The nominations are in for the Golden Raspberry Awards 2012. And Adam Sandler leads the way, with eleven nominations…
The Golden Raspberry Awards, the Razzies, are usually given out the night before the Oscars. However, this year, things have changed, with the awards being given out this year on April 1st. That means that Oscar time has, instead, brought us the list of Razzie nominations.
Now, usually, the big accusation aimed at the Razzies, with some justification, is that it targets high profile failures, as opposed to genuinely abysmal failures. It’s an accusation that’s hard to shift, but having sat through more than a few of the movies on its list here, it’s hard to grumble too much.
Points of interest? Well, there appear to be four men up for actress awards, and it seems as if the categories have been reangled to give Adam Sandler as many chances as possible to take home a prize or two. And we suspect he might. His collective nominations here, for acting and writing, have set a Razzie record. Here’s the full list of nominations..
WORST PICTURE
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Jack & Jill
New Year’s Eve
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One
WORST ACTOR
Russell Brand (Arthur)
Nicolas Cage (Drive Angry, Season Of The Witch, Trespass)
Taylor Lautner (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Abduction)
Adam Sandler (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)
Nick Swardson (Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star)
WORST ACTRESS
Martin Lawrence (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Sarah Palin (Sarah Palin: The Undefeated)
Sarah Jessica Parker (I Don’t Know How She Does It, New Year’s Eve)
Adam Sandler (Jack & Jill)
Kristen Stewart (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Patrick Dempsey (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)
James Franco (Your Highness)
Ken Jeong (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, The Hangover Part 2, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Zookeeper)
Al Pacino (playing Al Pacino in Jack & Jill)
Nick Swardson (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)
WORST SUPPPORTING ACTRESS
Katie Holmes (Jack & Jill)
Brandon T Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Nicole Kidman (Just Go With It)
David Spade (Jack & Jill)
Rosie Huntington Whiteley (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)
WORST SCREEN ENSEMBLE
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Jack & Jill
New Year’s Eve
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1
WORST DIRECTOR
Michael Bay (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)
Tom Brady (Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star)
Bill Condon (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
Dennis Dugan (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)
Garry Marshall (New Year’s Eve)
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
The Hangover Part 2
Jack & Jill
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Nicolas Cage, and anyone sharing the screen with him in his three 2011 movies
Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of The Moon)
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston or Brookyln Decker (Just Go With It)
Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes, Adam Sandler or Al Pacino (Jack & Jill)
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
WORST SCREENPLAY
Bucky Larson, Born To Be A Star (Written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson)
Jack & Jill (Screenplay by Steve Koren & Adam Sandler, Story by Ben Zook)
New Year’s Eve (Written by Katherine Fugate)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Written by Ehren Kruger)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg)
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