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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.

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Worst Picture

Worst Actor

Worst Actress

Worst Supporting Actor

Worst Supporting Actress

Worst Screen Couple

Worst Director

Worst Screenplayer

Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million

Worst New Star

Worst "Original" Song

See also

Worst Picture

'Striptease (Castle Rock/Columbia)'

★ ''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'' (tie)'
'Pauly Shore in ''Bio-Dome'' (tie)'

★ Keanu Reeves in ''Chain Reaction''

★ Adam Sandler in ''Bulletproof'' and ''Happy Gilmore''

★ Sylvester Stallone in ''Daylight''

Worst Actress

'Demi Moore in ''The Juror'' and ''Striptease'''

★ Whoopi Goldberg in ''Bogus'', ''Eddie'' and ''Theodore Rex''

★ Melanie Griffith in ''Two Much''

★ Pamela Anderson in ''Barb Wire''

★ Julia Roberts in ''Mary Reilly''

Worst Supporting Actor

'Marlon Brando in ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'''

★ Val Kilmer in ''The Ghost and the Darkness'' and ''The Island of Dr. Moreau''

★ Steven Seagal in ''Executive Decision''

★ Burt Reynolds in ''Striptease''

★ Quentin Tarantino in ''From Dusk Till Dawn''

Worst Supporting Actress

'Melanie Griffith in ''Mulholland Falls'''

★ Faye Dunaway in ''The Chamber'' and ''Dunston Checks In''

★ Jami Gertz in ''Twister''

★ Daryl Hannah in ''Two Much''

★ Teri Hatcher in ''Heaven's Prisoners'' and ''2 Days in the Valley''

Worst Screen Couple

'Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds in ''Striptease'''

★ Beavis and Butt-Head in ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America''

★ Marlon Brando and That Darn Dwarf in ''The Island of Dr. Moreau''

★ Matt LeBlanc and Ed (the mechanical monkey) in ''Ed''

★ Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements" in ''Barb Wire''

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 Screenplayer

'''Striptease'', screenplay by Andrew Bergman, based on the book 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 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

★ '' (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

Worst New Star

'Pamela Anderson in ''Barb Wire'''

★ Beavis and Butt-Head in ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America''

★ Ellen DeGeneres in ''Mr. Wrong''

★ 'Friends' cast members turned movie-star-wanna-be's (Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer)

★ The new "serious" Sharon Stone in ''Diabolique'' and Last Dance

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
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See also

★ 69th Academy Awards