Russell Crowe among stars nominated for 2024 Razzies
It’s the big Hollywood award no actor wants - and this year, stars like Russell Crowe, Jennifer Lopez and Vin Diesel are up for the (dis)honour.
Russell Crowe is among the celebs this year up for the big Hollywood award nobody wants: The Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies.
The annual awards call out the worst films and performances of the past year - and Crowe is nominated for his work in The Pope’s Exorcist.
That supernatural horror film was released to middling reviews in April last year, starring Crowe as the pope’s personal exorcist, doing battle with evil forces.
Crowe’s up against Hollywood action heroes Vin Diesel and Jason Statham in the ‘Worst Actor’ category, with Chris Evans also nominated for the straight-to-streaming romance Ghosted.
His co-star Ana De Armas has “earned” a Worst Actress nomination, alongside Megan Fox, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Lopez and Dame Helen Mirren.
The Razzies have been running for 44 years now and, while most celebs nominated choose to ignore the awards, some embrace the shame: Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock have both appeared at the Razzies ceremony in person in the past to collect their “Worst Actress” awards.
More recently, the Razzies themselves have been the subject of criticism, with the award organisers apologising last year after nominating 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress. They later rescinded her nomination and promised to leave performers under the age of 18 out of the awards in future.
This year, Expend4bles, the fourth entry in the Expendables action franchise, tops the nominations list with seven nods. The full list:
WORST PICTURE
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Meg 2: The Trench
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel / Fast X
Chris Evans / Ghosted
Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight / Mercy
WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas / Ghosted
Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall / About My Father
Megan Fox / Expend4bles
Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) / Ghosted
Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and The Dial of … Still Beating a Dead Horse
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and the Dial of … Can I go home now?
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
This year’s Razzies will take place on March 9, the day before the Academy Awards.