Golden Raspberry Awards
The Golden Raspberry Awards, popularly known as Razzies or anti-Oscars (in Spanish: "Premios de la Raspberry de Oro"), were created by film critic and writer John J. B. Wilson in 1980, trying to complement and criticize the Academy Awards with a comic approach, rewarding the worst actors, screenwriters, directors and films in the film industry American.
The awards are annual and voted for by members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, which is an open association that grants voting rights to anyone who pays to register. The name of the award comes from the English phrase "blowing a raspberry", which refers to the sound made by blowing with the tongue between the lips (imitating flatulence) to denote a particularly ridiculous or shoddy artistic act.
The awards are given only to films of the voting year and are presented at a ceremony held on the eve of the Oscars, in an informal event that since its founding has attracted, year after year, increasing attention from the media and the entertainment press. Those selected as finalists rarely personally collect their statuette.
The trophy consists of a golf ball-sized plastic raspberry glued on top of a celluloid reel, sprayed with gold spray paint, and has a face value of $4.89.
Awards
Current Categories
- Worse movie
- Peor director
- Peor guion
- Worst actor
- Peor actress
- Worse couple on screen
- Worst secondary actor
- Worst secondary actress
- Peor remake, plagiarism, prequel or sequel
- Redemption Award (added category in 2014, which rewards the actors who showed an improvement in their work).
Retired Categories
- Peor original song
- Peor new star
- Peor soundtrack
- Lighter visual effects
People who have collected the award and memorable events
- 1985/1986/1989/1993/1995/2004: Sylvester Stallone won nine Razzie awards: Worst actor Rhinestone, actor and script in Rambo: First Blood Part II, actor and director Rocky IV, actor in Rambo III, actor in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, by couple on screen The specialist and casting actor Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. In addition to these nine awards, he was nominated thirty times by worse actor, script, cast actor, director and couple on screen.
- 1988: Bill Cosby received three Razzie awards (small film, actor and script) by Leonard, Part 6A spies parody that Cosby himself has publicly renegade. Cosby became the first person to accept his Razzies in person, which he did a few weeks after the ceremony in question in the program The Late Show on the Fox. According to an interview with Cosby in Johnny Carson's show.Cosby threatened to denounce the Golden Raspberry organization if it did not receive its real gold awards. The organization fulfilled, and Cosby received the gold figures of 24 carats and Italian marble, which cost $27,000, paid by the chain.
- 1993: Tom Selleck collected his Razzie to the worst cast actor for his interpretation of King Fernando the Catholic in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. He did it in an episode of The Chevy Chase Show.
- 1996: Paul Verhoeven became the first person to accept a Razzie in person at the award-winning gala, by collecting the prize to the worst director by Showgirls.
- 1998: The screenwriter Brian Helgeland became the first person to receive a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year (in fact, on the same weekend). Your Oscar the best script adapted by L.A. Confidential was delivered one day after receiving the Razzie to the worst script for the movie The Postman Kevin Costner. Although he did not attend the ceremony of the Razzies, he did express his desire to receive the "dishonor" to put it next to his Oscar, to remind him of "the Quixotesque nature" of Hollywood. Shortly afterwards he was given official delivery of his Razzie in his offices of the Warner Bros building.
- 2000: Wild West achieves five Razzies that year, including Peor Film. Robert Conrad, who starred at the Wild Wild West TV show in the 1960s, accepted three of the five awards.
- 2001: Although he was not officially accepted, Barry Pepper was awarded the prize to the worst secondary actor by Battlefield Earth, then picked it up in person.
- 2002: Tom Green picked up his five Razzie awards, including worse movie, for Freddy Got Fingered. His words were: "I mean, I'm not worthy of this award... by God, I meant that.». It was presented at the ceremony in a white Cadillac and with its own red carpet. His speech included an endless song that played with a harmonic, so in the end he had to be dragged out of the stage by the organizers.
- 2004: Ben Affleck, after having received the Razzie the worst actor by Gigli, Daredevil and Paycheck He asked why he had not received the award. He was delivered live on the program Larry King Live a week later, breaking it in the act. The broken Razzie was sold by eBay for a sufficient amount to pay the rent of the premises for the ceremony of the following year.
- 2005: George W. Bush received the prize to the worst actor for his "action" in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 being the second ruler who gets this award in his mandate.
