Razzie Time!

[ROC]

“Little Man” and Sharon Stone’s “Basic Instinct 2” lead with seven nods each, “Bloodrayne,” “Lady In The Water,” “Wicker Man” also Worst Picture nominees.

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 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 BENCHWARMERS, former TV funnyman Tim Allen, with a trio of terrible titles (SANTA CLAUSE 3, 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 MATERIALS 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 2, RV, SANTA CLAUSE 3 and SHAGGY DOG. Links to the complete list of nominees are on the left column of this page.

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, please visit www.razzies.com.

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

Wicker Man, 5 Nominations

Worst Picture, Actor, Screenplay, Remake and Screen Couple

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

[zero]

No way, Lady in the Water needs to "win" every category it's nominated for because that steaming pile of shit was easily the worst movie I've seen in years.

[GhostMachine]

I think they should pass a rule giving Uwe Boll the Worst Director award every year automatically, even if he doesn't have a movie out.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

For shame. Lady In The Water isn't amazing or particularly great but there is NO WAY it deserves to be anywhere NEAR these awards. Typical "get the movie that was touted as being good but flopped" nomination rather than slating the films that truly were AWFUL.

[GoGo Yubari]

For shame. Lady In The Water isn't amazing or particularly great but there is NO WAY it deserves to be anywhere NEAR these awards. Typical "get the movie that was touted as being good but flopped" nomination rather than slating the films that truly were AWFUL.

I'm sorry, but when you cast yourself as the writer whose works are SO GOOD that they will change the world forever or whatever you deserve at LEAST a Worst Supporting Actor nod. Ye gods.

[zero]

Lady in the Water seemed like M. Night was making it up as he went along. There was no plot, horrible dialogue, and some terrible acting performances. Not to mention the pretentious bullshit GoGo mentioned.

[Liam]

To be honest, I found M Night's last couple of features pretty poor.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

But whatever you say, Little Man should win every award anyway.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

To be honest, I found M Night's last couple of features pretty poor.

Unlike some I don't hold him up to be the king of all movies but I normally find his films interesting, and in that way, enjoyable to watch. None of them are "ripping yarns" but mostly they seem to be thoughtful. For example The Village was much better than it was made out to be, and Unbreakable is an excellent movie. Sixth Sense is decent and holds together well. Signs and Lady much less more so, but still they're not awful by any means.

[Liam]

The Village was shockingly bad, I apologised to my date for having taken her to see it. Signs was pretty poor, but I've liked his other stuff. I don't hold him up as anything, I just expect him to be able to put together a decent film.

[GhostMachine]

The Village was shockingly bad, I apologised to my date for having taken her to see it. Signs was pretty poor, but I've liked his other stuff. I don't hold him up as anything, I just expect him to be able to put together a decent film.

[zero]

The Village was shockingly bad, I apologised to my date for having taken her to see it. Signs was pretty poor, but I've liked his other stuff. I don't hold him up as anything, I just expect him to be able to put together a decent film.

I feel sorry for Adrien Brody that he was in the Village, and that it was Ron Howard's daughter's debut movie.

Question: has M. Night appeared in any of his other movies, or just Lady In The Water?

M. Night is in all of his movies. Sometimes just a cameo (the Village), sometimes a bigger role (Signs, LITW).

Don't get me wrong, I like M. Night, and I thought the Village was terribly overbashed. But Lady in the Water was just inexcusable.

[Pepsi]

The Village was shockingly bad, I apologised to my date for having taken her to see it. Signs was pretty poor, but I've liked his other stuff. I don't hold him up as anything, I just expect him to be able to put together a decent film.

I feel sorry for Adrien Brody that he was in the Village, and that it was Ron Howard's daughter's debut movie.

Question: has M. Night appeared in any of his other movies, or just Lady In The Water?

[Rashid]

The Wicker Man was the 2nd movie I saw where I considered suicide during the viewing.

So please make this the worst film.

[LL!]

But Wicker Man had some great scenes:

[gunnar hendershow]

I think they should pass a rule giving Uwe Boll the Worst Director award every year automatically, even if he doesn't have a movie out.

But that won't stop him. He gets money just for making a movie, NO MATTER HOW BAD. Oh Germany.

[GhostMachine]

The Village was shockingly bad, I apologised to my date for having taken her to see it. Signs was pretty poor, but I've liked his other stuff. I don't hold him up as anything, I just expect him to be able to put together a decent film.

I feel sorry for Adrien Brody that he was in the Village, and that it was Ron Howard's daughter's debut movie.

Question: has M. Night appeared in any of his other movies, or just Lady In The Water?

[fourstarfizzle]

I'm sorry, but anything involving Stan Collymore should win 'Greatest Film of the Millenium"

[MalaCloudy Black]

Wicker Man was such fucking tripe, it better win.

[Rashid]

...Wait a minute, how come Jackass 2 isn't on the list?

Clearly that deserves to win worst movie since.....Jackass 1.