Any honest Academy member will admit that Oscar voters are dealing with slim pickings for 2006. But at the other end of the quality scale, voters for this year's 27th Annual RAZZIE® Awards had literally dozens of deserving contenders to choose from. And choose they have...and RAZZ the nominees they will, in ceremonies to be held at 7:30pm/PST on Oscar eve, Saturday, February 24 at Hollywood's Ivar Theatre.
Heading the dis-honor roll of Worst Achievements in Film this year are a lascivious murder mystery that turned out to be a laugh riot, and a comedy nearly as devoid of laughs as Schindler's List: Sharon Stone as a "femme fatale" The L.A. Times called "footloose and panty-free" in Basic Instinct 2 and Shawn and Marlon Wayans in their brother Keenan Ivory Wayans' blatant knock-off of a 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Little Man. Each racked up 7 shots at the spray-painted gold statuettes no one in Hollywood really wants to "win." Joining these films in the final circle as Worst Picture nominees are M. Night Shyamalan's brain-dead bedtime story (and box office dud) Lady in the Water, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage donning an unconvincing bear suit in the laugh-out-loud funny remake of the Australian thriller The Wicker Man, and a film helmed by the man many Internet users consider the worst director alive today, Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne.
The Wayans brothers and Cage will be competing for Worst Actor of 2006 against last year's "winner" Rob Schneider in The Benchwarmers, former TV funnyman Tim Allen, with a trio of terrible titles (The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The Shaggy Dog and Zoom) and Larry the Cable Guy (Dan Whitney) as Larry the Cable Guy in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. Vying with Stone for Worst Actress will be repeat offender Jessica Simpson (nominated this year for Employee of the Month), teen-idol (and terrible role model) Lindsay Lohan in Just My Luck, newcomer Kristanna Loken in Bloodrayne and spelling-challenged risible siblings Hilary and Haylie Duff in Material Girls. Other well-known names and former Oscar darlings getting dinged with Golden Raspberry nods for 2006 include Ben Kingsley, Martin Short and Danny DeVito competing as Worst Supporting Actor, and RAZZIE® regulars Jenny McCarthy and Carmen Electra competing with LOST star Michelle Rodriguez, Kristin Chenoweth and Kate Bosworth (as an ultra-lame Lois Lane in Superman Returns) for Worst Supporting Actress. This year's newest RAZZIE® category salutes the dearth of quality G and PG rated movie fare in 2006: Nominated as Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment are Deck the Halls, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, RV, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and The Shaggy Dog. A complete list of nominees is included with this press release.
The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 by lifelong cinemaniac and cynic John Wilson, author of both THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE and EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES. Nominees were determined by mailing ballots to 737 Golden Raspberry Foundation members throughout 42 US states and more than a dozen foreign countries. Should they choose to accept their RAZZIES® "winners" receive a gold-spray-painted, golf-ball-sized raspberry atop a mangled super 8 film reel, with an estimated street value of $4.97. For more information on the RAZZIE® Awards, and their ill-lustrious history, visit www.razzies.com.
Nominees for The 27th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE®) Awards
WORST PICTURE
Basic Instinct 2 (Sony/Columbia) a.k.a. BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO
Bloodrayne (Romar Entertainment)
Lady in the Water (Warner Bros.)
Little Man (Sony/Revolution)
The Wicker Man (Warner Bros.)
WORST ACTOR
Tim Allen / The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The Shaggy Dog and Zoom
Nicolas Cage $$ / The Wicker Man
Larry, the Cable Guy (Dan Whitney) / Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Rob Schneider ## / The Benchwarmers and Little Man
Marlon Wayans # & Shawn Wayans # / Little Man
WORST ACTRESS
Hilary Duff # & Haylie Duff / Material Girls
Lindsay Lohan / Just My Luck
Kristanna Loken / Bloodrayne
Jessica Simpson # / Employee of the Month
Sharon Stone ## / BASICALLY IT STINKS, TOO
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kate Bosworth / Superman Returns
Kristin Chenoweth / Deck the Halls, The Pink Panther and RV
Carmen Electra # / Date Movie and Scary Movie 4
Jenny McCarthy ## / John Tucker Must Die
Michelle Rodriguez / Bloodrayne
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Danny DeVito # / Deck the Halls
Ben Kingsley $$ / Bloodrayne
M. Night Shyamalan $ / Lady in the Water
Martin Short / The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
David Thewlis / BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO! and The Omen
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Tim Allen & Martin Short / The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Nicolas Cage & His Bear Suit / The Wicker Man
Hilary & Haylie Duff / Material Girls
Sharon Stone's Lop-Sided Breasts / BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO
Shawn Wayans & EITHER Kerry Washington OR Marlon Wayans / Little Man
WORST REMAKE or RIP-OFF
Little Man (Rip-off of the 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Baby Buggy Bunny")
The Pink Panther (Sony/Columbia)
Poseidon (Warner Bros.)
The Shaggy Dog (Disney)
The Wicker Man
WORST PREQUEL or SEQUEL
BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO!
Big Momma's House 2 (Fox)
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (Fox)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Disney)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (New Line)
WORST DIRECTOR
Uwe Boll # / Bloodrayne
Michael Caton-Jones / BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO!
Ron Howard $$ / The Da Vinci Code (Sony/Columbia)
M. Night Shyamalan $ / Lady in the Water
Keenan Ivory Wayans # / Little Man
WORST SCREENPLAY
BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO Screenplay by Leora Barish & Henry Bean,
Based on Characters Created by Joe Ezsterhas##
Bloodrayne Screenplay by Guinevere Turner, Based on the Video Game
Lady in the Water Original Screenplay by M. Night Shyamalan
Little Man Written by Keenan Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans
The Wicker Man Screenplay Adapted by Neil LaBute from a Screenplay by Anthony Schaffer
WORST EXCUSE for FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT (New Category!)
Deck the Halls (Fox)
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
RV (Sony/Columbia)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
The Shaggy Dog
NOMINATIONS PER PICTURE
BASICALLY, IT STINKS, TOO = 7 Nominations
Worst Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Director, Sequel, Screenplay and Screen Couple
Little Man = 7 Nominations
Worst Picture, Actor (2) Remake/Rip-Off, Director, Screenplay and Screen Couple
Bloodrayne = 6 Nominations
Worst Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Screenplay
The Wicker Man = 5 Nominations
Worst Picture, Actor, Screenplay, Remake and Screen Couple
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause = 5 Nominations
Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment, Worst Actor, Supporting Actor, Sequel and Screen Couple
Lady in the Water = 4 Nominations
Worst Picture, Supporting Actor, Director and Screenplay
Deck the Halls = 3 Nominations
Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress
The Shaggy Dog = 3 Nominations
Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment, Worst Remake and Worst Actor
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## = Previous RAZZIE "Winner"
$ = Previous Oscar Nominee
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