Nominations for the 36th Annual Razzie Awards Announced

For the 36th year in a row, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has announced the nominations for the Razzie Awards right before the Oscar nominations take place tomorrow morning. You can check out their announcement below, followed by the nominations list. Do you agree with what the Razzie Awards are calling the worst of 2015?

All five films up for Worst Picture at this year’s 36th Annual Razzie® Awards are big budget/high profile productions that have no excuse for being among the year’s “berry” worst. And 2015’s acting contenders include popular stars like Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, and Kayley Cuoco-Sweeting, previous Oscar® winners Gwyneth Paltrow, Eddie Redmaine and Julianne Moore, and such Razzie Repeat Offenders as Adam Sandler, Jennifer Lopez and Katherine Heigl. “Winners” will be announced in intentionally tacky ceremonies scheduled for 8pm/PST on Saturday February 27 — Oscar eve.

The choices for Worst Picture include Fifty Shades of Grey (2015’s “Most Successful Bad Movie”) Fantastic 4 (a nearly instant remake that flopped with both critics and movie-goers) Jupiter Ascending (the latest sci-fi fiasco from Andy & Lana Wachowski) Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 (a box office hit despite its 95% negative rating at Rotten Tomatoes) and Adam Sandler’s latest excuse for a movie, the 70’s video game-themed Pixels.

For this year’s 9 regular Razzie categories, contenders and “winners” are determined by seeking online votes from over 900 Voting Razzie Members throughout 47 U.S. states and 21 foreign countries. For the 10th category, The Razzie Redeemer Award, (which acknowledges past Razzie “winners” who’ve gone on to do better work) the honoree will be decided by a public vote of users at popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.

The Razzies were created in 1980 as the comical counterpoint to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self congratulatory awards by John Wilson, author of The Official Razzie Movie Guide and Everything I Know I Learned At The Movies.

36th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE®) Awards Nominees

WORST PICTURE

Fantastic Four

Fifty Shades of Grey

Jupiter Ascending

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Pixels

WORST ACTOR

Johnny Depp, Mortdecai

Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey

Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Adam Sandler, The Cobbler and Pixels

Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending

WORST ACTRESS

Katherine Heigl, Home Sweet Hell

Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey

Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending

Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door

Gwyneth Paltrow, Mortdecai

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation

Josh Gad, Pixels and The Wedding Ringer

Kevin James, Pixels

Jason Lee, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip

Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip and The Wedding Ringer

Rooney Mara, Pan

Michelle Monaghan, Pixels

Julianne Moore, Seventh Son

Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers and Pan

WORST REMAKE/RIP-OFF/SEQUEL

Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip

Fantastic Four

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

WORST SCREEN COMBO

All Four “Fantastics,” Fantastic Four

Johnny Depp and His Glued-On Moustache, Mortdecai

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey

Kevin James and EITHER His Segue OR His Glued-On Moustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Adam Sandler and Any Pair of Shoes, The Cobbler

WORST DIRECTOR

Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Tom Six, Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey

Josh Trank, Fantastic Four

Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending

WORST SCREENPLAY

Fantastic Four (screenplay by Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby)

Fifty Shades of Grey (screenplay by Kelly Marcel, Based on the Novel by E.L. James)

Jupiter Ascending (written by Andy and Lana Wachowski)

Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 (screenplay by Kevin James & Nick Bakay)

Pixels (screenplay by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Story by Herlihy, Based on a Work by Patrick Jean)

RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD

Elizabeth Banks (RAZZIE “Winner” for MOVIE 47, Multiple Hit Movies This Year)

M. Night Shyamalan (Perennial RAZZIE nominee & “winner,” director of The Visit)

Will Smith (For following up After Earth with Concussion)

Sylvester Stallone (All-Time RAZZIE Champ, award contender for Creed)

 

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