Worst Directors
by valis1984 | created - 20 Aug 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicRazzie and Stinker award winners.
1. Bob Dylan
Soundtrack | Renaldo and Clara
Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the...
1978 Stinker Renaldo and Clara (1978)
2. Howard Zieff
Director | The Main Event
Howard Zieff was born on October 21, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Main Event (1979), My Girl (1991) and Private Benjamin (1980). He was married to Ronda Gomez-Quinones. He died on February 21, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1979 Stinker The Main Event (1979)
3. Menahem Golan
Producer | The Apple
Menahem Golan was born Menahem Globus to parents of Polish decent in Tiberias, Israel, in May 1929. In his early years, he was a pilot for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, changing his surname to Golan for patriotic reasons in 1948. A few years later, he took the first step towards his future ...
1980 Stinker The Apple (1980)
4. Robert Greenwald
Director | Xanadu
Robert Greenwald is president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film company that he founded after a career in commercial television and film to motivate and educate viewers on the most pressing issues of the day.
Brave New Films distributes its work for free through social media and in concert with ...
1981 Razzie Xanadu (1980)
5. Michael Cimino
Director | The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...
1981 Stinker, 1982 Razzie Heaven's Gate (1980)
6. Terence Young
Director | Dr. No
Born in Shanghai and Cambridge-educated, Terence Young began in the industry as a scriptwriter. In the 1940s he worked on a variety of subjects, including the hugely popular wartime romance Suicide Squadron (1941), set to Richard Addinsell's rousing "Warsaw Concerto". His original story was devised...
1983 Razzie Inchon (1981)
7. Ken Annakin
Director | The Longest Day
A former salesman and journalist, Ken Annakin got into the film industry making documentary shorts. His feature debut, Holiday Camp (1947), was a comedy about a Cockney family on vacation. It was made for the Rank Organization and was a modest success, spawning three sequels, all of which he ...
1983 Razzie The Pirate Movie (1982)
8. Peter Sasdy
Director | The Lonely Lady
Peter Sasdy was born on May 27, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary. He is a director and producer, known for The Lonely Lady (1983), Welcome to Blood City (1977) and Journey to the Unknown (1968). He has been married to Myrtill Nádasi since July 24, 1965. They have two children.
1984 Razzie The Lonely Lady (1983)
9. John Derek
Actor | The Ten Commandments
John Derek was born on August 12, 1926 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Ghosts Can't Do It (1989) and Bolero (1984). He was married to Bo Derek, Linda Evans, Ursula Andress and Pati Behrs. He died on May 22, 1998 in ...
1985 Razzie Bolero (1984) 1991 Razzie Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)
10. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
1986 Razzie Rocky IV (1985)
11. Prince
Soundtrack | Under the Cherry Moon
Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...
1987 Razzie Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
12. Elaine May
Actress | Small Time Crooks
Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She ...
1988 Razzie Ishtar (1987)
13. Norman Mailer
Writer | Tough Guys Don't Dance
Norman Mailer, the Brooklyn-born and -bred writer who fought for what he characterized as the "heavyweight championship" of American letters after the 1961 death of Ernest Hemingway, never came close to his dream of writing the Great American novel, but he was a colossus of American culture and ...
1988 Razzie Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
14. Blake Edwards
Writer | The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Blake Edwards' stepfather's father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director, and his stepfather Jack McEdward was a stage director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films, beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) and wrote a number of others, beginning with ...
1989 Razzie Sunset (1988)
15. Stewart Raffill
Writer | Passenger 57
Stewart Raffill's career includes 57 film and TV credits and 11 industry awards. As a writer/director he has worked with Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning talent. His films have been distributed by MGM/UA, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney ABC, New World Pictures, Orion, Netflix, ...
1989 Razzie Mac and Me (1988)
16. William Shatner
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
Shatner was born ...
1990 Razzie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
17. Michael Lehmann
Director | Hudson Hawk
Michael Lehmann was born on March 30, 1957 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Hudson Hawk (1991), Heathers (1988) and American Horror Story (2011). He is married to Holland Sutton.
1992 Razzie Hudson Hawk (1991)
18. David Seltzer
Writer | Shining Through
David Seltzer was born on February 12, 1940 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Shining Through (1992), The Omen (1976) and The Omen (2006). He has been married to Carrie Hauman since January 17, 2010. He was previously married to Eugenia Zukerman.
