'Blonde', 'Morbius', 'Elvis' and Disney's Live-Action 'Pinocchio' Just Received Razzie Nominations
It's morbin' time at the Golden Raspberry Awards, which recognise the worst in cinema from the past year.
They can't all be great. They can't all be good. They can't all even be watchable. Every year, cinemas and streaming queues fill up with new movies — and every year, that includes a whole heap of excellent films. But, as the annual Golden Raspberry Awards also recognise, it also spans awful flicks as well.
While the Oscars and Golden Globes shower love on the best and brightest movies of the past year each time that they roll around, the Razzies do the opposite, handing nominations and gongs to the films it considers the worst of the annual bunch. 2023's accolades mark the awards' 43rd and they're aiming big, with high-profile titles such as Blonde, Morbius, Elvis and Disney's live-action Pinocchio among the contenders.
Of course, just as naming ace flicks is subjective, so is shaming terrible ones. Expect Elvis to notch up Academy Award nods, too, for instance. But the Razzies has given Baz Luhrmann's film two nominations, and both for Tom Hanks: for Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple with his latex makeup.
Hanks isn't just one of the world's favourite actors, but one of the Razzies' this year, also picking up a Worst Actor nomination for playing Gepetto in Disney's Pinocchio. That film received six nods in total, coming third to Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde with eight and Machine Gun Kelly's stoner comedy Good Mourning with seven.
Also among the nominees: Pete Davidson twice, for Marmaduke and Good Mourning; the Firestarter remake's Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress; filmmaker Judd Apatow for the pandemic-set supposed comedy The Bubble; and the two 365 Days sequels.
And yes, it's morbin' time at the Razzies, with the Jared Leto-starring supervillain flick ranking fourth nominations-wise with five: for Leto for Worst Actor, Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actress (for Adria Arjona), Worst Director (Daniel Espinosa) and Worst Screenplay.
The 43rd Annual Razzie Award winners will be announced on Sunday, March 12, Australian and New Zealand time. Check out the full list of nominees below:
GOLDEN RASPBERRY NOMINEES 2022:
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 SUPPORTING ACTOR
Pete Davidson (cameo role), Good Mourning
Tom Hanks, Elvis
Xavier Samuel, Blonde
Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Evan Williams, Blonde
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 SCREEN COMBO
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) and Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Both real life characters in the fallacious White House bedroom scene, Blonde
Tom Hanks and his latex-laden face (and ludicrous Aaccent), Elvis
Andrew Dominik and 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) and Mod Sun, Good Mourning
Andrew Dominik, Blonde
Daniel Espinosa, Morbius
Robert Zemeckis, Disney's Pinocchio
WORST REMAKE, RIPOFF or SEQUEL
Blonde
Both 365 Days sequels: 365 Days: This Day and The Next 365 Days
Disney's Pinocchio
Firestarter
Jurassic World Dominion
WORST SCREENPLAY
Blonde
Disney's Pinocchio
Good Mourning
Jurassic World Dominion
Morbius
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