# 1998 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

The 21st Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1999 to honor the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1998.
According to founders Ray Wright and Mike Lancaster, they were quite surprised by how The Avengers lost to Spice World in the run for Worst Picture. They also stated that while pressured to include Armageddon and Godzilla on the Worst Picture ballot, they ultimately felt that Blues Brothers 2000 was more deserving. They then admitted that if they expanded the Worst Picture category to ten films, they would have added Armaggeddon, Babe: Pig in the City, Godzilla, Krippendorf's Tribe, and Meet the Deedles to the ballot. Lancaster put Lost in Space as the one 1998 film among his five worst movies of the 1990s, alongside It's Pat, Kids, Nothing but Trouble, and Ready to Wear.
Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonorable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (39 total). All winners are highlighted.

## Winners and Nominees
### Worst Picture

| Film | Production company(s) | Percentage of Votes |
| Spice World | Columbia | 44% |
| An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn | Hollywood Pictures | 9% |
| The Avengers | Warner Bros. | 25% |
| Blues Brothers 2000 | Universal Pictures | 10% |
| Lost in Space | New Line Cinema | 12% |

#### Dishonorable Mentions

* Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Dimension)
* Armageddon (Touchstone)
* Babe: Pig in the City (Universal)
* Barney's Great Adventure (PolyGram)
* BASEketball (Universal)
* Blade (New Line)
* Chairman of the Board (Trimark)
* Deep Impact (Paramount)
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Universal)
* 54 (Miramax)
* Godzilla (aka "Godawful") (TriStar)
* Great Expectations (Fox)
* He Got Game (Touchstone)
* Hope Floats (Fox)
* Hush (TriStar)
* I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Columbia)
* Kissing a Fool (Universal)
* Krippendorf's Tribe (Touchstone)
* Lethal Weapon 4 (Warner Bros.)
* Major League: Back to the Minors (Warner Bros.)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (United Artists)
* Meet Joe Black (Universal)
* Meet the Deedles (Disney)
* The Odd Couple II (Paramount)
* Patch Adams (Universal)
* Psycho (the shot-for-shot remake) (Universal)
* The Replacement Killers (Columbia)
* Six Days, Seven Nights (Touchstone)
* Slappy and the Stinkers (TriStar)
* Snake Eyes (Paramount)
* Species II (MGM)
* Sphere (Warner Bros.)
* Tarzan and the Lost City (Warner Bros.)
* The Thin Red Line (Fox)
* 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (TriStar)
* U.S. Marshals (Warner Bros.)
* John Carpenter's Vampires (Columbia)
* The Waterboy (Touchstone)
* Wrongfully Accused (Warner Bros.)

### Worst Director

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Jeremiah Chechik for The Avengers | 33% |
| Arthur Hiller for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn | 16% |
| Stephen Hopkins for Lost in Space | 12% |
| Spike Lee for He Got Game | 10% |
| Bob Spiers for Spice World | 29% |

### Worst Actor

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Bruce Willis for Armageddon | 37% |
| Barney the Dinosaur for Barney's Great Adventure | 30% |
| Richard Dreyfuss for Krippendorf's Tribe | 13% |
| Ralph Fiennes for The Avengers | 11% |
| Wesley Snipes for Blade | 9% |

### Worst Actress or British Singing Group Pretending to Act

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Spice Girls for Spice World | 53% |
| Anne Heche for Six Days, Seven Nights and Psycho | 24% |
| Jessica Lange for Hush | 5% |
| Sharon Stone for Sphere | 8% |
| Uma Thurman for The Avengers | 10% |

### Worst Supporting Actor

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Daniel Baldwin for John Carpenter's Vampires | 37% |
| Sean Connery for The Avengers | 7% |
| Benicio Del Toro for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 23% |
| Dennis Hopper for Meet the Deedles | 27% |
| John Malkovich for The Man in the Iron Mask | 6% |

### Worst Supporting Actress

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Lacey Chabert for Lost in Space | 33% |
| Anne Bancroft for Great Expectations | 10% |
| Neve Campbell for 54 and Wild Things | 27% |
| Téa Leoni for Deep Impact | 16% |
| Liv Tyler for Armageddon | 14% |

