While the world had their eyes on the best of the best last night with the Oscars, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (a.k.a. the “Razzies”) also held their annual “Best of the Worst” ceremony over the weekend and it should come to no surprise that Michael Bay and his film ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ brought home a couple of the top honors.
Going into the Razzies with 7 nominations, ‘Age of Extinction’ (dubbed ‘Age of Ex-STINK-tion’) “won” two of its categories (Worst Director for Michael Bay and Worst Supporting Actor for Kelsy Grammer). (An interesting side note, the ‘Transformers’ franchise seems to have a love/hate relationship with the Razzies – it’s a franchise they love to hate – as ‘Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen’ and ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ both were nominated for Worst Films and Worst Director with Michael Bay and “Revenge of the Fallen’ winning the categories in 2009.)
This year, however, it was Kirk Cameron and his film ‘Saving Christmas’ which swept the awards with 4 wins for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor and Worst Screen Combo (for Cameron and his ego).
Megan Fox did contribute to the list of Bay project Razzies with her win for Worst Supporting Actress for ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
While the Razzies do tend to revel in movie-making mediocrity, the Foundation did add a new category this year called the Razzie Redeemer award to honor former Razzie recipients who have risen up from Razzie to Snazzy. This year’s recipient went to Ben Affleck who had previously won a Razzie for his work on ‘Gigli’ but has gone on to bigger and better films which include ‘Argo’ and ‘Gone Girl.’ The award was announced by real-life film critic nun Sister Rose Pacatte who told the audience, “We Catholic nuns are all about redemption.”
This was also the first year that the public were invited to the awards ceremony, but if you weren’t able to make it to the red carpet or the awards, here’s the list of the winners for this year’ Razzie Awards:
2015 GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARD WINNERS
WORST PICTURE 2014
‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’ (WINNER)
‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
‘Left Behind’
‘The Legend of Hercules’
WORST ACTOR 2014
Kirk Cameron: ‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’ (WINNER)
Nicolas Cage: ‘Left Behind’
Kellan Lutz: ‘The Legend of Hercules’
Seth MacFarlane: ‘A Million Ways To Die in the West’
Adam Sandler: ‘Blended’
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR 2014
Kelsey Grammer: ‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’ (WINNER)
Mel Gibson: ‘Expendables 3’
Shaquille O’Neal: ‘Blended’
Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘Expendables 3’
Kiefer Sutherland: ‘Pompeii’
WORST ACTRESS 2014
Cameron Diaz: ‘The Other Woman’ and ‘Sex Tape’ (WINNER)
Drew Barrymore: ‘Blended’
Melissa McCarthy: ‘Tammy’
Charlize Theron: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
Gaia Weiss: ‘The Legend of Hercules’
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 2014
Megan Fox: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (WINNER)
Cameron Diaz: ‘Annie’
Nicola Peltz: ‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’
Susan Sarandon: ‘Tammy’
Brigitte Ridenour (nee Cameron): ‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’
WORST DIRECTOR 2014
Michael Bay: ‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’ (WINNER)
Darren Doane: ‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’
Renny Harlin: ‘The Legend of Hercules’
Jonathan Liebesman: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
Seth MacFarlane: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
WORST REMAKE, SEQUEL OR RIP-OFF 2014
‘Annie’ (WINNER)
‘Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?’
‘The Legend of Hercules’
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’
WORST SCREEN COMBO 2014
Kirk Cameron & His Ego: ‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’ (WINNER)
Any Two Robots, Actors (or Robotic Actors): ‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’
Cameron Diaz & Jason Segal: ‘Sex Tape’
Kellan Lutz & Either His Abs, His Pecs or His Glutes: ‘The Legend of Hercules’
Seth MacFarlane & Charlize Theron: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
WORST SCREENPLAY 2014
‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’ (WINNER): Written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey
‘Sex Tape’: Screenplay by Kate Angelo and Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller
‘Transformers 4: Age of Extinction’: Written by Ehren Kruger
‘Left Behind’: Screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus,
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’” Written by Evan Daugherty and Andre Nemec & Josh Applebaum
REDEEMER AWARD 2014
Ben Affleck (WINNER): From RAZZIE “Winner” for Gigli to Oscar darling for Argo and Gone Girl
Jennifer Aniston:From 4-time RAZZIE nominee to SAG award nominee for Cake
Mike Myers: From RAZZIE “Winner” for Love Guru to Docu Director of Supermensch
Keanu Reeves: From 6-time RAZZIE nominee to the critically acclaimed John Wick
Kristen Stewart: From 6-time RAZZIE “Winner” for Twilight to the art house hit Camp X-Ray
