The nominees for the 34th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, popularly known as the Razzies, have been announced. The Razzies claim to be “a logical antidote to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self-congratulations [created] by John Wilson, author of Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies.” This year’s awards ceremony—at which the organizers expect none of the nominees to appear (though they have been surprised in the past)—will once again be on the traditional “Oscar Eve”, Saturday 1 March. Some good news for the speculative fiction fields this year: very few of our films earned nominations.
In announcing the nominees, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation said: “One year shy of their 35th anniversary, Tinsel Town’s Tackiest Trophy Derby continues to call on Hollywood’s A-Listers to “Own Their Bad”. This year’s 34th Annual Razzie nominees include some of the biggest names in the movie business, who happened to star in some of the biggest box office bombs of 2013. For the first time in their history, the Razzies are also working with their worldwide fan-base of PO’d motion picture-goers, and the cutting edge crowd-funding website Indiegogo to put on a high-end show this year and pave the way for the first ever Razzie Awards Broadcast in 2015.
Garnering their first ever Razzie nods are some of the silver screen’s most recognizable luminaries, including past Oscar nominees Johnny Depp and Naomi Watts as well as up-and-comers making crummy choices like Jaden Smith and Selena Gomez. The list also includes several “Repeat Offenders”, returning for more pie-in-the-face/light-hearted joshing from the only folks whose statuette no one wants to win. Going for a possible 3rd Worst Actor “win” in a row, Adam Sandler is back, alongside such Razzie stalwarts (and past “winners”) as Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Lautner, Tyler Perry and The Awl Time Razzie Cham-Peeen Sylvester Stallone, snagging a staggering 31st nomination for three 2013 dogs, Bullet to the Head, Escape Plan and Grudge Match.
Among this year’s five Worst Picture contenders are: A real life father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) in a sci-fi epic set on “Planet Nepotism”, After Earth; Sandler’s latest summer-vacation-masquerading-as-a-movie, Grown Ups #2; A shockingly star-studded cast in a major dud that came off as an X-rated rip-off of Love American Style, Movie 43; Tyler Perry’s 37th Man-in-a-Dress Drag-Fest A Madea Christmas; and The Year’s Biggest B.O. Bust, Dizz-Knee’s flat-footed remake of The Lone Ranger.
For 8 of this year’s 9 Razzie categories, contenders were determined by seeking online votes from some 750 G.R.A.F. Members in 47 U.S. states and 13 foreign countries. Nominations for the 9th category, Worst Screen Combo, were determined by votes from nearly 62,000 users at the popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.com.”
This year’s nominees are:
Worst Picture:
After Earth
Grown-Ups 2
The Lone Ranger
A Madea Christmas
Movie 43
Worst Actor:
Johnny Depp (The Lone Ranger)
Ashton Kutcher (Jobs)
Adam Sandler (Grown-Ups 2)
Jaden Smith (After Earth)
Sylvester Stallone (Bullet to the Head, Escape Plan, and Grudge Match)
Worst Actress:
Halle Berry (The Call and Movie 43)
Selena Gomez (Getaway)
Lindsay Lohan (The Canyons)
Tyler Perry (A Madea Christmas)
Naomi Watts (Diana and Movie 43)
Worst Supporting Actress:
Lady Gaga (Machete Kills)
Salma Hayek (Grown-Ups 2)
Katherine Heigl (The Big Wedding)
Kim Kardashian (Tyler Perry’s Temptation)
Lindsay Lohan (In-App-Propriate Comedy and Scary Movie 5)
Worst Supporting Actor:
Chris Brown (Battle of the Year)
Larry the Cable Guy (A Madea Christmas)
Taylor Lautner (Grown-Ups 2)
Will Smith (After Earth)
Nick Swardson (A Haunted House and Grown-Ups 2)
Worst Director:
The 13 People Who Directed Movie 43
Dennis Dugan for Grown Ups 2
Tyler Perry for A Madea Christmas and Temptation
M. Night Shyamalan for After Earth
Gore Verbinski for The Lone Ranger
Worst Screen Combo:
The Entire Cast of Grown Ups 2
The Entire Cast of Movie 43
Lindsay Lohan & Charlie Sheen in Scary Movie 5
Tyler Perry & EITHER Larry the Cable Guy OR That Worn-Out Wig & Dress in A Madea Christmas
Jaden Smith & Will Smith on Planet Nepotism in After Earth
Worst Screenplay:
After Earth, Screenplay by Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan, Story by Will Smith
Grown Ups 2, Written by Fred Wolfe & Adam Sandler & Tim Herlihy
The Lone Ranger, Screen Story & Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Justin Haythe & Terry Rosso
A Madea Christmas, Written by Tyler Perry
Movie 43, Written by 19 “Screenwriters”
Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel:
Grown Ups 2
The Hangover Part III
The Lone Ranger
Scary Movie 5
The Smurfs 2