10 People Brave Enough To Accept Their Razzie Awards

8. Brian Helgeland - Worst Screenplay For The Postman

Screenwriters can often be very precious when it comes to criticism of their movies - they labour over them day and night fine tuning the dialogue and adjusting the pacing of the narrative, so when they're told it's terrible it can really get their backs up. Not Brian Helgeland, who accepted his Razzie for Worst Screenplay for The Postman with good humour. He said in his acceptance speech, "My films are like my children, each special in some way. In the case of The Postman, I was perhaps an errant parent and therefore I am to blame. I wish, like Scrooge upon seeing Marley, I could blame it on a badly digested piece of meat. Alas, the blame rests upon my shoulders". The following night he took to the stage at the Academy Awards and collected his Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for LA Confidential, which sits proudly side by side with the Razzie to remind him of "the quixotic nature of Hollywood".