The winners of the 29th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards were revealed this past Saturday, and it looks like The Love Guru and The Hottie & the Nottie have tied with three wins apiece. Here is the official press release, followed by a complete list of the winners:
The 29th Annual RAZZIE® Awards. Dis-Honoring Worst Achievements in Film for 2008:
At least someone loved The Love Guru. Voters for The 29th Annual RAZZIE Awards spread the dis-honors around this year, but gave several of their berry biggest trophies to one of 2008's most notorious box office losers, Mike Myers' misbegotten, far-from-mystical "comedy" The Love Guru. In addition to being named the year's Worst Picture, The Love Guru also received spray-painted gold for its screenplay and Myers as Worst Actor, in intentionally tacky ceremonies held on "Oscar Eve" at the Barnsdall Theatre in Hollywood.
But the former SNL star wasn't the year's biggest RAZZIE winner/loser. That dis-stink-tion belongs to "sex-tape-celeb-utant" Paris Hilton, who tied Eddie Murphy's hat-trick from 2007, taking a record-tying 3 trophies in a single year. For her "starring" performance in Worst Picture nominee The Hottie & the Nottie (which Hilton herself executive-produced) the air-headed heiress was gonged for both Worst Actress and as part of the year's Worst Screen Couple (along with co-stars Christine Lakin and Joel David Moore). And for her mostly-left-on-the-cutting-room floor cameo in the "slasher musical" Repo! the Genetic Opera!, she was chosen Worst Supporting Actress.
Others roundly RAZZed in the 90-minute Oscar parody included Pierce Brosnan as Worst Supporting Actor for his tone-deaf turn in Mamma Mia! The year's third-biggest grossing (and most disappointing) movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull "won" as Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and world-class worst movie-maker Uwe Boll took both the 2008 Worst Director RAZZIE® (for 3 titles) and a well-deserved special Worst Career Achievement dis-honor.
"Winners" were determined by mailing ballots to 657 voters in 45 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 as a logical antidote to Tinsel Town's annual glut of self-congratulatory awards by John Wilson, author of THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE and EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES. The Barnsdall Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Winners:
Worst Picture: The Love Guru
Worst Actor: Mike Myers for The Love Guru
Worst Actress: Paris Hilton for The Hottie & the Nottie
Worst Supporting Actress: Paris Hilton for Repo! the Genetic Opera!
Worst Supporting Actor: Pierce Brosnan for Mamma Mia!
Worst Screen Couple: Paris Hilton, Christine Lakin, and Joel David Moore for The Hottie & the Nottie
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off, or Sequel: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Worst Director: Uwe Boll for 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, and Postal
Worst Screenplay: Tie for The Love Guru and The Hottie & the Nottie
Worst Career Achievement: Uwe Boll (Germany's Answer to Ed Wood)