Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – “Joker: Folie a Deux” was nominated for seven Razzies on Tuesday, leaving the sad clown atop the annual tongue-in-cheek list of the worst movies of the year. The flop musical follow-up to 2019’s billion-dollar-grossing “Joker” picked up unwanted nods such as worst picture and worst sequel. Joaquin Phoenix — who won best actor at the Oscars in the first “Joker” film — is nominated for worst actor, alongside Lady Gaga for worst actress. The film took in $200 million — around one-fifth of its predecessor’s box office, despite being far more expensive to make — and was savaged by critics.
In a year of several high-profile expensive flops, the parody prizes awarded six nods to Francis Ford Coppola’s confusing epic “Megalopolis,” and Dakota Johnson’s much-mocked superhero spin-off “Madame Web.” Fawning presidential biopic “Reagan” and video game adaptation “Borderlands” equally incurred the wrath of Razzie voters with six. Jerry Seinfeld’s “Unfrosted,” a somewhat surreal original story for Pop-Tarts pastries, earned four.
Voted for by some 1,200 members of an irreverent group that any film fan can join, the Razzies — or Golden Raspberries — were created as an antidote to the movie industry’s self-obsessed series of glitzy award shows. Nominations for this year’s Academy Awards will be announced Thursday.
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