Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
Awarded for	Worst in film
Country	United States
Presented by	Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
First award	Robert Greenwald,; Xanadu (1st)
Currently held by	Rich Lee,; War of the Worlds (2025)
Website	www.razzies.com

The Razzie Award for Worst Director is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards^[1] 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.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Director	Film
1980 (1st)
	Robert Greenwald	Xanadu
	John G. Avildsen	The Formula
	Brian De Palma	Dressed to Kill
	Richard Fleischer	The Jazz Singer
	William Friedkin	Cruising
	Stanley Kubrick	The Shining
	Michael Ritchie	The Island
	John Trent	Middle Age Crazy
	Nancy Walker	Can't Stop the Music
	Gordon Willis	Windows
1981 (2nd)
	Michael Cimino	Heaven's Gate
	John Derek	Tarzan, the Ape Man
	Blake Edwards	S.O.B.
	Frank Perry	Mommie Dearest
	Franco Zeffirelli	Endless Love
1982 (3rd)
	Ken Annakin	The Pirate Movie
	Terence Young	Inchon
	Matt Cimber	Butterfly
	John Huston	Annie
	Hal Needham	Megaforce
1983 (4th)
	Peter Sasdy	The Lonely Lady
	Joe Alves	Jaws 3-D
	Brian De Palma	Scarface
	John Herzfeld	Two of a Kind
	Hal Needham	Stroker Ace
1984 (5th)
	John Derek	Bolero
	Bob Clark	Rhinestone
	Brian De Palma	Body Double
	John Guillermin	Sheena
	Hal Needham	Cannonball Run II
1985 (6th)
	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky IV
	Richard Brooks	Fever Pitch
	Michael Cimino	Year of the Dragon
	George Pan Cosmatos	Rambo: First Blood Part II
	Hugh Hudson	Revolution
1986 (7th)
	Prince	Under the Cherry Moon^[2]
	Jim Goddard	Shanghai Surprise
	Willard Huyck	Howard the Duck
	Stephen King	Maximum Overdrive
	Michelle Manning	Blue City
1987 (8th)
	Norman Mailer	Tough Guys Don't Dance
	Elaine May	Ishtar^[3]
	James Foley	Who's That Girl
	Joseph Sargent	Jaws: The Revenge
	Paul Weiland	Leonard Part 6
1988 (9th)
	Blake Edwards	Sunset
	Stewart Raffill	Mac and Me
	Michael Dinner	Hot to Trot
	Roger Donaldson	Cocktail
	Peter MacDonald	Rambo III
1989 (10th)
	William Shatner	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
	John G. Avildsen	The Karate Kid Part III
	Jim Drake	Speed Zone
	Rowdy Herrington	Road House
	Eddie Murphy	Harlem Nights

1990s

Year	Director	Film
1990 (11th)
	John Derek	Ghosts Can't Do It
	John G. Avildsen	Rocky V
	Brian De Palma	The Bonfire of the Vanities
	Renny Harlin	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
	Prince	Graffiti Bridge
1991 (12th)
	Michael Lehmann	Hudson Hawk
	Dan Aykroyd	Nothing but Trouble
	William Graham	Return to the Blue Lagoon
	David Kellogg	Cool as Ice
	John Landis	Oscar
1992 (13th)
	David Seltzer	Shining Through
	Danny DeVito	Hoffa
	John Glen	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
	Barry Levinson	Toys
	Kenny Ortega	Newsies
1993 (14th)
	Jennifer Lynch	Boxing Helena
	Uli Edel	Body of Evidence
	Adrian Lyne	Indecent Proposal
	John McTiernan	Last Action Hero
	Phillip Noyce	Sliver
1994 (15th)
	Steven Seagal	On Deadly Ground
	Lawrence Kasdan	Wyatt Earp
	John Landis	Beverly Hills Cop III
	Rob Reiner	North
	Richard Rush	Color of Night
1995 (16th)
	Paul Verhoeven	Showgirls
	Renny Harlin	Cutthroat Island
	Roland Joffé	The Scarlet Letter
	Frank Marshall	Congo
	Kevin Costner	Waterworld
	Kevin Reynolds	Waterworld
1996 (17th)
	Andrew Bergman	Striptease
	John Frankenheimer	The Island of Dr. Moreau
	Stephen Frears	Mary Reilly
	John Landis	The Stupids
	Brian Levant	Jingle All the Way
1997 (18th)
	Kevin Costner	The Postman
	Jan de Bont	Speed 2: Cruise Control
	Luis Llosa	Anaconda
	Joel Schumacher	Batman & Robin
	Oliver Stone	U Turn
1998 (19th)
	Gus Van Sant	Psycho
	Michael Bay	Armageddon
	Jeremiah S. Chechik	The Avengers
	Roland Emmerich	Godzilla
	Arthur Hiller (as Alan Smithee)	Burn Hollywood Burn
1999 (20th)
	Barry Sonnenfeld	Wild Wild West
	Jan de Bont	The Haunting
	Dennis Dugan	Big Daddy
	Peter Hyams	End of Days
	George Lucas	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

