29th Golden Raspberry Awards Nominations

Though this site tends to focus more on Oscar and other awards shows that award excellence in film making, I do like to make an exception in mentioning the Golden Raspberry Awards. Now in case you don't know what the Raspberries are, they are basically the anti-Oscar, giving awards to movies that have the least artistic merit to them. This year the nominees are:

Worst Picture:

• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet the Spartans"
• "The Happening"
• "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"
• "The Love Guru"

Worst Actor:

• Larry the Cable Guy, "Witless Protection"
• Eddie Murphy, "Meet Dave"
• Mike Myers, "The Love Guru"
• Al Pacino, "88 Minutes" and "Righteous Kill"
• Mark Wahlberg, "The Happening" and "Max Payne"

Worst Actress:

• Jessica Alba, "The Eye" and "The Love Guru"
• Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith and Meg Ryan, the Cast of "The Women"
• Cameron Diaz, "What Happens in Vegas..."
• Paris Hilton, "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• Kate Hudson, "Fool's Gold" and "My Best Friend's Girl"

Worst Supporting Actor:

• Uwe Boll, "Postal"
• Pierce Brosnan, "Mamma Mia!"
• Ben Kingsley, "The Love Guru", "War, Inc." and "The Wackness"
• Burt Reynolds, "Deal" and "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"
• Verne Troyer, "The Love Guru" and "Postal"

Worst Supporting Actress:

• Carmen Electra, "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans"
• Paris Hilton, "Repo: The Genetic Opera"
• Kim Kardashian, "Disaster Movie"
• Jenny McCarthy, "Witless Protection"
• Leelee Sobieski, "88 Minutes" and "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"

Worst Screen Couple:

• Uwe Boll and ANY Actor, Camera or Screenplay
• Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, "What Happens in Vegas..."
• Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, "Witless Protection"
• Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy, "Meet Dave"

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel:

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans"
• "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
• "Speed Racer"
• "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"

Worst Director:

• Uwe Boll, "Tunnel Rats", In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" and "Postal"
• Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans"
• Tom Putnam, "The Hottie and the Nottie"
• Marco Schnabel, "The Love Guru"
• M. Night Shyamalan, "The Happening"

Worst Screenplay:

• "Disaster Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" - Both Written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
• "The Happening" - Written by M. Night Shyamalan
• "The Hottie And The Nottie" - Written by Heidi Ferrer
• "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" - Screenplay by Doug Taylor
• "The Love Guru" - Written by Mike Myers and Graham Gordy

Worst Career Achievement (Special Category!): Uwe Boll (Germany's Answer to Ed Wood)

Nice to see Uwe Boll getting a special award. I hope he walks away with more Raspberries then anyone.

Will Lucas Finally Win His Oscar?

I know this is a bit of a long shot (considering the poor quality of the film), but I'm going to add "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" to the Best Animated Feature predictions. Yeah, I know this is a terrible film, with a script worse then the movie it's spun off from and the most wooden animation in the world, but it's also a film produced by George Lucas.



Lucas has long been a bit of an outcast in Hollywood. The studios didn't get him when he was younger, he went on to create two of the most profitable franchises in movie history, and has since become a producer as big as Daryl F. Zanuck. The guy may be a questionable director, but it was thanks to "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" that digital film making was put on the map. Yet the man has yet to win an Oscar. Even Stanely Kubrick won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "2001: A Space Odyssey," so why not Lucas? Well, this is a good chance to rectify that mistake with "The Clone Wars." Yeah it's a lousy movie, probably the worst kind of kids entertainment and the Academy would be doing that category no favors by voting for it. But there's this nagging voice that says it could pull a MAJOR upset! After all, why worry about disgracing an under-appreciated category when the newspapers can have the headlines "Lucas Finally Wins Oscar." I hope I'm wrong, but I've got this bad feeling.