The crop of cinematic crap in 2016 was so extensive that this year’s 37th AnnualRazzie Awardsis expanding from 5 nominees to an unprecedented 6 contenders in each of its 9 Worst Achievement in Film categories. Leading this year’s list of movie-misfires are the 15-years-too-late sequelZoolander No. 2and the WTF comic book battle-royaleBatman v Superman. Each is up for both Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel. Other Worst Picture nominees includeDirty Grandpa,Gods of Egypt,Hillary’s AmericaandIndependence Day: Resurgence.
Acting contenders includeBen Affleck, Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts and Robert de Niro. A complete list of this year’s nominees is included with this press release and at Razzies.com. The nomination announcement will be available at Razzie Channel after 5:30am/PST Monday. “Winners” of this year’s tackiest Tinsel Town trophy will be revealed on Saturday, February 25, the now traditional day before the 89th Annual Giving Out of the Little Gold Naked Men.
It hasn’t been revealed yet who will be nominated for the Razzie’s newest award, theRazzie Redeemer Award. First introduced in 2014, the Razzie Redeemer Award goes to the former Razzie winner who has gone on to redeem his or her self through good movies.Ben Affleckwon the first award in 2014, for his recent work inArgoandGone Girl, although he is nominated again this year forBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.Sylvester Stallonewon the award last year, after his comeback performance inCreedwhich won him a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination. It remains unclear if this award is simply being skipped over this year, or if its nominations will be announced at a later date.
Other “top” nominees areDirty Grandpawith six,Gods of Egypt,Hillary’s AmericaandIndependence Day: Resurgencewith five each, andAlice Through the Looking Glass. The Razzie voters also largely sparedThe Divergent Series: Allegiant, which had the potential to take home six Razzie nominations, but it was only nominated twice, forShailene WoodleyandNaomi Watts' performances.Assassin’s Creedwas also up for five nominations on the short list, but it wasn’t apparently bad enough in the eyes of the Razzie voters, since it didn’t end up with any Razzie nominations.
Voting Razzie Members (1,014 from 49 US States and 24 countries) selected contenders in 8 of our 9 categories. For Worst Screen Combo, The Razzies partnered again with Rotten Tomatoes where tens of thousands of users picked the nominees. Take a look at the full list of Razzie nominations below, withZoolander 2leading the pack with nine nominations.
