Category |
Recipient |
Worst Picture |
Howard the Duck (Universal) (tie) |
Under the Cherry Moon (Warner Bros.) (tie) |
Blue City (Paramount) |
Cobra (Warner Bros./Cannon) |
Shanghai Surprise (MGM) |
Worst Actor |
Prince in Under the Cherry Moon as Christopher Tracy |
Emilio Estevez in Maximum Overdrive as Bill Robinson |
Judd Nelson in Blue City as Billy Turner |
Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise as Glendon Wasey |
Sylvester Stallone in Cobra as Marion "Cobra" Cobretti |
Worst Actress |
Madonna in Shanghai Surprise as Gloria Tatlock |
Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks as Elizabeth McGraw |
Joan Chen in Tai-Pan as May-May |
Brigitte Nielsen in Cobra as Ingrid Knudsen |
Ally Sheedy in Blue City as Annie Rayford |
Worst Supporting Actor |
Jerome Benton in Under the Cherry Moon as Tricky |
Peter O'Toole in Club Paradise as Governor Anthony C. Hayes |
Tim Robbins in Howard the Duck as Phil Blumburtt |
Brian Thompson in Cobra as The Night Slasher |
Scott Wilson in Blue City as Perry Kerch |
Worst Supporting Actress |
Dom DeLuise (in drag) in Haunted Honeymoon as Aunt Kate Abbot |
Louise Fletcher in Invaders from Mars as Mrs. McKeltch |
Zelda Rubinstein in Poltergeist II: The Other Side as Tangina Barrons |
Beatrice Straight in Power as Claire Hastings |
Kristin Scott Thomas in Under the Cherry Moon as Mary Sharon |
Worst Director |
Prince for Under the Cherry Moon |
Jim Goddard for Shanghai Surprise |
Willard Huyck for Howard the Duck |
Stephen King for Maximum Overdrive |
Michelle Manning for Blue City |
Worst Screenplay |
Howard the Duck, written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on the Marvel Comics character created by Steve Gerber |
Cobra, screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling |
9½ Weeks, screenplay by Patricia Knop & Zalman King and Sarah Kernochan, based on the novel by Elizabeth McNeill |
Shanghai Surprise, screenplay by John Kohn and Robert Bentley, based on the novel Farraday's Flowers by Tony Kenrick |
Under the Cherry Moon, screenplay by Becky Johnston |
Worst New Star |
The six guys and gals in the duck suit in Howard the Duck |
Joan Chen in Tai-Pan as May-May |
Mitch Gaylord in American Anthem as Steve Tevere |
Kristin Scott Thomas in Under the Cherry Moon as Mary Sharon |
Brian Thompson in Cobra as The Night Slasher |
Worst Original Song |
"Love or Money" from Under the Cherry Moon, written by Prince and The Revolution |
"Howard the Duck" from Howard the Duck, written by Thomas Dolby, Allee Willis and George S. Clinton |
"I Do What I Do" from 9½ Weeks, written by Jonathan Elias, John Taylor and Michael Des Barres |
"Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life!, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse (nominated for an Oscar) |
"Shanghai Surprise" from Shanghai Surprise, written by George Harrison |
Worst Visual Effects |
Howard the Duck, visual effects by Industrial Light and Magic |
Invaders from Mars, special visual effects by John Dykstra, creatures designed by Stan Winston |
King Kong Lives, creature creations by Carlo Rambaldi |
Worst Career Achievement Award |
Bruce the rubber shark from Jaws (1975), Jaws 2 (1978) and Jaws 3-D (1983) |