1993 Razzie Shining Through (1992)
19. Jennifer Lynch
Director | Chained
Jennifer Lynch was born on April 7, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Chained (2012), Boxing Helena (1993) and Surveillance (2008).
1994 Razzie Boxing Helena (1993)
20. Steven Seagal
Actor | On Deadly Ground
Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high school math teacher. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic ...
1995 Razzie On Deadly Ground (1994)
21. Paul Verhoeven
Director | RoboCop
Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...
1996 Razzie Showgirls (1995)
22. Andrew Bergman
Writer | Striptease
Andrew Bergman was born on February 20, 1945 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Striptease (1996), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Fletch (1985). He has been married to Louise Fay since 1973. They have two children.
1997 Razzie Striptease (1996)
23. Joel Schumacher
Director | The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...
1997 Stinker Batman & Robin (1997)
24. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
1998 Razzie The Postman (1997)
25. Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director | Benny & Joon
Jeremiah S. Chechik was born in 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a director and producer, known for Benny & Joon (1993), Christmas Vacation (1989) and Gossip Girl (2007).
1998 Stinker The Avengers (1998)
26. Gus Van Sant
Director | Elephant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...
1999 Razzie Psycho (1998)
27. Bob Clark
Director | A Christmas Story
Bob Clark was born on August 5, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a director and writer, known for A Christmas Story (1983), Baby Geniuses (1999) and Porky's (1981). He died on April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
1999 Stinker Baby Geniuses (1999)
28. Barry Sonnenfeld
Director | Men in Black
Barry Sonnenfeld was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from New York University Film School in 1978. He started work as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated In Our Water (1982). Then Joel Coen and Ethan Coen hired him for Blood Simple (1984). This film began his collaboration...
2000 Razzie Wild Wild West (1999)
29. Roger Christian
Set_decorator | Star Wars
Academy Award winner Roger Christian has had an extensive film career. He won an Academy Award for set decoration on director George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which began a long collaboration between the filmmakers. Christian subsequently worked with Lucas on Star Wars: ...
2000 Stinker, 2001 Razzie Battlefield Earth (2000)
30. Tom Green
Actor | Freddy Got Fingered
Tom Green was born on July 30, 1971 in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and actor, known for Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Charlie's Angels (2000) and Road Trip (2000). He was previously married to Drew Barrymore.
2001 Stinker, 2002 Razzie Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
31. John McTiernan
Director | Die Hard
John McTiernan was born on January 8, 1951 in Albany, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Die Hard (1988), Rollerball (2002) and Last Action Hero (1993). He has been married to Gail Sistrunk since 2012. He was previously married to Kate Harrington, Donna Dubrow and Carol Land.
2002 Stinker Rollerball (2002)
32. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
2003 Razzie Swept Away (2002)
33. McG
Director | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
McG was born on August 9, 1968 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020).
2003 Stinker Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
34. Martin Brest
Director | Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest was born on August 8, 1951 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Scent of a Woman (1992), Midnight Run (1988) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
2004 Razzie Gigli (2003)
35. Pitof
Director | Vidocq
Pitof started his career in 1976 as photographer, assistant director and editor for films and commercials. He then branched out into musical scoring, software design and graphic design for televisions, music videos and commercials.
A pioneer of digital imaging in France, Pitof made his debut in ...
2004 Stinker, 2005 Razzie Catwoman (2004)
36. Uwe Boll
Producer | Postal
As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After short stints as guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000...
2005 Stinker Alone in the Dark (2005) 2006 Stinker BloodRayne (2005) 2009 Razzie Tunnel Rats (2008), In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007), Postal (2007)
37. John Asher
Director | A Boy Called Po
John Asher is an award-winning writer/director whose passion for storytelling through the lens was ignited in his early years. As a child, he inadvertently honed his craft by breaking his father's video cameras while attempting to capture epic shots. Dyslexia posed a unique challenge for John, ...
2006 Razzie Dirty Love (2005)
38. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
2007 Razzie Lady in the Water (2006) 2011 Razzie The Last Airbender (2010)
39. Chris Sivertson
Director | I Know Who Killed Me
Chris Sivertson is known for I Know Who Killed Me (2007), Brawler (2011) and Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018).
2008 Razzie I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
40. Michael Bay
Producer | Armageddon
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...
2010 Razzie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) 2015 Razzie Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
41. Dennis Dugan
Actor | Happy Gilmore
Dennis Barton Dugan is an American film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter from Wheaton, Illinois who directed several films featuring Adam Sandler including Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Jack & Jill, Grown Ups, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. He also ...
