| Category |
Recipient |
| Worst Picture |
Can't Stop the Music (AFD) |
| Cruising (Lorimar/United Artists) |
| The Formula (MGM/United Artists) |
| Friday the 13th (Paramount) |
| The Jazz Singer (AFD) |
| The Nude Bomb (Universal) |
| Raise the Titanic (AFD) |
| Saturn 3 (AFD) |
| Windows (United Artists) |
| Xanadu (Universal) |
| Worst Actor |
Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch/Jess Robin |
| Michael Beck in Xanadu as Sonny Malone |
| Robert Blake in Coast to Coast as Charles Callahan |
| Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill and The Island as Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi and Blair Maynard (respectively) |
| Kirk Douglas in Saturn 3 as Adam |
| Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition as Paul Dietrich |
| Anthony Hopkins in A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans |
| Bruce Jenner[lower-alpha 1] in Can't Stop the Music as Ron White |
| Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon as Flash Gordon |
| Worst Actress |
Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline |
| Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake |
| Faye Dunaway in The First Deadly Sin as Barbara Delaney |
| Shelley Duvall in The Shining as Wendy Torrance |
| Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 as Alex |
| Sondra Locke in Bronco Billy as Antoinette Lily |
| Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu as Kira |
| Valerie Perrine in Can't Stop the Music as Samantha Simpson |
| Deborah Raffin in Touched by Love as Lena Canada |
| Talia Shire in Windows as Emily Hollander |
| Worst Supporting Actor |
John Adames in Gloria as Phil Dawn (tie) |
| Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer as Cantor Rabinovitch (tie) |
| Marlon Brando in The Formula as Adam Stieffel |
| Charles Grodin in Seems Like Old Times as Ira Parks |
| David Selby in Raise the Titanic as Dr. Gene Seagram |
| Worst Supporting Actress |
Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose as Lily Ramsey |
| Elizabeth Ashley in Windows as Andrea Glassen |
| Georg Stanford Brown (in drag) in Stir Crazy as Rory Schutlebrand |
| Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees |
| Marilyn Sokol in Can't Stop the Music as Lulu Brecht |
| Worst Director |
Robert Greenwald for Xanadu |
| John G. Avildsen for The Formula |
| Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill |
| William Friedkin for Cruising |
| Sidney J. Furie and Richard Fleischer for The Jazz Singer |
| Stanley Kubrick for The Shining |
| Michael Ritchie for The Island |
| John Trent for Middle Age Crazy |
| Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music |
| Gordon Willis for Windows |
| Worst Screenplay |
Can't Stop the Music, written by Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr |
| A Change of Seasons, screenplay by Erich Segal and Ronni Kern and Fred Segal |
| Cruising, written by William Friedkin |
| The Formula, written by Steve Shagan |
| It's My Turn, written by Eleanor Bergstein |
| Middle Age Crazy, written by Carl Kleinschmidt |
| Raise the Titanic, screenplay by Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes, from the novel by Clive Cussler |
| Touched by Love, written by Hesper Anderson |
| Windows, written by Barry Siegel |
| Xanadu, written by Richard C. Danus and Marc R. Rubel |
| Worst Original Song |
"The Man with Bogart's Face" from The Man with Bogart's Face, music by George Duning, lyrics by Andrew Fenady |
| "(You) Can't Stop the Music" from Can't Stop the Music, music and lyrics by Jacques Morali |
| "Suspended in Time" from Xanadu, music and lyrics by John Farrar |
| "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from A Change of Seasons, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman |
| "You, Baby, Baby!" from The Jazz Singer, music and lyrics by Neil Diamond |
