45th Razzie® Award Nominations

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The 45th Razzie Nominations are out.

The five Worst Picture nominees are:

  • Madame Web — A comic-book-based movie originally released a year ago that spent the rest of 2024 being touted everywhere as “a serious Razzie contender”;
  • Borderlands — A big budget video-game-based bomb that racked up 90% negative reviews at R.T. (and suffered an estimated $100+ million loss);
  • Joker: Folie a Deux — A highly anticipated comic-book based sequel that had its protagonists express their mental illness and villainy – by singing and dancing!
  • Reagan — A love letter to the 40th President that “borrowed” its plot structure from Citizen Kane  (with Jon Voight imitating Bullwinkle’s nemesis Boris Badenov as its narrator);
  • Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (aka WTF the Movie) — An incoherent $120 million mess from the fabled director of The Godfather.

Apart from Reagan, with 6 Razzie nominations, genre films did the most damage to Hollywood last year: Borderlands, Joker: Folie a Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis also with six each; Unfrosted with four and The Crow with two.

The 45th Annual Razzie “Winners” (for whom there will literally be no raspberry red carpet this year) will be unveiled by video press release on the now traditional date of “Oscar Eve,” Saturday, March 1.

The complete list of nominees follows the jump.

45th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie®) Award Nominations

WORST PICTURE

  • Borderlands
  • Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Madame Web
  • Megalopolis
  • Reagan

ACTOR

  • Jack Black / Dear Santa
  • Zachary Levi / Harold and the Purple Crayon
  • Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Dennis Quaid / Reagan
  • Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted

ACTRESS

  • Cate Blanchett / Borderlands
  • Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Bryce Dallas Howard / Argylle
  • Dakota Johnson / Madame Web
  • Jennifer Lopez / Atlas

 SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Jack Black (Voice Only) Borderlands
  • Kevin Hart / Borderlands
  • Shia LaBeouf (in drag) Megalopolis
  • Tahar Rahim / Madame Web
  • Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Ariana DeBose / Argylle & Kraven the Hunter
  • Leslie Anne Down (as Margaret Thatcher) Reagan
  • Emma Roberts / Madame Web
  • Amy Schumer / Unfrosted
  • FKA twigs / The Crow

DIRECTOR

  • S.J. Clarkson / Madame Web
  • Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis
  • Todd Phillips / Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Eli Roth / Borderlands
  • Jerry Seinfeld/ Unfrosted

SCREEN COMBO

  • Any Two Obnoxious Characters (But Especially Jack Black) Borderlands
  • Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors” / Unfrosted
  • The Entire Cast of Megalopolis
  • Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Dennis Quaid & Penelope Ann Miller (as “Ronnie and Nancy”) in Reagan

PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL

  • The Crow
  • Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Kraven the Hunter
  • Mufasa: The Lion King
  • Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver

SCREENPLAY

  • Joker: Folie a Deux
  • Kraven the Hunter
  • Madame Web
  • Megalopolis
  • Reagan

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4 thoughts on “45th Razzie® Award Nominations”

  1. It is sort of funny that Bob Dylan didn’t record new music for the Oscar-nominated Bob Dylan movie … but does have a song for the Razzie-nominated Reagan biopic.

  2. I can’t think of another comic book character before Joker: Folie a Deux done this way. Was there? And who at the studio greenlighted this?

  3. Personally I thought JOKER: FOLIE AU DEUX was a very good followup to the first movie. Here’s what I had to say in a recent apazine:

    JOKER: FOLIE AU DEUX — This disappointed a lot of people, but I think of lot of that was from people who wanted Lady Gaga to channel Margot Robbie’s portrayal of Harley Quinn. Which feels rather WTF? to me, and disrespectful to both Gaga and Robbie.

    I felt the film worked very well as a followup to JOKER, and continued and built on the dark psychological elements of that first film. As for the musical aspects of the film that people objected to, look, Arthur Fleck was a mentally disturbed unreliable narrator in the first film, and he’s just as, if not more so, unbalanced in this sequel. Did people who watched the first film really watch this with an expectation that it would be a simple and unambiguous story? What were they thinking? What film did they have running in their heads before they actually saw this one?

    (I saw one review saying that FOLIE AU DEUX wasn’t as “fun” as the first movie. What the Hell movie did they watch?, ’cause “fun” was never a word that crossed my mind to describe watching the first JOKER film.)

    Anyway, thought it was very well done. In particular I’d like to call out Leigh Gill’s performance as Gary Puddles, reprising his role from the first film. He only appears once in this film, for only about five minutes in a courtroom scene, but, wow, he pulls out all the stops with his performance as the traumatized rent-a-clown business owner, and I’m not the only reviewer reporting his performance brought out tears. Give Leigh Gill some awards. (Wouldn’t be the first performer to win a Best Supporting Performance Oscar for a brief appearance.)

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