The
Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
presents
The
22nd Annual
RAZZIES
Dis-Honoring
WORST Achievements in Film for 2001
CONTACT:
HeadBerry@razzies.com
FOR RELEASE
5:30am/PST MONDAY, FEB. 11
2001's
Berry Biggest B.O. Bombs ‘FINGERED’ in
Tinsel
Town’s Top Turkey Trot: The 22nd RAZZIES
Who
will win this year’s Worst Picture race? Sylvester
Stallone’s latest vehicle to run out of gas at the box
office, DRIVEN (a.k.a. DRIVEL)? The execrable,
excrement-encrusted “comedy” from Idiot NON-Savant Tom
Green, FREDDY GOT FINGERED? Mariah Carey in a screen
debut that lip-sank first in theatres and now on video, GLITTER?
The year’s biggest-grossing, longest (and most
butt-numbing) box office bomb, PEARL HARBOR? Or RAZZIE Repeat
Offender Kevin Costner in a tale of gun-toting, casino
robbing Elvis impersonators, 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND? This
year’s race for the Spray-Painted RAZZIE Gold was wide open,
as Nominations for Tinsel Town’s Tackiest Trophies were
unveiled the now-traditional 24 hours BEFORE Nominations for That
OTHER Award. “Winners” of The 22nd
Annual RAZZIE Awards will be announced in ceremonies set for 11:30am,
Saturday, March 23 at The Abracadabra Theatre at 1418 Fourth
Street in Santa Monica, adjacent to that same day’s 17th
Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
In addition to their Worst Picture nominations, DRIVEN and FREDDY
also got multiple nods for their two knuckle-headed “stars,”
both of whom have a record-tying FOUR nominations apiece: Green
was FINGERED for Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay
(with Derek Harvie) and for Worst Screen Couple as “Tom
Green and Any Animal He Abuses.” Stallone, the all-time
RAZZIE Champion who won a Worst Actor of The Century trophy in
2000, finds himself nominated in 2001 for Worst Supporting Actor,
Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen “Couple” (with co-star
and co-nominee Burt Reynolds) and for Worst Picture as one
of the producers of DRIVEN. This brings The Less-Than-Sly-Guy’s
career RAZZIE total to 29 nominations in 22 years. He has “won”
9 times.
Others vying for Tinsel Town’s Top Turkey Trophy include: Ben
Affleck (PEARL HARBOR) three-time “winner” Costner
(GRACELAND) Keanu Reeves (HARDBALL and SWEET
NOVEMBER) and last year’s “winner” John
Travolta (DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE and SWORDFISH)
alongside Green in Worst Actor. Penelope Cruz (BLOW,
CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN and VANILLA SKY) Angelina
Jolie (LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and ORIGINAL SIN) Jennifer
Lopez (ANGEL EYES and THE WEDDING PLANNER) and Charlize
Theron (SWEET NOVEMBER) are contending with Carey for Worst
Actress -- But with votes on 93.3% of all Nominating Ballots, it
looks like Mariah’s the True Pariah of the Pack. A complete
list of nominees in all nine RAZZIE Categories is included with
this release.
Nominees
were determined by sending ballots to more than 500 Golden
Raspberry Award Foundation members throughout 39 U.S. states and
10 foreign countries. The Foundation recently entered into a
development deal with Nash Entertainment to produce a televised
award show for next year's 23rd Annual RAZZIES and they
are currently seeking a broadcast partner. Created in 1980 by John
Wilson, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE
MOVIES, The RAZZIES are a parody of Award Shows in general and
the Academy Awards in particular. The award itself, designed by
Wilson, is a plastic, golf-ball sized raspberry atop a mangled
Super-8 film reel, mounted on a base made from the lid of a
Lipton Raspberry Iced Tea jar and spray-painted gold -- It has a
current estimated Street Value of about $4.29. For more info on
The RAZZIE Awards and/or its history (or to sign up for press
credentials to attend the March 23rd event) please visit: "www.razzies.com"
or contact John Wilson using the info listed atop this press
release.
