14 Oscar Winners Who Have Also Won Razzies

In Hollywood there’s no greater honor than being presented with a prestigious Academy Award. All the stars listed below have received at least one golden statue in recognition of their acting, writing or directing prowess. However, unlike other esteemed Oscar winners out there, the following actors have excelled at sucking on the big screen too. They are part of the select group of Academy Award winners who have also earned Golden Raspberry Awards for decidedly terrible performances. Click along and find out who has won hardware from both extremes of the acting spectrum. We wonder if their Oscar and Razzie statues sit side-by-side on the mantel.

1. Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck has had a pretty up-and-down career, first catching notice by writing and starring in Good Will Hunting with his best friend Matt Damon. The two took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film and have been mega stars ever since. That doesn’t mean, however, that Ben hasn’t made some duds, because he has. In 2003 he had a particularly bad year winning the Worst Actor Razzie for three movies: Daredevil, Gigli, and Paycheck. And yet he managed to bounce back to star and direct the Oscar winning film Argo in 2013. Because of that turnaround, he was given the ‘Razzie Redeemer’ award in 2015.

2. Al Pacino

Al Pacino has received eight different Oscar nominations in his career, and took home one Best Actor statue for his role in Scent of a Woman. He’s considered one of the greatest actors of his generation. But then in 2012 he played himself in the movie Jack and Jill, and ended up getting two Razzies for Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple. The film actually swept the Razzies, so if you haven’t seen it, you probably shouldn’t.

3. Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner hit the big time with Dances With Wolves after winning Academy Awards for both Best Director and Best Picture. You’d think his A-list status would be secure after that. However, he has earned quite a few Razzies since his Oscar wins. Kevin won Worst Actor for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Worst Remake or Sequel for Wyatt Earp, and then Worst Actor, Worst Director, and Worst Picture for the movie The Postman, plus a few other nominations. He was also up for Worst Actor of the Century award, but lost out to Sylvester Stallone. Sly has recently redeemed himself with Creed, so maybe there’s hope for Costner.

4. Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola’s story is unique in that she won a Razzie before the Oscar. The daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia made her acting debut in the Godfather movies but people didn’t love her work in Godfather: Part III. She won a Razzie for both Worst Supporting Actress and Worst New Star in 1992. She didn’t let this get her down for good, though, as by 2004 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation. If she sticks to behind-the-camera work, she should have a promising career.

5. Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando’s career was a massive one. The actor has been highly celebrated, winning five Golden Globes, Three BAFTAs, and an Emmy and two Best Actor Academy Awards for The Godfather and On The Waterfront. However, things started to go downhill when he supposedly refused to learn his lines. He was ultimately awarded a Razzie for his work on The Island of Doctor Moreau, beating out his co-star Val Kilmer who was also up for the backhanded award.

6. Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman has gathered multiple Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and took home a win for her memorable role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She also had a forgettable role in the remake of Bewitched, a bomb which came out in 2005. Nicole and Will Ferrell were awarded the Razzie for Worst Screen Couple that year. There was just no magic between them.

7. Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli won the Best Actress Academy Award for 1972’s Cabaret, but some would say that was where her acting career peaked. By 1988, she was awarded the Worst Actress Razzie for two different performances, both in Rent-A-Cop and Arthur 2: On the Rocks. However she has won four Tonys, two Golden Globes, an Emmy, and an honorary Grammy, being the only person to get them all, so a few Razzies won’t get her down.

8. Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway has had a 45 year career as a film actress, but the span of it has gotten her more Razzies nominations and wins than Oscars. In 1976 Faye won the Best Actress Oscar for Network, but then in 1982 she won the Razzie for Worst Actress in Mommy Dearest. She then got another Razzie in 1994 for The Temp, a year she was also nominated for Worst Actress of the Decade.

9. Prince

Prince might not be the first person that comes to mind when you think Oscars, but in addition to his 33 Grammy nominations, the artist also won the 1985 Oscar for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain. The film was also the first movie that Prince ever acted in, but that part of his career didn’t exactly take off. Over the span of just two other movies he received ten Razzie nominations. He won Worst Actor, Worst Director and Worst Original Song for the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon.

10. Halle Berry

Halle Berry made history with both her Oscar and Razzie wins. The actress was the first woman of color to ever win for Best Actress at the Oscars, which she got for Monster’s Ball. And the she also won a Razzie for Worst Actress in Catwoman, and made history there by being the first actor to actually show up and accept the award and actually giving a speech. She said: “When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you can’t be a good loser, you can’t be a good winner,” and “If you can’t take the criticism, then you don’t deserve the praise.” And she of course admitted that the film was “a piece-of-s–t, god-awful movie.”

11. Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock managed to win both a Best Actress Oscar and a Worst Actress Razzie all in the same year – in fact, she was presented with both on the same weekend. Sandra was awarded two Razzies for her role in All About Steve, and, like Halle Berry before her, she attended the ceremony in good spirits to accept. She was up for an Oscar the following day, which she took home for The Blind Side. What a weekend!

12. Laurence Olivier

Over the course of his career, Laurence Olivier won five Emmys, three Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, two honorary Academy Awards and one Best Actor Oscar for Hamlet. But he also won the two Razzies that he was nominated for over the years – Worst Supporting Actor in The Jazz Singer and Worst Actor in Inchon. Despite a few slip ups, his legacy is intact.

13. Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni deservedly won the Best Actor award for Life is Beautiful in 1999, but later got six Razzie nominations and won Worst Actor for Pinocchio where he played the lead puppet. The movie was not well received to say the least.

14. Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Theory of Everything, and is currently in the running for 2016’s Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Danish Girl. He is also, however, currently nominated for a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for his appalling turn in Jupiter Ascending, which is up for six Razzies. Even great actors occasionally make poor choices.