The list has come out for what will be up for the Razzie’s come April 1st, 2012, and it’s pretty much an Adam Sandler-fest as he’s managed to rack up an impressive twelve nominations. As the press release indicated, he’s up for more nominations than there are categories simply because he’s been nominated multiple times in some of them. There’s a lot of big budget bad movies out there that hit in 2011 and the Razzie’s serve to make note of them, have fun with them and just get snarky like you’d expect. Of course, it’s also interesting to see what some of these movies did for business as well, so check out the “Worst Picture” category where we added the budget and its theatrical box office for reference. Of course, box office take does not equal quality. And I’ll certainly admit to watching a bunch of these, though more on cable than anywhere else. You can’t change a channel without seeing Just Go With It showing up somewhere. People will rightly deride it, but look at it this way; they made it for $80 million and it brought in $215 million. People went to see it around the world.
Worst Picture: (Budget/Box Office)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Under $10m/$2.5m)
Jack & Jill ($79m/$149m)
New Year’s Eve ($56m/$142m)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($195m/$1.12billion)
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ($110m/$702m)
Worst Actor:
Russell Brand, Arthur
Nicolas Cage, Drive Angry 3-D, Season Of The Witch, and Trespass
Taylor Lautner, Abduction and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
Nick Swardson, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Worst Actress:
Martin Lawrence (As ‘Momma’), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Sarah Palin (As ‘Herself’), Sarah Palin: The Undefeated
Sarah Jessica Parker, I Don’t Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve
Adam Sandler (As ‘Jill’), Jack & Jill
Kristen Stewart, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Supporting Actress:
Katie Holmes, Jack & Jill
Brandon T. Jackson (As “Charmaine”), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Nicole Kidman, Just Go With It
David Spade (As “Monica”), Jack & Jill
The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Worst Supporting Actor:
Patrick Dempsey, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
James Franco, Your Highness
Ken Jeong, Big Momma’s #3, Hangover Part 2, Transformers #3 and Zookeeper
Al Pacino (As ‘Al Pacino’), Jack & Jill
Nick Swardson, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
Worst Screen Ensemble:
The Entire Cast of Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
The Entire Cast of Jack & Jill
The Entire Cast of New Year’s Eve
The Entire Cast of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
The Entire Cast of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Director:
Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Tom Brady, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Bill Condon, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Dennis Dugan, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
Garry Marshall, New Year’s Eve
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Arthur
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (Rip-Off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born)
The Hangover Part 2 (Both a sequel and a remake!)
Jack & Jill (Remake/Rip-Off of Ed Woods’ Glen or Glenda)
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Worst Screen Couple:
Nicolas Cage & Anyone Sharing the Screen with Him in Any of His Three 2011 Movie
Shia Lebeouf & The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers #3
Adam Sandler & EITHER Jennifer Aniston OR Brooklyn Decker, Just Go With It
Adam Sandler & EITHER Katies Holmes, Al Pacino OR Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill
Kristen Stewart & EITHER Taylor Lautner OR Robert Pattinson, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I
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 Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I, Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, from the novel by Stephenie Meyer
