Tom Hanks, Andrew Dominik’s Blonde lead 2023 Razzie Award nominations
Ana de Armas is spared, despite Blonde earning 8 Razzie nominations
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While tomorrow’s Oscar nominations will set out to celebrate everything good that happened in cinema over the last year, the Razzie Award nominations are here now to revel in some of the truly bad performances and projects from 2022.
Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde leads this year’s nominations, with 8 nods, including for Worst Picture and Worst Director. Blonde’s star Ana de Armas has been granted mercy with zero nominations, but nearly everyone else involved is taking the flak for the film, including supporting actors Xavier Samuel and Evan Williams. Dominik even earned a nom under the Worst Screen Couple for his performance opposite “His Issues with Women.”
Other frontrunners for the Razzie nominations include Mod Son and Machine Gun Kelly’s stoner comedy Good Mourning, Disney’s Pinocchio (the far worse of two Pinocchio adaptations this year), and predictably, Marvel’s Morbius.
Under the acting categories, Tom Hanks earned two nods for his uniquely terrible lead performances in the Baz Luhrmann biopic Elvis, as well as for his role of Gepetto in Disney’s Pinocchio. Pete Davidson follows right behind Hanks, with nominations for his starring voice role in Marmaduke, as well as his cameo role in Good Mourning.
See the full list of nominations below:
Worst Picture
Blonde
Disney’s Pinocchio
Good Mourning
The King’s Daughter
Morbius
Worst Actor
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly), Good Mourning
Pete Davidson (Voice Only), Marmaduke
Tom Hanks (As Gepetto), Disney’s Pinocchio
Jared Leto, Morbius
Sylvester Stallone, Samaritan
Worst Actress
Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Firestarter
Bryce Dallas Howard, Jurassic Park: Dominion
Diane Keaton, Mack & Rita
Kaya Scodelario, The King’s Daughter
Alicia Silverstone, The Requin
Worst Remake/Rip-off/Sequel
Blonde
Both 365 Days Sequels—365 Days: This Day & The Next 365 Days
Disney’s Pinocchio
Firestarter
Jurassic World: Dominion
Worst Supporting Actress
Adria Arjona, Morbius
Lorraine Bracco (Voice Only), Disney’s Pinocchio
Penelope Cruz, The 355
Bingbing Fan, The 355 and The King’s Daughter
Mira Sorvino, Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend
Worst Supporting Actor
Pete Davidson (Cameo Role), Good Mourning
Tom Hanks, Elvis
Xavier Samuel, Blonde
Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Evan Williams, Blonde
Worst Screen Couple
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Both Real Life Characters in the Fallacious White House Bedroom Scene, Blonde
Tom Hanks & His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent), Elvis
Andrew Dominik & His Issues with Women, Blonde
The Two 365 Days Sequels (both Released in 2022)
Worst Director
Judd Apatow, The Bubble
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Andrew Dominik, Blonde
Daniel Espinosa, Morbius
Robert Zemeckis, Disney’s Pinocchio
Worst Screenplay
Blonde / Written for the Screen by Andrew Dominik, Adapted from the “Bio-Novel” by Joyce Carol Oates
Disney’s Pinocchio / Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Chris Weitz (Not Authorized by the Estate of Carlo Collodi)
Good Mourning / “Written” by Machine Gun Kelly & Mod Sun
Jurassic World: Dominion / Screenplay by Emily Carmichael & Colin Treverrow, Story by Treverrow & Derek Connolly
Morbius / Screen Story and Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless
94 Comments
Hack shit
You got some phlegm caught in your throat?
I would never even know if Blonde was deserving of Razzie’s because the media is incapable of reviewing the actual quality of a work more than it’s sociopolitical standing.
Aren’t the Razzies just, like, one dude in his mom’s basement or something?
No not at all, they’re certainly far more respectable than the oscars
Yet infinitely more respectable than whatever the Oscars are doing.
So are guys who thirst over Ana DeArmas.
What, like that’s a bad thing?
You’re not that far off about it originally, it was held in the founder’s living room back in or around 1980.For a long time now, though just about anyone could join and vote. We could all do it if we wanted to!https://www.razzies.com/join-vote.html
The opinions of dudes in their mom’s basements need the most attention of all!
What boring choices.
I couldn’t give less of a shit but I respect the folks who run the Razzies for going to the trouble of making/presenting fake awards rather than just making catty Letterboxd reviews like so many others.
I think it’s pretty shitty of them to nominate Ryan Kiera Armstrong. Haven’t seen the movie, I don’t care if she was terrible in it. She’s 12, she doesn’t deserve to be called out like this.
No wonder I didn’t recognize the name. Yeah kids should be off-limits.
Came here to say this. After what we (and I mean “we” as in me too) as a Star Wars community did to Jake Lloyd, I totally agree, kids are off-limits.
Yes, its always classy to nominate kids for these types of awards… jeez these people need a good slap on the back of the head to reboot their senses.
