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 likeJohnny Depp,Channing Tatum, andKaley Cuoco-Sweeting, previousOscarwinnersGwyneth Paltrow,Eddie RedmayneandJulianne Moore, and such Razzie Repeat Offenders asAdam Sandler,Jennifer LopezandKatherine Heigl. The winners were announced last night, withFifty Shades of GreyandFantastic Fourtying for Worst Picture.
The choices forWorst Pictureinclude Fifty Shades of Grey (2015’s “Most Successful Bad Movie”), Fantastic Four (a nearly instant remake that flopped with both critics and movie-goers),Jupiter Ascending(the latest sci-fi fiasco fromAndy Wachowski&Lana Wachowski),Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2(a box office hit despite its 95% negative rating at Rotten Tomatoes) andAdam Sandler’s latest excuse for a movie, the 80’s video game-themedPixels. Fifty Shades of Grey took home the most awards of the night, winning five Razzies.
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 Razzieswere created in 1980 as the comical counterpoint to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self congratulatory awards byJohn Wilson, author of The Official Razzie Movie Guide and Everything I Know I Learned At The Movies. For more info on the awards or their history, visitThe Official Razzie Websiteor theIMDbpage, follow the Razzies onFacebookandTwitter, or visit theYouTube RAZZIE Channel. Take a look at the 36th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE®) Awards Nominees below.