### Worst Sequel

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Columbia) | 31% |
| Blues Brothers 2000 (Universal) | 21% |
| The Odd Couple II (Paramount) | 15% |
| Species II (MGM) | 19% |
| U.S. Marshals (Warner Bros.) | 14% |

### Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing Over $100M Worldwide Using Hollywood Math

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Godzilla (TriStar), story by Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Dean Devlin, and Roland Emmerich; screenplay by Devlin and Emmerich; based on Toho's Godzilla franchise | 41% |
| Armageddon (Touchstone), story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh; screenplay by Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams | 24% |
| Deep Impact (Paramount), written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin | 7% |
| Lethal Weapon 4 (Warner Bros.), story by Jonathan Lemkin, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar; screenplay by Channing Gibson; based on characters created by Shane Black | 12% |
| Patch Adams (Universal), written by Steve Oedekerk; based on Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander | 16% |

### Worst Resurrection of a TV Show

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| The Avengers (Warner Bros.) | 51% |
| Barney's Great Adventure (PolyGram) | 24% |
| Lost in Space (New Line) | 25% |

### Worst On-Screen Couple

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon | 26% |
| Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 20% |
| Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers | 17% |
| Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun-Fat in The Replacement Killers | 13% |
| Steve Van Wormer and Paul Walker in Meet the Deedles | 24% |

### The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Major League: Back to the Minors (Warner Bros.) | 27% |
| Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Dimension) | 22% |
| Babe: Pig in the City (Universal) | 14% |
| Blues Brothers 2000 (Universal) | 12% |
| 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (TriStar) | 25% |

### Most Annoying Fake Accent

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Adam Sandler in The Waterboy | 37% |
| Sandra Bullock in Hope Floats | 22% |
| Uma Thurman in The Avengers | 8% |
| Casper Van Dien in Tarzan and the Lost City | 14% |
| Bruce Willis in Armageddon | 19% |

### Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Meet the Deedles (Disney) | 33% |
| An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Hollywood Pictures) | 20% |
| Chairman of the Board (Trimark Pictures) | 18% |
| The Odd Couple II (Paramount) | 24% |
| Wrongfully Accused (Warner Bros.) | 5% |

### Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Bill Clinton's Grand Jury Testimony | 55% |
| Addams Family Reunion | 16% |
| Casper Meets Wendy | 2% |
| Ernest in the Army | 24% |
| The Land Before Time VI | 3% |

### Worst Song in a Motion Picture

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| "Come with Me" by Puff Daddy with Jimmy Page from Godzilla | 37% |
| "I Love You" by Barney the Dinosaur from Barney's Great Adventure | 24% |
| "Lost in Space" by Space from Lost in Space | 6% |
| "Spice Up Your Life" by The Spice Girls from Spice World | 15% |
| "When You Believe" by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston from The Prince of Egypt | 18% |

### Worst On-Screen Hairstyle

| Recipient | Percentage of Votes |
| Joe Eszterhas in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn | 32% |
| Jason Lee in Kissing a Fool | 4% |
| Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black | 26% |
| Scary Spice in Spice World | 30% |
| Sharon Stone in Sphere | 8% |

### The Founders Award - What Were They Thinking and Why?

* The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for honoring Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award
* The Motion Picture Association of America for rating Babe: Pig in the City "G" and Orgazmo "NC-17"
* Universal Pictures for thinking Psycho was a good idea in the first place

### Miscellaneous Awards

* Worst TV Show: The Magic Hour
* Worst Album: Wild Prairie by Mariah Carey
* Worst Radio Show (Syndicated): Delilah @ RadioDelilah.com

## Films with multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Film |
| 8 | The Avengers |
| 5 | Armageddon |
| 5 | Lost in Space |
| 5 | Spice World |
| 4 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn |
| 3 | Barney's Great Adventure |
| 3 | Blues Brothers 2000 |
| 3 | Meet the Deedles |
| 2 | Babe: Pig in the City* |
| 2 | Deep Impact |
| 2 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| 2 | Godzilla |
| 2 | The Odd Couple II |
| 2 | Psycho* |
| 2 | Sphere |
* Note: For each film with an asterisk, one of those nominations was the Founders Award.
The following films received multiple awards:
| Wins | Film |
| 2 | Armageddon |
| 2 | The Avengers |
| 2 | Godzilla |
| 2 | Spice World |