Lost in Space New Line Cinema 12%

Dishonorable Mentions[edit]

Worst Director[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Jeremiah Chechik for The Avengers 33%
Arthur Hiller for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn 16%
Stephen Hopkins for Lost in Space 12%
Spike Lee for He Got Game 10%
Bob Spiers for Spice World 29%

Worst Actor[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Bruce Willis for Armageddon 37%
Barney the Dinosaur for Barney's Great Adventure 30%
Richard Dreyfuss for Krippendorf's Tribe 13%
Ralph Fiennes for The Avengers 11%
Wesley Snipes for Blade 9%

Worst Actress or British Singing Group Pretending to Act[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Spice Girls for Spice World 53%
Anne Heche for Six Days, Seven Nights and Psycho 24%
Jessica Lange for Hush 5%
Sharon Stone for Sphere 8%
Uma Thurman for The Avengers 10%

Worst Supporting Actor[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Daniel Baldwin for John Carpenter's Vampires 37%
Sean Connery for The Avengers 7%
Benicio Del Toro for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 23%
Dennis Hopper for Meet the Deedles 27%
John Malkovich for The Man in the Iron Mask 6%

Worst Supporting Actress[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Lacey Chabert for Lost in Space 33%
Anne Bancroft for Great Expectations 10%
Neve Campbell for 54 and Wild Things 27%
Téa Leoni for Deep Impact 16%
Liv Tyler for Armageddon 14%

Worst Sequel[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Columbia) 31%
Blues Brothers 2000 (Universal) 21%
The Odd Couple II (Paramount) 15%
Species II (MGM) 19%
U.S. Marshals (Warner Bros.) 14%

Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing Over $100M Worldwide Using Hollywood Math[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Godzilla (TriStar), story by Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Dean Devlin, and Roland Emmerich; screenplay by Devlin and Emmerich; based on Toho's Godzilla franchise 41%
Armageddon (Touchstone), story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh; screenplay by Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams 24%
Deep Impact (Paramount), written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin 7%
Lethal Weapon 4 (Warner Bros.), story by Jonathan Lemkin, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar; screenplay by Channing Gibson; based on characters created by Shane Black 12%
Patch Adams (Universal), written by Steve Oedekerk; based on Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander 16%

Worst Resurrection of a TV Show[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Avengers (Warner Bros.) 51%
Barney's Great Adventure (PolyGram) 24%
Lost in Space (New Line) 25%

Worst On-Screen Couple[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon 26%
Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 20%
Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers 17%
Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun-Fat in The Replacement Killers 13%
Steve Van Wormer and Paul Walker in Meet the Deedles 24%

The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Major League: Back to the Minors (Warner Bros.) 27%
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Dimension) 22%
Babe: Pig in the City (Universal) 14%
Blues Brothers 2000 (Universal) 12%
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (TriStar) 25%

Most Annoying Fake Accent[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Adam Sandler in The Waterboy 37%
Sandra Bullock in Hope Floats 22%
Uma Thurman in The Avengers 8%
Casper Van Dien in Tarzan and the Lost City 14%
Bruce Willis in Armageddon 19%

Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Meet the Deedles (Disney) 33%
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Hollywood Pictures) 20%
Chairman of the Board (Trimark Pictures) 18%
The Odd Couple II (Paramount) 24%
Wrongfully Accused (Warner Bros.) 5%

Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Bill Clinton's Grand Jury Testimony 55%
Addams Family Reunion 16%
Casper Meets Wendy 2%
Ernest in the Army 24%
The Land Before Time VI 3%

Worst Song in a Motion Picture[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
"Come with Me" by Puff Daddy with Jimmy Page from Godzilla 37%
"I Love You" by Barney the Dinosaur from Barney's Great Adventure 24%
"Lost in Space" by Space from Lost in Space 6%
"Spice Up Your Life" by The Spice Girls from Spice World 15%
"When You Believe" by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston from The Prince of Egypt 18%

Worst On-Screen Hairstyle[edit]

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Joe Eszterhas in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn 32%
Jason Lee in Kissing a Fool 4%
Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black 26%
Scary Spice in Spice World 30%
Sharon Stone in Sphere 8%

The Founders Award - What Were They Thinking and Why?[edit]

Miscellaneous Awards[edit]

Films with multiple nominations and wins[edit]

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations Film
8 The Avengers
5 Armageddon
Lost in Space
Spice World
4 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
3 Barney's Great Adventure
Blues Brothers 2000
Meet the Deedles
2 Babe: Pig in the City*
Deep Impact
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Godzilla
The Odd Couple II
Psycho*
Sphere
  • Note: For each film with an asterisk, one of those nominations was the Founders Award.

The following films received multiple awards:

Wins Film
2 Armageddon
The Avengers
Godzilla
Spice World

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Q & A with the Stinkers". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Past Winners Database". January 3, 2007. Archived from the original on January 3, 2007.
  3. ^ "he Founders Award - What Were They Thinking?". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 14 February 2004. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  4. ^ "The Stinkers - The Ultimate Bad Movie Awards". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 5 May 1999. Retrieved 18 March 2020.