2000s

Year	Director	Film
2000 (21st)
	Roger Christian	Battlefield Earth
	Joe Berlinger	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
	Steven Brill	Little Nicky
	Brian De Palma	Mission to Mars
	John Schlesinger	The Next Best Thing
2001 (22nd)
	Tom Green	Freddy Got Fingered^[4]
	Michael Bay	Pearl Harbor
	Peter Chelsom	Town & Country
	Warren Beatty	Town & Country
	Vondie Curtis-Hall	Glitter
	Renny Harlin	Driven
2002 (23rd)
	Guy Ritchie	Swept Away
	Roberto Benigni	Pinocchio
	Tamra Davis	Crossroads
	George Lucas	Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
	Ron Underwood	The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2003 (24th)
	Martin Brest	Gigli
	Robert Iscove	From Justin to Kelly
	Mort Nathan	Boat Trip
	The Wachowskis	The Matrix Reloaded
	The Wachowskis	The Matrix Revolutions
	Bo Welch	The Cat in the Hat
2004 (25th)
	Pitof	Catwoman
	Bob Clark	Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
	Renny Harlin and/or Paul Schrader	Exorcist: The Beginning
	Oliver Stone	Alexander
	Keenen Ivory Wayans	White Chicks
2005 (26th)
	John Asher	Dirty Love
	Uwe Boll	Alone in the Dark
	Jay Chandrasekhar	The Dukes of Hazzard
	Nora Ephron	Bewitched
	Lawrence Guterman	Son of the Mask
2006 (27th)
	M. Night Shyamalan	Lady in the Water^[5]
	Uwe Boll	BloodRayne
	Michael Caton-Jones	Basic Instinct 2
	Ron Howard	The Da Vinci Code
	Keenen Ivory Wayans	Little Man
2007 (28th)
	Chris Sivertson	I Know Who Killed Me
	Dennis Dugan	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
	Roland Joffé	Captivity
	Brian Robbins	Norbit
	Fred Savage	Daddy Day Camp
2008 (29th)
	Uwe Boll	In the Name of the King
		Postal^[6]
		Tunnel Rats
	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer	Disaster Movie
	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer	Meet the Spartans
	Tom Putnam	The Hottie and the Nottie
	Marco Schnabel	The Love Guru
	M. Night Shyamalan	The Happening
2009 (30th)
	Michael Bay	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen^[7]
	Walt Becker	Old Dogs
	Brad Silberling	Land of the Lost
	Stephen Sommers	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
	Phil Traill	All About Steve

