I’ve never been one for award season, but I’m never against talking about some of the worst movies of the year. In fact, there’s an award show for that very purpose called The Razzie Awards that highlights and recognizes the year’s most awful cinematic offerings.
This year, according to the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II’ leads the pack with 11 nominations, followed by ‘Battleship’ and ‘That’s My Boy’, the Adam Sandler-Andy Samberg “comedy” about a father and a son. Though there are only 10 categories to win, the ‘Twilight’ gang managed to score multiple acknowledgements in some categories to rack up the impressive (or pitiful, depending on how you look at it) number of noms.
I’m very glad to see repeat nominee Nicolas Cage in the Worst Actor category for ‘Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance’ this year, but I’m disappointed that the director’s of that film aren’t nominated for Worst Director. This is the only situation that I’d support that atrocious excuse for a movie for awards, but it’s too bad that it’s going up against the final installment of the supernatural suckfest, so it may lose.
A surprising snub is ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ in the Worst Screenplay category. No other script from the past year’s crop of releases comes to mind faster when the words worst screenplay than that terribly written movie.
Check out the whole list of nominees for the only award no one in Hollywood wants to win below:
Worst Picture
Battleship
Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
That’s My Boy!
A Thousand Words
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Worst Actress
Katherine Heigl – One For The Money
Milla Jovovich – Resident Evil #5: Retribution
Tyler Perry (In Drag) – Madea’s Witless Protection
Kristen Stewart – Snow White and The Huntsman & Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Barbra Streisand – Guilt Trip
Worst Actor
Nicolas Cage – Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance & Seeking Justice
Eddie Murphy – A Thousand Words
Robert Pattinson – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Tyler Perry (Not in Drag) – Alex Cross & Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
Adam Sandler – That’s My Boy!
Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Biel – Playing For Keeps & Total Recall
Brooklyn Decker – Battleship & What To Expect When You’re Expecting
Ashley Green – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Jennifer Lopez – What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Rihanna – Battleship
Worst Supporting Actor
David Hasselhoff (as “Himself”) – Piranha 3-DD
Taylor Lautner – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Liam Neeson – Battleship & Wrath of the Titans
Nick Swardson – That’s My Boy
Vanilla Ice (as “Himself”) – That’s My Boy
Worst Screen Couple
Any Combination of Two Cast Members from “Jersey Shore” – The Three Stooges
Mackenzie Foy (as “Little Renesmee”) & Taylor Lautner – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Tyler Perry & His Drag Get-Up – Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witless Protection
Adam Sandler and either Leighton Meester, Andy Samberg or Susan Sarandon – That’s My Boy
Worst Director
Sean Anders – That’s My Boy
Peter Berg – Battleship
Bill Condon – Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Tyler Perry – Good Deeds & Madea’s Witless Protection
John Putch – Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Worst Screen Ensemble
The Entire Cast of Battleship
The Entire Cast of Oogieloves inThe Big Balloon Adventure
The Entire Cast of That’s My Boy
The Entire Cast of Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn, Part 2
The Entire Cast of Madea’s Witless Protection
Worst Screenplay
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Battleship
That’s My Boy!
A Thousand Words
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Did they miss any films you think should be on the list? Let us know in the comment section below.
The 33rd annual Razzies will be held on February 23rd, the day before the Oscars.