The 31st Annual RAZZIE
®
Awards
Sequels, Remakes,
and Rip-Offs Dominate This Year’s RAZZIE
®
Nominations
2010
was a year when those obnoxious “surcharges” for 3-D glasses
boosted movie studios’ bottom lines, while actual
attendance
dropped
once again. It was a year when most of what Hollywood
released was either a remake, a “reboot” a “re-imagining”...or an outright rip-off.
In other words, it was a banner year for only one of Tinsel Town’s best-known award
shows...the one that dis-honors Worst Achievements in Film. Voting members of The Golden
Raspberry Award Foundation have sifted through the cinematic rubble of last year and
selected nominees for
The 31st Annual RAZZIE
®
Awards
, with “winners” set to be
announced in ceremonies at
Hollywood’s
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
at 7:30pm/PST on
Saturday, February 26 – the now traditional Night Before the
Oscars
.
Leading the pack among this year’s RAZZIE
®
contenders
are the third installment
of an enormously successful franchise (with a berry opinionated fan-base)
and one of 2010’s biggest critical disasters, with 9 nods each.
RAZZIE
®
Repeat Offender
M. Night Shyamalan
“re-imagined” the
faux-anime TV series
The Last Airbender
into a jumbled, jump-cut mess of a movie that fans of the
TV show hated even more than critics
did (if that’s even possible!). In addition to
Worst Director
and
Worst
Picture
, the film is up for
Worst Remake
,
Worst Screenplay
,
Worst
Screen Couple/Ensemble
(the entire cast) and a brand-new
RAZZIE
®
category for 2010,
Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D
. Neck-and-neck with
Airbender
in the RAZZIE
®
race (while taking a decidedly bigger bite
it at the box office) is last year’s 4th biggest money-maker,
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
, also with 9 shots at taking home
spray-painted gold. All three of the principal characters of
Eclipse
are individually nominated for their acting, and the
entire cast is also up for
Worst Screen Ensemble
. Rounding out
the
Worst Picture
list are the aptly titled
Twilight
“parody”
Vampires Suck
,
the bling-obsessed superslick chick flick
Sex & The City #2
and the decidedly un-romantic rom-com/revenge
fantasy
The Bounty Hunter
.
Other notable nominees include a trio of long established divas,
Cher
,
Liza Minnelli
and
Barbra Streisand
all vying to be named
Worst
Supporting Actress
, ’tween bong enthusiast
Miley Cyrus
nominated
for
Worst Actress
, and
Jack Black
,
Gerard Butler
and
Ashton Kutcher
up against
Twilight
’s
Taylor Lautner
and
Robert Pattinson
for
Worst
Actor
.
Links to a complete list of nominees are on the right
.
The
RAZZIES
®
were created in 1980 as a logical antidote to
Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self-congratulatory awards
by
John Wilson
, author of
The Official Razzie Movie Guide
and
Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies
.
Nominees were determined by mailing ballots to 637 voters
in 46 U.S. states and 17 foreign countries. Electronic
voting and certification of this year’s Final
RAZZIE
®
Ballots will be handled by Vote-Now.com. The Barnsdall
Gallery Theatre is a facility of the City of
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
For more info on the awards’ history, please visit the
official
RAZZIE web site
,
follow the
RAZZIES on Twitter
,
or tune in to the just-launched
RAZZIE
®
Channel
on YouTube.