My night at the Razzies!

Since you've already seen the list of this evening's "winners" (or losers rather) from the Razzie Awards, I thought I'd take a minute to give some accounts of the 30th annual ceremony overall, as I was in attendance last night.

- The show overall was one thrill after another, and getting into the show alone is well worth the cost of annual dues to be a voting Razzie member. The songs and presentations had a quirky and charming summer-camp-let's-put-on-a-show-right-here element, and they were augmented with photo and video clips from the past ceremonies. Many of the performers have been in the show for decades, with highlights including characters Lady Hoo-Ha and a drag queen Julia Child. The best part about about watching the show was that the performers were having a wonderful time onstage and that was contagious to the audience.

- The emcee for the evening was Bill A. Jones (recently seen as Rod Remington on "Glee") whose vocal dynamics and prowess added a wonderful dimension to the proceedings. He was truly a vital and enjoyable part of the ceremony and hopefully he'll be back next year.

- The first "winner" of the night to accept their award was J.D. Shapiro who accepted the Golden Raspberry won by "Battlefield Earth" for Worst Film of the Decade. Shapiro showcased his penchant for stand-up comedy by doing a bit that included him sharing negative reviews of the film (the worst of which was from his mother). He also used the opportunity to explain that much of his original script was removed from the film after it was rewritten by Corey Mandell, a writer who has no film credits since. Shapiro (whose credits also include the Mel Brooks film "Robin Hood: Men in Tights") was present for the entire ceremony, and stayed after to talk to the press at great length. For whatever reason, he appeared to have no hard feelings about the legacy of "Battlefield Earth" and enjoyed the evening immensely.

- The second "winner" of the night to accept was Sandra Bullock who won Worst Actress for "All About Steve". She was only in the building briefly (she was taking a break from a charity event hosted by Jeffery Katzenberg - the "K" of Dreamworks SKG) but her unique speech made an impact. Instead of going the Halle Berry route and agreeing the film was horrible, Bullock humorously defended the film, saying that since her character spends the film stalking Bradley Cooper's character they can't really be called an "on-screen couple" (in reference to another award the film won that night) and she didn't think anyone who voted for the Razzies had seen the movie. Bullock brought DVDs of the movie for everyone there and said that if after watching it the Razzie voters didn't think she still deserved the award, she would come back next year to give it back and then go out for drinks with the voters.

If you'd like to be there next year to see how this unfolds, please go to www.razzies.com to see how you and your friends can easily and affordably become voting members.

Take a gander at the Razzie "winners"...

...or losers, more appropriately. Here they are:

Worst Picture: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Worst Actress: Sandra Bullock for 'All About Steve'

Worst Actor(s): All three Jonas Brothers for 'Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience

Worst Screen Couple: Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper for 'All About Steve'

Worst Supporting Actress: Sienna Miller for 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'

Worst Supporting Actor: Billy Ray Cyrus for 'Hannah Montana: The Movie'

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel: Land of the Lost

Worst Director: Michael Bay for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Worst Screenplay: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen written by Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, based on Hasbro's Transformers Action Figures

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Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth

Worst Actor of the Decade: Eddie Murphy

Worst Actress of the Decade: Paris Hilton

-Thoughts?

Behold the Razzie nominations!

Here they are:

Worst Picture
“All About Steve”
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
“Land of the Lost”
“Old Dogs”"
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Worst Actor
Will Ferrell, “Land of the Lost”
Jonas Brothers, “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience”
Steve Martin, “Pink Panther 2″
Eddie Murphy, “Imagine That”
John Travolta, “Old Dogs”

Worst Actress
Beyonce, “Obsessed”
Sandra Bullock, “All About Steve”
Miley Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
Megan Fox, “Jennifer’s Body” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Sarah Jessica Parker, “Did You Hear About the Morgans?”

Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
Hugh Hefner, “Miss March”
Robert Pattinson, “Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Jorma Taccone, “Land of the Lost”
Marlon Wayans, “G.I. Joe”

Worst Supporting Actress
Candice Bergen, “Bride Wars”
Ali Larter, “Obsessed”
Sienna Miller, “G.I. Joe”
Kelly Preston,”Old Dogs”
Julie White, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Worst Director
Michael Bay, “Trasformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Walt Becker, “Old Dogs”
Brad Silberling, “Land of the Lost”
Stephen Sommers, “G.I. Joe”
Phil Traill, “All About Steve”

Worst Screenplay
“All About Steve”
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
“Land of the Lost”
“Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen”
“Twilight Saga: New Moon”

Worst Screen Couple
Jonas Brothers, “The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience”
Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper, “All About Steve”
Will Ferrell and any co-star, Creature or “Comic Riff,” “Land of the Lost”
Shia Lebouf and Megan Fox or any Transformer, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner, “Twilight Saga: New Moon”

Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
“Land of the Lost”
“Pink Panther 2″
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
“Twilight Saga: New Moon”

Worst Picture of the Decade
“Battlefield Earth”
“Freddy Got Fingered”
“Gigli”
“I Know Who Killed Me”
“Swept Away”

Worst Actor of the Decade
Ben Affleck
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Rob Schneider
John Travolta

Worst Actress of the Decade
Mariah Carey
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Madonna

-Anyone not deserve to be here (or anyone they missed)...thoughts?

