21st Golden Raspberry Awards
{{short description|Award ceremony presented by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation in 2000}}
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{{Infobox film awards
| number = 21
| award = Golden Raspberry Awards
| date = March 24, 2001
| site = Radisson-Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, California
| film =Battlefield Earth
| most_wins =Battlefield Earth (7)
| most_nominations =Battlefield Earth (8)
| last = 20th
| next = 22nd
}}
The 21st Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 24, 2001, at the Radisson-Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, California, USA, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.razzies.com/forum/2000-razzie-nominees-winners_topic350.html|title=Twenty-First Annual RAZZIE Awards (for 2000)|access-date=31 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513120507/http://www.razzies.com/forum/2000-razzie-nominees-winners_topic350.html|archive-date=2013-05-13|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=108995&page=1|title=Razzies Name Year's Worst Films|work=ABC News|date=6 January 2006|access-date=31 October 2016}}
Science fiction film Battlefield Earth swept the awards, claiming victory in all seven categories in which it was nominated (from a total of eight nominations, with its double nomination in the Supporting Actor category). J.D. Shapiro later accepted his Worst Screenplay award in a radio program.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/mar/30/battlefield-earth-jd-shapiro-apology|title=Battlefield Earth: writer JD Shapiro apologises|first=Ben|last=Child|date=30 March 2010|access-date=31 October 2016|newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2010/03/battlefield-earth-scripter-pens-apology-29840/|title='Battlefield Earth' Scripter Pens Apology|first=Nikki|last=Finke|date=28 March 2010|access-date=31 October 2016}} The record was then beaten by Jack and Jill (with the total of 12 nominations and 10 wins).
Following the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards on March 24, 2001, the film production and distribution company, Franchise Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 18, 2004.
Awards and nominations
{{legend|#B0C4DE|Winner (in bold)}}
Films with multiple nominations
These films received multiple nominations:
| class="wikitable"
!Nominations !Films |
| 8 |
| rowspan="3" |5 |
| Little Nicky |
| The Next Best Thing |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| rowspan="3" |2 |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| Mission: Impossible 2 |
Dissolution of Franchise Pictures
On August 18, 2004, the film production and distribution company, Franchise Pictures, was sued by its investors and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the Battlefield Earth budget by $31 million.{{cite book|title=Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops|last=Parish|first=James Robert|year=2007|pages=275–291|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-470-09829-5}}