17th Golden Raspberry Awards

17th Golden Raspberry Awards
Date	March 23, 1997
Site	Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Highlights
Worst Picture	Striptease
Most awards	Striptease (6)
Most nominations	Striptease (7)

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.

Despite receiving critical and commercial success, animated musical drama film The Hunchback of Notre Dame earned Walt Disney Animation Studios its first and only Razzie nomination, breaking its 60-year streak without a single Razzie nomination.

Awards and nominations

  Winner (in bold)

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  Tom Arnold, Worst Actor co-winner.
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  Pauly Shore, Worst Actor co-winner.
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  Demi Moore, Worst Actress winner and Worst Screen Couple co-winner.
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  Marlon Brando, Worst Supporting Actor winner.
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  Melanie Griffith, Worst Supporting Actress winner.
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  Burt Reynolds, Worst Screen Couple co-winner.
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  Pamela Anderson, Worst New Star co-winner.
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  Michael Crichton, Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million co-winner.
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  Anne-Marie Martin, Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million co-winner.

Category	Nominees
Worst Picture	Striptease (Columbia/Castle Rock)
	Barb Wire (Gramercy Pictures)
	Ed (Universal)
	The Island of Dr. Moreau (New Line)
	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)
	Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome as Bud Macintosh (tie)
	Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction as Eddie Kasalivich
	Adam Sandler in Bulletproof and Happy Gilmore as Archie Moses and Happy Gilmore
	Sylvester Stallone in Daylight as Kit Latura
Worst Actress	Demi Moore in The Juror and Striptease as Annie Laird and Erin Grant (respectively)
	Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski
	Whoopi Goldberg in Bogus, Eddie and Theodore Rex as Harriet Franklin, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin and Katie Coltrane (respectively)
	Melanie Griffith in Two Much as Betty Kerner
	Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly as Mary Reilly
Worst Supporting Actor	Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau as Dr. Moreau
	Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness and The Island of Dr. Moreau as John Henry Patterson and Dr. Montgomery (respectively)
	Burt Reynolds in Striptease as Congressman David Dilbeck
	Steven Seagal in Executive Decision as Lt. Col. Austin Travis
	Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk till Dawn as Richie Gecko
Worst Supporting Actress	Melanie Griffith in Mulholland Falls as Katherine Hoover
	Faye Dunaway in The Chamber and Dunston Checks In as Lee Cayhall Bowen and Mrs. Elena Dubrow (respectively)
	Jami Gertz in Twister as Melissa Reeves
	Daryl Hannah in Two Much as Liz Kerner
	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
	Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" in Barb Wire
	Beavis and Butt-head in Beavis and Butt-head Do America
	Marlon Brando and "That Darn Dwarf" (Nelson de la Rosa) in The Island of Dr. Moreau
	Matt LeBlanc and Ed (the mechanical monkey) in Ed
Worst Director	Andrew Bergman for Striptease
	John Frankenheimer for The Island of Dr. Moreau
	Stephen Frears for Mary Reilly
	John Landis for The Stupids
	Brian Levant for Jingle All the Way
Worst Screenplay	Striptease, screenplay by Andrew Bergman, based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen
	Barb Wire, screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken, story by Chaiken, based upon the characters appearing in the Dark Horse comic
	Ed, screenplay by David Mickey Evans, story by Ken Richards and Janus Cercone
	The Island of Dr. Moreau, screenplay by Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson, based on the novel by H. G. Wells
	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
	Beavis and Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
	Ellen DeGeneres in Mr. Wrong as Martha Alston
	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)
	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
	"Welcome to Planet Boom! (a.k.a. This Boom's for You)" from Barb Wire, written by Tommy Lee
	"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
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), animation screenplay by Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker & Noni White
	Independence Day (20th Century Fox), written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich
	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
	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
	The Island of Dr. Moreau
4	Ed
	The Stupids
2	Beavis and Butt-head Do America
	Daylight
	Mary Reilly
	Twister
	Two Much

See also

• 1996 in film
• 69th Academy Awards
• 50th British Academy Film Awards
• 54th Golden Globe Awards
• 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards