Evening of embarrassment
Amalshan Gunerathne
Many Hollywood stars may have dreamt of Oscars, but not even in their
wildest fantasies would they have thought of being nominated for worst
performances in cinema screen.
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Nominations |
| * Worst Picture: Summit Entertainment The Bounty Hunter: Columbia,
Sex and the City 2 (New Line/HBO/Village Roadshow), Vampires Suck
(Regency/20th Century Fox)
* Worst Actor: Jack Black in Gulliver’s Travels, Gerard Butler in The
Bounty Hunter, Ashton Kutcher in Killers and Valentine’s Day, Taylor
Lautner in Eclipse and Valentine’s Day, Robert Pattinson in Remember Me
and Eclipse
* Worst Actress: Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter and The
Switch, Miley Cyrus in The Last Song, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim
Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon in Sex and the City 2, Megan Fox
in Jonah Hex, Kristen Stewart in Eclipse
* Worst Supporting Actor: Billy Ray Cyrus in The Spy Next Door,
George Lopez in Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine’s Day, Dev
Patel in The Last Airbender, Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender and
Eclipse, Rob Schneider in Grown Ups as Rob Hilliard
* Worst Supporting Actress:
Jessica Alba in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and
Valentine’s Day
Cher in Burlesque as Tess Liza Minnelli in Sex and the City 2, Nicola
Peltz in The Last Airbender, Barbra Streisand in Little Fockers
* Worst Screen Couple / Screen Ensemble:
Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler in The Bounty Hunter, Josh
Brolin’s face and Megan Fox’s accent in Jonah Hex, entire cast of The
Last Airbender, entire cast of Sex and the City 2, entire cast of the
Eclipse
* Worst Director:
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer for Vampires Suck, Michael Patrick
King for Sex and the City 2, M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender,
David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Sylvester Stallone for The
Expendables |
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Miley Cyrus |
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Robert
Pattinson, Kriston Stewart and Taylor Lautner |
As outrageous as it may sound, the Golden Raspberry Awards recognizes
and highlights the year’s worst screening performances in the Hollywood
cinema industry. The ceremony was founded by American copywriter and
publicist John J B Wilson in 1981. The awards come in the form of
cluster of golf sized raspberries which stand on the top of a film reel.
This year’s ceremony will happen on February 26, just a day prior to the
grand Oscars. The fame or the popularity of many stars won’t save them
from sarcastically nominated at this year’s Raspberry Awards. Miley
Cyrus, Jennifer Anniston, Gerald Butler, Robert Pattison, Jack Black,
Jessica Alba, Taylor Lautner and Sarah Jessica Parker are some
high-profile stars who will feature in this year’s nominations.
Taylor Lautner, the shirtless werewolf guy in ‘Eclipse’, may have won
many hearts of dizzy teenage girls with his exceptionally well manicured
physique, but his performance in Eclipse sure did not impress any
critics. He alongside his vampire mate Robert Pattinson is shortlisted
for the worst actor award in this year’s Raspberry’s. Jack Black again
proved that he is running out of tricks with his role in the ‘Gulliver’s
Travels’. His creepy slapstick humor was not quite good enough to keep
him off the racks. Miley Cyrus and Jessica Alba, shortlisted for the
worst actress award proved that charms and good looks alone are not
enough to make it big in the Hollywood cinema.
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M Night
Shyamalan |
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Golden
Raspberry Award |
Many and ‘Nickelodeon’ announced that they will release the movie
adaptation of the popular children’s cartoon Avatar the Last Airbender.
Same can be said for Nicholas Spark’s much loved novel The Last Song and
Stephynie Meyer’s Eclipse. But two weeks away from Oscars, both ‘The
Last Airbender’ and ‘Eclipse’ are nominated for the worst picture of the
year award in Raspberry’s. ‘The Last Song’ just avoided being
shortlisted for the worst movie category even were brimming with high
expectations after all the negative reviews and ratings that it did get.
Even some of the highly esteemed movie directors have been
shortlisted for this year’s awards. Among them are the great M Night
Shyamyalan and Silvestre Stallon.
Shyamalan, the acclaimed director of Sixth Sense is shortlisted for
his dismal cinema adaptation, The Last Airbender. May be while
daydreaming, Shyamalan might have fantasized of an Oscar, but not a
‘Raspberry Award for sure. Probably he shouldn’t have got involved with
‘The Last Airbender at the first place.
Shyamalan is perhaps not the ideal person to turn a cartoon in to a
movie. However, if the projections are right, the chances are that
Shyamalan will have to face the embarrassment of being ridiculed for
making the worst movie of the year. Yet if given the award, he will take
some heart from the fact that in 2010 even the great Michael Bay had to
walk away with a Raspberry award for his block buster hit ‘Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen’.
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