AWARDS

Leave ‘em Laughing: MGM’s “Get Shorty” and NBC’s “Frasier” won multiple honors Sunday night at the 10th annual American Comedy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium. John Travolta took the best actor award for “Get Shorty” while the film also garnered best supporting actress and actor awards for Bette Midler and Dennis Farina. In television honors, “Frasier” was led by Kelsey Grammer, who was named funniest male lead in a television series, while the supporting actor honors went to David Hyde Pierce. A creative achievement award was presented to veteran television director James Burrows in recognition of his work on “Frasier” as well as “Cheers,” “Taxi” and “Friends.” Other winners in the contest voted on by 1,500 comedy performers: female lead performer, series--Helen Hunt (“Mad About You”); female supporting performer, series--Christine Baranski (“Cybill”); female performer, TV special--Tracey Ullman (“Women of the Night IV”); male performer, TV special--Dennis Miller (“State of the Union Undressed”); and film actress, lead--Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”). Lifetime achievement awards went to Anne Bancroft and Milton Berle. The show was taped and will air later as an ABC two-hour special.

Or Leave ‘em Blue: Nominations for the annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards, being given for the 16th year by a group of naysayers who select the worst in movies, were announced Monday--as usual, on the eve of Academy Award nominations. Leading the pack with mentions in 13 categories (a new record) was “Showgirls.” Other worst picture nominees were “Congo,” “It’s Pat,” “The Scarlet Letter” and “Waterworld.” “Honorees” in that and other categories will be announced at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on March 24, a day before the Oscars are presented. Winners are entitled to receive a gold-spray-painted, golf-ball sized plastic raspberry atop a reel of Super-8 film. It’s valued at $2.17.