Ranking the Razzies From Bad to Really Bad

When the Golden Raspberry Awards (affectionately called the Razzies for short) were started in 1981 to honor the worst movies of the year, creator John J.B. Wilson probably didn’t expect them to catch on the way they did. But more than three decades later, the organization handing out annual awards for worst actor, worst screenplay, worst director, and of course, worst picture, has become a veritable institution.

PrettyFamous, a division of the Graphiq network, compiled a list of every Razzie award winner for worst picture since 1981 and ranked them by Smart Rating in descending order. Smart Rating assesses a movie's overall success and considers ratings from Gracenote, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Metacritic and the movie's cumulative, inflation-adjusted U.S. box-office gross.

So bad they’re good, many of these worst films are well-known and even loved by audiences. See how your favorite guilty pleasures rank in notoriety.

Note: Ties among movies with identical Smart Ratings were listed with the most recent film first. Additionally, in the years 1990, 1996 and 2015, two films tied for the worst movie of the year.