Nominated for: Worst Director (Brian De Palma) - 1984 Brian De Palma was nominated for Worst Director at the first ever Razzies in 1981 for Dressed To Kill, again in 1985 for Body Double, in 1991 for Bonfire Of The Vanities, and finally in 2000 for Mission To Mars. He hasn't won one yet, but it's clear that the director's ultra-stylised pastiches of better filmmakers are just the kind of thing to excite the Razzie committee's ire. The thing is that De Palma's films are often exciting, slick and engaging and his grandiose camera movements impressive. Scarface met with negative reviews on release for its excess of violence, of bad language, of massive drug use - basically it's a film of nothing but excess - but as a movie of highly charged excess it works very well and its reputation today reflects that. A favourite of Scorsese and the AFI's 10th greatest gangster film, Scarface's classic status has by now overruled any early critical coldness.
