Razzie Awards for year's worst movies are announced and Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups 2" leads the pack with eight nominations. (COLUMBIA PICTURES) - The Razzie Award nominations were announced on Wednesday (January 15), with Adam Sandler's comedy "Grown Ups 2" leading the pack with a total of eight nominations, including worst picture and actor in the annual mock awards handed out for cinematic ignobility.
The Razzie winners will be announced on March 1, the eve of the Academy Awards, Hollywood's biggest awards fest. Tyler Perry's comedy "A Madea Christmas" also earned six nominations for the Golden Raspberry statuette, along with "Movie 43," a series of interconnected short films about a washed-up producer. The four films will be vying for the worst picture award along with big-budget underperformer "The Lone Ranger," which garnered five nods, including worst actor for Johnny Depp. "The list includes several 'repeat offenders,' returning for more pie-in-the face/light-hearted joshing from the only folks whose statuette no one wants to win," organizers said in a statement. Sandler, a previous Razzie winner, is back again in the worst actor category, which also includes Ashton Kutcher for the Steve Jobs biopic "Jobs" and Sylvester Stallone, nominated for three films "Bullet to the Head," "Escape Plan" and "Grudge Match." The winners of the awards are chosen by 750 members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation and votes from 62,000 users of the film review website RottenTomatoes.com. |
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