Mike Myers’ spiritual comedy The Love Guru was the big, er, loser as the nominations for the 29th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards were announced today. The actor’s summer flop scored nods in seven categories, including Worst Actor (Myers), Worst Actress (Jessica Alba), and Worst Picture — where it appeared alongside Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, The Happening, The Hottie and the Nottie, and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. Al Pacino garnered a Worst Actor nomination for his work in 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill, while Paris Hilson was cited three times for her performances in The Hottie and the Nottie and Repo: The Genetic Opera. The "winners" will be announced on Feb. 21, the night before the Oscars ceremony. The full list of nominations is after the jump.
WORST PICTURE
DISASTER MOVIE (Lionsgate) and MEET THE SPARTANS (20th Century-Fox) {Two Movies Jointly Nominated for Sharing One Berry Badly Beaten Dead Horse of a Concept!}
THE HAPPENING (20th Century-Fox)
THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE (Regent Releasing/Purple Pictures)
IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE (Boll KG/Brightlight Pictures)
THE LOVE GURU (Paramount)
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 AND THE NOTTIE
Kate Hudson / FOOLS’ 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 & ANY Actor, Camera or Screenplay
Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher / WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
Paris Hilton & EITHER Christine Lakin OR Joel David Moore / HOTTIE & THE NOTTIE
Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy / WITLESS PROTECTION
Eddie Murphy IN 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 & Aaron Seltzer / DISASTER MOVIE and MEET THE SPARTANS
Tom Putnam / THE HOTTIE AND 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 & Aaron Seltzer
THE HAPPENING, Written by M. Night Shyamalan
THE HOTTIE AND 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 & Graham Gordy
WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT (Special Category!)
Uwe Boll (Germany’s Answer to Ed Wood)
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I wish actors would admit they made mistakes and go to the show and accept.
so much more fun that way. kudos to Halle berry and Bill Cosby for going and getting theirs.
I never thought I’d be sticking up for Paris Hilton, but after seeing Repo! The Genetic Opera, I’m afraid I have to disagree with the Razzies on giving Paris a Worst Supporting Actress nomination for it. The movie, while no great work of cinema, is fun and original, and I thought Paris Hilton was quite excellent (and well cast) playing Amber Sweet, a bratty heiress obsessed with her nonexistent talent and plastic surgery. I know EW gave the movie a terrible review, but it’s fun in a campy over the top sort of way, a la Rocky Horror.
I don’t agree with Speed Racer being anywhere near a Razzie, it was fun to watch and visually dazzling!
If Love Guru gets WORST picture and Slumdog Millionaire gets BEST picture, then that would really be poetic justice.
I’m surprised you forgot about Matthew McCaugnehey in, “Fools Gold” … “Surfer, Dude” …”Tropic Thunder” was he in anything else?
Did this guy forget that he was a good, respectable actor at one point? Remember, if you can go that far back… “A Time to Kill” and “Contact”