1999 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

The 22nd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2000 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1999. Founder Ray Wright listed Pokemon: The First Movie among his five worst movies of the 1990s alongside Batman & Robin, It's Pat, Crash, and Nothing but Trouble. Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (42 total). All winners are highlighted.

22nd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Date2000
Highlights
Best FilmWild Wild West
Most awardsStar Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Wild Wild West (4)
Most nominationsWild Wild West (10)

Winners and Nominees

Worst Picture

Film[1] Production company(s) Percentage of Votes
Wild Wild West Warner Bros. 29%
Baby Geniuses TriStar 26%
The Blair Witch Project Artisan Entertainment 25%
Inspector Gadget Walt Disney Pictures 11%
The Mod Squad MGM 9%

Dishonourable Mentions

Worst Director

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Bob Clark for Baby Geniuses 26%
Jan de Bont for The Haunting 22%
David Kellogg for Inspector Gadget 16%
Joel Schumacher for 8MM and Flawless 13%
Barry Sonnenfeld for Wild Wild West 23%

Worst Actor

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Robin Williams for Bicentennial Man and Jakob the Liar 31%
Kevin Costner for For Love of the Game and Message in a Bottle 30%
Cuba Gooding, Jr. for Chill Factor and Instinct 16%
Kevin Kline for Wild Wild West 8%
Arnold Schwarzenegger for End of Days 15%

Worst Actress

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Melanie Griffith for Crazy in Alabama 28%
Claire Danes for The Mod Squad 7%
Heather Donahue for The Blair Witch Project 25%
Milla Jovovich for The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 18%
Sharon Stone for Gloria and The Muse 22%

Worst Supporting Actor

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Jar Jar Binks (played by Ahmed Best) in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 49%
Spike Lee for Summer of Sam 21%
Giovanni Ribisi for The Mod Squad 8%
William Shatner for Free Enterprise 17%
Rod Steiger for Crazy in Alabama 5%

Worst Supporting Actress

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Denise Richards for The World Is Not Enough 34%
Kirstie Alley for Drop Dead Gorgeous 25%
Helena Bonham Carter for Fight Club 3%
Ellen DeGeneres for Goodbye Lover and The Love Letter 31%
Christina Ricci for 200 Cigarettes 7%

Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.) 33%
Baby Geniuses (TriStar) 22%
Big Daddy (Columbia) 16%
Inspector Gadget (Disney) 22%
My Favorite Martian (Disney) 7%

Worst On-Screen Couple

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Siegfried and Roy in Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box 33%
Pierce Brosnan and Denise Richards in The World Is Not Enough 19%
Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment 14%
Will Smith and Kevin Kline in Wild Wild West 17%
Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Story of Us 17%
Recipient Percentage of Votes
"No Tears for Caesar" by William Shatner and the Rated R from Free Enterprise 37%
"Highway To Hell" by Marilyn Manson from Detroit Rock City 18%
"Then You Look at Me" by Celine Dion from Bicentennial Man 18%
"Wild Wild West" by Will Smith from Wild Wild West 22%
"Word Up" by Melanie B. (aka Scary Spice) from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 5%

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

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.), story by Jim and John Thomas; screenplay by S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman; based on the TV series The Wild Wild West 32%
Big Daddy (Columbia), story by Steve Franks; screenplay by Franks, Tim Herlihy, and Adam Sandler 15%
The Haunting (DreamWorks), written by David Self and Michael Tolkin; based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House 11%
Pokémon the First Movie (Warner Bros.), written by Takeshi Shudo; based on the Pokémon franchise 31%
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Fox), written by George Lucas 11%

Worst Fake Accent

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The entire cast of Jakob the Liar 35%
Melanie Griffith in Crazy in Alabama 25%
Christina Ricci in 200 Cigarettes 7%
Sharon Stone for Gloria 11%
The entire cast of Varsity Blues 22%

Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (Male)

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Dennis Rodman in Simon Sez 37%
Tom Cruise in Magnolia 15%
John Cusack in Being John Malkovich 19%
Brad Pitt in Fight Club 9%
Burt Reynolds for Mystery, Alaska 20%

Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (Female)

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Melanie Griffith in Crazy in Alabama 34%
Helena Bonham Carter in Fight Club 15%
Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted 24%
Milla Jovovich in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 15%
Sharon Stone in Gloria and The Muse 12%

Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release

Recipient Percentage of Votes
All nine Pokémon videos released in 1999 39%
Barney's Night Before Christmas 24%
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return 18%
K-911 15%
Our Friend, Martin 4%

Worst Remake

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Haunting (DreamWorks) 46%
The Bachelor (New Line) 8%
Cruel Intentions (Columbia) 14%
Gloria (Columbia) 25%
House on Haunted Hill (Warner Bros.) 7%

Worst Sequel or Prequel

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Rage: Carrie 2 (MGM) 31%
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (New Line) 23%
Muppets from Space (Columbia) 10%
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Fox) 19%
Universal Soldier: The Return (TriStar) 17%

The Remake, Sequel, or Prequel Nobody Was Clamoring For

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Rage: Carrie 2 (MGM) 27%
Gloria (Columbia) 25%
The Haunting (DreamWorks) 7%
The Out-of-Towners (Paramount) 22%
Universal Soldier: The Return (TriStar) 19%

Worst Resurrection of a TV Show

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.) 27%
Dudley Do-Right (Universal) 17%
Inspector Gadget (Disney) 14%
The Mod Squad (MGM) 24%
My Favorite Martian (Disney) 18%

Least "Special" Special Effects

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Baby Geniuses (TriStar) 24%
The Haunting (DreamWorks) 14%
Inspector Gadget (Disney) 22%
Twin Dragons (Dimension) 18%
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.) 22%