DIS-HONORING WORST ACHIEVEMENTS IN FILM SINCE
1980
22nd
Annual Golden Raspberry (‘RAZZIE’) Award Nominees:
WORST PICTURE:
DRIVEN (Franchise Pictures/Warner Bros.)
FREDDY GOT FINGERED (20th Century-Fox)
GLITTER (20th Century-Fox/Columbia Pictures)
PEARL HARBOR (Touchstone/Disney)
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND (Franchise/Warner Bros.)
WORST
ACTOR:
Ben Affleck/PEARL HARBOR
Kevin Costner/3000 MILES TO GRACELAND
Tom Green/FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Keanu Reeves/HARDBALL and SWEET NOVEMBER
John Travolta/DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE and SWORDFISH
WORST
ACTRESS:
Mariah Carey/GLITTER
Penelope
Cruz/BLOW CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN and VANILLA SKY
Angelina
Jolie/LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and ORIGINAL SIN
Jennifer
Lopez/ANGEL EYES and THE WEDDING PLANNER
Charlize Theron/SWEET NOVEMBER
WORST
SCREEN COUPLE:
Ben Affleck & EITHER Kate Beckinsale or Josh
Hartnett/PEARL HARBOR
Mariah Carey's Cleavage/GLITTER
Tom Green & Any Animal He Abuses/FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Burt Reynolds & Sylvester Stallone/DRIVEN
Kurt Russell & EITHER Kevin Costner or Courtney
Cox/3000 MILES TO GRACELAND
WORST
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Max Beesley/GLITTER
Charlton Heston/CATS & DOGS, PLANET OF THE APES and
TOWN & COUNTRY
Burt Reynolds/DRIVEN
Sylvester Stallone/DRIVEN
Rip Torn/FREDDY GOT FINGERED
WORST
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Drew Barrymore (The Ex-Mrs. Tom Green) FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Courtney Cox/3000 MILES TO GRACELAND
Julie Haggerty/FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Goldie Hawn/TOWN & COUNTRY
Estella Warren/DRIVEN and PLANET OF THE APES
WORST
REMAKE or SEQUEL:
CROCODILE DUNDEE in L.A. (Paramount)
JURASSIC PARK III (Universal)
PEARL HARBOR (Touchstone/Disney)
PLANET OF THE APES (20th Century-Fox)
SWEET NOVEMBER (Warner Bros.)
WORST DIRECTOR:
Michael Bay/PEARL HARBOR
Peter Chelsom (w/Warren Beatty) TOWN & COUNTRY
Tom Green/FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Vondie Curtis Hall/GLITTER
Renny Harlin/DRIVEN
WORST SCREENPLAY:
DRIVEN Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, Story by Jan Skrentny
& Neal Tabachnick
FREDDY
GOT FINGERED Written by Tom Green & Derek Harvie
GLITTER Screenplay by Kate Lanier, Story by Cheryl L. West
PEARL HARBOR Written by Randall Wallace
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND Written by Richard Recco and Demian
Lichtenstein
NOMINATIONS
PER PICTURE:
FREDDY GOT
FINGERED: 8 Worst Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor,
2xSupporting
Actress, Screen Couple, Director and Screenplay
DRIVEN: 7
Picture, 2xSupporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screen Couple,
Director and Screenplay
GLITTER: 6 (Picture, Actress,
Supporting Actor, Screen Couple, Director and Screenplay
PEARL HARBOR:
6 Picture, Actor, Screen Couple, Remake, Director, Screenplay
3000 MILES TO
GRACELAND: 5 Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screen
Couple
and Screenplay
PLANET OF THE
APES: 3 Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor and Remake
SWEET
NOVEMBER: 3 Actor, Actress and Remake
TOWN &
COUNTRY: 3 Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor and Director
"WINNERS"
WILL BE ANNOUNCED
11:30am/PST
SATURDAY, MARCH 23rd
in
Ceremonies at The Abracadabra Theatre,
1418 Fourth Street in Santa Monica, California
©2002. The Golden Raspberry Award
Foundation and John Wilson
