The Academy Awards take place later today and, as is tradition, the Razzie Awards were held last night. It was not a good night for Space Jam: A New Legacy, as it picked up the second-highest number of "wins" after being panned by critics last year. However, Netflix's filmed version of the Princess Diana Broadway musical, Diana, managed to top it with five trophies.
Space Jam: A New Legacy has 26% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Critics Consensus that reads, "Despite LeBron James' best efforts to make a winning team out of the Tune Squad, Space Jam: A New Legacy trades the zany, meta humor of its predecessor for a shameless, tired exercise in IP-driven branding."
Coming hot off the heels of those negative Morbius reactions is a "Worst Supporting Actor" gong for Oscar-winner Jared Leto. That was for his performance in House of Gucci.
Superhero movies managed to escape the wrath of the Razzie Awards for yet another year, a surprise as many expected the organisers to take advantage of the fact Marvel Studios had its first "Rotten" rated movie in 2021 with Eternals (it certainly didn't deserve to be nominated, though).
Check out the full list of Razzie Award "winners" below:
WORST PICTURE
Diana the Musical (The Netflix Version) (WINNER)
Infinite
Karen
Space Jam: A New Legacy
The Woman in the Window
WORST ACTOR
LeBron James / Space Jam: A New Legacy (WINNER)
Scott Eastwood / Dangerous
Roe Hartrampf (As Prince Charles) / Diana the Musical
Ben Platt / Dear Evan Hansen
Mark Wahlberg / Infinite
WORST ACTRESS
Jeanna de Waal / Diana the Musical (WINNER)
Amy Adams / The Woman in the Window
Megan Fox / Midnight in the Switchgrass
Taryn Manning / Karen
Ruby Rose / Vanquish
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Judy Kaye (As BOTH Queen Elizabeth & Barbara Cartland)/ Diana the Musical (WINNER)
Amy Adams / Dear Evan Hansen
Sophie Cookson / Infinite
Erin Davie (As Camilla) / Diana the Musical
Taryn Manning / Every Last One of Them
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto / House of Gucci (WINNER)
Ben Affleck / The Last Duel
Nick Cannon / The Misfits
Mel Gibson / Dangerous
Gareth Keegan (As James Hewitt, the Muscle-Bound Horse Trainer) / Diana the Musical
WORST PERFORMANCE by BRUCE WILLIS in a 2021 MOVIE (Special Category)
Bruce Willis / Cosmic Sin (WINNER)
Bruce Willis / American Siege
Bruce Willis / Apex
Bruce Willis / Deadlock
Bruce Willis / Fortress
Bruce Willis / Midnight in the Switchgrass
Bruce Willis / Out of Death
Bruce Willis / Survive the Game
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
LeBron James & Any Warner Cartoon Character (or Time-Warner Product) He Dribbles on / Space Jam: A New Legacy (WINNER)
Any Klutzy Cast Member & Any Lamely Lyricized (or Choreographed) Musical Number / Diana the Musical
Jared Leto & EITHER His 17-Pound Latex Face, His Geeky Clothes or His Ridiculous Accent / House of Gucci
Ben Platt & Any Other Character Who Acts Like Platt Singing 24-7 is Normal / Dear Evan Hansen
Tom & Jerry (aka Itchy & Scratchy) / Tom & Jerry the Movie
WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Space Jam: A New Legacy (WINNER)
Karen (Inadvertent Remake of Cruella deVil)
Tom & Jerry the Movie
Twist (Rap remake of Oliver Twist)
The Woman in the Window (Rip-Off of Rear Window)
WORST DIRECTOR
Christopher Ashley / Diana the Musical (WINNER)
Stephen Chbosky / Dear Evan Hansen
“Coke” Daniels / Karen
Renny Harlin / The Misfits
Joe Wright / The Woman in the Window
WORST SCREENPLAY
Diana the Musical / Script by Joe DiPietro, Music and Lyrics by DiPietro and David Bryan (WINNER)
Karen / Written by “Coke” Daniels
The Misfits / Screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Robert Henny, Screen Story by Henny
Twist / Written by John Wrathall & Sally Collett, Additional Material by Matthew Parkhill, Michael Lindley, Tom Grass & Kevin Lehane, from an “Original Idea” by David & Keith Lynch and Simon Thomas
The Woman in the Window / Screenplay by Tracy Letts, from the Novel by A.J. Finn