“Yes, its always classy to nominate kids for these types of awards…”
Ah yes, the Razzies are synonymous with classy.
Totally in agreement here. It’s one thing to mock a child’s performance in a forum like this — we’re all entitled to our opinion and the kid will likely never read it— but to do it in such a public way is just really shitty and uncalled for.
Disney’s Pinocchio (the far worse of two Pinocchio adaptions this year).Three. There are three Pinocchio adaptions from 2022, with the Disney version being far superior to the worst version.
I don’t know, imo it’s a close race. At least the Shore one was a special kind of awful. The Disney one is not only creatively bankrupt, but it’s not nearly bad enough to be entertainingly bad. Like, I’m sure I could get hammered with some friends and enjoy the Shore one, whereas I’m pretty sure we’d all just boo and turn off the Disney one by the time it gets to that “Chris Pine” joke.
Well I’m quite okay with piling on Blonde and calling out the bizarre attitude towards women in the film. That one interview with Andrew Dominick was impressively bad.
The more bizarre part is they completely fabricated a rape occurring. Like…why?
I think that was from the book. A not great book. Also the lowest for me is when the interviewer points out a lot of things Marilyn did in life that the movie doesn’t bring up, and Dominick just says yeah well this is a story of a woman who kills herself. Jesus.
You’re soooo brave.
“and Dominick just says yeah well this is a story of a woman who kills herself. Jesus.”
Can you believe he didn’t put the drug-addicted woman on a pedestal and make her perfect?
It’s bizarre that they fictionalized something in an adaptation of a completely fictionalized book?
Do you *ever* understand anything?
Did his mother name him “Machine Gun”?
Mechanical Gunther is his legal name.
Aw, that’s nice. My mother likes biblical names.
As someone who uses the term Gunther to describe a very specific kind of person (ironically people JUST like MGK), I enjoyed this thoroughly. So thoroughly, in fact, that I took a pic of it and sent it to my buddy who’s by far the biggest Gunther in my network.
Cheers
Flintlock McGee was already taken.
Musket Moynihan.
Big McLargeHuge!Oh wait… different list…
noted.
Lame name. He thinks that with his tats and name he would come off as a badass.
COLSON MACHINE GUN KELLY BAKER, you GET IN THIS HOUSE THIS INSTANT!!!
Doesn’t exactly fly off the tongue, does it?
I’d like to see the Razzies introduce a new category for “Worst Film Awards” and then every year the nominees just be:Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “The Golden Globes” Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “The Golden Globes” Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “The Golden Globes”
But wouldn’t they need to nominate themselves, too? Wouldn’t they open themselves up to accusations of favoritism?
My first thought was “wait, Stallone starred in an adaptation of a Richard Price novel and I didn’t know about it??” This makes much more sense.
I honestly forgot about Blonde. I felt like it was going to bomb when the only news in advance of its release was Ana de Armas “lamenting” the amount of nudity in a way that seems like guerilla marketing to juice numbers.
Dont forget all the times Marilyn’s ghost was on set. What a weird thing to say to market the film. I like to think her ghost was haunting the crew because she hated the film too.
ugh I tried the movie and gave up. I’m still grossed out that Dominik took this truly enduring, magnetic and intellect of a woman whose legacy reaches far beyond her trauma, and then rooted her strictly as some narrative device to be abused by men (and by extension, himself as the writer)
Yeah I was skeptical from the first announcement since the source material was… not great. But boy did Dominik dig waaaaaay deeper then I expected. Gross and misogynistic is the two words bouncing at me after watching. Should have called it The Passion of the Monroe, would be more honest with itself. This was so miserable it really makes me wonder if Assassination of Jessie James was actually as good as I remembered.
HE. ADAPTED. A. NOVEL.
as I recall, and I don’t plan to look into it again, she was lamenting that people would find her being naked sexy, and that clips would probably wind up on porn sites. While the clips part is gross it isn’t news, and I don’t quite understand putting a beautiful woman naked in your movie to only make you want to jump off a cliff or like, kill sex forever.
Remember when they would nominate every Transformer sequel so they could make the the same transphobic joke every time?
What joke? The only note for this one is adding a Roman numeral to the title:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Golden_Raspberry_Awards
You’re sooooo brave.
I can’t believe the Razzies are still a thing in 2023. They were never even funny to begin with.
Stallone ???? You got to be kidding . While not a great film it was ok and he was good in it .The Rock was a rock in Black Adam and is way more deserving
The Razzies nominate the same people over and over, no matter how decent their performance. They never got the memo that a movie can suck, but the performance can be just fine.
Well, that’s democracy in action for you.
Things like MST3K, How Did This Get Made, Rifftrax, and similar bad movie-based forms of entertainment work because the the comedians are funnier than the movie is bad. There was a point where the Razzies were funnier than the movies they mocked were bad, but in recent decades the level of humor has gone down and the movies they choose to target stopped being bad and are just not that good.
