Behold, the very worst films of the year

Sylvester Stallone’s annoyingly-titled action sequel, Expend4bles, leads the nominees at the 42nd Golden Raspberry Awards.

Sylvester Stallone's Expend4bles leads The Razzies with seven

Someone, check in on Sylvester Stallone.

The steadfast action star has, once again, been nominated for his most loathed awards ceremony: The Golden Raspberry Awards, aka The Razzies.

Now in its 42nd year, The Razzies — founded as an antidote to the self-congratulatory Oscars by film trailer copywriter John Wilson — is designed to “honour” the worst of this year’s films.

The fourth instalment of Stallone’s action franchise, The Expendables, annoyingly titled Expend4bles, leads this year’s nominees with seven, including a worst supporting actor nod for Stallone and worst supporting actress for his co-star, Megan Fox.

Sylvester Stallone in a scene from the action movie The Expendables 4

Stallone is the most nominated actor in Razzies history, with over two dozen nominations. It’s not an honour he takes kindly to, according to Wilson, who told The Hollywood Reporter that after Stallone was nominated for Worst Actor of the Century, “We did get a voicemail that sounded like him — for legal reasons we can’t say it was him. But his point was, my movies make money, stop picking on me.”

Some have taken their Razzie recognition with grace. Like Sandra Bullock, who, upon winning the worst actress trophy for the rom-com All About Steve in 2010, pulled up to the ceremony with a wagon full of All About Steve DVDs and three people wearing “Team Bullock” T-shirts. “I think this is an extraordinary award,” she said in her acceptance speech.

Tied for second place with five nominations are The Exorcist: Believer, a revival of the classic horror series that nobody asked for, and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, a slasher take on A. A. Milne’s beloved children’s classic.

Voted for by more than 1,000 Golden Raspberry Foundation members — which anyone can join for a fee of $40 — there are nine Razzie categories, including worst director, worst screenplay, and worst prequel/remake/rip-off/sequel.

Worst actor nominee Russell Crowe in The Pope’s Exorcist.

Not even Oscar-winner Russell Crowe is immune from the Razzies sting. Crowe is up for worst actor for his performance as Father Gabriel Amorth in Australian director Julius Avery’s The Pope’s Exorcist.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which stars a digitally de-aged Harrison Ford, is nominated for worst sequel. The film, which flopped at the box office, earned a warm, 3-and-a-half-star review from The Australian’s critic Stephen Romei, who wrote, “There are lots of bangs in this two-plus hours of pure entertainment.”

Find the full list of nominees below.

2024 Razzie Awards

Worst Picture

The Exorcist: Believer

Expend4bles

Meg 2: The Trench

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (Wait, shouldn’t that be spelled “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(!) / 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