42nd Razzie® Nominations
42nd Razzie® Nominations
jeanniejeanniejeannie.co.uk BLOG Thursday 10th February 2022
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
42nd Razzie® Nominations
Razzie. (Film) any of several gold-plated ornamental raspberries awarded annually in the United States by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for films or acting performances in films considered to be the worst of the year.
Voting Razzie Members (1,128 from 49 US States and over two dozen foreign countries) cast their 2021 ballots online, selecting five top contenders in each of nine categories. This year’s “Winners” will be unveiled on the now traditional date of “Oscar Eve,” Saturday, March 26th.
Contenders Include Lebron James,
The Other Diana Movie and Bruce Willis (8 Times!)
While space was jammed in 2021 with the likes of Bezos, Elon and a telescope exploring escape routes, we simple Earthlings who did not “Look Up” remained glued to the Razzie crap streaming, beaming and steaming from our various screens and devices.
Here’s a look at what we saw … the excruciating musicals, thrill-free thriller rip-offs, a nearly 2 hour product placement flick, and more Bruce Willis than any starving viewer could stomach. In other words, 2021 did not fail the Razzies!
As the ugly cousin to the Oscars, the Razzies duly follow in the footsteps of their more prestigious and dull counterpart’s rules and regulations. So, with the Academy guidelines allowing non-traditional releases to compete, guess what – so did we!
This year’s Worst Picture nominees include: The NetFLIX version of Broadway’s biggest bomb of the year, Diana the Musical (the stage version of which didn’t even last 40 performances); That multi-bajillion-dollar straight-to-streaming time travel turkey Infinite: The hopelessly on-the-nose/can’t-we-all-just-get-along melodrama Karen (whose title character makes Cruella seem like a nice neighbor); That 115 minute Time/Warner corporate sales reel posing as a family film, Space Jam: A New Legacy; And a lifeless, pointless “re-imagining” of a seminal Hitchcock classic, The Woman in the Window.
Acting nominees include an otherwise great actress, Amy Adams (with nods for both Woman in the Window and Dear Evan Hansen); LeBron James, who most likely dunked his chances for basking in the cinema limelight by starring in Space Jam 2; And a Razzie Regular whose appearance in no less than EIGHT titles in 2021 bagged him a category all to himself (Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie).
A complete list of nominations is included below and is also available online at Razzies.com. The Official 42nd Razzie Nominations Video can be watched at the RazzieChannel.
42nd Annual RAZZIE® Award Nominations
WORST PICTURE
Diana the Musical (The Netflix Version)
Infinite
Karen
Space Jam: A New Legacy
The Woman in the Window
WORST ACTOR
Scott Eastwood / Dangerous
Roe Hartrampf (As Prince Charles) Diana the Musical
LeBron James / Space Jam: A New Legacy
Ben Platt / Dear Evan Hansen
Mark Wahlberg / Infinite
WORST ACTRESS
Amy Adams / The Woman in the Window
Jeanna de Waal / Diana the Musical
Megan Fox / Midnight in the Switchgrass
Taryn Manning / Karen
Ruby Rose / Vanquish
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams / Dear Evan Hansen
Sophie Cookson / Infinite
Erin Davie (As Camilla) Diana the Musical
Judy Kaye (As BOTH Queen Elizabeth & Barbara Cartland) Diana the Musical
Taryn Manning / Every Last One of Them
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck / The Last Duel
Nick Cannon / The Misfits
Mel Gibson / Dangerous
Gareth Keegan (As James Hewitt, the Muscle-Bound Horse Trainer)
Diana the Musical
Jared Leto / House of Gucci
WORST PERFORMANCE by BRUCE WILLIS in a 2021 MOVIE
(Special Category)
Bruce Willis / American Siege
Bruce Willis / Apex
Bruce Willis / Cosmic Sin
Bruce Willis / Deadlock
Bruce Willis / Fortress
Bruce Willis / Midnight in the Switchgrass
Bruce Willis / Out of Death
Bruce Willis / Survive the Game
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any Klutzy Cast Member & Any Lamely Lyricized (or Choreographed)
Musical Number / Diana the Musical
