All All. Sign In. The ceremony no one watches and the ceremony no one attends are happening in less than a month so what better time to honor past recipients of both awards. Only competitive wins for both ceremonies are included meaning no special "lifetime achievement" type awards are included.
No winners of the "Razzie Redeemer" category are included either. Lastly, this list is organized in order of when the recipients won their Razzies Edit: Updated to include winners. List activity. Laurence Olivier. Actor Producer Director Rebecca Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare 's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them," said English playwright Charles Bennett , who met Olivier in His surname came from a great-great-grandfather who was of French Huguenot origin.
One of Olivier's earliest successes as a Shakespearean actor on the London stage came in when he played "Romeo" and "Mercutio" in alternate performances of "Romeo and Juliet" with John Gielgud. A young Englishwoman just beginning her career on the stage fell in love with Olivier's Romeo. In , she became his second wife after both returned from making films in America that were major box office hits of His film was Wuthering Heights , her film was Gone with the Wind There was almost a fourth film together in when Olivier and Leigh traveled to Scotland with Charles C.
Bennett to research the real-life story of a Scottish girl accused of murdering her French lover. Bennett recalled that Olivier researched the story "with all the thoroughness of Sherlock Holmes" and "we unearthed evidence, never known or produced at the trial, that would most certainly have sent the young lady to the gallows. During their two-decade marriage, Olivier and Leigh appeared on the stage in England and America and made films whenever they really needed to make some money.
She won her second Oscar for bringing "Blanche DuBois" to the screen. Carrie was a film that Olivier never talked about. George Hurstwood, a middle-aged married man from Chicago who tricked a young woman into leaving a younger man about to marry her, became a New York street person in the novel. Olivier played him as a somewhat nicer person who didn't fall quite as low. A PBS documentary on Olivier's career broadcast in covered his first sojourn in Hollywood in the early s with his first wife, Jill Esmond , and noted that her star was higher than his at that time.
