Category |
Recipient |
Worst Picture |
Can't Stop the Music (AFD) |
Cruising (Lorimar/United Artists) |
The Formula (MGM/United Artists) |
Friday the 13th (Paramount) |
The Jazz Singer (AFD) |
The Nude Bomb (Universal) |
Raise the Titanic (AFD) |
Saturn 3 (AFD) |
Windows (United Artists) |
Xanadu (Universal) |
Worst Actor |
Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch/Jess Robin |
Michael Beck in Xanadu as Sonny Malone |
Robert Blake in Coast to Coast as Charles Callahan |
Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill and The Island as Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi and Blair Maynard (respectively) |
Kirk Douglas in Saturn 3 as Adam |
Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition as Paul Dietrich |
Anthony Hopkins in A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans |
Bruce Jenner[lower-alpha 1] in Can't Stop the Music as Ron White |
Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon as Flash Gordon |
Worst Actress |
Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline |
Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake |
Faye Dunaway in The First Deadly Sin as Barbara Delaney |
Shelley Duvall in The Shining as Wendy Torrance |
Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 as Alex |
Sondra Locke in Bronco Billy as Antoinette Lily |
Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu as Kira |
Valerie Perrine in Can't Stop the Music as Samantha Simpson |
Deborah Raffin in Touched by Love as Lena Canada |
Talia Shire in Windows as Emily Hollander |
Worst Supporting Actor |
John Adames in Gloria as Phil Dawn (tie) |
Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer as Cantor Rabinovitch (tie) |
Marlon Brando in The Formula as Adam Stieffel |
Charles Grodin in Seems Like Old Times as Ira Parks |
David Selby in Raise the Titanic as Dr. Gene Seagram |
Worst Supporting Actress |
Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose as Lily Ramsey |
Elizabeth Ashley in Windows as Andrea Glassen |
Georg Stanford Brown (in drag) in Stir Crazy as Rory Schutlebrand |
Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees |
Marilyn Sokol in Can't Stop the Music as Lulu Brecht |
Worst Director |
Robert Greenwald for Xanadu |
John G. Avildsen for The Formula |
Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill |
William Friedkin for Cruising |
Sidney J. 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 |
Worst Screenplay |
Can't Stop the Music, written by Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr |
A Change of Seasons, screenplay by Erich Segal and 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, screenplay by Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes, from the novel by Clive Cussler |
Touched by Love, written by Hesper Anderson |
Windows, written by Barry Siegel |
Xanadu, written by Richard C. Danus and Marc R. 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 Jacques Morali |
"Suspended in Time" from Xanadu, music and lyrics by John Farrar |
"Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from A 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 |