Baby Geniuses
Award Category Subject Result
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Worst Picture Steven Paul Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy Steven Paul Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Worst Director Bob Clark Won
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Worst Child Performer Leo , Gerry and Myles Fitzgerald Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Least Special Special Effects Nominated
Awards and nominations
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael based on a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere, and starring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee. The film has the distinction of being the first full-length feature to use computer-generated imagery for the synthesis of human visual speech. 2D warping techniques were used to digitally animate the mouth viseme shapes of the babies which were originally shot with their mouths closed. The viseme shapes were sampled from syllables uttered by the babies on the set. The film grossed over $36 million worldwide. In 2004, it was followed by a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. In 2011, an original series was announced. The series has so far aired in Italy and the Far East. Additionally, the series was released as a set of movies. Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels, which features episodes 1-4, was released directly to video in 2013. Episodes 5-8, Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt, came out in 2014, and episodes 9-12, were released as Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby in 2015. The series/movies follow the Baby Squad Investigators, or B.S.I., as they pursue Big Baby (voiced by Christopher Bones), his father Beauregard Burger (Andy Pandini), and the international thief Moriarty (Jon Voight).