Diana, the movie model of a musical in regards to the late Princess of Wales, obtained a field-leading 9 Razzie Award nominations on Monday (Feb 7), together with worst image and worst actress, whereas Bruce Willis was skewered together with his personal class of appearing ineptness.
The Razzies, now in their forty second 12 months, lampoon the films that critics like to hate, testing the thickness of Hollywood’s pores and skin by reveling in the business’s worst boondoggles.
This 12 months’s Razzies took a ball-stealing swipe at basketball star LeBron James for a lame remake of Michael Jordan’s Space Jam, granting it 4 nominations, together with worst actor for James, who can at the very least fall again on his US$39mil-a-year day job with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Razzies discovered Willis deserving of his personal particular class, nominating him eight instances for “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie,” itemizing all eight of his forgettable movies from the 12 months.
Karen, which the Razzies described as hopeless melodrama, and The Woman In The Window, deemed lifeless and pointless, earned 5 nominations every. Meanwhile, the so-called time-travel turkey Infinite and heist filler The Misfits got here down with three every.
Jeanna de Waal in ‘Diana’.
But the musical Diana was deemed a particular stage of dangerous, nominated for worst director, worst screenplay and a virtually all the foremost appearing classes, together with a worst actress nod for Jeanna de Waal in the title function.
Those insults have been heaped on high of damage: The Broadway present on which it was based mostly closed in December after simply 33 common performances.
Diana received panned whereas two different dramatisations of Princess Diana gained important reward from the mainstream business: the theatrical launch Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart, and the Netflix collection The Crown, with Emma Corrin in the function.
As ordinary, the Razzies ridiculed former Oscar winners, nominating helpless ham Jared Leto for House Of Gucci, Ben Affleck for The Last Duel and Mel Gibson for Dangerous in the worst supporting actor class.
The self-described “ugly cousin to the Oscars” began in 1980 because the Golden Raspberry Awards, created by UCLA movie college graduates and movie business veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy.
More than 1,100 Razzie members from throughout the United States and about two dozen different international locations vote on the awards, in line with the Razzie web site. – Reuters
