'Fifty Shades of Grey' dominates 2016 RAZZIES with five wins
Some movies, such as Fifty Shades of Grey, are so bad, they deserve recognition. At least, that's the verdict of the committee for the Raspberry Awards.
More commonly known as the "RAZZIES," the show calls out supreme underachievement in Hollywood for categories such as "worst film" and "worst actor." The naughty romantic movie, which came out last February, received five of the top honors at the award show.
The awards ceremony comes the eve before the 2016 Oscar ceremony, and many past Oscar winners can be found on the RAZZIES list. That's because, the site explains, the award show is meant to encourage acclaimed actors and filmmakers to own up to their worst works.
"The $4.97 gold spray-painted Razzie Award is handed out to otherwise great talent who should know better than to associate their name with sub-par projects," reads the awards' Twitter bio.
Last year they even began a category for past RAZZIES winners and nominees who had seen the error of their ways, dubbed "The Redeemer Award."
Here are the not-so-lucky winners in each category:
WORST PICTURE
WINNERS: Fantastic Four and Fifty Shades of Grey
Jupiter Ascending
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Pixels
WORST ACTOR
WINNER: Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades of Grey
Johnny Depp in Mortdecai
Kevin James in Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler in The Cobbler and Pixels
Channing Tatum in Jupiter Ascending
WORST ACTRESS
WINNER: Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades of Grey
Katherine Heigl in Home Sweet Hell
Mila Kunis in Jupiter Ascending
Jennifer Lopez in The Boy Next Door
Gwyneth Paltrow in Mortdecai
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending
Chevy Chase in Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation
Josh Gad in Pixels and The Wedding Ringer
Kevin James in Pixels
Jason Lee in Alvin and The Chipmunks: Road Chip
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting in Alvin and The Chipmunks: Road Chip (Voice Only) and The Wedding Ringer
Rooney Mara in Pan
Michelle Monaghan in Pixels
Julianne Moore in Seventh Son
Amanda Seyfried in Love the Coopers and Pan
WORST REMAKE/RIP-OFF/SEQUEL
WINNER: Fantastic Four
Alvin and The Chipmunks: Road Chip
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
WORST SCREEN COMBO
WINNER: Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades of Grey
All Four "Fantastics" in Fantastic Four
Johnny Depp and His Glued-On Moustache in Mortdecai
Kevin James and EITHER His Segue OR His Glued-On Moustache in Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler and Any Pair of Shoes in The Cobbler
WORST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Josh Trank (and Alan Smithee?) for Fantastic Four
Andy Fickman for Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Tom Six for Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
Sam Taylor-Johnson for Fifty Shades of Grey
The Wachowskis (Andy and Lana) for Jupiter Ascending
WORST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Fifty Shades of Grey by Kelly Marcel, Based on the Novel by E.L. James
Fantastic Four by Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Jupiter Ascending by Andy and Lana Wachowski
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 by Kevin James and Nick Bakay
Pixels by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Story by Herlihy, Based on a Work by Patrick Jean
RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD
WINNER Sylvester Stallone (All-Time RAZZIE Champ Award Contender), redeemed through Creed
Elizabeth Banks (RAZZIE "Winner" for Movie 47), redeemed through multiple hit movies this year
M. Night Shyamalan (Perennial RAZZIE nominee and "winner") redeemed through The Visit
Will Smith (RAZZIE "Winner" for AFTER EARTH), redeemed through Concussion
The nominees for the RAZZIES were determined by voting from paying members of its committee.
To make the nominations announcement in January, the organization released a unique video that gave another humorous twist to the already half-serious proceedings. In it, an experiment "test subject" is forced to listen to the nominees in a way that, for a film-lover, seems to amount to torture.
