1978 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

The 1978 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1979 to honour the worst the film industry had to offer in 1978. The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in the summer of 2003. Listed as follows are the original ballot's picks for Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (15 total), and all nominees included in the expanded ballot. All winners are highlighted.

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (NAI)
 * Avalanche (New World)
 * The Boys from Brazil (Fox)
 * Days of Heaven (Paramount)
 * Eraserhead (AFI)
 * F. I. S. T. (United Artists)
 * Game of Death (Columbia)
 * Goin' Coconuts (Osmond Entertainment)
 * It Lives Again (Warner Bros.)
 * Oliver's Story (Paramount)
 * Rabbit Test (AVCO Embassy)
 * Renaldo and Clara (Circuit Films)
 * Sextette (CIP)
 * The Swarm (Warner Bros.)
 * Thank God It's Friday (Columbia)

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Avalanche (New World)
 * The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (Paramount)
 * Damien: Omen II (Fox)
 * F.I.S.T. (United Artists)
 * Goin' Coconuts (Osmond Entertainment)
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles (Atlantic)
 * It Lives Again (Warner Bros.)
 * Laserblast (Irwin Yablans Company)
 * The Lord of the Rings (United Artists)
 * The Norseman (AIP)
 * Rabbit Test (AVCO Embassy)
 * Sextette (CIP)
 * The Swarm (Warner Bros.)

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Irwin Allen for The Swarm
 * Ralph Bakshi for The Lord of the Rings
 * John Berry for The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
 * Paul Morrissey for The Hound of the Baskervilles
 * Charles B. Pierce for The Norseman
 * Michael Rae for Laserblast
 * Michael Schultz for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * Don Taylor for Damien: Omen II

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test
 * Tony Curtis in The Bad News Bears Go to Japan and The Manitou
 * Peter Frampton in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * Richard Gere in Bloodbrothers
 * Tony LoBianco in Bloodbrothers
 * Paul Sorvino in Bloodbrothers

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Joan Collins in The Stud
 * Shelley Hack in If Ever I See You Again
 * Ali MacGraw in Convoy
 * Tatum O'Neal in International Velvet
 * Diana Ross in The Wiz

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Billy Barty in Foul Play
 * Jeremy Black in The Boys From Brazil
 * Peter Cook in The Hound of the Baskervilles
 * Eddie Deezen in Laserblast
 * Sterling Hayden in King of the Gypsies
 * Dudley Moore in Foul Play
 * Alex Rocco in Rabbit Test
 * Jonathan Scott-Taylor in Damien: Omen II

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Ann-Margret in The Cheap Detective
 * Dyan Cannon in Heaven Can Wait
 * Sandy Farina in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * Doris Roberts in Rabbit Test

Dishonourable Mentions

 * The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (Paramount)
 * Damien: Omen II (Fox)
 * F.I.S.T. (United Artists)
 * Sextette (CIP)
 * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Universal)
 * The Swarm (Warner Bros.)

Dishonourable Mentions

 * The Cat from Outer Space (Disney)
 * California Suite (Columbia)
 * The Cheap Detective (Columbia)
 * Every Which Way But Loose (Warner Bros.)
 * Goin' Coconuts (Osmond Entertainment)
 * Revenge of the Pink Panther (United Artists)
 * Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (Warner Bros.)

Dishonourable Mentions

 * "California" by Joe Brooks from If Ever I See You Again
 * "Can You Read My Mind?" by Margot Kidder from Superman The Movie
 * "Convoy" by C.W. McCall from Convoy
 * "Here's Another Fine Mess" by Paul Williams from The End
 * "Fixing A Hole" by George Burns from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * "FM" by Steely Dan from FM
 * "For You and I" by 10cc from Moment by Moment
 * "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Timothy Dalton & Mae West from Sextette
 * "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Steve Martin from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * "Up In Smoke" by Cheech and Chong from Up in Smoke
 * "You Can't Win" by Michael Jackson from The Wiz

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke
 * Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in The Hound of the Baskervilles
 * Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Jeff Bridges in Somebody Killed Her Husband
 * Charles Grodin and Dyan Cannon in Heaven Can Wait
 * Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw in Convoy
 * Lee Majors and his fake moustache in The Norseman
 * Donny and Marie Osmond in Goin' Coconuts
 * Robert Redford and/or James Caan and Jane Fonda in The Electric Horseman and/or Comes a Horseman

Dishonourable Mentions

 * Peter Falk in The Cheap Detective
 * Tony Lo Bianco in Bloodbrothers
 * Alex Rocco in Rabbit Test
 * Paul Sorvino in Bloodbrothers

Dishonourable Mention

 * Marilu Henner in Bloodbrothers

Dishonourable Mentions

 * International Velvet (MGM)
 * Oliver's Story (Paramount)

Dishonourable Mentions

 * The aliens who seem to be appearing in a different movie in Laserblast
 * The Bee Gees in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
 * The Supermodels in The Eyes of Laura Mars