The winners of the 44th annual Golden Raspberry Awards (or, "Razzies") have been announced, and recent low-budget horror parody Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey swept the board with five "wins."
Blood and Honey picked up Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple for Pooh and Piglet, and Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel, with Rhys Frake-Waterfield walking away with Worst Director and Worst Screenplay.
Despite being universally panned, the movie actually proved to be a hit, grossing $5 million worldwide against its $100,000 budget. Naturally, a sequel is on the way.
Elsewhere, Razzie regular Sylvester Stallone picked up his 12th award for Worst Supporting Actor for Expend4bles, while co-star Megan Fox won Worst Supporting Actress. The Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star also won Worst Actress for horror-heist film Johnny & Clyde.
Oscar-winner Jon Voight won the Worst Actor Razzie for action flick Mercy, while SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher won the Razzie Redeemer Award "for her brilliant shepherding of the actors’ guild through a prolonged 2023 strike with a successful conclusion."
The Razzies began back in 1981, and the Oscars parody show was seen as a bit of harmless fun for many years (Halle Barry even showed up to collect her Worst Actress award for Catwoman), but the annual "celebration" of the worst cinema has to offer has come in for a lot of backlash over the past few years.
What do you guys make of the Razzie Awards? Is it time to call it a day, or are people being too sensitive? Be sure to drop us a comment down below, and check out the full list of winners.
WORST PICTURE
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Meg 2: The Trench
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER
WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe, The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel, Fast X
Chris Evans, Ghosted
Jason Statham, Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight, Mercy – WINNER
WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas, Ghosted
Megan Fox, Johnny & Clyde – WINNER
Salma Hayek, Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez, The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren, Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall, About My Father
Megan Fox, Expend4bles – WINNER
Bai Ling, Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu, Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson, Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas, Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson, Confidential Informant
Bill Murray, Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”), The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone, Expend4ables – WINNER
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries”, Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry), Ghosted
Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum, Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!), Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER
WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER
David Gordon Green, The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed, Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh, Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley, Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey – WINNER