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The 22nd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2000 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1999. Founder Ray Wright listed Pokémon: The First Movie among his five worst movies of the 1990s alongside Batman & Robin, It's Pat, Crash, and Nothing but Trouble. Listed as follows are the different categories with their respective winners and nominees, including Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (42 total). All winners are highlighted.

Winners and Nominees

Worst Picture

Dishonourable Mentions

• The Astronaut's Wife (New Line)
• The Bachelor (New Line)
• Big Daddy (Columbia)
• Breakfast of Champions (Hollywood)
• Bringing Out The Dead (Paramount)
• Chill Factor (Warner Bros.)
• Crazy in Alabama (Columbia)
• Detroit Rock City (New Line)
• Dudley Do-Right (Universal)
• 8MM (Columbia)
• End of Days (Universal)
• Eyes Wide Shut (Warner Bros.)
• Free Enterprise (Anchor Bay)
• Gloria (Columbia)
• The Haunting (DreamWorks)
• House on Haunted Hill (Warner Bros.)
• Idle Hands (Columbia)
• Instinct (aka InSTINK) (Touchstone)
• Jakob The Liar (Columbia)
• Jawbreaker (TriStar)
• The King and I (Warner Bros.)
• Life (Universal)
• Lost & Found (Warner Bros.)
• The Love Letter (DreamWorks)
• Love Stinks (Independent Artists)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Columbia)
• Music of the Heart (Miramax)
• My Favorite Martian (Disney)
• The Omega Code (Providence Entertainment)
• Pokémon: The First Movie (Warner Bros.)
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (MGM)
• Simon Sez (Columbia)
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Fox)
• Stigmata (MGM)
• The Story of Us (Universal)
• Superstar (Paramount)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Miramax)
• 200 Cigarettes (Paramount)
• Universal Soldier: The Return (TriStar)
• Varsity Blues (Paramount)
• Virus (Universal)
• Wing Commander (Fox)

Worst Director

Worst Actor

Worst Actress

Worst Supporting Actor

Worst Supporting Actress

Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy

Worst On-Screen Couple

Worst Song or Song Performance Featured in a Film or Its End Credits

Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing Over $100M Worldwide Using Hollywood Math

Worst Fake Accent

Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (Male)

Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (Female)

Most Unwelcome Direct-to-Video Release

Worst Remake

Worst Sequel or Prequel

The Remake, Sequel, or Prequel Nobody Was Clamoring For

Worst Resurrection of a TV Show

Least "Special" Special Effects

Biggest Disappointment (Films That Didn't Live Up to Their Hype)

Most Botched Comic Relief (Ideas That Couldn't Have Looked Good, Even On Paper)

Worst Screen Debut

Musicians Who Shouldn't Be Acting

Most Intrusive Musical Score

Worst Performance by a Child in a Featured Role

Worst Achievement in Animation

The Founders Award (What Were They Thinking)?

• The Motion Picture Association of America for rating Eyes Wide Shut "R"

Films with multiple wins and nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

• Note: For each film with an asterisk, one of those nominations was the Founders Award.

The following films received multiple wins:

Mike Lancaster's Review of The Underground Comedy Movie

Founder Mike Lancaster cited The Underground Comedy Movie as the worst movie he ever paid to see. Despite this, it received only one nomination for Musicians Who Shouldn't Be Acting. His review is as follows:

"The funniest part of this tragically UNfunny embarrassment comes during the end credits. It is there that writer/star Vince Offer thanks the creators of There's Something About Mary for stealing elements of this film to make theirs. He claims he sent them a promotional videotape copy of Underground in 1997 and they pilfered his jokes and made untold fortunes. The movie poster even claims that a "lawsuit is pending." Hmmm. After viewing both Offer's The Underground Comedy Movie and the Farrelly Brothers' There's Something About Mary, we learn that there are indeed some things the films have in common: 1. They are both shot on 35mm film, 2. They are both in English, 3. They are both in color, and 4. They both have stereo soundtracks. I could go on ... Both films show people driving in automobiles, both films have daytime AND nighttime scenes, and the opening and closing credits of both films feature lettering in both upper and lowercase white lettering. Yes, the similarities are eerie, aren't they? Other than those things, there is not one frame of Underground that bares even the slightest resemblance to Mary. If this frivolous lawsuit ever goes to trial, Offer and company better hope I'm not on the jury. If there is to be a lawsuit, it should really be directed at Offer, who has stolen (in some cases, word for word/scene for scene) elements of such 70s and 80s low-brow comedies as Kentucky Fried Movie, Groove Tube, and Amazon Women on the Moon and turned them into a frighteningly unfunny mix of scenes that confuse rather than amuse. It may be marketing genius to claim someone stole your film ideas just to get people to pay $8 to see what all the fuss is about, but in the case of The Underground Comedy Movie, I think the Farrelly Brothers and 20th Century Fox may have grounds to sue Offer for huge damages just for being compared to such a horribly made film as the inept Underground Comedy Movie."

Notes

1. ^ This film was not nominated on the Stinkers official website, but was mentioned in the "Past Winners Database" of the Los Angeles Times.

References

1. ^ "Press Release - Stinkers 1999 Winners". February 17, 2002. Archived from the original on February 17, 2002.
2. "Past Winners Database". The Envelope at L.A. Times. Archived from the original on January 3, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
3. "Q & A with the Stinkers". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
4. "Critic's Corner S-Z". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on 12 April 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2019.

• Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1999 film awards