2016 Razzie (Golden Raspberry) Nominations
The 2016 Golden Raspberry (aka the Razzies) nominations are out and they include two things they include almost every year: a current Oscar contender and Adam Sandler. You can always count on Adam Sandler showing up here with copious amounts of nominations (too bad he doesn’t have the sense of humor to show up to the awards like past winners Sandra Bullock and Halle Berry) and this year is no different. Between Pixels and The Cobbler, Sandler’s films racked up eight nominations. I’m genuinely surprised they didn’t find a way to include his Netflix movie The Ridiculous Six.
Top nomination totals went to Fifty Shades of Grey, Jupiter Ascending, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Pixels, all with six each.
Also in the mix are two Oscar contenders this year; Rooney Mara and Eddie Redmayne. Here Mara is up for Worst Supporting Actress for the appropriately titled Pan and Redmayne for his supporting turn in Jupiter Ascending (although I’d argue he’s much worse in The Danish Girl). Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor last year. Julianne Moore, who won the Best Actress Oscar last year is up for Worst Supporting Actress for The Seventh Son. Razzie nom champ Fifty Shades of Grey is also a potential Oscar nominee in Original Song.
The Razzie Redeemer (voted on by the public) lists Elizabeth Banks, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith and Razzie king Sylvester Stallone (who seems like a shoe-in) to earn back your cinematic respect.
Here are the complete nominations for this year’s Razzie Awards:
Worst Picture
Fantastic Four
Fifty Shades of Grey
Jupiter Ascending
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Pixels
Worst Director
Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Tom Six, Human Centipede 3
Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
Josh Trank, Fantastic Four
Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending
Worst Actor
Johnny Depp, Mortdecai
Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey
Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler, The Cobbler and Pixels
Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending
Worst Actress
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 Supporting Actor
Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation
Josh Gad, Pixels and The Wedding Ringer
Kevin James, Pixels
Jason Lee, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip
Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending
Worst Supporting Actress
Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip and The Wedding Ringer
Rooney Mara, Pan
Michelle Monaghan, Pixels
Julianne Moore, Seventh Son
Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers and Pan
Worst Screenplay
Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Fantastic Four
Kelly Marcel, Fifty Shades of Grey
Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending
Kevin James and Nick Bakay, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Pixels
Worst Remake or Sequel
Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Fantastic Four
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Human Centipede 3
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Worst Screen Combo
Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, Fantastic Four
Johnny Depp and his glued-on mustache, Mortdecai
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
Kevin James and either his Segway or glued-on mustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler and any pair of shoes, The Cobbler
Razzies Redeemer Award
Elizabeth Banks
M. Night Shyamalan
Will Smith
Sylvester Stallone
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