1980 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
The 3rd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1981 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1980. The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in 2006. 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, and all nominees included in the expanded ballot. All winners are highlighted.
Original Ballot
Worst Picture
Dishonourable Mentions
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
- The Blue Lagoon
- Caligula
- Cruising
- First Family
- Flash Gordon
- Friday the 13th
- The Gong Show Movie
- Herbie Goes Bananas
- The Hunter
- The Jazz Singer
- Night Games
- The Nude Bomb
- Oh, God! Book II
- Oh! Heavenly Dog
- Raise the Titanic
- Saturn 3
- Simon
- Smokey and the Bandit II
- Times Square
- Up the Academy
- When Time Ran Out
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- Xanadu
Expanded Ballot
| Category | Recipient |
| Worst Picture | Popeye |
| Worst Picture | The Apple |
| Worst Picture | Caligula |
| Worst Picture | Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Picture | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
| Worst Director | Menahem Golan for The Apple |
| Worst Director | Robert Altman for Popeye |
| Worst Director | Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione for Caligula |
| Worst Director | Peter Sellers and Piers Haggard for The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
| Worst Director | Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Actor | Steve Guttenberg in Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Actor | Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon |
| Worst Actor | Robby Benson in Die Laughing and Tribute |
| Worst Actor | Peter Sellers in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
| Worst Actor | Robin Williams in Popeye |
| Worst Actress | Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon |
| Worst Actress | Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill |
| Worst Actress | Faye Dunaway in The First Deadly Sin |
| Worst Actress | Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 |
| Worst Actress | Robin Johnson in Times Square |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Bruce Jenner in Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Marlon Brando in The Formula |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Ron Leibman in Up the Academy |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Rhonda Bates in Roadie |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Elizabeth Ashley in Windows |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Anne Bancroft in Fatso |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Elizabeth Taylor in The Mirror Crack'd |
| Worst Screenplay | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
| Worst Screenplay | The Apple |
| Worst Screenplay | Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Screenplay | Popeye |
| Worst Screenplay | Up the Academy |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | First Family |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Just Tell Me What You Want |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Simon |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Up the Academy |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "He Needs Me" by Shelley Duvall from Popeye |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "B.I.M." by Alan Young and Grace Kennedy from The Apple |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "Milkshake" by Village People from Can't Stop the Music |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "Mr. Weinstein" by Robby Benson from Die Laughing |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "Universal Melody" by George Gilmour and Mary Hylan from The Apple |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | The Blue Lagoon |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | The Apple |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | Cruising |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | First Family |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Worst On-Screen Couple | Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson in Flash Gordon |
| Worst On-Screen Couple | Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon |
| Worst On-Screen Couple | Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon in Coast to Coast |
| Worst On-Screen Couple | Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 |
| Worst On-Screen Couple | Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving in The Competition |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Robby Benson in Die Laughing |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Marlon Brando in The Formula |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Charles Haid in Altered States |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Sally Field in Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Sarah Holcomb in Caddyshack |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Kaki Hunter in Roadie |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Robin Johnson in Times Square |
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Rita Taggart in Die Laughing |
| Worst Sequel | Any Which Way You Can |
| Worst Sequel | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie |
| Worst Sequel | Herbie Goes Bananas |
| Worst Sequel | Oh, God! Book II |
| Worst Sequel | Smokey and the Bandit II |
| Worst Remake | Popeye |
| Worst Remake | Flash Gordon |
| Worst Remake | The Jazz Singer |
| Worst Performance by a Child in a Feature Role | Louanne in Oh, God! Book II |
| Worst Performance by a Child in a Feature Role | John Adames in Gloria |
| Worst Performance by a Child in a Feature Role | Ricky Schroder in The Last Flight of Noah's Ark |
| Worst Performance by a Child in a Feature Role | Jill Whealon in Airplane! |
| Least "Special" Special Effects | The Apple |
| Least "Special" Special Effects | Galaxina |
| Least "Special" Special Effects | The Last Flight of Noah's Ark |
| Least "Special" Special Effects | Xanadu |