- 2005: Halle Berry was the first actress to attend a gala and acquired her Razzie as a worst actress for her performance in Catwoman (film that received three other categories, including worse film). Three years ago I had managed to take the Oscar for the best actress by Monster's Ball. When he appeared, he held his Oscar on the left hand and his Razzie on the right, thanking his "premio", which was very applauded by criticism.
- 2010: Sandra Bullock gets Razzie by worse actress by All About Steve, carrying a reel of the DVD's of the film saying "See it, see it with your own eyes and say if I deserve this award, they'll give me the reason and next year I'll return it.», the next day he received the Oscar as the best actress by The Blind Side becoming with this the first actress to be the "best" and the "best" the same year (it was her first nomination to the Oscar and the third to the Razzie).
- 2011: Nicola Peltz manages to be nominated to worse secondary actress by The Last Airbender, it must be borne in mind that Nicola was only sixteen at the time.
- 2011: David Eigenberg decided to accept the Peor Couple on screen award by Sex and the City 2 saying "He never won any award in his life," and made a video of acceptance with Wilson.
- 2012: Adam Sandler took a total of 7 awards (as an actor, producer and screenwriter) for films Jack " Jill " and Just Go With It. Plus, he's the first actor to get the worst actress award for her role as Jill in that movie.
- 2014: Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith became the first father and son who won the razzie award, after receiving for worse secondary actor, worse actor respectively and also worse film couple for their interpretations After EarthMoreover, Jaden, then 15 years old, became the youngest winner in the history of these awards.
- 2016: It should be mentioned that even though no member of the cast received the prize for the worst film for 4 Fantastics, the production assistant David Murto received the award, declaring himself as the most prominent person in the production of the mentioned film, which is still willing to receive credit for it, and calling the prize as a "great dishonor".
- 2016: Jamie Dornan, who had declared that he would agree to attend the ceremony if he was invited, received his award to the worst actor for fifty shades of Grey two years later in the Conan O'Brien program.
- 2017: Dinesh D'Souza, director and protagonist Hillary's americaHe appeared in the video that the winners announced, saying that his anti-democratic documentary was chosen for resentment of those frustrated by Donald Trump in the elections, and thanking the prizes by saying "my audience loves the fact that you hate me."
- 2019: U.S. President Donald Trump was awarded as a worst actor for his "action" in the documentary Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9, being the third time a current ruler got the award and the second that Donald Trump received a Razzie Award.
Special prizes
Worst Race Award
This award has only been given five times: to Ronald Reagan, in 1981; to Linda Blair, in 1983; Irwin Allen, in 1985; Bruce, the rubber shark from Jaws, in 1987; and in 2009 to director Uwe Boll, for his achievement as "Germany's Answer to Ed Wood".
Governor's Award
This is a special award given by Razzie Awards Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the other categories. He was awarded the 2003 Travis Payne Award for his & # 34; Distinguished Sub-Achievement in Choreography & # 34; in the movie From Justin to Kelly.
Criticism
The Razzies have received much criticism for various situations, including from news sources such as Indiewire and The Daily Telegraph, for example, that members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation are not being asked to view the nominated films, and that apparently anyone can join the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as long as they pay at least $40, much different than the invitation-only form of admission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Critics see it as a problem that the Razzies only pick "easy targets" and popular films over those perceived as lesser known, despite being more deserving of a nomination for their poor production quality, continually preferring celebrities over less popular actors, ostensibly for publicity and attention.
Indiewire's Sam Adams said the Razzies are "like those annoying people who hurl insults at comedians, or a person who yells at a concert during a quiet song, they do whatever they do to get attention. Razzies appropriately avoid pouncing on the little ones; they don't attack indie productions with no budget that no one has seen for bad lighting or terrible sound." Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph said that "the Razzies' most recurring flaw is in picking the most obvious targets.", which becomes more redundant and worn out every year". William Bibbiani of CraveOnline stated that the Razzies follow "a cheap form of jokes", and "with a handful of exceptions, they only see fit to nominate the most infamous films of the year, and not necessarily the worst'. Cracked.com's Carolyn Burke describes the awards as "a rickety operation run by a bunch of lazy trolls who are guilty of the same arrogance they claim to satirically attack" and further stated that "the Razzies are an outdated 'joke' that has outlived any good intentions or relevance they ever had, and have become nothing more than a mean-spirited pit of sad criticism worse than any of the movies that aim to destroy with simple comedy and without intelligence".