32nd Golden Raspberry Awards

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32nd Golden Raspberry Awards
DateApril 1, 2012
Site Magicopolis, Santa Monica, California
Highlights
Worst Picture Jack and Jill
Most awardsJack and Jill (10)
Most nominationsJack and Jill (12)

The 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, ceremony was held on April 1, 2012, at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, California to identify the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2011, according to votes from members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation. Razzies co-founder John J. B. Wilson has stated that the intent of the awards is "to be funny." [1] The nominations were announced on February 25, 2012. Taking a break from Razzie tradition of announcing both the nominees and winners before the Academy Awards functions by one day, it was decided in January 2012 to delay both the Razzie nomination announcements and ceremony by several weeks in order for the actual Razzie ceremony to be held on April Fools' Day. The actual nominations however, still had some connection to the Oscars ceremony, as they were announced the night before the Academy Awards were held. [2] [3]

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Adam Sandler received a Razzie record six nominations as an individual and a total of twenty-three nominations for films he was involved with. [4]

Voting for Worst Screen Ensemble was not just determined by members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. Voting for the award was opened up to the general public online and conducted by the website Rotten Tomatoes. A grand total of 35,117 votes were cast. [5]

Jack and Jill was nominated for twelve awards (including twice each in Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Supporting Actress) and won in every category. This was the first time in the history of the Razzies that one film won every award. The film also holds the record for most Razzie wins (beating Battlefield Earth ) and most wins in a single year (beating I Know Who Killed Me ). The only other film to win was another Happy Madison film Just Go with It , with only two Razzies earned for Worst Director and Worst Actor.

Winners and nominees

  Winner (in bold)
Adam Sandler, Worst Actor and Worst Actress winner; Worst Screen Couple and Worst Screenplay co-winner Adam Sandler Cannes 2017.jpg
Adam Sandler, Worst Actor and Worst Actress winner; Worst Screen Couple and Worst Screenplay co-winner
Al Pacino, Worst Supporting Actor winner and Worst Screen Couple co-winner Al Pacino 2016 (30401544240).jpg
Al Pacino, Worst Supporting Actor winner and Worst Screen Couple co-winner
David Spade, Worst Supporting Actress winner David Spade2 (cropped).jpg
David Spade, Worst Supporting Actress winner
Katie Holmes, Worst Screen Couple co-winner Katie Holmes, 2009.jpg
Katie Holmes, Worst Screen Couple co-winner
CategoryRecipient
Worst Picture Jack and Jill (Columbia)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Columbia)
New Year's Eve (New Line Cinema)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Paramount)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Summit)
Worst Actor Adam Sandler in Jack and Jill and Just Go with It as Jack Sadelstein and Dr. Danny Maccabee (respectively)
Russell Brand in Arthur as Arthur Bach
Nicolas Cage in Drive Angry , Season of the Witch , and Trespass as Milton, Behmen von Bleibruck, and Kyle Miller (respectively)
Taylor Lautner in Abduction and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 as Nathan Harper and Jacob Black (respectively)
Nick Swardson in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star as Bucky Larson
Worst Actress Adam Sandler (in drag) in Jack and Jill as Jill Sadelstein
Martin Lawrence (in drag) in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son as Big Momma
Sarah Palin (as herself) in The Undefeated
Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don't Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve as Kate Reddy and Kim Doyle (respectively)
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 as Bella Swan
Worst Supporting Actor Al Pacino (as himself) in Jack and Jill
Patrick Dempsey in Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Dylan Gould
James Franco in Your Highness as Prince Fabious
Ken Jeong in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son , The Hangover Part II , Transformers: Dark of the Moon , and Zookeeper as Mailman, Leslie Chow, Jerry "Deep" Wang, and Venom (respectively)
Nick Swardson in Jack and Jill and Just Go with It as Todd and Eddie Simms (respectively)
Worst Supporting Actress David Spade (in drag) in Jack and Jill as Monica
Katie Holmes in Jack and Jill as Erin Sadelstein
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Carly Spencer
Brandon T. Jackson (in drag) in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son as Charmaine
Nicole Kidman in Just Go with It as Devlin Adams
Worst Screen Couple Adam Sandler and either Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, or himself (in drag) – Jack and Jill
Nicolas Cage and anyone sharing the screen with him in any of his three 2011 movies ( Drive Angry , Season of the Witch , and Trespass )
Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Adam Sandler and either Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker Just Go with It
Kristen Stewart and either Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Jack and Jill (Rip-off/Remake of Glen or Glenda ) (Columbia)
Arthur (Warner Bros.)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Rip-off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born ) (Columbia)
The Hangover Part II (Warner Bros.)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Summit)
Worst Director Dennis Dugan for Jack and Jill and Just Go with It
Michael Bay for Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Tom Brady for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Bill Condon for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
Garry Marshall for New Year's Eve
Worst Screenplay Jack and Jill (screenplay by Adam Sandler and Steve Koren, story by Ben Zook)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, & Nick Swardson)
New Year's Eve (written by Katherine Fugate)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (screenplay by Ehren Kruger, based on the toy line by Hasbro)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer)
Worst Screen Ensemble The entire cast of Jack and Jill
The entire cast of Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
The entire cast of New Year's Eve
The entire cast of Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The entire cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

Criticism

Despite being heavily critically panned, the awards received some criticism for the nomination Jack & Jill in the Worst Prequel, Remake of Rip-off or Sequel category described as a "Remake/Ripoff of Glen or Glenda " despite bearing no resemblance beyond that they both feature male actors portraying both male and female characters; this was widely viewed as an excuse to nominate the film in every category. [6] [7]

Films with multiple nominations

These films garnered multiple nominations:

NominationsFilms
12 Jack and Jill
8 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
6 Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star
5 Just Go With It
New Year's Eve
3 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
2 Arthur
Drive Angry
The Hangover Part II
Season of the Witch
Trespass

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