2016 Razzies Wins a Tie for Fantastic Four and Fifty Shades of Grey as Worst Pictures of the Year

Just as the Academy Awards is an event that celebrates the Best in Cinema for the year, many of you may already know that there's also an annual event that celebrates the worst in cinema, and that is the annual Golden Raspberry Awards (or simply called "The Razzies"). This year, the event was held February 27, 2016 which is a day before the Oscar night. The Worst Picture Award gets a tie, with "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Fantastic Four" getting the title. "Fifty Shades of Grey" has the most nominations and the most won, winning the Worst Picture, Worst Actor (for Jamie Dornan) and Worst Actress (for Dakota Johnson). Eddie Redmayne won the Worst Supporting Award for "Jupiter Ascending" and Kaley Cuoco as Worst Supporting Actress for "Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Road Chip". [hit the jump to continue]

It is not only the worst in cinema that the Razzies award; they also have The Razzie Redeemer Award which is presented to a past Razzie Award nominee or winner who had crossed into more appreciated works in film. This year, the champion for Razzie Redeemer is Sylvester Stallone who redeems his past performances in "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot", "Daylight", and numerous other roles that nominated him for a Razzie. Stallone redeems all that with his role in "Creed" which also earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Here is the complete list of Razzie Winners:

Worst Picture
Jupiter Ascending (Warner Bros.) – Grant Hill, The Wachowskis
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Columbia) – Todd Garner, Kevin James, Adam Sandler
Pixels (Columbia) – Adam Sandler, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Allen Covert
WINNER (A TIE):
Fantastic Four (20th Century Fox) – Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzer, Gregory Goodman
Fifty Shades of Grey (Universal/Focus Features) – Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, E. L. James

Worst Director
Andy Fickman – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Tom Six – The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
Sam Taylor-Johnson – Fifty Shades of Grey
The Wachowskis – Jupiter Ascending
WINNER: Josh Trank - Fantastic Four

Worst Actor
Johnny Depp – Mortdecai as Charlie Mortdecai
Kevin James – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 as Paul Blart
Adam Sandler – The Cobbler and Pixels as Max Simkin and Sam Brenner
Channing Tatum – Jupiter Ascending as Caine Wise
WINNER: Jamie Dornan - Fifty Shades of Grey as Christian Grey
   
Worst Actress
Katherine Heigl – Home Sweet Hell as Mona Champagne
Mila Kunis – Jupiter Ascending as Jupiter Jones
Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door as Claire Peterson
Gwyneth Paltrow – Mortdecai as Johanna Mortdecai
WINNER: Dakota Johnson - Fifty Shades of Grey as Anastasia Steele

Worst Supporting Actor
Chevy Chase – Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation as Hot Tub Repairman and Clark Griswold
Josh Gad – Pixels and The Wedding Ringer as Ludlow Lamonsoff and Doug Harris
Kevin James – Pixels as President William Cooper
Jason Lee – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip as David "Dave" Seville
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne - Jupiter Ascending as Balem Abrasex
   
Worst Supporting Actress
Rooney Mara – Pan as Tiger Lily
Michelle Monaghan – Pixels as Lieutenant Colonel Violet van Patten
Julianne Moore – Seventh Son as Mother Malkin
Amanda Seyfried – Love the Coopers and Pan as Ruby and Mary
WINNER: Kaley Cuoco – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (voice only) and The Wedding Ringer as Eleanor and Gretchen Palmer

Worst Screen Combo
All four "Fantastics" (Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell) – Fantastic Four
Johnny Depp and his glued-on moustache – Mortdecai
Kevin James and either his Segway or his glued-on moustache – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler and any pair of shoes – The Cobbler
WINNER: Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson - Fifty Shades of Grey

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (20th Century Fox) – Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Paramount/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) – Andrew Panay
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (IFC Midnight) – Tom Six, Ilona Six
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Columbia) – Todd Garner, Kevin James, Adam Sandler
WINNER: Fantastic Four (20th Century Fox) – Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzer, Gregory Goodman

Worst Screenplay
Fantastic Four – Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank from the Marvel Comics characters by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowskis
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – Nick Bakay and Kevin James
Pixels – Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, story: Tim Herlihy, from the short film by Patrick Jean
WINNER: Fifty Shades of Grey – Kelly Marcel, from the novel by E. L. James

The Razzie Redeemer Award
Elizabeth Banks – From Razzie “winning” director for Movie 43 to directing the 2015 hit film Pitch Perfect 2
M. Night Shyamalan – From Perennial Razzie nominee and “winner” to directing the 2015 horror hit The Visit
Will Smith – For following up Razzie “wins” for After Earth to starring in Concussion
WINNER: Sylvester Stallone – From all-time Razzie champ to 2015 award contender for Creed

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