Big Surprise… Twilight and The Last Airbender Lead the 2011 Razzie Nominations

Posted by on January 25th, 2011   Filed under: Awards
Source: Razzies

This year’s Academy Award nominees are currently being announced as I write this, but yesterday the Razzies unveiled their full list of nominees as well. This is the annual celebration of “the worst that Hollywood has to offer”, although over the past few years it has become increasingly clear that they only pick on movies and celebrities that are already easy targets. As you might expect, this year The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender led the way with 9 nominations each.

Somehow it does seem a bit ironic that a Twilight movie is nominated in the same year as the Twilight parody Vampires Suck. If they love making fun of Twilight so much, you’d think the folks from the Razzies would have loved it! Also, poor Rob Schneider… why is he the only one that gets called out from Grown Ups? So predictable. Do you agree with this year’s nominees, or are there other movies that deserve to be on the list? Check out the full list of Razzie nominations after the jump.

WORST PICTURE
The Bounty Hunter
The Last Airbender
Sex & the City 2
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck!

WORST ACTOR
Jack Black, Gulliver’s Travels
Gerard Butler, The Bounty Hunter
Ashton Kutcher, Killers and Valentine’s Day
Taylor Lautner, Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Valentine’s Day
Robert Pattinson, Remember Me and Twilight Saga: Eclipse

WORST ACTRESS
Jennifer Aniston, The Bounty Hunter and The Switch
Miley Cyrus, The Last Song
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon, Sex & the City 2
Megan Fox, Jonah Hex
Kristen Stewart, Twilight Saga: Eclipse

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Alba, The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine’s Day
Cher, Burlesque
Liza Minnelli, Sex & the City 2
Nicola Peltz, The Last Airbender
Barbra Streisand, Little Fockers

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Billy Ray Cyrus, The Spy Next Door
George Lopez, Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine’s Day
Dev Patel, The Last Airbender
Jackson Rathbone, The Last Airbender and Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Rob Schneider, Grown Ups

WORST EYE-GOUGING MISUSE OF 3D
Cats and Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Nutcracker 3-D
Saw 3-D (aka Saw VII)

WORST SCREEN COUPLE/WORST SCREEN ENSEMBLE
Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler, The Bounty Hunter
Josh Brolin’s face & Megan Fox’s accent, Jonah Hex
The entire cast of The Last Airbender
The entire cast of Sex & the City 2
The entire cast of Twilight Saga: Eclipse

WORST DIRECTOR
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Vampires Suck!
Michael Patrick King, Sex & the City 2
M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender
David Slade, Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables

WORST SCREENPLAY
The Last Airbender, written by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the TV series by Michael Dante DiMartino and Brian Konietzko
Little Fockers, written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey, based on characters created by Greg Glenna & Mary Roth Clarke
Sex & the City 2, written by Michael Patrick King, based on the TV Series created by Darren Star
Twilight Saga: Eclipse, screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer
Vampires Suck! written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Sex & the City 2
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck!



  • Rob Schnider was the only funny performance in Grown Up’s… and Stallone for Worst Director? WTF

  • Juan

    Stallone worst director? what the hell? I mean The Expendables is not the cure of cancer but it sure doesnt deserve to get nominated for a razzie

  • Hugh

    What about the awful SATC nonsense????

  • Anthony

    Jessica Alba wasn’t that bad in Machete…

  • wow, M. Night could sweep

  • Alba doesnt deserve the nomination for machete but sure as hell for her weird performance in Little Fockers! But why is streisand nominated there? She was barely in the movie!

  • gabi

    Twilight is an easy Target to get the Hits the Razzies need. Every comment the Fans are posting on any of these blogs or sites , that its not fair to get this nomination for Twilight, gives the Advertisers the chance to strut their stuff. Caleb Nation on U Tube calls it “The Haterz Pay our Bill Award” so you click on Worst Movie, WorstActor, Worst Actress, Worst Couple..here they have 4 Hits for the Ad Machine from each of you. Its actually a brilliant Marketing Scheme and shows u again how easy it is to make money of this franchise.

  • rjdelight

    The Last Airbender is nowhere near worst of the year. People love to hate M.Night. Then again the razzies are the biggest waste of time, so I have no idea why I’m even complaining…

  • Falsk

    @rjdelight – Totally agree on every account. Lay off the Night, dudes.

  • Rus in Chicago

    M night deserves everything he gets for spoiling one of the richest pieces of material to come along in a long time. What a waste. His biggest weaknessis his backbone, read The Man That Would Here Voices to understand his fall

  • rjdelight

    I’ve heard that’s a great read, but I still think he gets shit on way too much.

  • My bad: The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale

    http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Heard-Voices-Shyamalan/dp/1592402135

  • Henrik

    I recommend The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale And Lost, which is the 2nd edition of the book.

    It has a foreword by David Bordwell (Film Theory demigod for academics), and a new afterword by Bamberger, regarding the reception of the movie, and an explanation of the terrible title change.

  • clambake

    The last Airbender was a mind-bender. Every cliché that epitomizes poor acting, wretched directing, ho-hum special effects, pathetic screen writing and an overwhelming bad movie experience is neatly wrapped up in this picture This may well go down in movie history as the most expensive, over hyped movie of all time. Thankfully, it has left the theatres. Much to everyone’s chagrin, it is still available on DVD at the red box outside Walgreens where it seems to be as wanted as dandelions in a botanical garden.
    The child actor appeared to have been trained during a two week crash course at the Acme School of Acting and Brain Surgery. The $29.95 tuition fee should be refunded and the child’s nepotistic connections should be revealed which would explain the casting decision to a bewildered audience.
    M. Night Shyamalan’s films have all been downhill since his initial successes with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. He has lost his touch. His films are not anticipated any more. It’s unfortunate but currently during previews at the movies it’s hard not to notice the guffaws and chuckling when Shymalan’s name appears in the credits or is mentioned by an announcer.

  • Strand0410

    The Last Airbender was pretty bad, derivative, unoriginal, boring, horribly-written. But it wasn’t as offensively bad as fucking Twilight 3.