# 19th Golden Raspberry Awards

The 19th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 20, 1999, at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst movie industry had to offer in 1998.

## Awards and nominations

* Gus Van Sant, Worst Director winner.
* Bruce Willis, Worst Actor winner.
* Spice Girls, Worst Actress winners.
* Maria Pitillo, Worst Supporting Actress winner.
* Leonardo DiCaprio, Worst Screen Couple winner.
* Jerry Springer, Worst New Star co-winner.
| Category | Recipient |
| Worst Picture | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Hollywood Pictures) |
| Worst Picture | Armageddon (Touchstone) |
| Worst Picture | The Avengers (Warner Bros.) |
| Worst Picture | Godzilla (TriStar) |
| Worst Picture | Spice World (Columbia) |
| Worst Actor | Bruce Willis in Armageddon, Mercury Rising, and The Siege as Harry Stamper, Art Jeffries and William Devereaux |
| Worst Actor | Ralph Fiennes in The Avengers as John Steed |
| Worst Actor | Ryan O'Neal in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn as James Edmunds |
| Worst Actor | Ryan Phillippe in 54 as Shane O'Shea |
| Worst Actor | Adam Sandler in The Waterboy as Bobby Boucher |
| Worst Actress | The Spice Girls in Spice World as themselves |
| Worst Actress | Yasmine Bleeth in BASEketball as Jenna Reed |
| Worst Actress | Anne Heche in Psycho as Marion Crane |
| Worst Actress | Jessica Lange in Hush as Martha Baring |
| Worst Actress | Uma Thurman in The Avengers as Emma Peel |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Joe Eszterhas (as himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Sean Connery in The Avengers as Sir August de Wynter |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Roger Moore in Spice World as The Chief |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 4 as Leo Getz |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Sylvester Stallone (as himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Maria Pitillo in Godzilla as Audrey Timmonds |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Ellen Albertini Dow in 54 as Disco Dottie |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Jenny McCarthy in BASEketball as Yvette Denslow |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Liv Tyler in Armageddon as Grace Stamper |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Raquel Welch in Chairman of the Board as Grace Kosik |
| Worst Screen Couple | Leonardo DiCaprio and himself (as twins) in The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Worst Screen Couple | Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon |
| Worst Screen Couple | "Any combination of two characters, body parts or fashion accessories" in Spice World |
| Worst Screen Couple | "Any combination of two people playing themselves (or playing with themselves)" in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| Worst Screen Couple | Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | The Avengers (Warner Bros.) (tie) |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | Godzilla (TriStar) (tie) |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | Psycho (Universal) (tie) (The only three-way tie in the awards' history.) |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | Lost in Space (New Line Cinema) |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | Meet Joe Black (Universal) (remake of Death Takes a Holiday) |
| Worst Director | Gus Van Sant for Psycho |
| Worst Director | Michael Bay for Armageddon |
| Worst Director | Jeremiah S. Chechik for The Avengers |
| Worst Director | Roland Emmerich for Godzilla |
| Worst Director | Alan Smithee (also known as Arthur Hiller) for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| Worst Screenplay | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, written by Joe Eszterhas |
| Worst Screenplay | Armageddon, screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams, story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh, adaptation by Tony Gilroy and Shane Salerno |
| Worst Screenplay | The Avengers, written by Don MacPherson, based on the television series created by Sydney Newman |
| Worst Screenplay | Godzilla, screenplay by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, story by Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio |
| Worst Screenplay | Spice World, written by Kim Fuller, idea by Fuller and the Spice Girls |
| Worst New Star | Joe Eszterhas (as himself) in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (tie) |
| Worst New Star | Jerry Springer in Ringmaster as Jerry Farrelly (tie) |
| Worst New Star | Barney in Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie as himself |
| Worst New Star | Carrot Top in Chairman of the Board as Edison |
| Worst New Star | The Spice Girls in Spice World as themselves |
| Worst Original Song | "I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" from An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, written by Joe Eszterhas and Gary G-Wiz |
| Worst Original Song | "Barney, the Song" from Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie, written by Jerry Herman |
| Worst Original Song | "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon, written by Diane Warren (also Oscar-nominated) |
| Worst Original Song | "Storm" from The Avengers, written by Bruce Woolley, Chris Elliott, Marius deVries, Betsy Cook, and Andy Caine |
| Worst Original Song | "Too Much" from Spice World, written by the Spice Girls, Andy Watkins, and Paul Wilson |
| Worst Movie Trends of the Year | "Gidgets 'n' geezers (58-year-old leading men wooing 28-year-old leading ladies)" (referring to the likes of A Perfect Murder, Six Days, Seven Nights and Stepmom) |
| Worst Movie Trends of the Year | "If you've seen the trailer, why bother to see the movie?!? (previews that give away the film's entire plot)" |
| Worst Movie Trends of the Year | "30 minutes of story – conveyed in less than three hours! (l-o-n-g-e-r movies... shorter plots)" |
| Worst Movie Trends of the Year | "THX: The audio is deafening! (movie sound so loud it constitutes assault with a deafening weapon)" |
| Worst Movie Trends of the Year | "Yo quiero tacky tie-ins! (Mega-zillion-dollar cross-promotional overkill: Armageddon, Godzilla, etc.)" |

## Films with multiple nominations

These films received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Films |
| 9 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| 9 | The Avengers |
| 8 | Armageddon |
| 7 | Spice World |
| 6 | Godzilla |
| 3 | Psycho |
| 2 | 54 |
| 2 | Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie |
| 2 | BASEketball |
| 2 | Chairman of the Board |