Blonde leads Razzies with eight nominations

Hollywood types loves collecting award nominations. But these are eight nominations you don’t want.

Blonde is leading the Razzies with eight nominations. Picture: Netflix

If there’s one honour Hollywood egos loathe to receive, it’s a Golden Raspberry Award.

The Razzies are “awarded” to the worst movies of the year, and this season, the leading contender is Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe not-quite-biopic Blonde.

Blonde, which starred Ana de Armas as the doomed star, nabbed eight nominations including Worst Picture, Worst Remake/Rip-Off/Sequel, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay.

Cuban actor de Armas managed to escape the indignity and wasn’t nominated. She is actually in the running for an Oscar nomination tomorrow, an extraordinary feat given how reviled the film is.

In condemning Blonde, the Razzies said it was leading the “pack of cinematic mongrels” as it “‘explores’ the exploitation of Marilyn Monroe by continuing to exploit her posthumously”.

Dominik was personally nominated three times, for director, screenplay and in Worst Couple under the entry, “Andrew Dominik and his issues with women”.

Blonde was adapted by Dominik (Chopper) from a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, a fictionalised biography of Monroe.

Ana de Armas escaped the wrath of the Razzies. Picture: Netflix

Dominik’s film is visually arty but has attracted strident criticism for its depiction of Monroe as a victimised figure who was repeatedly abused by a string of men in her life, rather than as an influential pop cultural icon who made empowering decisions and built a career. It was a total stinker.

Blonde currently has a 42 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an even lower audience score of 32 per cent.

Machine Gun Kelly’s movie Good Mourning was a close second with seven Razzie nominations, followed by Disney’s live-action Pinocchio remake with six.

Tom Hanks was nominated twice for two different roles – Pinocchio and Elvis – while vampire comic book movie Morbius notched up five nods.

The Razzies have been running since 1981 and is traditionally awarded the day before the Oscars. Sylvester Stallone has the honour of the most wins with 10.

Some winners have taken the awards with good humour, even showing up at the ceremony to collect the gong, including Halle Berry for Catwoman, Paul Verhoeven for Showgirls and Sandra Bullock for All About Steve.

Full list of Razzie nominees:

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 – Marmaduke

Tom Hanks – 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 Remake/Rip-Off/Sequel

Blonde

365 Days: This Day and The Next 365 Days

Disney’s Pinocchio

Firestarter

Jurassic World: Dominion

Tom Hanks in Elvis. Picture: Warner Bros.

Worst Supporting Actor

Pete Davidson – Good Mourning

Tom Hanks – Elvis

Xavier Samuel – Blonde

Mod Sun – Good Mourning

Evan Williams – Blonde

Worst Supporting Actress

Adria Arjona – Morbius

Lorraine Bracco – Disney’s Pinocchio

Penelope Cruz – The 355

Bingbing Fan – The 355 & The King’s Daughter

Mira Sorvino – Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Worst Screen Couple

Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun – Good Mourning

Both Real Life Characters in the Fallacious White House Bedroom Scene – Blonde

Tom Hanks & His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent) – Elvis

Andrew Dominik & His Issues with Women – Blonde

The Two 365 Days Sequels

Worst Director

Judd Apatow – The Bubble

Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun – Good Mourning

Andrew Dominik – Blonde

Daniel Espinosa – Morbius

Robert Zemeckis – Disney’s Pinocchio

Worst Screenplay

Blonde – Andrew Dominik

Disney’s Pinocchio – Robert Zemeckis & Chris Weitz

Good Mourning – Machine Gun Kelly & Mod Sun

Jurassic World: Dominion – Screenplay by Emily Carmichael, Colin Treverrow and Derek Connolly

Morbius – Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless