44th Golden Raspberry Awards

44th Golden Raspberry Awards
Awarded for	Worst in film
Date	March 9, 2024
Site	Los Angeles, California
Highlights
Worst Picture	Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Most awards	Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (5)
Most nominations	Expend4bles (7)
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The 44th Golden Raspberry Awards, or the Razzies, honored the worst the film industry had to offer in 2023 on March 9, 2024. ^[1] These awards are based on votes from members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (1,179 movie buffs, film critics and journalists from 49 US States, and two dozen foreign countries). ^[1] The nominations were announced on January 22, 2024. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} Additionally, with four nods, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) its first-ever Razzie nominations, breaking the franchise's 16-year streak without a single Razzie Award nomination. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

In August 2023, a statement by John J. B. Wilson and Maureen "Mo" Murphy announced that the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation was considering the possibility of setting a new precedent by awarding Walt Disney Studios the Barry L. Bumstead Award to an entire studio for the first time ever (and not just an individual theatrical film). ^[9] This is due to Disney's centennial anniversary releases (ex. Peter Pan & Wendy , Elemental , Wish , Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , The Little Mermaid , Haunted Mansion , The Marvels , Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, etc.) causing "the once phenomenally profitable Walt Disney Pictures [to suffer] failure after failure at the box office" ^{[9] [10]} when "corporate honchos had hoped to spend th[e] entire year celebrating a century of success". ^[9] Ultimately the award was not presented.

Upon hearing of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sweeping every award it was nominated for, the film's director, Rhys Frake-Waterfield reacted in an interview for Variety , "I'm surprised our micro-budget film is being compared to Hollywood, but nevertheless I don't mind the dubious honor as it places me in the same pool as directors whose work I admire so much." ^[11] Producer, Scott Chambers, also chimed in with his reaction being “I think it is something to celebrate. But yeah, I’m always a little bit protective of Rhys because obviously he’s so early on in his career where the others, David Gordon Green and stuff that were in his category, they’ve got a solid career whereas Rhys is so early,” expanding with “And I feel like the director one was probably the one I disagree with the most, but the others, I’m like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ Do you know what I mean? It is what it is it’s, and it’s fine.” ^[12]

Winners and nominees

Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay winner and Worst Picture co-winner

Jon Voight, Worst Actor winner

Megan Fox, Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress winner

Sylvester Stallone, Worst Supporting Actor winner

Fran Drescher, Razzie Redeemer Award winner

Worst Picture Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (Altitude Film Distribution) – Scott Jeffrey and Rhys Frake-Waterfield The Exorcist: Believer (Universal) – Jason Blum, David C. Robinson, and James G. Robinson Expend4bles (Lionsgate) – Kevin King-Templeton, Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner, and Jason Statham Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros.) – Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Belle Avery Shazam! Fury of the Gods (New Line Cinema) – Peter Safran	Worst Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey David Gordon Green – The Exorcist: Believer Peyton Reed – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Scott Waugh – Expend4bles Ben Wheatley – Meg 2: The Trench
Worst Actor Jon Voight – Mercy as Patrick Quinn Russell Crowe – The Pope's Exorcist as Father Gabriele Amorth Vin Diesel – Fast X as Dominic Toretto Chris Evans – Ghosted as Cole Turner Jason Statham – Meg 2: The Trench as Jonas Taylor	Worst Actress Megan Fox – Johnny & Clyde as Alana Hart Ana de Armas – Ghosted as Sadie Rhodes Salma Hayek – Magic Mike's Last Dance as Maxandra Mendoza Jennifer Lopez – The Mother as The Mother Helen Mirren – Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Hespera
Worst Supporting Actor Sylvester Stallone – Expend4bles as Barney Ross Michael Douglas – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Hank Pym Mel Gibson – Confidential Informant as Kevin Hickey Bill Murray – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Lord Krylar Franco Nero – The Pope's Exorcist as The Pope	Worst Supporting Actress Megan Fox – Expend4bles as Gina Kim Cattrall – About My Father as Tigger Bai Ling – Johnny & Clyde as Zhang Lucy Liu – Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Kalypso Mary Stuart Masterson – Five Nights at Freddy's as Aunt Jane
Worst Screen Combo Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers (!) – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Any 2 "Merciless Mercenaries" – Expend4bles Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist – The Exorcist: Believer Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) – Ghosted Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum – Magic Mike's Last Dance	Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (Altitude Film Distribution) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Disney) The Exorcist: Believer (Universal) Expend4bles (Lionsgate) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [a] (Disney)
Worst Screenplay Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey – screenplay by Rhys Frake-Waterfield (based on the book by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard) The Exorcist: Believer – screenplay by Peter Sattler and David Gordon Green; story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green (based on characters by William Peter Blatty) Expend4bles – screenplay by Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart, and Max D. Adams; story by Spenser Cohen, Kurt Wimmer, and Tad Daggerhart (based on characters by David Callaham) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [b] – screenplay by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp, and James Mangold (based on characters by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman) Shazam! Fury of the Gods – screenplay by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan (based on characters by DC Comics)	Razzie Redeemer Award Fran Drescher – 1998 Nominee and current SAG/AFTRA president, for her brilliant shepherding of the actors' guild through a prolonged 2023 strike with a successful conclusion.