2010s

Year	Director	Film
2010 (31st)
	M. Night Shyamalan	The Last Airbender
	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer	Vampires Suck
	Michael Patrick King	Sex and the City 2
	David Slade	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
	Sylvester Stallone	The Expendables
2011 (32nd)
	Dennis Dugan	Jack and Jill
	Dennis Dugan	Just Go with It
	Michael Bay	Transformers: Dark of the Moon
	Tom Brady	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
	Bill Condon	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
	Garry Marshall	New Year's Eve
2012 (33rd)
	Bill Condon	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
	Sean Anders	That's My Boy
	Peter Berg	Battleship
	Tyler Perry	Good Deeds
	Tyler Perry	Madea's Witness Protection
	John Putch	Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2013 (34th)
	All 13 directors (Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken)	Movie 43
	Dennis Dugan	Grown Ups 2
	Tyler Perry	A Madea Christmas
	Tyler Perry	Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
	M. Night Shyamalan	After Earth
	Gore Verbinski	The Lone Ranger
2014 (35th)
	Michael Bay	Transformers: Age of Extinction
	Darren Doane	Saving Christmas
	Renny Harlin	The Legend of Hercules
	Jonathan Liebesman	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
	Seth MacFarlane	A Million Ways to Die in the West
2015 (36th)
	Josh Trank	Fantastic Four
	Andy Fickman	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
	Tom Six	The Human Centipede 3
	Sam Taylor-Johnson	Fifty Shades of Grey
	The Wachowskis	Jupiter Ascending
2016 (37th)
	Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley	Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
	Roland Emmerich	Independence Day: Resurgence
	Tyler Perry	Boo! A Madea Halloween
	Alex Proyas	Gods of Egypt
	Zack Snyder	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
	Ben Stiller	Zoolander 2
2017 (38th)
	Tony Leondis	The Emoji Movie^[8]
	Darren Aronofsky	Mother!
	Michael Bay	Transformers: The Last Knight
	James Foley	Fifty Shades Darker
	Alex Kurtzman	The Mummy
2018 (39th)
	Etan Cohen	Holmes & Watson^[9]
	Kevin Connolly	Gotti
	James Foley	Fifty Shades Freed
	Brian Henson	The Happytime Murders
	The Spierig Brothers	Winchester
2019 (40th)
	Tom Hooper	Cats^[10]
	Fred Durst	The Fanatic
	James Franco	Zeroville
	Adrian Grünberg	Rambo: Last Blood
	Neil Marshall	Hellboy

2020s

Year	Director	Film
2020 (41st)
	Sia	Music^[11]
	Charles Band	Corona Zombies
		Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King
		Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51
	Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes	365 Days
	Stephen Gaghan	Dolittle
	Ron Howard	Hillbilly Elegy
2021 (42nd)
	Christopher Ashley	Diana the Musical
	Stephen Chbosky	Dear Evan Hansen
	Coke Daniels	Karen
	Renny Harlin	The Misfits
	Joe Wright	The Woman in the Window
2022 (43rd)
	Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun	Good Mourning^[12]
	Judd Apatow	The Bubble
	Andrew Dominik	Blonde
	Daniel Espinosa	Morbius
	Robert Zemeckis	Disney's Pinocchio
2023 (44th)
	Rhys Frake-Waterfield	Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
	David Gordon Green	The Exorcist: Believer
	Peyton Reed	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
	Scott Waugh	Expend4bles
	Ben Wheatley	Meg 2: The Trench
2024 (45th)
	Francis Ford Coppola	Megalopolis
	S. J. Clarkson	Madame Web
	Todd Phillips	Joker: Folie à Deux
	Eli Roth	Borderlands
	Jerry Seinfeld	Unfrosted
2025 (46th)
	Rich Lee	War of the Worlds
	Olatunde Osunsanmi	Star Trek: Section 31
	Russo Brothers	The Electric State
	Trey Edward Shults	Hurry Up Tomorrow
	Marc Webb	Snow White

Multiple wins

2 wins

Multiple nominations

6 nominations

5 nominations

Brian De Palma

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

References

[1] » RazzieWatch: Worst-Director Showdown-Grantland.com

[2] The 10 Most Notorious Movies That Won Razzie Awards – Taste of Cinema

[3] Retrospective puts May center stage-The Boston Globe

[4] The 10 Most Notorious Movies That Won Razzie Awards - Taste of Cinema

[5] Shyamalan to find form with new apocalyptic thriller-Retuers

[6] Matulef, Jeffrey (2016-02-24). "Postal is getting a remake for PC, Mac and PS4". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2026-01-07.

[7] Michael Bay Selling His 1966 Camaro SS Bumblebee at Barrett-Jackson-The News Wheel

[8] 2018 Razzie Award Winners Full List of Winners in All 9 categories-GoldDerby

[9] 2019 Razzie Winners List: Watch the Announcement Video Here-GoldDerby

[10] Razzies 2020 winners list: Cats wins Worst Picture at Razzie Awards|EW.com

[11] Razzie Awards 2021 Winners: MUSIC, 365 DAYS WIN BIG AT 41ST GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS < < Rotten Tomatoes

[12] Tom Hanks, Morbius, and Blonde all tie for the biggest loser at the 2023 Razzie Awards|EW.com

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