Big Budget, High-Profile Movies Dominate RAZZIES® 36th Nominations Banks, Shyamalan, Smith and Stallone All Up for 2015 Redeemer Award
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 Redmayne 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. A complete list of all nominees is included with this press release. There is also a Nominations announcement video on The YouTube RAZZIE Channel.
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. For more info on the awards or their history, visit The Official Razzie Website or the IMDb, follow the Razzies on Facebook and Twitter, or visit the YouTube RazzieChannel. For more info (or to arrange an interview with Wilson) please e-mail him at: HeadRAZZberry@razzies.com
WORST ACTOR 2015
Johnny Depp, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler, The Cobbler & Pixels Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR 2015 Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 & Vacation Josh Gad, Pixels & The Wedding Ringer Kevin James, Pixels Jason Lee, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip Eddie Redmaine, Jupiter Ascending
WORST ACTRESS 2015 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 SUPPORING ACTRESS 2015 Kayley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip [Voice Only] & The Wedding Ringer Rooney Mara, Pan Michelle Monaghan, Pixels Julianne Moore, Seventh Son Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers & Pan
WORST DIRECTOR 2015 Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Tom Six, Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Josh Trank (& Alan Smithee?), Fantastic Four The Wachowskis (Andy & Lana), Jupiter Ascending
WORST PICTURE 2015 Fantastic Four Fifty Shades of Grey Jupiter Ascending Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Pixels
WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL 2015 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 2015 All Four "Fantastics," Fantastic Four Johnny Depp & His Glued-On Moustache, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan & Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James & EITHER His Segue OR His Glued-On Moustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler & Any Pair of Shoes, The Cobbler
WORST SCREENPLAY 2015 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 2015
Elizabeth Banks From Razzie "winning" Director for Movie 47 to directing the 2015 hit Pitch Perfect 2
M. Night Shyamalan From Perennial Razzie nominee & "winner" to directing the 2015 horror hit The Visit
Will Smith For following up Razzie "wins" for After Earth to starring in Concussion
Sylvester Stallone from All-Time Razzie Champ to 2015 Award Contender for Creed
I haven't even heard of some of these. I feel like I really, really need to sit through Pixels for some reason, though. Maybe also Jupiter Ascending. But not The Cobbler.
When I saw the trailer for Pixels, I was excited and wanted to see it in theaters. Then the Rotten Tomatoes rating was released, and I changed my mind. Adam Sandler gets no more of my money anytime soon.
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Originally posted by ekedolphinWhen I saw the trailer for Pixels, I was excited and wanted to see it in theaters. Then the Rotten Tomatoes rating was released, and I changed my mind. Adam Sandler gets no more of my money anytime soon.
Our house is a Sandler free zone. We don't allow his movies to be played on our TVs. He hasn't done anything good since Reign Over Me.
He has it in him to be a great dramatic actor. He was brilliant in that and Spanglish. Why he continues to do drivel like Grown-Ups is beyond me.
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Originally posted by ekedolphinWhen I saw the trailer for Pixels, I was excited and wanted to see it in theaters. Then the Rotten Tomatoes rating was released, and I changed my mind. Adam Sandler gets no more of my money anytime soon.
Our house is a Sandler free zone. We don't allow his movies to be played on our TVs. He hasn't done anything good since Reign Over Me.
He has it in him to be a great dramatic actor. He was brilliant in that and Spanglish. Why he continues to do drivel like Grown-Ups is beyond me.
$$$$$ and to hang with his friends and put in minimal work. He will never ever make a serious movie again. He has a built in audience and will always make money and keep his friends employed.
Life is hilariously cruel.
It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes.
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