Golden Turkey Award
The Golden Turkey Awards is a book by Harry and Michael Medved from 1979. In the form of a fictional award, the "golden turkey", poor achievements and achievements, especially in American film art , are "recognized".
Films and actors that were awarded the Golden Turkey Award often became a cult, such as the "worst film of all time" Plan 9 from Outer Space by director Edward D. Wood Jr., who was therefore also considered the worst director in the Film history went down.
One of the films listed, Dog of Norway , was a mere invention of the authors and readers were urged to find the fake.
Categories
- Most Embarrassing Movie Debut (The blamabelste film debut)
- Winner: Paul Newman in "The Silver Chalice" ( The Silver Chalice , 1955) - Most Ridiculous Monster in Screen History
- Winner: " Robot Monster " (1953, a "robot" with a monkey skin) - Worst Performance by a Popular Singer
- Winner: Tony Bennett in "The Oscar" ( ... because nobody is without guilt , 1966) - Worst Title of All Time
- Winner: "Rat Pfink a Boo Boo" (1964) - Most Brainless Brain Movie of All Time
- Winner: "They saved Hitler's Brain" (1964) - Most Badly bumbled Bee Movie of All Time (The worst buzzed bee movie of all time)
- winner: "The Swarm" ( The Swarm , 1978) - Worst Casting of All Time
- Winner: John Wayne as " Genghis Khan " in "The Conquerer" ( The Conqueror , 1955) - Worst Performance by a Politician
- Winner: John V. Lindsay (Former Mayor of New York City ) in Rosebud ( Rosebud , 1975) - Worst Two-Headed Transplant Movie Ever Made (The dumbest double-head transplantation film ever made)
- winner: "The Thing With Two Heads" ( The thing with two heads , 1972) - Worst Rodent Movie of All Time (The worst rodent movie of all time)
- winner: "The Food of the Gods" ( The Island of the Monsters , 1976) - Worst Performance by a Novelist
- Norman Mailer in "Wild 90" (1967, Mailer was also the director of the film) - Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity
- Winner: "The Terror of Tiny Town" (1938, Western with only small cast) - Worst Musical Extravaganza in Hollywood History (The Worst Musical Equipment Piece in Hollywood History)
- Winner: "At Last Long Love" (1975) - Worst Performance by an Actor or Actress as a Clergyman or Nun (The worst performance of an actor or actress as a preacher or nun)
- Winner: Mary Tyler Moore in "Change of Habit" ( A heavenly vertigo , 1969) - Worst Performance by an Actor as Jesus Christ (The worst performance of Jesus Christ by an actor)
- Winner: Ted Neeley in " Jesus Christ Superstar " (1973) - Worst Blaxploitation Movie Movie Ever Made
- Winner: "Scream, Blacula, Scream" ( The Scream of Death , 1972) - Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History (The Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History)
- Winner: " King Kong " (1976) - Worst Credit Line of All Time (The stupidest mention in the credits of all time)
- winner: "The Taming of the Shrew" ( The Taming of the Shrew , 1929) with
" by William Shakespeare with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor " ( "by William Shakespeare with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor ”- Taylor was also the director of the film. However, no copies of the film can be found that contain this line of text.) - Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography
- Winner: "Him" (1974) - Worst Performance by an Animal
- Winner: "Dinky the Chimp" in "Tarzan and the Great River" ( Tarzan on the Great River , 1967) - Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time
- Winner: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) - Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts (The worst film performance of Sonny Tufts )
- winner: "Government Girl" (1943) - Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation in Hollywood History
- Winner: Marlon Brando as Japanese in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" ( The Little Tea House , 1956) - Most Obnoxious Child Performer of All Time
- Winner: David " Dondi " Kory - Worst Film You Never Saw (The Worst Film You Never Saw)
- Winner: "Billy Jack goes to Washington" (1977) - Most Insane and Unwelcome Technical Advance in Hollywood History
- Winner: "Percepto" for the film "The Tingler" ( scream when the Tingler comes , 1959) (stun guns in cinema chairs) - Worst Lines of Romantic Dialog in Movie History
- Winner: Northwest Mounted Police ( Die Scharlachroten Reiter , 1940) - Life Achievement: Worst Director
- Winner: Edward D. Wood Jr. - Life Achievement: Worst Actress
- Winner: Raquel Welch - Life Achievement: Worst Actor
- Winner: Richard Burton - People's Choice: Worst Film (The People's Choice: Worst Film)
- Winner: " Plan 9 from Outer Space " (1959)
literature
- Harry and Michael Medved: The Golden Turkey Awards , 1979, Angus & R, ISBN 0207958912