Cameron Diaz, Michael Bay and Kirk Cameron Among 2015 Razzie Award “Winners”
Last night marked the 35th annual Razzie Awards, a kind of counter-programming to tonight’s Oscars, honoring the absolute worst movies and stars in 2014. To be fair, the annual list of Razzie nominees indicates that the people behind these awards aren’t watching enough movies — there are plenty of movies from last year that were worse than Transformers: Age of Extinction, for instance. Kirk Cameron topped this year’s list of “winners,” with Cameron Diaz and Annie not far behind.
Kirk Cameron, who directed and starred in last year’s Saving Christmas, took home the most awards, picking up Worst Actor, Worst Picture, Worst Screen Combo (for Cameron and his ego) and Worst Screenplay. The Annie remake wasn’t far behind, taking home the award Worst Remake, Sequel or Rip-Off. Cameron Diaz won for Worst Actress for her roles in Sex Tape and The Other Woman. Michael Bay got the award for Worst Director for Transformers: Age of Extinction, while Megan Fox, star of the Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles won for Worst Supporting Actress.
But it wasn’t all bad, maybe. The Razzies have at least one “pleasant” award (which is actually just passive-aggressive), the Redeemer Award, which goes to the actor who has most redeemed themselves to Razzie voters. This year’s Redeemer Award went to Ben Affleck, for going from Gigli to Oscar winner for Argo, to last year’s Gone Girl.
Here’s the full list of nominees and winners, if you can call them that:
Worst Picture
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas [WINNER]
Left Behind
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Worst Actor
Kirk Cameron, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas [WINNER]
Nicolas Cage, Left Behind
Kellan Lutz, The Legend of Hercules
Seth Macfarlane, A Million Ways to Die in the West
Adam Sandler, Blended
Worst Actress
Cameron Diaz, Sex Tape, The Other Woman [WINNER]
Drew Barrymore, Blended
Melissa McCarthy, Tammy
Charlize Theron, A Million Ways to Die in the West
Gaia Weiss, The Legend of Hercules
Worst Supporting Actor
Mel Gibson, Expendables 3
Kelsey Grammer, Expendables 3, Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too, Transformers: Age of Extinction [WINNER]
Shaquille O’Neal, Blended
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Expendables 3
Kiefer Sutherland, Pompeii
Worst Supporting Actress
Cameron Diaz, Annie
Megan Fox, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [WINNER]
Nicola Peltz, Transformers: Age of Extinction
Susan Sarandon, Tammy
Brigitte Ridenour, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Worst Screen Combo
Any two robots, actors, or robotic actors, Transformers: Age of Extinction
Kirk Cameron and his ego, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas [WINNER]
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, Sex Tape
Kellen Lutz and either his abs, his pecs, or his glutes, The Legend of Hercules
Seth Macfarlane and Charlize Theron, A Million Ways to Die in the West
Worst Director
Michael Bay, Transformers: Age of Extinction [WINNER]
Darren Doane, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Renny Harlin, The Legend of Hercules
Jonathan Liebesman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Seth Macfarlane, A Million Ways to Die in the West
Worst Screenplay
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey [WINNER]
Left Behind, screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus, based on the novel by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Sex Tape, screenplay by Kate Angelo and Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller
Transformers: Age of Extinction, written by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro’s Transformers action figures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, written by Evan Daugherty and Andre Nemec & Josh Applebaum, based on characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman
Worst Remake, Sequel or Rip-Off
Annie [WINNER]
Atlas Shrugged 3: Who Is John Galt?
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Redeemer Award
Ben Affleck: From Razzie “Winner” for Gigli to Oscar darling for Argo and Gone Girl
Jennifer Aniston: From four-time Razzie nominee to SAG award nominee for Cake
Mike Myers: From Razzie “Winner” for Love Guru to Docu Director of Supermensch
Keanu Reeves: From six-time Razzie nominee to the critically acclaimed John Wick
Kristen Stewart: From six-time Razzie “Winner” for Twilight to the art house hit Camp X-Ray