Madame Web won the most Razzies but Francis Ford Coppola made the biggest splash by publicly claiming his own as director of Megalopolis.
Madame Web scored three of the $4.97 trophies — for Worst Picture, Screenplay and Actress (Dakota Johnson).
Joker: Folie a Deux also appropriately won a pair – for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel and Worst Screen Combo (Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga).
A complete list of “winners” is included below. Results were determined by emailing ballots to 1,217 Razzie Members (movie buffs, film critics and journalists) from 49 US States and about two dozen foreign countries who chose the “winners” in nine categories. The Redeemer award was decided by the Razzie Board of Governors.
WORST PICTURE
- Madame Web
ACTOR
- Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted
ACTRESS
Dakota Johnson / Madame Web
RAZZIE® REDEEMER
- Pamela Anderson / The Last Showgirl
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Amy Schumer / Unfrosted
DIRECTOR
- Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis
SCREEN COMBO
- Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie a Deux
PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL
- Joker: Folie a Deux
SCREENPLAY
- Madame Web — Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharples and Claire Parker & S.J. Clarkson
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I guess I’m one of the few people who felt JOKER: FOLIE AU DEUX was a worthy follow-up to JOKER. Leigh Gill’s courtroom scene, as Arthur Fleck’s traumatized former employer Gary Puddles, was particularly powerful. (Give Leigh Gill some awards.)
I recall one reviewer complaining that FOLIE wasn’t as “fun” to watch as JOKER had been. I wondered what the hell movie he’d actually been watching when he thought he was watching JOKER, because “fun” is one of the last words I’d use to describe that dark and tragic film. A film ably followed up by FOLIE’s own dark and unreliable presentation.
Megalopolis was a hot mess, but a magnificent hot mess.