Awards season is here, which means it’s also time for the annual Golden Raspberry Awards. The Razzies, which aim to (discredit) the year’s less successful films, have announced nominations for their 44th edition.
The most nominated film is “Expend4bles,” the fourth entry in the action-packed, but very disappointing, “The Expendables” series. It received seven nominations.
In second place with five nominations were “The Exorcist: Believer,” a revival of the classic horror series, and “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a blood-soaked film about everyone’s favorite honey-loving bear. Two big-budget superhero films, Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania received four nominations.
Last year, Andrew Dominik’s film “Blonde” topped the competition with eight nominations, winning the Worst Picture award. The group also felt compelled to issue an apology last year after 11-year-old Ryan actor Keira Armstrong was nominated in the worst actress category for her performance in the new horror film “Firestarter.” The gesture was met with harsh criticism, with original Firestarter star Drew Barrymore saying it “makes my blood boil.”
“We believe Ms. Armstrong deserves a public apology, and we would like to say that we are sorry for any harm she has suffered as a result of our choices,” John Wilson, founder of the Razzies, wrote in a statement. “We never intended to bury anyone’s career. That’s why our Redeemer Award was created. We all make mistakes, including ourselves. Since our motto is ‘Own your bad’, we realize that we too must live up to that motto.”
The Razzies also found themselves forced to pass another act of penance last year, naming a special award for Bruce Willis. With so many direct-to-video action actors in recent years, the actor has become such a Razzie that the awards group created a “Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a Movie of 2021” category. After Willis and his family publicly revealed the actor’s struggle with aphasia, a language disorder that causes brain damage, the Razzies canceled the category.
The Razzie organization was founded in 1981, and Razzie nominations are now determined by a select committee before ballots are issued to members. Anyone can become a voting member of the Razzies by paying an annual fee of $40 or a lifetime membership of $500. Even with the influx of money, the organization’s old official website still looks up to Internet users from more than a decade ago.
See the full list of this year’s nominations below.
Worst picture
- Al-Mu’awwidhatayn: The believer
- Expend4bles
- MiG 2: Trench
- Shazam! The wrath of the gods
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Worst actor
- Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
- Vin Diesel/FastX
- Chris Evans/Ghostly
- Jason Statham / MIG 2: Trench
- Jon Voight/Mercy
Worst actress
- Ana de Armas / Ghost
- Megan Fox/Johnny and Clyde
- Salma Hayek/Magic Mike’s Last Dance
- Jennifer Lopez/Mother
- Dame Helen Mirren/Shazam! The wrath of the gods
Worst supporting actress
- Kim Cattrall / About my father
- Megan Fox / Expend4bles
- Bai Ling/Johnny and Clyde
- Lucy Liu/Shazam! The wrath of the gods
- Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
Worst supporting actor
- Michael Douglas / Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania
- Mel Gibson / Confidential Detective
- Bill Murray/Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania
- Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) The exorcist of the Pope
- Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables
The worst couple on screen
- i.e. “Ruthless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
- Any money-grubbing investors donated $400 million for the rights to remake The Exorcist
- Ana de Armas and Chris Evans (whose screen chemistry fails) / Ghostly
- Salma Hayek and Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
- Pooh and Piglet as bloodthirsty killer/s (!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Worst prequel, remake, rip off, or sequel
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Obsession
- Al-Mu’awwidhatayn: The believer
- Expend4bles
- Indiana Jones and the Dial…still beats a dead horse
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Worst manager
- Reese Frick-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
- David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
- Peyton Reed / Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania
- Scott Wu / Expend4bles
- Ben Wheatley / MIG 2: Trench
Worst case scenario
- Al-Mu’awwidhatayn: The believer
- Expend4bles
- Indiana Jones and the Dial…Can I Go Home Now?
- Shazam! The wrath of the gods
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey