# 17th Golden Raspberry Awards

The 17th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 1997, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1996. Striptease took home the most Razzies of the evening, winning 6 out of 7 nominations, including Worst Picture.

## Awards and nominations

* Tom Arnold, Worst Actor co-winner.
* Pauly Shore, Worst Actor co-winner.
* Demi Moore, Worst Actress winner and Worst Screen Couple co-winner.
* Marlon Brando, Worst Supporting Actor winner.
* Melanie Griffith, Worst Supporting Actress winner.
* Burt Reynolds, Worst Screen Couple co-winner.
* Pamela Anderson, Worst New Star co-winner.
* Michael Crichton, Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million co-winner.
* Anne-Marie Martin, Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million co-winner.
| Category | Nominees |
| Worst Picture | Striptease (Columbia/Castle Rock) |
| Worst Picture | Barb Wire (Gramercy Pictures) |
| Worst Picture | Ed (Universal) |
| Worst Picture | The Island of Dr. Moreau (New Line) |
| Worst Picture | The Stupids (New Line/Savoy) |
| Worst Actor | Tom Arnold in Big Bully, Carpool and The Stupids as Rosco "Fang" Bigger, Franklin Laszlo and Stanley Stupid (respectively) (tie) |
| Worst Actor | Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome as Bud Macintosh (tie) |
| Worst Actor | Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction as Eddie Kasalivich |
| Worst Actor | Adam Sandler in Bulletproof and Happy Gilmore as Archie Moses and Happy Gilmore |
| Worst Actor | Sylvester Stallone in Daylight as Kit Latura |
| Worst Actress | Demi Moore in The Juror and Striptease as Annie Laird and Erin Grant (respectively) |
| Worst Actress | Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski |
| Worst Actress | Whoopi Goldberg in Bogus, Eddie and Theodore Rex as Harriet Franklin, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin and Katie Coltrane (respectively) |
| Worst Actress | Melanie Griffith in Two Much as Betty Kerner |
| Worst Actress | Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly as Mary Reilly |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau as Dr. Moreau |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness and The Island of Dr. Moreau as John Henry Patterson and Dr. Montgomery (respectively) |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Burt Reynolds in Striptease as Congressman David Dilbeck |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Steven Seagal in Executive Decision as Lt. Col. Austin Travis |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk till Dawn as Richie Gecko |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Melanie Griffith in Mulholland Falls as Katherine Hoover |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Faye Dunaway in The Chamber and Dunston Checks In as Lee Cayhall Bowen and Mrs. Elena Dubrow (respectively) |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Jami Gertz in Twister as Melissa Reeves |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Daryl Hannah in Two Much as Liz Kerner |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Teri Hatcher in Heaven's Prisoners and 2 Days in the Valley as Claudette Rocque and Becky Foxx (respectively) |
| Worst Screen Couple | Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds in Striptease |
| Worst Screen Couple | Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" in Barb Wire |
| Worst Screen Couple | Beavis and Butt-head in Beavis and Butt-head Do America |
| Worst Screen Couple | Marlon Brando and "That Darn Dwarf" (Nelson de la Rosa) in The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| Worst Screen Couple | Matt LeBlanc and Ed (the mechanical monkey) in Ed |
| Worst Director | Andrew Bergman for Striptease |
| Worst Director | John Frankenheimer for The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| Worst Director | Stephen Frears for Mary Reilly |
| Worst Director | John Landis for The Stupids |
| Worst Director | Brian Levant for Jingle All the Way |
| Worst Screenplay | Striptease, screenplay by Andrew Bergman, based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen |
| Worst Screenplay | Barb Wire, screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken, story by Chaiken, based upon the characters appearing in the Dark Horse comic |
| Worst Screenplay | Ed, screenplay by David Mickey Evans, story by Ken Richards and Janus Cercone |
| Worst Screenplay | The Island of Dr. Moreau, screenplay by Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson, based on the novel by H. G. Wells |
| Worst Screenplay | The Stupids, written by Brent Forrester, based on characters created by James Marshall and Harry Allard |
| Worst New Star | Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski |
| Worst New Star | Beavis and Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |
| Worst New Star | Ellen DeGeneres in Mr. Wrong as Martha Alston |
| Worst New Star | Friends cast members turned movie-star-wanna-be's (Jennifer Aniston in She's the One, Lisa Kudrow in Mother, Matt LeBlanc in Ed, and David Schwimmer in The Pallbearer) |
| Worst New Star | The new "serious" Sharon Stone in Diabolique and Last Dance as Nicole Horner and Cindy Liggett (respectively) |
| Worst Original Song | "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy (Whose Kitty Cat Are You?)" from Striptease, written by Marvin Montgomery |
| Worst Original Song | "Welcome to Planet Boom! (a.k.a. This Boom's for You)" from Barb Wire, written by Tommy Lee |
| Worst Original Song | "Whenever There is Love (Love Theme from Daylight)" from Daylight, written by Bruce Roberts and Sam Roman |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | Twister (Warner Bros.), written by Michael Crichton & Anne-Marie Martin |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), animation screenplay by Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker & Noni White |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | Independence Day (20th Century Fox), written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | Mission: Impossible (Paramount), based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, story by David Koepp and Steven Zaillian, screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne |
| Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million | A Time to Kill (Warner Bros.), screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, based on the novel by John Grisham |

## Films with multiple nominations

These films received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Films |
| 7 | Striptease |
| 6 | Barb Wire |
| 6 | The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| 4 | Ed |
| 4 | The Stupids |
| 2 | Beavis and Butt-head Do America |
| 2 | Daylight |
| 2 | Mary Reilly |
| 2 | Twister |
| 2 | Two Much |