Transformers: Age of Extinction nominated for worst picture

Nominees include Hercules and Saving Christmas amoung others

LOS ANGELES: Director Michael Bay’s special effects spectacle Transformers: Age of Extinction led all movies in ignominy with seven Razzie Awards nominations, including worst picture, screenplay and director. Action fantasy film The Legend of Hercules and faith-based film Saving Christmas, starring Kirk Cameron trailed close behind with six nods each for the year’s ‘worst achievements in film,’ said the organisers of the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards.

Winners of the Razzies, an annual tongue-in-cheek antidote to Hollywood’s awards season, will be announced on February 21, the eve of the Academy Awards.

Worst picture nominees also include Hercules, Saving Christmas, action-comedy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and thriller Left Behind. Organisers called this year’s batch of contenders the “cinematic equivalent of re-treaded tires.”

Actor Cameron Diaz is up for the spray-painted golden raspberry statuettes as worst actress in romantic comedies The Other Woman and Sex Tape as well as worst supporting actress for Annie.

Seth MacFarlane also picked up multiple nods for his Western satire A Million Ways to Die in the West, including worst actor, screen combo with Charlize Theron and worst director. Kelsey Grammer earned a worst supporting actor nomination for four films this past year: Expendables 3, Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too and Transformers.

The organisers have announced a new category this year, the Redeemer Award, the winner of which shall be determined by online voting. The award will honour a past Razzie winner who has recently earned acclaim. The nominees include Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Mike Myers, Keanu Reeves and Kristen Stewart.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 15^th, 2015.

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