Hollywood will celebrate its biggest night when the Academy Awards air tonight, Feb. 22, at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. As is tradition, the movies that were not so well-received at the box office and among critics were "celebrated" over the weekend with the Golden Raspberry Awards, aka The Razzies. Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas was the big winner of the night, taking home the not-so-coveted awards for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Cameron) and Worst Screenplay, Consequence of Sound noted.
Cameron, who is best known for his role on the 1980s TV sitcom Growing Pains, also took home Worst Screen Combo for himself and his ego. Cameron Diaz won the Worst Actress Award for her work in The Other Woman and Sex Tape.
Ben Affleck won the only positive honor of the evening with the Razzie Redeemer Award. The actor took home the Worst Actor Razzie in 2003 for Gigli. Affleck had a big 2014 with Gone Girl, which was preceeded by his Best Picture winner Argo. So it looks like Affleck has turned things around since the 2003 flop.
Kirk Cameron's film made $2.7 million at the box office. Critics did not enjoy the holiday movie.
"Director [Darren] Doane offers no storytelling pizzazz; the lighting is careless, the pacing is deadly, the occasional stabs at comedy fall flat. Ultimately, Saving Christmas has nothing to share that Linus Van Pelt didn't already say better on A Charlie Brown Christmas," TheWrap wrote.
Below are the Razzie nominees and "winners," which are in bold:
Worst Picture
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Left Behind
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Worst Actor
Nicolas Cage – Left Behind
Kirk Cameron – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Kellan Lutz – The Legend of Hercules
Seth MacFarlane – A Million Ways To Die in the West
Adam Sandler – Blended
Worst Actress
Drew Barrymore – Blended
Cameron Diaz – The Other Woman and Sex Tape
Melissa McCarthy – Tammy
Charlize Theron – A Million Ways to Die in the West
Gaia Weiss – The Legend of Hercules
The Razzie Redeemer Award
Ben Affleck (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Gigli to Oscar Darling for Argo and Gone Girl)
Jennifer Aniston (From 4-Time RAZZIE Nominee to SAG Award Nominee for Cake)
Mike Myers (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Love Guru to Docu Director of Supermensch)
Keanu Reeves (From 6-Time RAZZIE Nominee to Critically Acclaimed John Wick)
Kristen Stewart (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Twilight to the Art House Hit Camp X-Ray)
Worst Supporting Actress
Cameron Diaz – Annie
Megan Fox – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nicola Peltz – Transformers: Age of Extinction
Brigitte Ridenour (Kirk’s Sister) – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Susan Sarandon – Tammy
Worst Supporting Actor
Mel Gibson – Expendables 3
Kelsey Grammer – Expendables 3, Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too and Transformers: Age of Extinction
Shaquille O’Neal – Blended
Arnold Schwarzenegger – Expendables 3
Kiefer Sutherland – Pompeii
Worst Director
Michael Bay – Transformers: Age of Extinction
Darren Doane – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Renny Harlin – The Legend of Hercules
Jonathan Liebesman – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Seth MacFarlane – A Million Ways To Die in the West
Worst Screen Combo
Any Two Robots, Actors (or Robotic Actors) – Transformers: Age of Extinction
Kirk Cameron & His Ego – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Cameron Diaz & Jason Segel – Sex Tape
Kellan Lutz & Either His Abs, His Pecs or His Glutes – The Legend of Hercules
Seth MacFarlane & Charlize Theron – A Million Ways To Die in the West
Worst Screenplay
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, Written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey
Left Behind, Screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus, based on the Novel by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Sex Tape, Screenplay by Kate Angelo and Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Written by Evan Daugherty and Andre Nemec & Josh Applebaum, based on Characters Created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Written by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro’s Transformers Action Figures
Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Annie
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The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction
