The primary identify in dangerous film awards is, for higher or worse, the Razzie Awards. And as is custom, they announce their annual nominees proper earlier than the Academy Awards announce their annual contenders. And so the Razzie nominees for 2024 are right here.
The listing, unsurprisingly, is dominated by the notorious Spider-Man spinoff Madame Internet — which was nominated for Worst Image, Worst Actress (Dakota Johnson), Worst Supporting Actor (Tahar Rahim), Worst Supporting Actress (Emma Roberts), Worst Director (S.J. Clarkson), and Worst Screenplay — and the infamous box-office and demanding flop Joker: Folie a Deux — with nominations for Worst Image, Worst Actor (Joaquin Phoenix, who gained an Oscar for taking part in the identical function a number of years in the past), Worst Actress ()Girl Gaga), Worst Director (Todd Phillips), Worst Onscreen Combo, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.
In different phrases, each motion pictures have been nominated for nearly each single award.
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Different huge, uh, “winners” embody the online game adaptation Borderlands, which was nominated for a number of awards together with Worst Image, and Francis Ford Coppola’s wildly costly private challenge Megalopolis, which bought a Worst Image nomination, together with a Worst Director nominee for Coppola.
Which is completely ludicrous for my part. Megalopolis was a multitude at instances, however it was additionally extraordinarily bold, with a perspective and rather a lot on its thoughts. It was attempting to do one thing and to say one thing, and at instances it was genuinely stunning. (It was usually very humorous too, though it was not all the time straightforward to inform whether or not it was deliberately hilarious or not.)
In different phrases, Megalopolis was a world other than one thing like Madame Internet, which was barely a film in any respect and clearly made as a part of an effort by Sony to take advantage of their Spider-Man IP in any approach they doable might, no matter whether or not that exploitation contained a shred of a compelling narrative cause to exist.
However that is all the time the Razzies’ M.O. They combine legitimately horrible motion pictures and performances with low cost photographs. This yr they nominated any two “Comedic Actors” in Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted for Worst Onscreen Combo as an alternative of truly choosing two poor performances.. Additionally they nominated Kraven the Hunter (a foul film, thoughts you) for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel, regardless that it’s none of these issues. That is simply what they do, and have all the time carried out.
Right here’s the complete listing of Razzie nominees for 2024. The winners shall be introduced in Los Angeles the day earlier than the Academy Awards, on March 1.
Worst Image
Borderlands
Joker: Folie a Deux
Madame Internet
Megalopolis
Reagan
Worst Actor
Jack Black, Expensive Santa
Zachary Levi, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker: Folie a Deux
Dennis Quaid, Reagan
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted
Worst Actress
Cate Blanchett, Borderlands
Girl Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux
Bryce Dallas Howard, Argylle
Dakota Johnson, Madame Internet
Jennifer Lopez, Atlas
Worst Supporting Actor
Jack Black, Borderlands
Kevin Hart, Borderlands
Shia LaBeouf, Megalopolis
Tahar Rahim, Madame Internet
Jon Voight, Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers
Worst Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose, Argylle and Kraven the Hunter
Leslie Anne Down, Reagan
Emma Roberts, Madame Internet
Amy Schumer, Unfrosted
FKA twigs, The Crow
Worst Director
S.J. Clarkson, Madame Internet
Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis
Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie a Deux
Eli Roth, Borderlands
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story
Worst Onscreen Combo
Any Two Obnoxious Characters (However Particularly Jack Black), Borderlands
Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors,” Unfrosted
The Total Solid of Megalopolis
Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux
Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller, Reagan
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
The Crow
Joker: Folie a Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Mufasa: The Lion King
Insurgent Moon: Half 2 — The Scargiver
Worst Screenplay
Joker: Folie a Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Madame Internet
Megalopolis
Reagan
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