Everyone knows that in Hollywood the most prestigious award for his contribution to the film industry is the Oscar, but there is also an antiproward, called Golden Raspberry. This award, cinema workers annually the day before the Oscars are awarded for the most unsuccessful film works. One of the main nominations is "The worst male role."
Golden Raspberry has been around for thirty-five years since 1981. It is hard to imagine, but during this time many talented actors received the title “Worst Actor”.
Golden Raspberries and Worst Actors
But not all nominees receive it. For example, these actors have been contenders for the Golden Raspberry figurine many times, but never received it:
- Tom Cruise, Hyuba Gooding, Al Pacino, Robert Pattinson - 2 times;
- 3 times - Stephen Seagal and Keanu Reeves;
- The immortal terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger was nominated 4 times;
- and Nicolas Cage became a nominee 5 times.
And here are the names of those who were in the nomination twice, one of which nevertheless became the prize: Rob Schneider, Prince, Christopher Atkins, Mark Myers, Andrew Dice Clay.
You can also list other applicants for the title of "Worst Actor" who earned 3 times getting into the nomination, but received statuettes of "Golden Raspberries" 1 time:
- Bruce Willis in 1998 (for Mercury in Danger, Armageddon, Siege);
- Ben Affleck in 2003 for three films: "Gigli", "Reckoning Hour" and "Daredevils";
- Burt Reynolds (Policeman and a Half, 1993);
- Ashton Kutcher ("Valentine's Day" and "Killers" - 2010).
Following can be called those who were nominated four times, but received one award - these are John Travolta and Eddie Murphy. In 2001, Travolta played his worst roles in the two films “Lucky Numbers” and “Battlefield: Earth”. And in 2007, thanks to his role in the movie "Norbit's Tricks" in this nomination, he was content with Eddie Murphy's victory .
In the films "Jury" and "Bio-House" twice proved to be the worst actor Paul Shore, for which he received twice the anti-award.
Kevin Costner was nominated 4 times and received awards three times - in 1991, 1994 and 1997 for his roles in the films Robon Hood: The Prince of Thieves, Wyatt Earp and The Postman, respectively.
Adam Sandler was nominated seven times and also won Golden Raspberry 3 times.
But all the brothers were overtaken by the cheerful Rocky - Sylvester Stallone - who is rightfully called the “Worst Actor in History”. In his arsenal of 4 antipremirations and as many as 10 anniversary nominations.
Worst male role and most overrated actor of 2015
At the end of 2015, the sensational, scandalous and rather controversial film “Fifty Shades of Gray” became the worst film of the year. This is a specific love story of a simple and timid girl of Anesteis and self-confident handsome businessman - Christian. Jamie Dornan, who played a major male role, received a prize as the worst actor of the year.
But the actor, who received a fee significantly exceeding the box office for the film, was none other than the favorite of all women - handsome Johnny Depp. The list also included Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Will Farrell, Christian Bale, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Liam Neeson, Ben Affleck and Denzel Washington.
Peter Jackson named the worst actor
The director of the famous epic "The Lord of the Rings" did not nominate antipremy nominees, but he himself called the worst actor. They became Jake Gyllenhall. The actor failed in the tests and did not become a cinema Frodo, for which Jackson called him “Brooklyn hipster”, but his track record includes successful works such as “October Sky”, “Donny Darko”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Everest” , "Zodiac" and others.
Worst Russian actors
Russia does not lag behind its Western partners and came up with its comic Golden Woodpecker Award, which is presented on April Fool's Day.
In 2009, applicants for the “woodpecker” were Yevgeny Tsyganov - for “Fighter’s Night”, former KVN-schik Oleg Vereshchagin for his role in the second part of “The Best Movie” and Pavel Derevyanko for the film “At Sea”.
But in 2010, the title of worst actor was received by Sergey Krapiventsev for the main role in the film "Devil's Flower".
The Russian audience is extremely negative about modern versions of their favorite Soviet films, expressing their dissatisfaction with the actors who played the main roles in them:
- singer Ivan Dorn for the film "Funny Guys";
- Ville Haapasalo - for the “Gas Station Queen 2”;
- Aleksey Buldakov for his role in "A Man from Kapucinok Boulevard";
- Vladimir Zelensky for his role in Office Romance. Nowadays";
- Sergei Bezrukov, in the opinion of the audience, made a mistake by starring in remakes of such films as “The Irony of Fate. Continuation "," Carnival night. 50 years later ”and“ Gentlemen, good luck! ”.