Hollywood’s Worst: 34th Annual RAZZIE Nominees Announced

One year shy of their 35th anniversary, Tinsel Town’s Tackiest Trophy Derby continues to call on Hollywood’s A-Listers to “Own Their Bad.” This year’s 34th Annual RAZZIE® nominees include some of the biggest names in the movie business, who happened to star in some of the biggest box office bombs of 2013. For the first time in their history, the RAZZIES® are also working with their worldwide fan-base of PO’d motion picture-goers, and the cutting edge crowd-funding website Indiegogo to put on a high-end show this year and pave the way for the first ever RAZZIE® Awards Broadcast in 2015.

Garnering their first ever RAZZIE® nods are some of the silver screen’s most recognizable luminaries, including past Oscar® nominees Johnny Depp and Naomi Watts as well as up-and-comers making crummy choices like Jaden Smith and Selena Gomez. The list also 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. Going for a possible 3rd Worst Actor “win” in a row, Adam Sandler is back, alongside such RAZZIE® stalwarts (and past “winners”) as Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Lautner, Tyler Perry and The Awl Time RAZZIE® Cham-Peeen Sylvester Stallone, snagging a staggering 31st nomination for three 2013 dogs, BULLET TO THE HEAD, ESCAPE PLAN and GRUDGE MATCH.

Among this year’s five Worst Picture contenders are a real life father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) in a sci-fi epic set on “Planet Nepotism,” AFTER EARTH; Sandler’s latest summer-vacation-masquerading-as-a-movie, GROWN UPS #2; A shockingly star-studded cast in a major dud that came off as an X-rated rip-off of Love American Style, MOVIE 43: Tyler Perry’s 37th Man-in-a-Dress Drag-Fest A MADEA CHRISTMAS: and The Year’s Biggest B.O. Bust, Dizz-Knee’s flat-footed remake of THE LONE RANGER. A complete list of all nominees is included below.

For 8 of this year’s 9 RAZZIE® categories, contenders were determined by seeking online votes from some 750 G.R.A.F. Members in 47 U.S. states and 13 foreign countries. Nominations for the 9th category, Worst Screen Combo, were determined by votes from nearly 62,000 users at the popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.com. “Winners” in all categories will be announced on the now traditional date of “Oscar Eve,” Saturday, March 1.

WORST PICTURE

• After Earth
• Grown Ups 2
• The Lone Ranger
• A Madea Christmas
• Movie 43

WORST ACTOR

• Johnny Depp: The Lone Ranger
• Ashton Kutcher: Jobs
• Adam Sandler: Grown Ups 2
• Jaden Smith: After Earth
• Sylvester Stallone: Bullet To The Head, Escape Plan, Grudge Match

WORST ACTRESS

• Halle Berry: Movie 43, The Call
• Selena Gomez: Getaway
• Lindsay Lohan: The Canyons
• Tyler Perry: A Madea Christmas
• Naomi Watts: Diana, Movie 43

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Lady Gaga: Machete Kills
• Salma Hayek: Grown Ups 2
• Katherine Heigl: The Big Wedding
• Kim Kardashian: Tyler Perry’s Temptation
• Lindsay Lohan: In-App-Propriate Comedy, Scary Movie 5

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Chris Brown: Battle Of The Year
• Larry the Cable Guy: A Madea Christmas
• Taylor Lautner: Grown Ups 2
• Will Smith: After Earth
• Nick Swardson: A Haunted House, Grown Ups 2

WORST DIRECTOR

• The 13 People Who Directed Movie 43
• Dennis Dugan: Grown Ups 2
• Tyler Perry: A Madea Christmas, Temptation
• M. Night Shyamalan: After Earth
• Gore Verbinski: The Lone Ranger

WORST SCREEN COMBO

• The Entire Cast of Groan-Ups, Too
• The Entire Cast of Movie 43
• Lindsay Lohan & Charlie Sheen: Scary Movie 5
• Tyler Perry & EITHER Larry the Cable Guy OR That Worn-Out Wig & Dress: A Madea Christmas
• Jaden Smith & Will Smith on Planet Nepotism: After Earth

WORST SCREENPLAY

• After Earth: Screenplay by Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan, Story by Will Smith
• Grown Ups 2: Written by Fred Wolfe & Adam Sandler & Tim Herlihy
• The Lone Ranger: Screen Story & Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Justin Haythe & Terry Rosso
• A Madea Christmas: Written by Tyler Perry
• Movie 43: Written by 19 “Screenwriters”

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL

• Grown Ups 2
• Hangover III
• The Lone Ranger
• Scary Movie 5
• Smurfs 2