Awards Season 2018: Razzies Nominations

For every yin, there must be a yang. For every Best Of... list, there must be a Worst Of... in order to maintain balance. So, thankfully, we have the Golden Raspberry Awards to act as a pin to prick the self-important hoopla of awards season. 

Ever since 1981, the Razzies dishonour the very worst of film in the preceding 12 months. As is traditional, the nominations are announced the day before the Oscar nominations (and the awards handed out the day before the Oscars). 

The nominees for the 38th Annual Razzie Awards are below:

WORST PICTURE

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers: The Last Knight

WORST ACTRESS

Katherine Heigl (Unforgettable)

Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Darker)

Jennifer Lawrence (Mother!)

Tyler Perry (Boo! 2: A Madea Halloween)

Emma Watson (The Circle)

WORST ACTOR

Tom Cruise (The Mummy)

Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)

Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades Darker)

Zac Efron (Baywatch)

Mark Wahlberg (Daddy’s Home 2 and Transformers: The Last Knight)

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Javier Bardem (Mother! and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)

Russell Crowe (The Mummy)

Josh Duhamel (Transformers: The Last Knight)

Mel Gibson (Daddy’s Home 2)

Anthony Hopkins (Collide and Transformers: The Last Knight)

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kim Basinger (Fifty Shades Darker)

Sofia Boutella (The Mummy)

Laura Haddock (Transformers: The Last Knight)

Goldie Hawn (Snatched)

Susan Sarandon (A Bad Moms Christmas)

WORST SCREEN COMBO

Any Combination of Two Characters, Two Sex Toys or Two Sexual Positions (Fifty Shades Darker)

Any Combination of Two Humans, Two Robots or Two Explosions (Transformers: The Last Knight)

Any Two Obnoxious Emojis (The Emoji Movie)

Johnny Depp & His Worn Out Drunk Routine (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)

Tyler Perry & Either The Ratty Old Dress or Worn Out Wig (Boo! 2: A Madea Halloween)

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF, OR SEQUEL

Baywatch

Boo! 2: A Madea Halloween

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers: The Last Knight

WORST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky (Mother!)

Michael Bay (Transformers: The Last Knight)

James Foley (Fifty Shades Darker)

Alex Kurtzman (The Mummy)

Anthony Leonidis (The Emoji Movie)

WORST SCREENPLAY

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers: The Last Knight

So it's nine nominations for Transformers: The Last Knight, with Fifty Shades Darker coming second with eight. I'm strangely glad not to see Justice League get a nod. The Razzies voters continue their ongoing contempt for Tyler Perry, Johnny Depp and anything Michael Bay touches. Good to see some things never change. 

So that just leaves tomorrow's announcement of the nominees for the 90th Academy Awards. I'll post my predictions for the main six categories a little later today.