The Turkey Awards are a not so coveted award given to Hollywood's worst anything. The Turkey Award & its sequel book Son of The Turkey Award are authored by Harry and Michael Medev. Ed Wood and his team have been very prominent in the awards, below are the categories. Copyright Michael and Harry Medev. You can buy their books in my book section.

The least convincing Scientific Explanation in Motion Picture History

Glen or Glenda

Police Inspector:	This type of case come to me, as well as to yourself, may times during the course of one month.
Psychiatrist:	The suicide ?
Police inspector:	The suicide.
Psychiatrist:	Most of us have our idiosyncrasies.
Police Inspector:	This fellows was quite pronounced.
Psychiatrist:	Yes, but I wonder if it rated the death warrant it received...Let's get our stories straight: you're referring to the suicide of the transvestite?
Police Inspector:	If that's word you men of medical science use for a man who wears women's clothing, yes.
Psychiatrist:	Yes, in cold technical language that's the word. As unfriendly and as vicious as it may sound. However, in actuality, it's not un unfriendly word, nor is it vicious, when you know the people to whom it pertains...Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell this story.

Bride of the Monster

Reporter:	Okay, let's have the story on Lake Marsh and the monsters.
Police Chief:	Monster, Monster! There are no such things as monsters. This is the twentieth century.
Reporter:	Don't count on it !

The Bride and the Beast

Psychiatrist:	Back, back to the endless reaches of time. Back, before your entry into this life as you know it. You will speak of that life as you see it. Go on to your journey. What is your name?
Laura:	Laura Carson
Psychiatrist:	Is that all ?
Laura:	Married yesterday to Dan Carson.
Psychiatrist:	Go on...
Laura:	Angora sweater - was such a beautiful soft thing. Soft, like kittens fur. Felt so good on me. As is ti belonged there. Felt so bad when it was gone.
Psychiatrist:	Dan, do you realise we've just witnessed a portion of your wife's previous existence, and her death in that previous existence. Her talk about maribou, angora and fur like materials - there's definitely a connection between them an her dreams. I believe that it's derived from her past existence.
Dam:	Aw, c'mon. You don't really believe she was a gorilla !
Psychiatrist:	All the evidence points to it. Her fixation for fur like materials comes from that fact.
Dan:	I'm sorry, Doctor, I just don't buy any of this.
Psychiatrist:	Well, you have a right to your own opinion.

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Colonel:

You speak of Solaronite, but what is it?

Eros:

Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now you spread a thin line of it to a ball representing the earth. Now the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline - the sunlight - then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can - or the sun itself. It will explode this source, and spread to every place that gasoline - our sunlight- touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chin reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches. To every planet in the Universe.

And the winner is.....

The Bride and the Beast

The Rogues Gallery: Who's Who in the World of Bad Movies

Criswell

Flamboyant TV psychic of the fifties who appeared as himself in 'Plan 9 from Outer Space', 'Night of the Ghouls' & Orgy of the Dead. After his death in 1982, his long time manager boasted: "It's proven that Criswell's predictions were 87 percent correct, most of the time".

Dolores Fuller

Blonde starlet of the early fifties, famous for her long time relationship with Ed Wood Jr. Her film credits include: Mesa of Lost Women, Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait and Bride of the Monster. After retiring from films in 1960, Dolores went to work in the music business handling Tanya Tucker and also wrote several songs for Elvis including "Rock a Hula Baby".

Tor Johnson

Tor was a former Swedish wrestler with the professional name "The Swedish Angel". He appeared in several B Grade movies including three of Ed's. His credits are: Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Night of the Ghouls, The Black Sheep, The Unearthly, Carousel, The Magnetic Moon, The Lemon Drop Kid, and The Beast of Yucca Flats. His working career as an actor is from 1934 - 1961.

Bela Lugosi

Started out in theatre in Hungary and is best known for his portrayal as Dracula. Bela's movie history is too long to go into but Bela Lugosi even though he was a star had his fair share of flops, such as: Murder by Television, The Phantom Creeps, The Devil Bat, Zombies on Broadway, Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. Bela also worked on several films for Ed : Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space and shortly before his death was reading the Ed Wood script Final Curtain. There was also talk about Bela working in another Wood project called The Ghoul goes West, but his fell through.

Mona McKinnon

Worked through the 1950's in commercials, movie and was in TV production called Queen for a Day where she appeared as a model in the queens wardrobe in 55 episodes. Appearing on the big screen in: Mesa of Lost Women, Jail Bait, Teenage Thunder, Unwed Mother and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Retired from the screen to raise a family.

Dudley Manlove

Dudley was a former professional violinist and worked as a radio announcer for the NBC network and recorded popular commercials for Lux Soap and Scott Tissue. credit include: Sing, Boy Sing, Plan 9 from Outer Space and Creation of the Humanoids.

Dr. Tom Mason

A successful Chiropractor in Orange county, california and stood in for Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space following the star's unexpected death. He also appeared as a ghost in Night of the Ghouls.

Steeve Reeves

Mr.Universe and Mr.America, Steeve was to star in sword and sandal epics such as Hercules, Hercules Unchained, The White Warrior and Goliath and the Barbarians. Steeve made his film debut in Ed Woods Jail Bait.

Lyle Talbot

Lyle appeared in more than two hundred movies and often played the heavey. Some of his credits include: Page Miss Glory, Trapped by Television, Torture Ship, Are these my parents?, Atom Man vs. Superman, Untamed Women and in Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Vampira

TV Horror Hostess and one time girlfriend of James Dean and also Orson Welles. Her real name is Maila Nurmi form Astoria, Oregon. Her screen credits include Plan 9 from Outer Space and Sex Kittens go to Colege. In the eighties Maila started her own band called Satans Cheerleaders and was glorified by the band the Misfits by playing tribute to her in their song "Vampira".

William C Thompson

Famous for being the only blind cinematographer. He was only blind through one eye and worked on more than a hundred features including: Maniac, Project Moonbase, The Astounding She-Monster, Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls and The Sinister Urge.

George Weiss

Owner and Operator of Screen Classics Productions. Produced such greats as Love Life of a Gorilla, White Slaves of Chinatown, Test Tube babies, Glen or Glenda, Olga's Massage Parlour, Olga's Dance Hall Girls, Dance Hall Racket, Love Captive in Greenwich Village and All Women are Bad.

Edward D Wood Jr

And lastly but not least Edward D Wood Jr. Winner of the Golden Turkey Life Achievement Award for Worst Director of All Time. Ed wrote, directed, produced, edited and acted. His many novel include Diary of a Transvestite Hooker, Killer in Drag and Naked Bones. He fought alcoholism in later life and died watching a football game on December 10, 1978. Eds credits are long indeed Glen or Glenda, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, The Bride and the Beast, Night of the Ghouls, the Sinister Urge, Take it out in Trade, Necromania, Shot Gun Wedding and the list goes on...