Razzie Awards: Expendables 4, Winnie The Pooh and The Exorcist lead nominees for worst of 2023
Razzie Awards: Expendables 4, Winnie The Pooh and The Exorcist lead nominees for worst of 2023. The award ceremony that highlights the most infamous of the year returns and has these three films in its sights.
By Megan Sauer
Nobody sets out to make a bad movie, but there are some. Not so much to mock, pointing out when a film disappoints, misses opportunities or flat out fails is a way of learning.
After all, only by making mistakes do we know how to do things right. And, in that sense, the Razzie Awards have shared their list of nominees for the worst films of 2023.
What were the worst movies of 2023 according to the Razzie Awards?
According to Deadline, The Expendables 4 swept 7 nominations for the 2023 Razzie Awards. The action film was battered by critics since its premiere and was followed, in a tie, by Winnie The Pooh: Honey and Blood and The Exorcist: Believers with 5 each.
Among the dishonorable mentions, we also have Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Shazam! The Fury of the Gods, both with four.
Although there were at least a dozen other titles that were not saved from coming out in a muddy mess, it is worth highlighting another handful of films also hated by critics such as Ghosted -27% , The Megalodon 2: The Great Abyss -39% and up to Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny -63% . The award ceremony, as you know, takes place the Saturday before the Oscars.
The Razzie Awards have been presented annually, since the early 1980s, by a group of critics and journalists. Most of the members of the association that delivers them are Americans, but they have members from other parts of the world. The “award” consists of a golden raspberry cluster. Below we leave you the list of this year’s nominees.
Who were the nominees for the 2024 Razzies?
Worst movie
The Exorcist: Believers
The Expendables 4
The Meg 2: The Great Deep
Shazam: Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood
Worst Actor
Russell Crowe / Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel / Fast and Furious 10
Chris Evans / Ghosted
Jason Statham / The Meg 2: The Great Deep
Jon Voight / Mercy
Worst Actress
Ana de Armas / Ghosted
Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
Shazam: Fury of the Gods/Dame Helen Mirren
Worst Supporting Actress
Kim Cattrall / About My Father
Megan Fox / Expendables 4
Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu / Shazam: Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
Worst Supporting Actor
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania/Michael Douglas
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania/Bill Murray
Franco Nero / Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone / The Expendables 4
Worst stage couple
Any pair of “mercernaries without mercy” / The Indestructibles 4
Any of the two greedy executives who shelled out 400 million for the rights to make The Exorcist: Believers
Ana de Armas and Chris Evans (who ruined the on-screen chemistry) / Ghosted
Salma Hayek and Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh and Piglet as a pair of bloody murderers in Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood
Worst prequel, sequel, remake or spin-off
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believers
The Expendables 4
Indiana Jones and the dial of continuing to squeeze a franchise
Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood
Worst Director
Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood
David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believers
Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania/Peyton Reed
Scott Waugh / The Expendables 4
Ben Wheatley / The Meg 2: The Great Deep
Worst script
The Exorcist: Believers
The Expendables 4
Indiana Jones and the Dial of… Can I go home now?
Shazam: Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood
