"cocktail" "won" two golden raspberry awards for worst picture and worst screenplay while cruise was nominated as worst actor and donaldson as worst director. the film is listed in golden raspberry award founder john wilson's book "the official razzie movie guide" as one of "the 100 most enjoyably bad movies ever made". the film was also nominated for worst picture at the 1988 stinkers bad movie awards but lost to "caddyshack ii".