The Golden Raspberry Awards have announced your 2023 winnersand for the first time ever, the Razzies awarded themselves.
The satirical awards show honoring the worst of the worst in film has been taking place right before the Academy Awards for more than four decades. Every Razzie Award is awarded with a pithy quote from a nasty reviewer, and this year’s batch, unlike the movies they came from, did not disappoint.
The 43rd annual Razzies kicked off Friday with Tom Hanks being presented with the Worst Supporting Actor trophy for what IndieWire called his performance “deliciously horrible… Kentucky Fried Goldmember” in Baz’s “Elvis.” Luhrmann. (The Times described his role as music impresario Colonel Tom Parker as the worst of his career and a “rare misstep” for the beloved actor.)
Although “Elvis” was nominated for eight Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards, including lead actor and best picture, it didn’t take home Sunday night. Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump,” also wasn’t among the 2023 Oscar nominees for supporting actor.
In the “worst screen combination” category, Hanks, along with his “latex-heavy face (and goofy accent),” scored another Razzie. The Hollywood Reporter characterized the depiction as “a creepy, beady-eyed drifter peering out from under a mountain of latex.” “Blonde” was also nominated in the Worst Screen Combination category, pairing writer-director “Andrew Dominik & His Issues with Women” as another troublesome duo.
The award for worst remake/rip-off/sequel went to Disney’s “Pinocchio,” also starring Hanks as the puppet maker Geppetto, for what the Hollywood Reporter called “another gizmo on the remake agenda of all of Disney’s.” . Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” won the animated feature Oscar on Sunday. The live-action remake from director Robert Zemeckis premiered a month earlier on Disney+ but received no Oscar nominations.
Sony Pictures’ comedy film “Morbius” also led the wins, garnering two Golden Raspberry Awards. His titular star, Jared Leto, won the dubious honor of worst actor for what the Irish Times described as “taking a silly role absurdly seriously”. And her co-star, Adria Arjona, was named worst supporting actress for her “barely tepid” performance in the same film, according to ABC’s Peter Travers.
According to A Trip to the Movies, Andrew Dominik’s biopic of Marilyn Monroe, “Blonde,” was “deplorable, misogynistic and exploitative,” earning him a Razzie Award for Worst Screenplay. It also took home the grand prize for worst picture, with the Atlanta Reporter calling it “a garish exercise in exploitation and fallacious storytelling,” while critic Jorge Rivera Rubio called it “traumatic pornography.”
Ana de Armas was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role as Monroe in “Blonde,” but the award went to Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
And for the first time in Razzie Awards history, the awards spoof recognized itself among the worst for its blunder earlier this year. The Razzies received their fair share of criticism for nominating 12-year-old “Firestarter” actor Ryan Kiera Armstrong for worst actress. The Razzies’ committee publicly apologized and changed the rules, placing age restrictions on worst-performing nominees, before replacing Armstrong’s name with its own on the ballot.
“For nominating someone who shouldn’t have been considered, a mistake that was put through the blender and pulverized from one corner of the Internet to another and to every media outlet in between, instead of awarding a statuette to worst actress this year. , we. I’m giving this Razzie, to the Razzies. … Well, what can we say? We earned this Razzie,” the group said in the winners announcement video.
Also considered “worst” were first-time directors Colson Baker (Machine Gun Kelly) and Derek Ryan Smith (Mod Sun) for their direction of the stoner comedy “Good Mourning,” which they both also starred in.
