The Love Guru wins worst picture of 2009 and poor Pierce Brosnan won worst supporting actor
At least someone loved THE LOVE GURU. Voters for The 29th Annual RAZZIE Awards spread the dis-honors around this year, but gave several of their berry biggest trophies to one of 2008’s most notorious box office losers, Mike Myers’ misbegotten, far-from-mystical “comedy” THE LOVE GURU. In addition to being named the year’s Worst Picture, GURU also received spray-painted gold for its screenplay and Myers as Worst Actor, in intentionally tacky ceremonies held on “Oscar Eve” at the Barnsdall Theatre in Hollywood.
But the former SNL star wasn’t the year’s biggest RAZZIE winner/loser. That dis-stink-tion belongs to “sex-tape-celeb-utant” Paris Hilton, who tied Eddie Murphy’s hat-trick from 2007, taking a record-tying 3 trophies in a single year. For her “starring” performance in Worst Picture nominee THE HOTTIE & THE NOTTIE (which Hilton herself executive-produced) the air-headed heiress was gonged for both Worst Actress and as part of the year’s Worst Screen Couple (along with co-stars Christine Lakin and Joel David Moore). And for her mostly-left-on-the-cutting-room floor cameo in the “slasher musical” REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA, she was chosen Worst Supporting Actress.
Others roundly RAZZed in the 90-minute Oscar parody included Pierce Brosnan as Worst Supporting Actor for his tone-deaf turn in MAMMA MIA! The year’s third-biggest grossing (and most disappointing) movie INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL “won” as Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and world-class worst movie-maker Uwe Boll took both the 2008 Worst Director RAZZIE® (for 3 titles) and a well-deserved special Worst Career Achievement dis-honor.
“Winners” were determined by mailing ballots to 657 voters in 45 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 as a logical antidote to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self-congratulatory awards by John Wilson.
29th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie©) Award “Winners”
Worst Picture:
The Love Guru
Worst Actor:
Mike Myers
The Love Guru
Worst Actress:
Paris Hilton
THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE
Worst Supporting Actress:
Paris Hilton
REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA
Worst Supporting Actor:
Pierce Brosnan
MAMMA MIA!
Worst Screen Couple:
Paris Hilton
and either
Christine Lakin
or
Joel David Moore
THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE
Worst Prequel,Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
(Combined Category for 2008):
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
Worst Director:
Uwe Boll
1968: Tunnel Rats,
In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,
and Postal
Worst Screenplay:
The Love Guru
Written by Mike Myers & Graham Gordy
Worst Career Achievement:
Uwe Boll
(Germany’s Answer to Ed Wood)
WINS PER PICTURE:
The Love Guru = 3 Awards:
Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
The Hottie and The Nottie = 3 Awards:
Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale = 1 Award:
Worst Director
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull = 1 Award:
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel