
Razzie voters still can’t expunge their “Memory” of Cats judging by the way the film claimed half the 2020 Golden Raspberry awards when they were finally announced online today.
But there were enough raspberries left over for deserving actors in other movies – John Travolta won for both his work in The Fanatic and Trading Paint, and Hilary Duff won for her film The Haunting of Sharon Tate, in which she played the iconic ’60s starlet in a horror film.
WORST PICTURE
- Cats
WORST ACTOR
- John Travolta / The Fanatic & Trading Paint
WORST ACTRESS
- Hilary Duff / The Haunting of Sharon Tate
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Rebel Wilson / Cats
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- James Corden / Cats
WORST SCREEN COMBO
- Any Two Half-Feline/Half-Human Hairballs / Cats
WORST SCREENPLAY
- Cats / Screenplay by Lee Hall and Tom Hooper
WORST DIRECTOR
- Tom Hooper / Cats
WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
- Rambo: Last Blood
WORST RECKLESS DISREGARD for HUMAN LIFE and PUBLIC PROPERTY
- Rambo: Last Blood
RAZZIE® REDEEMER AWARD
- Eddie Murphy / Dolemite Is My Name
Eddie Murphy was snubbed at the Oscars themselves for his work in “Dolemite Is My Name,” but he beat out Adam Sandler for the Razzies’ Redeemer Award, which recognizes strong performances from past honorees of the Razzies.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]
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I am one of the few people to admit aloud I kind of… enjoyed Cats? Not without certain moments of WTF or eyerolling, but that exact description could be used for the Rise of Skywalker.
And yet, I absolutely agree with both their picks for worst supporting actress and worst supporting actor, whose set pieces were some of the most WTF of all.
Dolemite Is My Name was a very enjoyable movie.
Usually putting 586 fields in the bib records for the Razzie winners at work is a minor highlight of the season for me. (Hugo and Nebula winners, too.) But even if the system will let me log in from home, I’m on leave and want to be on leave. It’ll wait.
I assume that “The Fanatic,” “Trading Paint,” and “The Haunting of Sharon Tate” bypassed theaters and went direct to streaming services. I don’t remember hearing of any of those movies before.
Maybe somebody made the mistake of sending publicity screener copies to Razzie voters?