LOS ANGELES – ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ was picked as last year’s worst picture at Saturday’s Razzies, and Sandra Bullock won worst actress for ‘All About Steve’ – on the eve of being in the running for an Academy Award for another film.
Voters at the Razzies, which poke fun at the Oscars by giving out prizes for Hollywood’s critical misfires, chose Bullock for her romantic comedy flop.If Bullock takes best actress for ‘The Blind Side’, she will be the first person ever to win an Oscar and a Razzie over the same weekend.’She’s in the unprecedented position, Saturday she’s the worst, and the very next night, she’s back on her feet, and she’s the best,’ said Razzies founder John Wilson. ‘We certainly don’t wish her ill at that other awards show.’Throughout awards season, Bullock has been good-natured about it, joking about the Razzies attention she has gotten along with the Oscar esteem.Bullock and ‘All About Steve’ co-star Bradley Cooper also shared the Razzie for worst screen couple. Unlike most Razzie honorees, Bullock showed up to collect the award, dragging a cart of DVDs to hand out to members who she accused of never seeing the dud movie.’Thank you for ruining my career with a very bad decision,’ Bullock told the group, while threatening to read her dialogue from the role ‘until 4 in the morning’.The actress played a socially awkward designer of newspaper crosswords, who falls in love with a cameraman (Bradley Cooper) and stalks him in the movie.Hollywood stars are rare sightings at the Razzies, but in 2005, Halle Berry claimed her award for ‘Catwoman’.The ‘Transformers’ sequel won two other Razzies, worst director for Michael Bay and worst screenplay for Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.Bay and his team probably will not lose any asleep over it, though. ‘Transformers’ took in US$402,1 million domestically, No 2 on the 2009 box-office chart behind ‘Avatar’.The worst-actor Razzie went to siblings Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas for ‘Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience’.Billy Ray Cyrus, was named worst supporting actor for the big-screen ‘Hannah Montana’.Sienna Miller received the worst supporting-actress Razzie for the action tale ‘GI Joe’.Razzie voters also made worst-of-the-decade picks, with John Travolta’s science-fiction debacle ‘Battlefield Earth’ winning worst picture.Among all-time Hollywood dreck, ‘Battlefield Earth’ is ‘like the 800-pound mongrel gorilla in the room’, Wilson said. ‘It’s one of my favourite type of bad movies. It’s so bad, it’s entertaining, in ways that the people who made it had no idea it would be.’Paris Hilton was chosen as the decade’s worst actress for movies such as ‘The Hottie and the Nottie’ and ‘Repo: The Genetic Opera’. Eddie Murphy, a 2009 Razzie nominee for ‘Imagine That’, was named the decade’s worst actor for such bombs as ‘The Adventures of Pluto Nash’, ‘I Spy’ and ‘Meet Dave’. – Nampa-AP-Reuters
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