Films with multiple wins and nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

Films with multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	Expend4bles
5	The Exorcist: Believer
	Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
4	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
	Shazam! Fury of the Gods
3	Ghosted
	Meg 2: The Trench
2	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
	Johnny & Clyde
	Magic Mike's Last Dance
	The Pope's Exorcist

The following films received multiple wins:

Films with multiple wins

Wins	Film
5	Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
2	Expend4bles

Notes

1. labeled as Indiana Jones and The Dial of...Still Beating a Dead Horse ^[1]
2. labeled as Indiana Jones and The Dial of...Can I go home now? ^[1]

References

1. "Razz News" (Press release). Golden Raspberry Awards . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
2. Nordyke, Kimberly (January 22, 2024). "Razzie Awards: 'Expend4bles' Leads Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
3. VanHoose, Benjamin (January 22, 2024). "'Expend4bles', 'Meg 2', and 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' Among 2024 Razzie Nominations of "Worst" Movies". People . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
4. Murphy, J. Kim (January 22, 2024). "Razzie Noms 2024: Chris Evans and Jennifer Lopez Up for Worst Actors; 'Shazam 2' and 'Ant-Man 3' Tie with 4 Nods". Variety . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
5. Evans, Greg (January 22, 2024). "Razzie Awards: 'Expend4bles', 'The Exorcist: Believer', 'Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey' Race to the Bottom". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
6. Rangel, Felipe (January 22, 2024). "The MCU Breaks a 16-Year Franchise Record with Its First-Ever Razzie Nomination". Screen Rant . Retrieved January 28, 2024.
7. Barnhardt, Adam (January 22, 2024). "Marvel Studios Gets First Razzie Nomination Amid Franchise Woes". ComicBook. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
8. Chu, Severina (January 26, 2024). "Why 'Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania' Earned the MCU's First Razzie Nominations Instead of 2023's Biggest Bomb". Screen Rant . Retrieved January 28, 2024.
9. Wilson, John J.B.; Murphy, Maureen "Mo" (August 10, 2023). "August 10th, 2023 - What Went Horribly Wrong?". Razzie Awards. Golden Raspberry Awards. Archived from the original on March 7, 2024. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
10. Reid, Caroline (August 4, 2023). "The 4 Flops Of 2023 That Cost Disney $1 Billion". Forbes . Archived from the original on March 7, 2024. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
11. Ritman, Alex (March 11, 2024). "'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' Director Brushes Off Razzie Awards Sweep: 'I'm Surprised Our Micro-Budget Film Is Being Compared to Hollywood'". Variety. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
12. Barnhardt, Adam (March 18, 2024). "'Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Producer Scott Chambers Reacts to Razzie Wins'". Comicbook. Retrieved March 18, 2024.

External links

• Official website