List of mocking awards
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This is a list of negative or anti-awards and mock prizes.
Arts and entertainment
Bad Sex in Fiction Award, awarded by the British magazine Literary Review
Bald Archy Prize, an Australian art prize, parodying the Australian Archibald Prize and mocking Australian celebrities
Barbara Dex Award, given annually to the "worst dressed" artist in the Eurovision Song Contest
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, given for published books with the most unintentionally bizarre titles
Bunshun Kiichigo Awards, for the worst Japanese and foreign films
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, for the deliberately worst written opening sentence for a (non-existent) novel
Faux Faulkner contest, for parodying William Faulkner
Filmfail Awards, for the biggest failures of Bollywood
Ghanta Awards, recognizing the worst in Bollywood in various categories
Golden Broom Awards, for the most disappointing Chinese films
Golden Kela Awards, spotlighting the worst performances in Hindi cinema
Golden Raspberry Awards, for the worst in American cinema
Golden Mullet Awards, reviewers' picks for worst video games of the past year
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest, annual best of the worst poetry contest at Columbia University
K Foundation art award, presented to the "worst artist of the year"
Lyttle Lytton Contest, based on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but with restrictions
Naomi Awards, dedicated to the year's worst music acts
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, chosen by a Los Angeles-based group of film buffs and movie critics
Wąż Award, for the worst in Polish cinema
Turnip Prize, for deliberately bad modern art
Language and speaking
Académie de la Carpette anglaise, to "members of the French élite who distinguish themselves by relentlessly promoting the domination of the English language over the French language in France and in European institutions."
Doublespeak Award, an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered"
Ernie Awards, for comments deemed misogynistic
Foot in Mouth Award, for "a baffling comment by a public figure"
Golden Bull Award, for organizations which use confusing and bad English
Un-word of the year, for a German word or word group deemed to be the year's most offensive new or recently popularized term
Word of the year, including "most unnecessary", "most outrageous", "most euphemistic", "least likely to succeed"
Science and pseudoscience
Allergen of the Year
Bent Spoon Award for paranormal or pseudo-scientific fraud
Erratic Boulder Award (orig. Bludný Balvan), for the contribution of individuals and societies in misleading the Czech public and the development of a muddy way of thinking
Goldenes Brett, for the most astonishing pseudo-scientific nuisance of the year in German-speaking countries
Honorary Academician of VRAL (Russian: Почётный академик ВРАЛ), for outstanding contribution to creation and spread of pseudoscience and antiscience in Russia
Ig Nobel Prize, started off as an award for questionable scientific achievements, but evolved into an honourable award with the slogan 'honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think'. It still sporadically mocks public figures with no published research.
Pigasus Award, for paranormal fraud, presented by noted skeptic James Randi
Snuffed Candle Award for presenting pseudoscience as genuine
Sports
The Gooker Award, given each year to the worst gimmick, storyline, match or event in professional wrestling in that year.
Bidone d'oro, for the most disappointing player in Serie A Italian football league
Douglas Wilkie Medal, presented to those who do the least for Australian rules football
Mr. Irrelevant, for the last player selected in each year's NFL draft
Wooden spoon (award), usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up
Other
Big Brother Awards, to recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy"
Big Brother Awards (Australia)
Big Brother Awards (Finland)
Big Brother Awards (Italy)
Big Brother Awards (United Kingdom)
Carbuncle Cup, for bad architecture
Darwin Awards, for removing oneself from the gene pool (i.e.
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