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Helgeland learned of the award while being interviewed regarding his win at the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential that same weekend, and said he wanted to put his Oscar and his Razzie side-by-side to remind him of "the quixotic nature of Hollywood".
The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known as the Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic failures. Co-founded by UCLA film graduates and film industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy, the Razzie Awards' satirical annual ceremony is preceded by its opposite, the Academy Awards, by four decades.
- Stars with Oscars and Razzies. The Oscars represent the highest honor for film. On the complete other end of the spectrum are the Razzies — an awards ceremony that celebrates the very worst films of the year.
- Eddie Redmayne. Eddie Redmayne earned a Best Actor Oscar in 2015 for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. A year later, he was up for Oscar gold again — this time as a nominee for his work in The Danish Girl — but also picked up a 2016 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Jupiter Ascending.
- Halle Berry. Halle Berry was a star on the rise back in 2001, and proved her incredible talent in Monster's Ball. For that role, Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress, and remains the only black woman to take home the award.
- Brad Pitt. For all his good looks and celebrated film roles, Brad Pitt's only Academy Award was given to him as a producer. One of the producers behind 12 Years a Slave, Pitt was given an Oscar when the drama won Best Picture in 2013.
HELGELAND: I had to go after my Razzie because they gave me one but they didn’t give me one, so they just announced it and they said ‘you won the Razzie’, and Monday I called and said ‘I ...
- Madonna - 9 wins (15 nominations) Though both Adam Sandler and Sylvester Stallone have racked in more nominations, Madonna remains the ultimate winner of the most Razzie Awards.
- Sylvester Stallone - 8 wins (22 nominations) With over 20 nods, Sylvester Stallone has been nominated for more Razzie Awards than any other actor. Stallone received his first nomination and win in 1985 for the film Rhinestone, where he plays a New York cabbie turned country music singer.
- Adam Sandler - 5 wins (16 nominations) Aside from a few gems like Punch Drunk Love and Funny People, Adam Sandler is no stranger to being lambasted by critics.
- Paris Hilton - 5 wins (5 nominations) While many of the actors on this list have redeemed themselves with an abundance of better movies, we can’t exactly say the same for Paris Hilton.
Brian Helgeland, co-screenwriter of the Razzie-winning The Postman, also received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential in 1998. Helgeland became the second person, after composer Alan Menken in 1993, to receive a Razzie and Oscar in the same year, a feat not repeated until actress Sandra Bullock in 2010.
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Brian Helgeland. Director: Finestkind. Brian Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in New Bedford Massachusetts. A born worker, Helgeland has endeavored to achieve in the following fields: snow shoveler, scrap newspaper collector, dishwasher, nursing home janitor, drug store clerk and unreliable nightshift gas station attendant.
