1981 Golden Raspberries

The 1st Golden Raspberry awards were held on March 31, 1981. They were presented at John Wilson's living room alcove. It recognised the worst the film industry had to offer of 1980. The recipients are denoted in bold:

Table of contents 1 Worst Picture 2 Worst Actor 3 Worst Actress 4 Worst Supporting Actor 5 Worst Supporting Actress 6 Worst Director 7 Worst Screenplay 8 Worst 'Original' Song 8.1 Other Razzie Award Years

Worst Picture

• Can't Stop the Music[?] - (AFD[?])
  • produced by Allan Carr[?]
• Cruising - (Lorimar[?]/United Artists)
  • produced by Jerry Weintraub[?]
• The Formula[?] - (MGM/United Artists)
  • produced by Steve Shagan[?]
• Friday the 13th - (Paramount)
  • produced by Sean S. Cunningham[?]
• The Jazz Singer - (AFD[?])
  • produced by Jerry Leider[?]
• The Nude Bomb[?] - (Universal)
  • produced by Jennings Lang[?]
• Raise the Titanic[?] - (AFD[?])
  • produced by William Frye[?]
• Saturn 3[?] - (AFD[?])
  • produced by Stanley Donen[?]
• Windows - (United Artists)
  • produced by Michael Lobell[?]
• Xanadu - (Universal)
  • produced by Lawrence Gordon[?]

Worst Actor

• Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer
• Michael Beck[?] in Xanadu
• Robert Blake in Coast To Coast[?]
• Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill and The Island[?]
• Kirk Douglas in Saturn 3[?]
• Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition[?]
• Anthony Hopkins in A Change Of Seasons[?]
• Bruce Jenner[?] in Can't Stop the Music[?]
• Sam J. Jones[?] in Flash Gordon

Worst Actress

• Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon[?]
• Nancy Allen[?] in Dressed to Kill
• Faye Dunaway in First Deadly Sin[?]
• Shelley Duvall[?] in The Shining
• Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3[?]
• Sondra Locke[?] in Bronco Billy[?]
• Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu
• Valerie Perrine in Can't Stop the Music[?]
• Deborah Raffin[?] in Touched by Love[?]
• Talia Shire in Windows

Worst Supporting Actor

• John Adames[?] in Gloria[?]
• Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer
• Marlon Brando in The Formula[?]
• Charles Grodin in Seems Like Old Times[?]
• David Selby[?] in Raise the Titanic[?]

Worst Supporting Actress

• Amy Irving[?] in Honeysuckle Rose[?]
• Elizabeth Ashley[?] in Windows
• George Sanford Brown[?] in Stir Crazy[?]
• Betsy Palmer[?] in Friday the 13th
• Marilyn Sokol[?] in Can't Stop The Music[?]

Worst Director

• Robert Greenwald[?] for Xanadu
• John G. Avildsen for The Formula[?]
• Brian dePalma[?] for Dressed to Kill
• William Friedkin[?] for Cruising
• Sidney J. Furie[?] and Richard Fleisher[?] 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

Worst Screenplay

• Can't Stop The Music[?]
  • written by Bronte Woodward[?] and Allan Carr[?]
• Change Of Seasons[?]
  • written by Erich Segal[?], Ronni Kern[?] and Fred Segal[?]
• Cruising
  • written by William Friedkin[?]
• The Formula[?]
  • written by Steve Shagan[?]
• It's My Turn[?]
  • written by Eleanor Bergstein[?]
• Middle Age Crazy[?]
  • written by Carl Kleinschmidt[?]
• Raise The Titanic[?]
  • written by Adam Kennedy[?] and Eric Hughes[?]
• Touched By Love[?]
  • written by Hesper Anderson[?]
• Windows
  • written by Barry Siegel[?]
• Xanadu
  • written by Richard C. Danus[?] and Marc C. Rubel[?]

Worst 'Original' Song

• "The Man With Bogart's Face" from The Man With Bogart's Face[?]
  • Music by George Duning[?]
  • Lyrics by Andrew Fenady[?]
• "(You) Can't Stop The Music" from Can't Stop The Music[?]
  • Music and Lyrics by Jaques Morali[?]
• "Suspended in Time" from Xanadu
  • Music and Lyrics by John Farrar[?]
• "Where Do You Catch The Bus for Tomorrow?" from Change of Seasons[?]
  • Music by Henry Mancini
  • Lyrics by Marilyn Bergman[?] and Alan Bergman[?]
• "You, Baby, Baby!" from The Jazz Singer
  • Music and Lyrics by Neil Diamond

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Other Razzie Award Years

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