2018 Razzie Awards Nominations: Brace Your Sinks

Erik Anderson January 22, 2018

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The 38th edition of the Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies) have announced their nominations for the worst in 2017 film and the list is not without a few surprises, both in what made the list and what didn’t.

Jennifer Lawrence, a four-time Oscar nominee and winner for Silver Linings Playbook, landed her first Razzie today for mother! The incredibly divisive film, which earned an F CinemaScore rating, was also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, another Oscar winner) and Worst Director for Darren Aronofsky. It’s a dubious trio of nominations, really, as the film may have been divisive among audiences but was less so with critics. It has a 75 on Metacritic and a 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, hardly ‘worst of’ territory.

There is a new edition in Jeff Beachnau’s hilarious Worst Picture/Best Picture series on the way where he takes the Razzie Worst Picture winner and Oscar’s Best Picture winner and mashes them up in a contrast and compare review. Check them out here.

Overall, Transformers XVII: The Last Knight led with nine nominations in total. Fifty Shades Darker comes in a close second with eight, while The Mummy has a total of seven. The Razzie Awards will be handed out, as they always are, the day before the Oscars – March 3rd.

Here is the full list of nominees:

WORST PICTURE
Baywatch
The Emoji Movie
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

WORST ACTRESS
Katherine Heigl / Unforgettable
Dakota Johnson / Fifty Shades Darker
Jennifer Lawrence / mother!
Tyler Perry / BOO! 2: A Medea Halloween
Emma Watson / The Circle

WORST ACTOR
Tom Cruise / The Mummy
Johnny Depp / Pirates of The Caribbean XIII: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Jamie Dornan / Fifty Shades Darker
Zac Efron / Baywatch
Mark Wahlberg / Daddy’s Home 2 & Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem / mother! & Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Russell Crowe / The Mummy
Josh Duhamel / Transformers XVII: Last Knight
Mel Gibson / Daddy’s Home 2
Anthony Hopkins / Collide & Transformers XVII: Last Knight

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Basinger / Fifty Shades Darker
Sofia Boutella / The Mummy
Laura Haddock / Transformers XVII: Last Knight
Goldie Hawn / Snatched
Susan Sarandon / A Bad Moms Christmas

WORST SCREEN COMBO
Any Combination of Two Characters, Two Sex Toys or Two Sexual Positions / Fifty Shades Darker
Any Combination of Two Humans, Two Robots or Two Explosions / Transformers XVII: Last Knight
Any Two Obnoxious Emojis / The Emoji Movie
Johnny Depp & His Worn Out Drunk Routine / Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales
Tyler Perry & Either The Ratty Old Dress or Worn Out Wig / BOO! 2: A Madea Halloween

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Baywatch
BOO 2: A Medea Halloween
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers XVII: Last Knight

WORST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky / mother!
Michael Bay / Transformers XVII: Last Knight
James Foley / Fifty Shades Darker
Alex Kurtzman / The Mummy
Anthony (Tony) Leonidis / The Emoji Movie

WORST SCREENPLAY
Baywatch
The Emoji Movie
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.