Razzies Nominations
Press Release
Box Office Hits, Remakes and Sequels
Dominate This Year’s RAZZIE® Nominations
Following a Banner Year for Bad Movies, voting members of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have sifted through the cinematic rubble and selected what they consider to be last year’s Berry Worst “Achievements” in Film. In addition to 2009’s top under-achievers, The Gala 30th Annual RAZZIE® Awards will dis-honor The Worst of the “Uh-Ohs,” with special awards for the Worst Picture, Actor and Actress of the Decade in ceremonies scheduled for Hollywood's Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at 7:30pm/PST on Saturday, March 6 — the now traditional Night Before the Oscars®.
Leading the pack among this year’s RAZZIE® contenders are one of the year’s biggest money-makers and the year’s biggest money-loser, each with seven nods. RAZZIE® Repeat Offender Michael Bay helped lead the over-loud, over-long, uber-stupid TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN to a huge box office take...and to a huge haul of RAZZIE® nominations as well. In addition to Worst Director and Worst Picture, the film is up for Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actress (Julie White as the stoned, screaming mother of Shia Le Bouf), Worst Screen Couple (Le Bouf and EITHER Megan Fox OR Any Transformer) and Worst Actress (Fox again, dually nominated for this film and JENNIFER’S BODY). Keeping up with TRANNIES, TOO in the RAZZIE® race (but decidedly not at the box office) is Last Summer’s Biggest B.O. bomb, LAND OF THE LOST, also with 7 shots at taking home spray-painted gold. LOST star Will Ferrell is listed in both Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple (Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature or “Comic Riff”) and the film itself is also nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actor (the screaching Jorma Taccone as the monkeylike Cha-Ka). Rounding out the Worst Picture list are the Disney dud OLD DOGS, the awful “action-figures-come-to-life” 9-Year-Old-Boy-Movie G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA and the So-Good-It-Was-Held-Back-from-Release-for-2-Years “comedy” ALL ABOUT STEVE (whose star, Worst Actress nominee Sandra Bullock, could pull off the unprecedented feat of “winning” a RAZZIE® one day before winning an Oscar®).
Other well-known names shamed as being last year’s worst include 2010 Oscar® co-host Steve Martin (Worst Actor for PINK PANTHER 2), Beyonce (Worst Actress for OBSESSED), Worst Actor of the Decade contenders Eddie Murphy (up for Worst Actor of 2009 in IMAGINE THAT) and John Travolta (Worst Actor of 2009 for OLD DOGS) as well as the twitty Dizz-Knee ’tween idols Miley Cyrus (Worst Actress for HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE) and any two or more of the Jonas Brothers, nominated jointly for Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple — for their documentary JONAS BROS. A 3-D CONCERT EXPERIENCE. A complete list of nominees is included with this press release.
Nominees were determined by mailing ballots to 647 Foundation members in 46 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 as a logical antidote 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. The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
COMPLETE 2009 RAZZIE NOMINEES
Worst Picture:
‘All About Steve’
‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
‘Land of the Lost’
‘Old Dogs’
‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
Worst Actor:
Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas – ‘Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience’
Will Ferrell - ‘Land of the Lost’
Steve Martin - ‘Pink Panther 2’
Eddie Murphy - ‘Imagine That’
John Travolta - ‘Old Dogs’
Worst Actress:
Beyonce Knowles – ‘Obsessed’
Sandra Bullock – ‘All About Steve’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’
Megan Fox – ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
Sarah Jessica Parker – ‘Did You Hear About The Morgans?’
Worst Screen Couple:
Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas – ‘Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience’
Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper – ‘All About Steve’
Will Ferrell and any co-star, creature or "comic riff" – ‘Land of the Lost’
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox or any Transformer – ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner – ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Worst Supporting Actress:
Candice Bergen – ‘Bride Wars’
Ali Larter – ‘Obsessed’
Sienna Miller – ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
Kelly Preston – ‘Old Dogs’
Julie White – ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
Worst Supporting Actor:
Billy Ray Cyrus – ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’
Hugh Hefner – ‘Miss March’
Robert Pattinson – ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Jorma Taccone – ‘Land of the Lost’
Marlon Wayans – ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel:
‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
‘Land of the Lost’
‘Pink Panther 2’
‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Worst Director:
Michael Bay – ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
Walt Beeker – ‘Old Dogs’
Brad Silberling – ‘Land of the Lost’
Stephen Sommers – ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
Phil Traill – ‘All About Steve’
Worst Screenplay:
‘All About Steve’
‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
‘Land of the Lost’
‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Worst Picture of the Decade:
‘Battlefield Earth’
‘Freddy Got Fingered’
‘Gigli’
‘I Know Who Killed Me’
‘Swept Away’
Worst Actor of the Decade:
Ben Affleck
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Rob Schneider
John Travolta
Worst Actress of the Decade:
Mariah Carey
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Madonna