2012 Razzie Jack and Jill (2011), Just Go with It (2011)
42. Bill Condon
Director | Dreamgirls
Bill Condon was born on October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Gods and Monsters (1998) and Kinsey (2004).
2013 Razzie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
43. Elizabeth Banks
Actress | The Hunger Games
Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
44. Steven Brill
Producer | Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh
A native of Utica, New York, Steven Brill studied film, theater and acting at Boston University. It was there that he became a student of acclaimed, Nobel Prize winning poet and playwright, Derek Walcott. Brill became a part of Mr. Walcott's first theater group in Boston, Playwright's Theater, ...
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
45. Steve Carr
Director | Movie 43
Steve Carr is known for Movie 43 (2013), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Daddy Day Care (2003).
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
46. Rusty Cundieff
Director | Chappelle's Show
Rusty Cundieff was born on December 13, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Chappelle's Show (2003), Fear of a Black Hat (1993) and White Water (2015). He is married to Trina Davis Cundieff. They have two children.
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
47. James Duffy
Director | Movie 43
James Duffy is known for Movie 43 (2013), Robin's Big Date (2005) and Drift Girls (2014).
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
48. Griffin Dunne
Actor | After Hours
Griffin Dunne was born on June 8, 1955 in New York City, the oldest child of Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer, and Ellen Beatriz (Griffin) Dunne, an activist. His sister was actress Dominique Dunne. He grew up mainly in Los Angeles, California and attended school in Colorado before ...
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
49. Peter Farrelly
Producer | Green Book
Peter Farrelly was born on December 17, 1956 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Green Book (2018), There's Something About Mary (1998) and Dumb and Dumber (1994). He has been married to Melinda Farrelly since December 31, 1996. They have two children.
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
50. Patrik Forsberg
Director | Movie 43
Patrik Forsberg is known for Movie 43 (2013), Rymdresan (2020) and Lion of the Sea.
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
51. Will Graham
Director | Movie 43
Will Graham is known for Movie 43 (2013), Daisy Jones & The Six (2023) and A League of Their Own (2022).
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
52. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
2014 Razzie Movie 43 (2013)
53. Josh Trank
Writer | Fantastic Four
Joshua Trank is an American filmmaker and screenwriter. He got his big break by directing the found footage superhero film Chronicle for 20th Century Fox in 2012. He was later hired to direct Fant4stic, an ill-fated reboot to the Tim Story Fantastic Four film series of the 2000s starring Miles ...
2016 Razzie Fantastic Four (2015)
54. Dinesh D'Souza
Writer | Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Dinesh D'Souza was born on April 25, 1961 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. He is a writer and director, known for Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016), America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014) and Death of a Nation (2018). He has been married to Debbie D'Souza ...
55. Bruce Schooley
Writer | Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Bruce Schooley is known for Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016), Death of a Nation (2018) and Trump Card (2020).
56. Tony Leondis
Writer | The Emoji Movie
Tony Leondis was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Emoji Movie (2017), Shrek (2001) and Igor (2008).
2018 Razzie The Emoji Movie (2017)
57. Etan Cohen
Writer | Holmes & Watson
Etan Cohen was born on March 14, 1974 in Israel. He is a writer and producer, known for Holmes & Watson (2018), Idiocracy (2006) and Men in Black³ (2012). He has been married to Emily Bowen-Cohen since June 14, 1998. They have three children.
2019 Razzie Holmes & Watson (2018)
58. Tom Hooper
Director | Cats
Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which ...
2020 Razzie Cats (2019)
59. Sia
Soundtrack | Sia: Chandelier
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled ...
2021 Razzie Music (2021)
60. Christopher Ashley
Director | Diana
. Christopher Ashley won the Tony Award for his direction of the stage production of Come From Away on Broadway, and serves as the Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, CA. Other film credits include Diana: The Musical on Netflix, the feature films Jeffrey and...
2022 Razzie Diana (2021)
61. Colson Baker
Actor | The Dirt
Colson Baker was born on April 22, 1990 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for The Dirt (2019), Good Mourning (2022) and Project Power (2020).
2023 Razzie Good Mourning (2022)
62. Mod Sun
Actor | Good Mourning
Mod Sun is known for Good Mourning (2022), Downfalls High (2021) and Machine Gun Kelly: Concert for Aliens (2020).
2023 Razzie Good Mourning (2022)
63. Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Producer | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Rhys Frake-Waterfield was born in Essex, England, UK. He is known for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023), Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare.
2024 Razzie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
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