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While `Driven' and `Freddy Got Fingered' have topped the nominations at the 23rd Annual Golden Raspberry awards, there are some familiar names including `Pearl Harbor' and `3000 Miles to Graceland' vying for the top dis-honours.
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`Pearl Harbor' has garnered six nominations.
WHILE WE are keeping our fingers crossed for Lagaan's chances at the Oscars, and television channels are trying to outdo each other Academy Award specials and marathons, there is a parallel underground award movement by The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation with the objective of "dis-honouring the worst achievements in film for 2001."
The nominations for the 22nd Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzies) were announced a day before the Academy Award nominees were announced. Sending ballots to more than 500 Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members through out 39 U.S. states and 10 foreign countries determined nominees.
Founded by John J.B. Wilson during a boring Oscar ceremony telecast in a living room alcove in 1980, the Razzies have since grown into what The Encyclopaedia of Movie Awards calls "the most widely-publicised bad movie awards."
The award 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. While most stars do not attend the function, Paul Verhoven gamely received his worst director trophy for Showgirls to a standing ovation. Tom Green whose Freddy Got Fingered tops the nomination list with eight nominations is equally good-natured when he says, "I am very proud and honoured to be nominated for these awards. I've never won an award before. I hope there is an actual trophy because I've already dusted off my mantel. I guess dreams can come true."
The award nobody would like to win.
After Freddie, it is Sylvester Stallone's latest movie Driven with seven and pop star Mariah Carey's Glitter six nominations. We have not had the "good fortune" of watching these films but some of the other big names at the Razzies have been released here.
Pearl Harbor - that awful, awful film with Jerry Bruckhiemer version of history ties with Glitter for six nominations while Kevin Costner's sequins and Elvis impersonations in 3000 Miles to Graceland has garnered five.
Tim Burton's vision went kind of awry and his Planet of the Apes along with terribly mushy Sweet November got three nominations. Angelina Jolie's lovely mouth could not save her from being nominated in the worst actress category for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Original Sin.
Last year Battlefield Earth won seven Razzies to tie with Showgirls for the maximum awards. The sci fi bomb "won" in the categories of Worst Picture, Worst Actor (John Travolta), Worst Supporting Actor (Barry Pepper), Worst Supporting Actress (Kelly Preston), Worst Screen Couple (John Travolta and anyone sharing the screen with him), Worst Director (Roger Christian) and Worst Screenplay.
So who will it be this time? Freddy or Sly (with 29 nominations, 9 wins through his career and winner of the Worst Actor of the Century he is in the Razzie hall of fame) or would the other Razzie favourite Kevin Costner walk away with the spray painted award? All will be revealed on Saturday March 23 and all non-actors could heave a sigh of relief till the same time next year.
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The chosen ones
Worst Picture
Driven (Franchise Pictures/Warner Bros.)
Freddy Got Fingered (20th Century-Fox)
Glitter (20th Century-Fox/Columbia Pictures)
Pearl Harbor (Touchstone/Disney)
3,000 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 and either Kate Beckinsale or Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor)
Mariah Carey's cleavage (Glitter)
Tom Green and any animal he abuses (Freddy Got Fingered)
Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone (Driven)
Kurt Russell and 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 and Country)
Burt Reynolds (Driven)
Sylvester Stallone (Driven)
Rip Torn (Freddy Got Fingered)
Worst Supporting Actress
Drew Barrymore (Freddy Got Fingered)
Courtney Cox (3,000 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 (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
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