Since 1981, the Golden Raspberries have been awarded every year one day before the Oscars. While winning an Academy Award is still considered the highest honor in the film industry, the so-called Razzies go to the supposedly worst performances of the year: this year, for example, films like “The Expendables 4” or “Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey” “hopes” for an award, as do Oscar winners such as Michael Douglas (“Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania”), Russell Crowe (“The Pope’s Exorcist”) and Helen Mirren (“Shazam! Fury Of “The Gods” ) can count on a chance of winning the shameful prize.
While the Golden Raspberries are sometimes referred to as the ‘anti-Oscars’, three filmmakers have so far managed to both receive a negative award and take home one of the coveted gold statues in the same year (and therefore in same weekend!) to be able to – of course for different films. We introduce you to the three winners, including an absolute star actress…
1. Brian Helgeland
As a screenwriter and director responsible for such hits as “Payback” (1999) and “Knight of Passion” (2001), Brian Helgeland also wrote the script for critically acclaimed films such as Clint Eastwood’s “Mystic River” (2003). . But his most celebrated achievement is probably the script for the neo-noir thriller “LA Confidential” (1997), which for us at FILMSTARTS is a near-perfect five-star masterpiece. consequential damage He received this award together with the director and co-writer Curtis Hanson also an Oscar – just one day after winning a Golden Raspberry for Kevin Costner’s flop”Postman“had received…
Although he did not personally accept the Razzie, unlike the Oscar, he showed a sense of self-deprecation with his ‘acceptance speech’:[…] It’s better to be ridiculed than ignored. Indifference is the enemy, and with this attack indifference has been defeated. […] Unfortunately, the blame rests on my shoulders and I accept this award with humility, remorse and, above all, with the sense of humor with which it is bestowed.through ) A day later, his first and so far only Oscar win finally proved to him that Hollywood is anything but indifferent to his work.
2. Sandra Bullock
Until 2010 it did Sandra Bullock neither an Oscar nor a Golden Raspberry in my pocket, but then they both came at the same time: After 2 nominations (for ‘Demolition Man’ and ‘Speed 2 – Cruise Control’) she received the Razzie for Worst Actress for the leading role in the completely flopped comedy ‘Crazy for Steve’ (1 out of 5 stars at FILMSTARTS!) a day later she became an Oscar winner thanks to the leading role in the biopic “Blind Side – The Big Chance”. In the run-up to the award ceremony, Bullock announced that she, like her colleague before her, would receive the Golden Raspberry Halle Berry (“Catwoman”) personally.
On the spot, the ‘Speed’ star thanked us with a wink with the following words: ‘I didn’t know that in Hollywood all you have to do is say you’re coming and then you get the prize. If I had known that, I would have said a long time ago that I would appear at the Oscars.” Fortunately, both things worked out in the end!
3. Alan Menken
Even if Alan Menken doesn’t immediately mean anything to you, you’ve certainly heard him before – or one of his compositions. Menken wrote the film scores for Disney hits such as ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’, and he also wrote the musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ (which resulted in the 1986 cinema hit of the same name). The 74-year-old has already been awarded the Oscar 8 (!) times and is one of the few who also has Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards.
Accordingly, his anger was probably contained when he met Jack Feldman in 1992 a golden raspberry for worst original song in a musical”The newsboys(with Christian Bale!) – especially since he was able to celebrate two Academy Awards in the same weekend, both for the Disney hit ‘Aladdin’. Menken showed his appreciation for the dubious honor by sending a video message to the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation.
There’s no way the list of parallel Oscar and Razzie winners will be expanded this year. In the past, there have even been cases where actors have been nominated for both awards for the same performance — most recently Glenn Close for the Netflix drama “Hillbilly Elegy.”