The Razzies

The first Golden Raspberry award ceremony was held in 1981 to award films released1980, its creator was a copywriter and publicist named John J. B. Wilson.

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He held the event at his home in Los Angeles, It began after the completion of the 53^rd Academy Awards, he invited a few dozen friends and colleagues and created ballots for ‘worst of ‘ categories, and create random award presentations; dressed in a tacky tuxedo, with a cardboard podium, and using a broomstick with a foam ball as a fake microphone.  That night was a success; and being a publicist, he sent out a press release about his event the next day, which got picked up by a few local newspapers. 

The second year the number of people who attended doubled, and exponentially the number at the 3^rd annual Raspberry awards doubled from the last attendance number. Which prompted CNN and two major wire services to cover the event, it was around that time when Wilson realized that holding the event before the Oscars when all the world media was in town and having nothing really to do before hand, that the Golden raspberry awards would have the most press coverage.  As a result, we are celebrating the 34^th Annual Golden Raspberry awards this year.

The Golden Raspberry awards or Razzies are now traditionally held the night before the Oscars, only a very select few stars have ever had the courage, or sense of humor to accept their awards.  The two biggest names to date have been Halle Berry for Catwoman, and Sandra Bullock for All About Steve.  Coincidently, the next night Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for ‘The Blind Side”, a first in anyone’s book.

There are only 10 Categories, to see this year’s nominees click here