January 20th, 2019

With a stumbling stock market, a possible impending Presidential impeachment, raging wild fires, devastating floods, mass shootings and a litany of plagues that reached near Biblical proportions, 2018 was a year overfull with disasters.
 
And then there were last year’s movies! As reflected in the list of contenders for this year’s 39th Annual Razzie® Awards, catastrophies occurred on-screen as well as off. Voting Razzie Members' selections for the five Worst Picture slots represent a melange of mishaps. They include: The misbegotten “mob drama” Gotti; the first film to feature graphic sex acts between humans and muppets, The Happytime Murders; A comedy whose own ads admit it "doesn't have a clue," Holmes & Watson; A 17th (and mostly incoherent) remake that left its rich investors poor,  Robin Hood; and an intriguing true story turned into a horrendous horror movie starring Oscar winner Helen Mirren (who got a Worst Actress nod for her efforts) Winchester.
 
Other acting contenders include John Travolta for Gotti, Melissa McCarthy for Happytime Murders, Bruce Willis for his Death Wish remake, Jennifer Garner for the comatose revenge tale Peppermint, and perhaps the best-known Razzie Repeat Offender on the list – Donald J. Trump (who “won” a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for 1991’s Ghost Can’t Do It) nominated for Worst Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for archival footage in which he appears as himself in a pair of documentaries (Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9). A complete list of nominees is included below.
 
The 39th Razzie Nominations video - click here, . “Winners” of this year's tackiest Tinsel Town trophy will be revealed on Saturday, February 23 – the now traditional day before the 91st Annual Giving Out of the Little Gold Naked Men.
 
Voting Razzie Members (1,047 from all 50 US States and two dozen foreign countries) cast their ballots online, selecting the five final contenders in ten categories.


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39th Annual RAZZIE® AWARD NOMINATIONS
WORST PICTURE         Gotti
        The Happytime Murders
        Holmes & Watson  
​        Robin Hood
        Winchester

       

WORST ACTRESS           Jennifer Garner / Peppermint
          Amber Heard / London Fields
          Melissa McCarthy / Happytime Murders and Life of the Party
          Helen Mirren / Winchester
          Amanda Seyfried / The Clapper  


WORST ACTOR           Johnny Depp (Voice Only) Sherlock Gnomes
          Will Ferrell / Holmes & Watson
          John Travolta / Gotti
          Donald J. Trump (As Himself) Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9    
          Bruce Willis / Death Wish 


WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR             Jamie Fox / Robin Hood
            Ludacris (Voice Only) Show Dogs
            Joel McHale / Happytime Murders
            John C. Reilly / Holmes & Watson
            Justice Smith / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 


WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS             Kellyanne Conway (As Herself) Fahrenheit 11/9
            Marcia Gay Harden / Fifty Shades Freed
            Kelly Preston / Gotti
            Jaz Sinclair / Slender Man
            Melania Trump (As Herself) Fahrenheit 11/9
 
WORST SCREEN COMBO              Any Two Actors or Puppets (Especially in Those Creepy Sex Scenes) Happytime Murders
            Johnny Depp & His Fast-Fading Film Career (He’s doing voices for cartoons, fer kripesakes!)
                      Sherlock Gnomes
            Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly (Trashing Two of Literature’s Most Beloved Characters)
                      Holmes & Watson
            Kelly Preston & John Travolta (Getting BATTLEFIELD EARTH type Reviews!) Gotti  
            Donald J, Trump & His Self Perpetuating Pettiness / Death of a Nation & Fahrenheit 11/9 


WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
            Death of a Nation (Remake of Hillary’s America...)
            Death Wish
            Holmes & Watson
            The Meg (Rip-Off of Jaws)
            Robin Hood  
WORST DIRECTOR             Etan Cohen / Holmes & Watson
            Kevin Connolly / Gotti
            James Foley / Fifty Shades Freed
            Brian Henson / Happytime Murders
            The Spierig Brothers (Michael & Peter) / Winchester  
 
WORST SCREENPLAY             Death of a Nation, Written by Dinesh D’Souza & Bruce Schooley
            Fifty Shades Freed, Screenplay by Niall Leonard, from the Novel by E.L. James  
            Gotti, Screenplay by Leo Rossi and Lem Dobbs
            Happytime Murders, Screenplay by Todd Berger, Story by Berger and Dee Austin Robinson  
            Winchester, Written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers  

NOMINATIONS PER PICTUREGotti = 6
Holmes & Watson = 6  
Death of a Nation = 6  
Happytime Murders = 6
Winchester = 4  
Robin Hood = 3
Fifty Shades Freed = 3
Death Wish = 2
 
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