The 4th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on April 8, 1984 at Third Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1983.

Worst Picture

The Lonely Lady (Universal)

• produced by Robert R. Weston

Hercules (MGM/UA / Cannon Films)

• produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus

Jaws 3-D (Universal)

• produced by Rupert Hitzig

Stroker Ace (Universal)

• produced by Hank Moonjean

Two of a Kind (20th Century Fox)

• produced by Roger M. Rothstein and Joe Wizan

Worst Actor

Christopher Atkins in A Night in Heaven

Lloyd Bochner in The Lonely Lady

Lou Ferrigno in Hercules

Barbra Streisand in Yentl

John Travolta in Staying Alive and Two of a Kind

Worst Actress

Pia Zadora in The Lonely Lady

Loni Anderson in Stroker Ace

Linda Blair in Chained Heat

Faye Dunaway in The Wicked Lady

Olivia Newton-John in Two of a Kind

Worst Supporting Actor

Jim Nabors in Stroker Ace

Joseph Cali in The Lonely Lady

Louis Gossett, Jr. in Jaws 3-D

Anthony Holland in The Lonely Lady

Richard Pryor in Superman III

Worst Supporting Actress

Sybil Danning in Chained Heat and Hercules

Bibi Besch in The Lonely Lady

Finola Hughes in Stayin' Alive

Amy Irving in Yentl

Diana Scarwid in Strange Invaders

Worst Director

Peter Sasdy for The Lonely Lady

Joe Alves for Jaws 3-D

Brian De Palma for Scarface

Brian Herzfeld for Two of a Kind

Hal Needham for Stroker Ace

Worst Screenplay

The Lonely Lady

• screenplay by John Kershaw and Shawn Randall
• adaptation by Ellen Shephard
• from the novel by Harold Robbins

Flashdance

• screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas
• story by Tom Hedley

Hercules

• screenplay by Lewis Coats (Luigi Cozzi )

Jaws 3-D

• screenplay by Richard Matheson and Carl Gottlieb
• story by Guerdon Trueblood
• "suggested" by the Peter Benchley novel Jaws

Worst New Star

Lou Ferrigno in Hercules

Loni Anderson in Stroker Ace

Reb Brown in Yor, the Hunter from the Future

Cindy and Sandy (the shrieking dolphins) in Jaws 3-D

Finola Hughes in Staying Alive

Worst 'Original' Song

"The Way You Do It" from The Lonely Lady

• music and lyrics Jeff Harrington and J. Pennig

"Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves" from Querelle

• music by Peter Raben
• lyrics from a poem by Oscar Wilde

"Lonely Lady" from The Lonely Lady

• music by Charles Calello
• lyrics by Roger Voudouris

"Yor's World!" from Yor, the Hunter from the Future ,

• music by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis
• lyrics by Barbara Antonia , Susan Duncan-Smith , Pauline Hanna and Cesare De Natale

"Young and Joyful Bandit" from Querelle

• music by Peter Raben
• lyrics by Jeanne Moreau

Worst Musical Score

The Lonely Lady

• by Charles Calello , Jeff Harrington , J. Pennig and Roger Voudouris

Querelle

• music by Peter Rabin

Superman III

• score adapted and conducted by Giorgio Moroder

Yentl

• music by Michel LeGrand
• lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman

Yor, the Hunter from the Future

• music by John Scott, Guido deAngelis and Maurizio deAngelis

See also

• 56th Academy Awards

External links

• Official summary of awards
• Nomination and award listing at the Internet Movie Database