| Category | Recipient | 
| Worst Picture | Can't Stop the Music (AFD) | 
| Cruising (Lorimar/United Artists) | 
| The Formula (MGM/United Artists) | 
| Friday the 13th (Paramount) | 
| The Jazz Singer (AFD) | 
| The Nude Bomb (Universal) | 
| Raise the Titanic (AFD) | 
| Saturn 3 (AFD) | 
| Windows (United Artists) | 
| Xanadu (Universal) | 
| Worst Actor | Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch/Jess Robin | 
| Michael Beck in Xanadu as Sonny Malone | 
| Robert Blake in Coast to Coast as Charles Callahan | 
| Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill and The Island as Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi and Blair Maynard (respectively) | 
| Kirk Douglas in Saturn 3 as Adam | 
| Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition as Paul Dietrich | 
| Anthony Hopkins in A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans | 
| Bruce Jenner[lower-alpha 1] in Can't Stop the Music as Ron White | 
| Sam J. Jones in Flash Gordon as Flash Gordon | 
| Worst Actress | Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline | 
| Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake | 
| Faye Dunaway in The First Deadly Sin as Barbara Delaney | 
| Shelley Duvall in The Shining as Wendy Torrance | 
| Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 as Alex | 
| Sondra Locke in Bronco Billy as Antoinette Lily | 
| Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu as Kira | 
| Valerie Perrine in Can't Stop the Music as Samantha Simpson | 
| Deborah Raffin in Touched by Love as Lena Canada | 
| Talia Shire in Windows as Emily Hollander | 
| Worst Supporting Actor | John Adames in Gloria as Phil Dawn (tie) | 
| Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer as Cantor Rabinovitch (tie) | 
| Marlon Brando in The Formula as Adam Stieffel | 
| Charles Grodin in Seems Like Old Times as Ira Parks | 
| David Selby in Raise the Titanic as Dr. Gene Seagram | 
| Worst Supporting Actress | Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose as Lily Ramsey | 
| Elizabeth Ashley in Windows as Andrea Glassen | 
| Georg Stanford Brown (in drag) in Stir Crazy as Rory Schutlebrand | 
| Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees | 
| Marilyn Sokol in Can't Stop the Music as Lulu Brecht | 
| Worst Director | Robert Greenwald for Xanadu | 
| John G. Avildsen for The Formula | 
| Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill | 
| William Friedkin for Cruising | 
| Sidney J. Furie and Richard Fleischer for The Jazz Singer | 
| Stanley Kubrick for The Shining | 
| Michael Ritchie for The Island | 
| John Trent for Middle Age Crazy | 
| Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music | 
| Gordon Willis for Windows | 
| Worst Screenplay | Can't Stop the Music, written by Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr | 
| A Change of Seasons, screenplay by Erich Segal and Ronni Kern and Fred Segal | 
| Cruising, written by William Friedkin | 
| The Formula, written by Steve Shagan | 
| It's My Turn, written by Eleanor Bergstein | 
| Middle Age Crazy, written by Carl Kleinschmidt | 
| Raise the Titanic, screenplay by Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes, from the novel by Clive Cussler | 
| Touched by Love, written by Hesper Anderson | 
| Windows, written by Barry Siegel | 
| Xanadu, written by Richard C. Danus and Marc R. Rubel | 
| Worst Original Song | "The Man with Bogart's Face" from The Man with Bogart's Face, music by George Duning, lyrics by Andrew Fenady | 
| "(You) Can't Stop the Music" from Can't Stop the Music, music and lyrics by Jacques Morali | 
| "Suspended in Time" from Xanadu, music and lyrics by John Farrar | 
| "Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from A Change of Seasons, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman | 
| "You, Baby, Baby!" from The Jazz Singer, music and lyrics by Neil Diamond |