‘Worst Actors’ Nominated for Raspberry Award

Tony Danza, Sylvester Stallone, Jane Fonda and Brigitte Nielsen topped the list for worst actor and actress in a movie in Monday’s nominations for the upstart 10th Annual Raspberry Awards.

The tongue-in-cheek Razzies each year attempt to upstage the Academy Awards with “honors” for the year’s worst pictures, performers and directors. Oscar nominations will be announced Wednesday.

Stallone, as he has frequently in the last decade, led the Razzie parade for worst actor, this time for his performance as a wrongfully imprisoned inmate in “Lock-Up” and as a cop in “Tango & Cash.” Nielsen was nominated for worst actress for her performance in “Baby.”

Danza was nominated for “She’s Out of Control,” Ralph Macchio for “The Karate Kid III,” William Shatner for “Star Trek V” and Patrick Swayze--like Stallone a two-time Razzie winner--for “Next of Kin” and “Road House.”

Fonda was nominated for “Old Gringo,” Heather Locklear for “Return of the Swamp Thing,” Paulina Porizkova for “Her Alibi” and Ally Sheedy for “Heart of Dixie.”

Nominated for worst movie of the year were “The Karate Kid III,” “Lock-Up,” “Road House,” “Speed Zone” and “Star Trek V,” which Razzie organizers dubbed “Star Drek V.”

The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation is a collection of 275 journalists, film buffs and industry hangers-on in California and 21 other states, Canada and Switzerland. In honor of its origin 10 years ago, members of the foundation also nominated the decade’s worst films and performances.

Nominated for worst picture of the decade: “Bolero” (1984), “Howard the Duck” (1986), “The Lonely Lady” (1983), “Mommie Dearest” (1981) and “Star Trek V” (1989).

Worst actors of the decade: Christopher Atkins, Ryan O’Neal, Prince, Stallone, John Travolta.

Worst actress of the decade: Bo Derek, Faye Dunaway, Madonna, Brooke Shields and Pia Zadora.

“Winners” for both 1989 and the decade will be announced March 25 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where the first Academy Awards were presented 62 years ago.