LeBron James & Any Warner Cartoon Character (or Time-Warner Product) He
Dribbles on / Space Jam: A New Legacy
Jared Leto & EITHER His 17-Pound Latex Face, His Geeky Clothes or
His Ridiculous Accent / House of Gucci
Ben Platt & Any Other Character Who Acts Like Platt
Singing 24-7 is Normal / Dear Evan Hansen
Tom & Jerry (aka Itchy & Scratchy) Tom & Jerry the Movie
WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Karen (Inadvertent Remake of Cruella deVil)
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Tom & Jerry the Movie
Twist (Rap remake of Oliver Twist)
The Woman in the Window (Rip-Off of Rear Window)
WORST DIRECTOR
Christopher Ashley / Diana the Musical
Stephen Chbosky / Dear Evan Hansen
“Coke” Daniels / Karen
Renny Harlin / The Misfits
Joe Wright / The Woman in the Window
WORST SCREENPLAY
Diana the Musical / Script by Joe DiPietro, Music and Lyrics by DiPietro
and David Bryan
Karen / Written by “Coke” Daniels
The Misfits / Screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Robert Henny,
Screen Story by Henny
Twist / Written by John Wrathall & Sally Collett, Additional Material
by Matthew Parkhill, Michael Lindley, Tom Grass & Kevin Lehane,
from an “Original Idea” by David & Keith Lynch and Simon Thomas
The Woman in the Window / Screenplay by Tracy Letts, from
the Novel by A.J. Finn
NOMINATIONS per PICTURE
Diana the Musical (9 Nominations, including Worst Picture, Actor & Actress)
Karen (5 Nominations, including Picture, Actress, Screenplay & Director)
The Woman in the Window (5 Nominations, including Picture, Actress
& Remake/Rip-Off)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (4 Nominations, including Picture, Actor
& Screen Couple)
Infinite (3 Nominations, including Worst Picture, Actor & Supporting Actress)
The Misfits (3 Nominations, including Supporting Actor, Director & Screenplay)
TOP 42 OF THE DAY
The Top 42 Razzies (Each year since it started in 1980)
Always awarded in the year after the movie has been shown
42 2021 – TBA Saturday 26th March 2022
41 2020 – Absolute Proof
40 2019 – Cats
39 2018 – Holmes & Watson
38 2017 – The Emoji Movie
37 2016 – Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
36 2015 – Fifty Shades of Gray / Fantastic Four
35 2014 – Saving Christmas
34 2013 – Movie 43 (Project 43)
33 2012 – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
32 2011 – Jack and Jill (Jack y Jill)
31 2010 – The Last Airbender
30 2009 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
29 2008 – The Love Guru
28 2007 – I Know Who Killed Me
27 2006 – Basic Instinct 2
26 2005 – Dirty Love
25 2004 – Catwoman (Gatúbela)
24 2003 – Gigli (Thorny Love)
23 2002 – Swept Away (Unusual Fate)
22 2001 – Freddy Got Fingered (Freddy is leaving home)
21 2000 – Battlefield Earth (Final Battle: Earth)
20 1999 – Wild Wild West (Las aventuras de Jim West)
19 1998 – Burn Hollywood Burn
18 1997- The Postman (The Messenger)
17 1996 – Striptease
16 1995 – Showgirls (Showgirls)
15 1994 – Color of Night
14 1993 – Indecent Proposal (Una propuesta indecorosa)
13 1992 – Shining Through
12 1991 – Hudson Hawk (The Hawk is on the Loose)
11 1990 – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (Las aventuras de Ford Fairlane)
10 1989 – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Star Trek V: The Last Frontier)
9 1988 – Cocktail
8 1987 – Leonard Part 6
7 1986 – Howard the Duck (Howard, el superhéroe)
Under the Cherry Moon
6 1985 – Rambo: First Blood Part II
5 1984 – Bolero
4 1983 – The Lonely Lady (La dama solitaria)
3 1982 – Inchon
2 1981 – Mommie Dearest (Mamita dear)
1 1980 – Can’t Stop the Music (That does not stop music!)
REMEMBER: The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
– Nicolas Chamfort
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE FOR THE DAY
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Pele.
HAPPINESS IS…
Happiness is…the Razzies.
GRANDAD’S ONE LINER JOKE OF THE DAY
Is telling a demolitionist how to do his job is destructive criticism.
LOVE IS…
Love is…sharing each joy and each sorrow.
TURN…TURN…TURN!
A time for the Razzie Awards…A time for the Oscar Awards
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