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Movie fans, are you suffering “award season withdrawl” during the four-day dry spell between Sunday’s Golden Globes and tomorrow’s Oscar nominations? Well, rest easy: the 2015 Golden Raspberry Award nominees were announced last night! Now in their sacred cow-poking 35th year, the “Razzies” are an annual celebration of Hollywood ineptitude and excess, singling out the year’s worst motion pictures and individual performances (or lack thereof). The ceremony where the golden fruit statuettes are handed out has grown from a gathering of a few diehard film buffs to a major media event covered by the international entertainment press, and a few brave souls–Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Joe Eszterhas and Paul Verhoeven, among others–have even shown up to accept their award in person.
If you’re one of those film-loving multiplex habitués who thinks that 2014 was the worst year in movie history since…oh, say, 2013, we are happy to present for your edification and enjoyment the complete list of this year’s Razzie nominees (and yes, many of them are now available or soon to be released on home video):
WORST PICTURE
• Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
• Left Behind
• The Legend of Hercules
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Transformers: Age of Extinction
WORST ACTOR
• Kirk Cameron, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
• Nicholas Cage, Left Behind
• Kellan Lutz, The Legend of Hercules
• Seth MacFarlane, A Million Ways to Die in the West
• Adam Sandler, Blended
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Mel Gibson, The Expendables 3
• Kelsey Grammer, The Expendables 3/Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return/Think Like a Man Too/Transformers: Age of Extinction
• Shaquille O’Neal, Blended
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Expendables 3
• Kiefer Sutherland, Pompeii
WORST ACTRESS
• Drew Barrymore, Blended
• Cameron Diaz, The Other Woman/Sex Tape
• Melissa McCarthy, Tammy
• Charlize Theron, A Million Ways to Die in the West
• Gaia Weiss, The Legend of Hercules
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Cameron Diaz, Annie
• Megan Fox, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Nicola Peltz, Transformers: Age of Extinction
• Susan Sarandon, Tammy
• Brigitte Ridenour (née Cameron), Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
WORST DIRECTOR
• Michael Bay, Transformers: Age of Extinction
• 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 REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL
• Annie
• Atlas Shrugged Part III
• The Legend of Hercules
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Transformers: Age of Extinction
WORST SCREEN COMBO
• Any two robots or actors (robotic actors), Transformers: Age of Extinction
• Kirk Cameron and his ego, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
• Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, Sex Tape
• Kellan Lutz and either his abs, pecs or his glutes
• Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron, A Million Ways to Die in the West
WORST SCREENPLAY
• Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
• Left Behind
• Sex Tape
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Transformers: Age of Extinction
REDEEMER AWARD (This is a brand-new award to apparently offer encouragement to prior “honorees”)
• Ben Affleck, from Gigli to Argo and Gone Girl
• Jennifer Aniston, from four-time Razzie nominee to Cake
• Mike Myers, from The Love Guru to directing Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
• Keanu Reeves, from six-time Razzie nominee to John Wick
• Kristen Stewart, from six-time Razzie winner for the Twilight films to Camp X-Ray
So, what were your worst movie experiences of 2014? Do you think that bad films are something to be held up for public ridicule, or are we forgetting that every one of these pictures’ cast and crew members have mothers whose feelings we’re hurting? Share your thoughts in the comments below.