Razzie Award Founders Stand By ‘The Shining’ Nomination, But Would Rescind Shelley Duvall’s ‘Worst Actress’ Nod
etcanada.comMore than 40 years after the Razzie Awards nominated Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, the organization’s founders say they stand by the film’s nod for Worst Director, but not its Worst Actress nomination for Shelley Duvall.
Ultimately, the film won neither award, with Duvall losing to Brooke Shields in “The Blue Lagoon” and Kubrick losing to “Xanadu” director Robert Greenwald.
Though the critically-acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is considered a classic horror film, founders John J.B. Wilson and Maureen Murphy are adamant in their displeasure of the film, saying they “didn’t care for” Kubrick’s adaptation. READ MORE: Someone Reimagined ‘The Shining’ As A ’90s Sitcom And It’s Wild “The voting membership the very first year were largely people that Maureen and I worked with at a trailer company,” Wilson tells Vulture of the inaugural 1980 awards that recognize the “worst” in film. “A group of us who had read Stephen King’s novel went to see ‘The Shining’ the night it opened at the Chinese, and we didn’t care for what Kubrick had done with the novel.
The novel was far more visually astounding, far more terrifying, far more compelling, and we couldn’t understand why you would buy a novel that had all of that visual opportunity in it and then not do the topiary thing, not do the snakes in the carpet, not do the kids’ visions.
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