On the eve of the Academy Awards it’s important not only to take a moment and contemplate the year’s finest achievements in motion picture arts and sciences (whatever that means), or more importantly speculate on who will wear what on tomorrow’s red carpet, but to acknowledge that not every moment in cinema is one worth saluting with a golden statuette named Oscar. Thankfully we have the 32nd Annual RAZZIE Awards to salute the truly terrible outpouring of cinematic shit that Hollywood pummels us with the other 364 days of each year.
Put on your chaps because we’re going for a ride on a really, really high horse.
Not surprisingly, Adam Sandler leads the charge with a record for the most RAZZIE nominations in a single year, racking up a swagger of shameful ‘Worst In Film‘ nods for his work as an actor, producer and screenwriter, doubling up on Eddie Murphy’s old record of five nods. Cross-dressing, fat suit vehicle Jack & Jill received 12 noms (that’s more nominations than there are awards categories) including Worst Film, Worst Actor for Sandler, Worst Supporting Actress for Katie Holmes (is she still making movies? Suri’s Burn Book, “a study in Suri and the people who disappoint her”, would have a field day on this), as well as Al Pacino (proven actor’s actor and bad decision maker) getting a nod for Worst Supporting Actor. Sandler also gets a nod for Worst Actress on account of the gender bending. Giddy up, high horse – it’s just too much.
Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screen Ensemble and Worst Screenplay Nominees:
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (A Happy Madison Production) by Tom Brady
Jack & Jill (Also Happy Madison) by Dennis Dugan
New Year’s Eve by Garry Marshall
Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon by Michael Bay
Breaking Dawn: Part I by Bill Condon
Worst Actor:
Nicolas Cage for Drive Angry 3D, Season Of The Witch and Tresspass
Russell Brand for Arthur
Taylor Lautner for Abduction and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I
Adam Sandler for Just Go With It and Jack & Jill
Nick Swardson for Bucky Larson
Worst Actress:
Martin Lawrence for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Sarah Palin as herself in Sarah Palin: The Undefeated
Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don’t Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve
Adam Sandler for Jack & Jill
Kristen Stewart for Breaking Dawn
Worst Supporting Actor:
Patrick Dempsey for Transformers
James Franco for Your Highness
Ken Jeong for Big Momma #3, The Hangover #2, Transformers #3 and Zookeeper (Hey, Ken, maybe stay away from franchise sequels this year?)
Al Pacino as Al Pacino in Jack & Jill
Nick Swarsdon for Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
Worst Supporting Actress:
Nicole Kidman for Just Go With It
Rosie Huntington Whitely for Transformers
Brandon T. Jackson for Big Momma #3
David Spade for Jack & Jill
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel:
Arthur
Bucky Larson (Rip-off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born)
The Hangover Part 2 (Sequel and Remake apparently)
Jack & Jill (Remake/Rip-off of Glen or Glenda)
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Worst Screen Couple:
Nicolas Cage and Anyone Sharing The Screen With Him In Any Of His Three Movies
Shia LeBeouf & Rosie Huntington-Whitely (who they refer to as the Underwear Model)
Adam Sandler and either Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker
Adam Sandler and either Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, or Adam Sandler
Kristen Stewart with her conflicted love interests
That was exhausting. Did RAZZIE miss anything this year? Let us know below and have a Happy Meryl Day!