In case you missed it...The Razzie Winners!

From Variety's story on the awards presentations:

Mike Myers' "The Love Guru" has found some disciples among Razzies voters who pick Hollywood's lowest achievements.
And Paris Hilton is getting her own Razzies moment with three awards all on her own at a ceremony that spoofs the Academy Awards on the eve of the Oscars.
"The Love Guru" won three Razzies on Saturday for worst picture, actor (Myers in the title role) and screenplay, which Myers co-wrote. Hilton's three prizes are worst actress for "The Hottie and the Nottie," supporting actress for "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and screen couple alongside either of her "Hottie" co-stars, Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore.
With three Razzies, Hilton tied the record set last year by Eddie Murphy, who won worst actor, supporting actor and supporting actress for his multiple roles in "Norbit."
Pierce Brosnan was chosen as worst supporting actor for "Mamma Mia!" The worst-director Razzie went to Uwe Boll for three movies: "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," "1968: Tunnel Rats" and "Postal."
Razzies voters also gave a prize for worst career achievement to Boll, whose critically drubbed movies include "Bloodrayne" and its sequel.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was named worst prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel.
John Wilson, founder of the Razzies, said Boll and Hilton's movies are so bad, he could envision a collaboration between the two.
"She is the 21st century Zsa Zsa Gabor. She is famous for who she hangs out with. She's not famous for any talent she has yet exhibited," Wilson said. "She may end up working with Uwe Boll. She could be the head vampire in `Bloodrayne 3.'"
"The Love Guru" features Myers as the world's second-best self-help guru, who must come to love himself before he can fully realize his potential. The movie topped out at $32 million at the domestic box office, chump change compared to the haul of Myers' "Austin Powers" sequels.
Wilson disagreed with other Razzies voters on "The Love Guru," saying that after watching it again to pull clips for the group's awards ceremony Saturday night, he did not think it was the year's worst movie.
"A couple of things he did got me to laugh, and these days, two laughs in a comedy is a high ratio," Wilson said.
In "The Hottie and the Nottie," Hilton plays a babe who won't date until her homely best pal lands a man. Hilton has a small role in "Repo," a horror musical about organ recipients who face a visit from the repo man if they fall behind on the payments.
"Repo" and "Hottie" combined did not even manage to take in $200,000 at the domestic box office.
Unlike many years, when one movie dominates, the Razzies were shared among a variety of flicks.
One voter joked that "we decided to spread the loathe around," Wilson said. "Everybody got kicked in the shin at least a little."

-Aside from Paris Hilton in Repo (not to say she was good by any stretch, but she was passable) I agree pretty much with these "winners"...how bout you?

The Razzie Nominations!

All hail the worst of the worst:

Worst Picture
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
“The Happening”
“The Hottie & the Nottie”
“In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale”
“The Love Guru”
Worst Actor
Larry the Cable Guy, “Witless Protection”
Eddie Murphy, “Meet Dave”
Mike Myers, “The Love Guru”
Al Pacino, “88 Minutes” and “Righteous Kill”
Mark Wahlberg, “The Happening” and “Max Payne”
Worst Actress
Jessica Alba, “The Eye” and “The Love Guru”
The cast of “The Women” (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)
Cameron Diaz, “What Happens in Vegas”
Paris Hilton, “The Hottie & the Nottie”
Kate Hudson, “Fool’s Gold” and “My Best Friend’s Girl”
Worst Supporting Actress
Carmen Electra, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
Paris Hilton, “Repo: The Genetic Opera”
Kim Kardashian, “Disaster Movie”
Jenny McCarthy, “Witless Protection”
Leelee Sobieski, “88 Minutes” and “In the Name of the King”
Worst Supporting Actor
Uwe Boll as himself, “Uwe Boll’s Postal”
Pierce Brosnan, “Mamma Mia!”
Ben Kingsley, “The Love Guru,” “War, Inc.” and “The Wackness”
Burt Reynolds, “Deal ” and “In the Name of the King”
Verne Troyer, “The Love Guru” and “Uwe Boll’s Postal”
Worst Screen Couple
Uwe Boll and any actor, camera or screenplay
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, “What Happens In Vegas”
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, “The Hottie & the Nottie”
Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, “Witless Protection”
Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy, “Meet Dave”
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel (combined category for 2008)
“The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good”
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
“Speed Racer”
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”
Worst Director
Uwe Boll, “1968: Tunnel Rats,” “In the Name of the King” and “Postal"
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans"
Tom Putnam, “The Hottie & the Nottie"
Marco Schnabel, “The Love Guru”
M. Night Shyamalan, “The Happening”
Worst Screenplay
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,” both written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
“The Happening,” written by M. Night Shyamalan
“The Hottie & the Nottie,” written By Heidi Ferrer
“In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,” screenplay by Doug Taylor
“The Love Guru,” written by Mike Myers and Graham Gordy
Worst Career Achievement
Uwe Boll (Germany’s answer to Ed Wood)
-Aside from the mention of Kingsley's work in The Wackness, which I felt was real good, this list is spot on...thoughts?