Biggest Disappointment (Films That Didn't Live Up to Their Hype)

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Blair Witch Project (Artisan) 28%
Eyes Wide Shut (Warner Bros.) 20%
Pokémon the First Movie (Warner Bros.) 7%
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Fox) 26%
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.) 19%

Most Botched Comic Relief (Ideas That Couldn't Have Looked Good, Even On Paper)

Recipient Percentage of Votes
The Annoying Sidekick (Jar Jar Binks, played by Ahmed Best) in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 52%
John Leguizamo impersonates Marlon Brando or Rosie Perez, we're not sure, in Frogs for Snakes 12%
David Spade impersonates Neil Diamond in Lost & Found 8%
The Talking Car (Gadgetmobile, voice by D.L. Hughley) in Inspector Gadget 16%
The Talking Suit (Zoot the Suit, voice by Wayne Knight) in My Favorite Martian 12%

Worst Screen Debut

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Jar Jar Binks (played by Ahmed Best) in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 34%
Mariah Carey in The Bachelor 15%
Heather, Michael, Josh, the Stick People, and the world's longest-running batteries in The Blair Witch Project 24%
Pokémon (all 151 of them!) 15%
The Possessed Hand in Idle Hands 12%

Musicians Who Shouldn't Be Acting

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Mariah Carey in The Bachelor 33%
Master P in Foolish 16%
Alanis Morissette in Dogma 19%
Slash in The Underground Comedy Movie 23%
Isaac Stern in Music of the Heart 9%

Most Intrusive Musical Score

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Eyes Wide Shut (Warner Bros.) 39%
Fight Club (Fox) 14%
Magnolia (New Line) 18%
Mickey Blue Eyes (Warner Bros.) 3%
Universal Soldier: The Return (TriStar) 26%
Recipient Percentage of Votes
Jake Lloyd in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 34%
Jean-Luke Figueroa in Gloria 13%
Leo, Gerry and Myles Fitzgerald in Baby Geniuses 32%
Jonathan Lipnicki in Stuart Little 6%
Cole and Dylan Sprouse in Big Daddy 15%

Worst Achievement in Animation

Recipient Percentage of Votes
Pokémon the First Movie (Warner Bros.) 72%
Doug's 1st Movie (Disney) 12%
The King and I (Warner Bros.) 16%
Princess Mononoke (Studio Ghibli)[N 1] N/A
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Paramount, Warner Bros.)[N 1] N/A

The Founders Award (What Were They Thinking)?

Films with multiple wins and nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations Film
10 Wild Wild West
7 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
6 Gloria
Inspector Gadget
5 Baby Geniuses
The Haunting
Pokémon the First Movie
4 The Blair Witch Project
Crazy in Alabama
Eyes Wide Shut *
Fight Club
The Mod Squad
3 The Bachelor
Big Daddy
My Favorite Martian
Universal Soldier: The Return
2 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Bicentennial Man
Free Enterprise
Jakob the Liar
Magnolia
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Muse
The Rage: Carrie 2
200 Cigarettes
The World Is Not Enough
  • Note: For each film with an asterisk, one of those nominations was the Founders Award.

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins Film
4 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Wild Wild West
2 Baby Geniuses
Crazy in Alabama
Jakob the Liar
The Rage: Carrie 2

Mike Lancaster's Review of The Underground Comedy Movie

Founder Mike Lancaster cited The Underground Comedy Movie as the worst movie he ever paid to see. Despite this, it received only one nomination for Musicians Who Shouldn't Be Acting.[3] His review is as follows:

"The funniest part of this tragically UNfunny embarrassment comes during the end credits. It is there that writer/star Vince Offer thanks the creators of There's Something About Mary for stealing elements of this film to make theirs. He claims he sent them a promotional videotape copy of Underground in 1997 and they pilfered his jokes and made untold fortunes. The movie poster even claims that a "lawsuit is pending." Hmmm. After viewing both Offer's The Underground Comedy Movie and the Farrelly Brothers' There's Something About Mary, we learn that there are indeed some things the films have in common: 1. They are both shot on 35mm film, 2. They are both in English, 3. They are both in color, and 4. They both have stereo soundtracks. I could go on ... Both films show people driving in automobiles, both films have daytime AND nighttime scenes, and the opening and closing credits of both films feature lettering in both upper and lowercase white lettering. Yes, the similarities are eerie, aren't they? Other than those things, there is not one frame of Underground that bares even the slightest resemblance to Mary. If this frivolous lawsuit ever goes to trial, Offer and company better hope I'm not on the jury. If there is to be a lawsuit, it should really be directed at Offer, who has stolen (in some cases, word for word/scene for scene) elements of such 70s and 80s low-brow comedies as Kentucky Fried Movie, Groove Tube, and Amazon Women on the Moon and turned them into a frighteningly unfunny mix of scenes that confuse rather than amuse. It may be marketing genius to claim someone stole your film ideas just to get people to pay $8 to see what all the fuss is about, but in the case of The Underground Comedy Movie, I think the Farrelly Brothers and 20th Century Fox may have grounds to sue Offer for huge damages just for being compared to such a horribly made film as the inept Underground Comedy Movie."

—Michael Lancaster, The Hastings Bad Cinema Society[4]

Notes

  1. This film was not nominated on the Stinkers official website, but was mentioned in the "Past Winners Database" of the Los Angeles Times.[2]

References

  1. "Press Release - Stinkers 1999 Winners". February 17, 2002. Archived from the original on February 17, 2002.
  2. "Past Winners Database". The Envelope at L.A. Times. Archived from the original on January 3, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  3. "Q & A with the Stinkers". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  4. "Critic's Corner S-Z". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 12 April 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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