The Razzies have always sucked. They have nominated lots of awesome movies. Freddy Got Fingered won and that movie is a masterpiece.
I’m hearing you loud and clear on Freddy Got Fingered.
It made me love Tom Green. What a funny punk rock thing to do with your big break.
Proud!
Where’s your LeBaron, Freddy?
Hate Tom Green, liked Freddie Got Fingered.
Go figure.
He wasn’t likely to do a re-write of “Annie Hall.”
Freddy Got Fingered is better than anything Woody Allen has done. Plus Tom knows how to treat women.
Well, I can’t argue with THAT in-depth analysis.
And also not a pederast.
That’s not what Drew Barrymore said.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
Among other crimes from the Razzies:Worst Supporting Actor for Danny DeVito in Batman Returns
Worst Supporting Actress for Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man
Worst Supporting Actress for Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element
Worst Picture for Rocky IV
Worst Picture, Actor, Director, Screenplay for Last Action Hero
To be fair, Freddy Got Fingered is the kind of movie that looks like it was made specifically for the purpose of winning a Razzie.
You got the job, buddy!
JEWELS BETTY JEWELS!
Bobby Got Buggered
The very first Razzies nominated The Shining for worst movie, and the guy behind the Razzies stood behind it a few years ago, so screw the Razzies.
For what it’s worth, they eventually rescinded the nomination for Shelley Duvall at some point after news about how she was treated on set became widely known.
Holy shit, is that true? I mean I believe you, and yet I still need to look it up.
There used to be a lot more movies that were both high profile and very bad. I’m not sure any of these movies meet the classic Razzie standard other than Morbius.
How Did This Get Made doesn’t cover just terrible movies though, they also do movies that are good but make baffling decisions. And more often than not the hosts recommend the bad ones anyway.
I do like worst list I have been watching old Siskel and Ebert videos on YouTube. I liked how the earlier PBS seasons would have dogs of the week along with a cute dog. Also it’s interesting that some of their worst like Showgirls have become cult classics.
Aw, and Moonfall tried so hard. Better luck next year, Moonfall.
Bryce Dallas Howard was the only good thing about that stupid movie.
Hey, I learned there was a Marmaduke movie from this, and I can 1000% see Pete Davidson taking zero moments to agree to doing it.
Maybe I’m being pedantic, but I’m pretty sure that Marmaduke doesn’t talk — he certainly never did in the comics. He didn’t even have thought bubbles. He’s just a gigantic dog.
I’m not sure why Pete Davidson was even nominated, because as far as I can see from the trailer for the 2022 version, Marmaduke barely talks — as you said, like the comic strip. The 2010 version though, wow, Owen Wilson never stops talking. I wonder if there’s such a thing as a Retroactive Razzie? (21) Marmaduke – In Theaters June 4! | Official Trailer (HD) | 20th Century FOX – YouTube
How do they even make a movie, just the dog being big in places it’s mildly humorous for a big dog to be big in? Each scene would be like 10 seconds long.
I didn’t think ANY of last year’s Pinocchios were worthwhile. Just sayin’.When are people going to stop bagging on Bryce Dallas Howard. That just seems mean, man. Hanks and Leto at least were giving their all.
Of all the films on this list, I didn’t see a lot. Somehow I did see Good Mourning, and I can say, yeah, it might be worthy of the nod.
I agree the decent one had way too many forgettable songs. But the ending really got to me.
Worst Supporting Actress
Adria Arjona, MorbiusHow DARE the Razzies. Adria Arjona is PERFECT in everything!!
Turns out Ana de Armas is just too damn hot to be nominated.
No love for The Rock in Black Adam? I guess it was that middling.
Remember when they made a whole category just to mock Bruce Willis for racking up so many tiny roles in crap DTV movies, and then we found out why he was doing it, so they had to publicly apologize and scrap the whole thing? That was the most interesting these things have been in decades.
I think the funniest possible thing for this is that there is a non-zero chance that Hanks in Elvis earns an Oscar nod for supporting actor. Between the Academy’s love for him and the fact that Elvis is generally the sort of movie that they shower with awards he might get in. Not win but get in. The hilarity of the same performance earning Razzie and Oscar nods is just too sweet and shows pretty much every reason why I don’t care about any of these awards.
The Razzies are garbage. They don’t nominate the worst movies or performances, just the most high profile ones (Blonde) or low hanging fruit (Sly Stallone).
Remember when they nominated Sofia Coppola for Phantom Menace, even though she’s basically an extra who just stands there in the background?
I’m a little glad these exist only so Tom Hanks wins for Elvis, but they need to put an age limit on these awards. Putting a little girl in here is not okay. They should do an age cutoff of 18. Like, doing this is so bad that to watch the razzies is basically participating in bullying.
Aside from Blonde and Elvis, I don’t think I knew any of these movies existed.