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Tom Cruise Beats 4 Others (Including Himself) to Be RAZZIES©’ Most Tiresome Tabloid Target of 2005 In the newest category at this year’s 26th Annual
RAZZIE® Awards, mega-star Tom Cruise
found himself in a lose/lose situation: Competing for Most
Tiresome Tabloid Target, his Anti-Psychiatry Rant lost out to
his own antics with fiancé Katie Holmes to “win” the first RAZZIE®
ever awarded for off-screen behavior. In addition to himself, in this
category Cruise took on “The Simpsons” (Ashlee, Jessica and Nick),
bratty new mom Britney Spears, and notorious air-headed heiress
Paris Hilton. Perhaps the only way Cruise might have lost this competition
is if “All of the Above” had been offered as a voting option. In the
annual categories that have been part of The RAZZIES® sine 1980, G.R.A.F. voters proved that
Academy members aren’t the only ones who can spot a small, worthy
title among better known but less deserving films. They bestowed four
of their top dis-honors on a little stinker that no one but they even
seem to know existed. Written by and starring former Playboy Playmate
Jenny McCarthy, DIRTY LOVE took gold-spray-painted statuettes for
McCarthy’s work as both Worst Actress
and Worst Screenplay, as well as copping Worst Director
for McCarthy’s former husband John Asher
at Saturday’s mock movie awards show in Hollywood. Described in the
ceremonies as “the bastard child that might have resulted had John
Derek, the RAZZIE® winning writer/director of BOLERO and
Tom Green, the RAZZIE® winning writer/director of FREDDY GOT
FINGERED, spent a winter together tending sheep on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN,”
LOVE also became the second-lowest-grossing Worst Picture
“winner” in RAZZIE® history, with a total worldwide take
of…$58,116. Others
taking their lumps with a sense of humor in this year’s Oscar parody
included: Rob Schneider as Worst Actor playing
the title role of DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO; Hayden Christensen,
taking his second Worst Supporting Actor
RAZZIE®
for portraying the same character (“Darth Vader as a Back Street Boy
gone bad”) in STAR WARS, EPISODE III: WHO GIVES A SITH; Paris Hilton
as Worst Supporting Actress for her frequently cheered
death scene in HOUSE OF WHACKS; The Jim-Carrey-free follow-up
SON OF THE MASK as Worst Remake or Sequel; and Will
Ferrell and Nicole Kidman, for their less-than-bewitching
chemistry in BEWITCHED, as Worst Screen Couple. A complete
list of “winners” in included with this press release.
“Winners” were determined by mailing ballots to about 750 film professionals,
film journalists and film fans from 41 U.S. states and 15 foreign countries.
The RAZZIE® Award itself is an intentionally cheapjack
tchotchke featuring a golf-ball-sized, handcrafted RAZZberry atop a
mangled Super 8 film reel that’s spray-painted gold and has an estimated
street value of $4.97. The RAZZIES were created in 1980 by John Wilson,
author of THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE. This year’s RAZZIE
ceremonies were held at the historic Ivar Theatre in Hollywood,
the new traditional 24 hours BEFORE the Oscars®.
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