Overview
For playing Princess Diana in Spencer, Kristen Stewart earned an Oscar nomination. For doing the same in Diana the Musical, Jeanna de Waal just won a Golden Raspberry Award. Given out the day before the Academy Awards and rewarding the worst in cinema for the past year — rather than the best and brightest like their counterparts — the Razzies have named their picks from 2021's flicks. And yes, singing through the life of Princess Di wasn't considered movie magic.
A filmed version of the stage production, Diana the Musical earned five awards in total — after leading the nominations with nine. The Golden Raspberries also considered it the Worst Picture of the year, and gave it the Worst Director, Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Screenplay prizes as well. If you haven't seen it yet, you might to stick with The Crown.
Also winning big: needless Space Jam sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy, which picked up three awards from four nominations. It received the Worst Actor prize for LeBron James, as well as the Worst Remake, Ripoff or Sequel award, plus Worst Screen Couple.
With those two movies scoring eight awards between them, there wasn't much room for many other winners at the 42nd Razzies (although, are Razzie recipients really considered winners?). But Jared Leto's awful efforts in House of Gucci still scored him the Worst Supporting Actor prize, even over Diana the Musical's Gareth Keegan.
One person who was always going to end with a Razzie to his name this year was Bruce Willis. The awards even created their own category for him — because he released eight flicks last year, and all of them were terrible. Wondering which one was deemed the worst of the lot? That'd be Cosmic Sin, which saw Willis pick up the accolade for Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie.
Ahead of likely winning an Oscar today, Will Smith also earned some love from the Razzies as well. The former Fresh Prince received the only Golden Raspberry anyone ever wants to get, though: the Razzie Redeemer, for actors who've come back from a spate of Razzie-worthy roles. Smith's win came for King Richard, the part he's expected to get that Academy Award for.
Check out the full list of nominees and winners below:
GOLDEN RASPBERRY NOMINEES AND WINNERS 2022:
WORST PICTURE
- Diana the Musical — WINNER
- Infinite
- Karen
- Space Jam: A New Legacy
- The Woman in the Window
WORST ACTOR
- Scott Eastwood, Dangerous
- Roe Hartrampf (as Prince Charles), Diana the Musical
- LeBron James, Space Jam: A New Legacy — WINNER
- Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen
- Mark Wahlberg, Infinite
WORST ACTRESS
- Amy Adams, The Woman in the Window
- Jeanna de Waal, Diana the Musical — WINNER
- Megan Fox, Midnight in the Switchgrass
- Taryn Manning, Karen
- Ruby Rose, Vanquish
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Ben Affleck, The Last Duel
- Nick Cannon, The Misfits
- Mel Gibson, Dangerous
- Gareth Keegan (as James Hewitt, the muscle-bound horse trainer), Diana the Musical
- Jared Leto, House of Gucci — WINNER
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Amy Adams, Dear Evan Hansen
- Sophie Cookson, Infinite
- Erin Davie (as Camilla), Diana the Musical
- Judy Kaye (as both Queen Elizabeth and Barbara Cartland), Diana the Musical — WINNER
- Taryn Manning, Every Last One of Them
WORST PERFORMANCE BY BRUCE WILLIS IN A 2021 MOVIE
- Bruce Willis, American Siege
- Bruce Willis, Apex
- Bruce Willis, Cosmic Sin — WINNER
- Bruce Willis, Deadlock
- Bruce Willis, Fortress
- Bruce Willis, Midnight in the Switchgrass
- Bruce Willis, Out of Death
- Bruce Willis, Survive the Game
WORST SCREEN COMBO
- Any klutzy cast member and any lamely lyricised (or choreographed) musical number, Diana the Musical
- LeBron James and any Warner cartoon character (or Time-Warner product) he dribbles on, Space Jam: A New Legacy — WINNER
- Jared Leto and either his 17-pound latex face, his geeky clothes or his ridiculous accent, House of Gucci
- Ben Platt and any other character who acts like Platt singing 24-7 is normal, Dear Evan Hansen
- Tom and Jerry (aka Itchy and Scratchy), Tom & Jerry
WORST DIRECTOR
- Christopher Ashley, Diana the Musical — WINNER
- Stephen Chbosky, Dear Evan Hansen
- Coke Daniels, Karen
- Renny Harlin, The Misfits
- Joe Wright, The Woman in the Window
WORST REMAKE, RIPOFF or SEQUEL
- Karen (inadvertent remake of Cruella deVil)
- Space Jam: A New Legacy — WINNER
- Tom and Jerry
- Twist (rap remake of Oliver Twist)
- The Woman in the Window (ripoff of Rear Window)
WORST SCREENPLAY
- Diana the Musical, script by Joe DiPietro, music and lyrics by DiPietro and David Bryan — WINNER
- Karen, written by Coke Daniels
- The Misfits, screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Robert Henny, screen story by Robert Henny
- Twist, written by John Wrathall and Sally Collett, additional material by Matthew Parkhill, Michael Lindley, Tom Grass and Kevin Lehane, from an "original idea" by David and Keith Lynch and Simon Thomas
- The Woman in the Window, screenplay by Tracy Letts, from the novel by AJ Finn
RAZZIE REDEEMER
- Will Smith for King Richard