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"You can see the money burning up on screen," said critic Roger Ebert about Warner Bros.' epic disaster
"Wild Wild West."
The 1999 Stinkers Bad Movie
Awards Nominees:
winner is in bold type
Worst Picture
Baby Geniuses (Sony)
The Blair Witch Project (Artisan)
Inspector Gadget (Disney)
The Mod Squad (MGM)
Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.)
Worst Sense of Direction
Bob Clark (Baby Geniuses)
Jan DeBont (The Haunting)
David Kellogg (Inspector Gadget)
Joel Schumacher ("8mm" and "Flawless")
Barry Sonnenfeld (Wild Wild West)
Worst Performance
by an Actor in a Lead Role
Kevin Costner ("For Love of The Game" and "Message in a Bottle")
Cuba Gooding, Jr. ("Chill Factor" and "Instinct")
Kevin Kline (Wild Wild West)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (End of Days)
Robin Williams ("Bicentennial
Man" and "Jakob The Liar")
Worst Performance
by an Actress in a Lead Role
Claire Danes (The Mod Squad)
Heather Donahue (The Blair Witch Project)
Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama)
Milla Jovovich (The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc)
Sharon Stone ("Gloria" and "The Muse")
Worst Performance
by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Jar Jar Binks (played by Ahmed Best)
(Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
Spike Lee (Summer of Sam)
Giovanni Ribisi (The Mod Squad)
William Shatner (Free Enterprise)
Rod Steiger (Crazy in Alabama)
Worst Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Kirstie Alley (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club)
Ellen DeGeneres ("Goodbye, Lover" and "The Love Letter")
Christina Ricci (200 Cigarettes)
Denise Richards (The World is Not
Enough)
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy
Baby Geniuses
Big Daddy
Inspector Gadget
My Favorite Martian
Wild Wild West
Worst On-Screen Couple
Pierce Brosnan and Denise Richards (The World Is Not Enough)
Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Entrapment)
Siegfried and Roy (Siegfried and Roy:
The Magic Box)
Will Smith and Kevin Kline (Wild Wild West)
Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer (The Story of Us)
Worst Song or Song
Performance Featured in a Film or its End Credits
"Highway To Hell" by Marilyn Manson (from "Detroit Rock City")
"No Tears For Caesar" by
William Shatner and The Rated R (from "Free Enterprise")
"Then You Look At Me" by Celine Dion (from "Bicentennial Man")
"Wild Wild West" by Will Smith (from "Wild Wild West")
"Word Up" by Melanie B. (aka Scary Spice) (from "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me")
Worst Screenplay For
A Film Grossing More Than $100 Million Worldwide*
*using Hollywood
math
Big Daddy
The Haunting
Pokemon The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Wild Wild West
Worst Fake Accent
Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama)
The entire cast of "Jakob The
Liar"
Christina Ricci (200 Cigarettes)
Sharon Stone (Gloria)
The entire cast of "Varsity Blues"
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle
- Male
Tom Cruise (Magnolia)
John Cusack (Being John Malkovich)
Brad Pitt (Fight Club)
Burt Reynolds (Mystery, Alaska)
Dennis Rodman (Simon Sez)
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle
- Female
Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club)
Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama)
Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)
Milla Jovovich (The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc)
Sharon Stone ("Gloria" and "The Muse")
Most Unwelcome Direct-To-Video Release
Barney's Night Before Christmas
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
K-911
Our Friend Martin
All nine Pokemon videos released in 1999
Worst Remake
The Bachelor
Cruel Intentions
Gloria
The Haunting
The House on Haunted Hill
Worst Sequel or Prequel
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged
Me
Muppets From Space
The Rage: Carrie 2
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom
Menace
Universal Soldier: The Return
The Remake, Sequel
or Prequel Nobody Was Clamoring For
Gloria
The Haunting
The Out-of-Towners
The Rage: Carrie 2
Universal Soldier: The Return
Worst Resurrection
of a TV Show
Dudley Do-Right
Inspector Gadget
The Mod Squad
My Favorite Martian
Wild Wild West
Least "Special"
Special Effects
Baby Geniuses
The Haunting
Inspector Gadget
Twin Dragons
Wild Wild West
Biggest Disappointment
(Films that didn't live up to their
hype)
The Blair Witch Project
Eyes Wide Shut
Pokemon The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Wild Wild West
Most Botched Comic
Relief
(Ideas That Couldn't
Have Looked Good, Even On Paper)
The Annoying Sidekick (Jar Jar Binks,
played by Ahmed Best) (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
John Leguizamo impersonates Marlon Brando or Rosie Perez, we're not sure (Frogs For Snakes)
David Spade impersonates Neil Diamond (Lost & Found)
The Talking Car (Gadgetmobile, voice by D.L. Hughley) (Inspector Gadget)
The Talking Suit (Zoot the Suit, voice by Wayne Knight) (My Favorite Martian)
Worst Screen Debut
Mariah Carey (The Bachelor)
Heather, Michael, Josh, the Stick People, and the world's longest-running batteries (The Blair Witch Project)
Jar Jar Binks, played by Ahmed Best)
(Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
Pokemon (all 151 of them!)
The Possessed Hand (Idle Hands)
Musicians Who Shouldn't
Be Acting
Mariah Carey (The Bachelor)
Master P (Foolish)
Alanis Morrisette (Dogma)
Slash (The Underground Comedy Movie)
Isaac Stern (Music of The Heart)
Most Intrusive Musical Score
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
Magnolia
Mickey Blue Eyes
Universal Soldier: The Return
Worst Performance
by a Child in a Featured Role
Jean-Luke Figueroa (Gloria)
Leo, Myles & Gerry Fitzgerald (Baby Geniuses)
Jake Lloyd (Star Wars Episode I: The
Phantom Menace)
Jonathan Lipnicki (Stuart Little)
Cole & Dylan Sprouse (Big Daddy)
Worst Achievement
in Animation
Doug's 1st Movie
The King and I
Pokemon The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
About the 1999 ballot
picks:
It is only fitting that as we close out the 1900's, Hollywood offers us the worst year of film releases imaginable.
The stench of box office failure was everywhere. Here are some of the other titles that, had we had the space,
we would loved to have included as worst picture of 1999:
The Astronaut's Wife
The Bachelor
Big Daddy
Breakfast of Champions
Bringing Out The Dead
Chill Factor
Crazy in Alabama
Detroit Rock City
Dudley Do-Right
8MM
End of Days
Eyes Wide Shut
Free Enterprise
Gloria
The Haunting
The House on Haunted Hill
Idle Hands
Instinct (aka InSTINK)
Jakob The Liar
Jawbreaker
The King and I
Life
Lost & Found
The Love Letter
Love Stinks
The Messenger: The Story
of Joan of Arc
Music of The Heart
My Favorite Martian
The Omega Code
Pokemon The First
Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
The Rage: Carrie 2
Simon Sez
Star Wars Episode I:
The Phantom Menace
Stigmata
The Story of Us
Superstar
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
200 Cigarettes
Universal Soldier:
The Return
Varsity Blues
Virus
Wing Commander
Look at
the worst of 1999's final tallies by percentage