Actress Sandra Bullock accepts her Razzie award for worst
actress in a feature film in Los Angeles on Saturday, March
6, 2010. Photo by AP.
Sandra Bullock warmed up for the Academy Awards with a
stop at the Razzies to collect a dubious honor: a worst-actress
prize for her romantic comedy flop
All About Steve.
Bullock swung by the Razzies on the eve of her expected
triumph at Sunday's Oscars, where she is considered the
favorite to win best actress for The Blind Side. If
she wins Sunday, Bullock will be the first person to win an
Oscar and a Razzie over the same weekend.
"I think this is an extraordinary award," said Bullock, who
had promised throughout awards season that if she won the
Razzie, she would accept it in person. "And I didn't realise
that, in Hollywood, all you had to do was say you'd show up,
and then you'd get the award. If I'd known that, I would have
said I was appearing at the Oscars a long time ago."
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was picked as
last year's worst picture and won two other Razzies, worst
director for Michael Bay and worst screenplay for Ehren
Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.
Bay and his team probably will not lose any asleep over it.
Though reviled by critics, Transformers took in
$402.1 million domestically, No. 2 on the 2009 box-office
chart behind Avatar.
Bullock, who also shared the Razzie for worst screen couple
with All About Steve co-star Bradley Cooper, was the
first acting winner to show up at the Razzies since Halle
Berry won worst-actress for Catwoman five years ago.
As she took the stage, Bullock pulled a little red wagon
filled with DVDs of All About Steve, saying she was
giving a copy to everyone in the audience of about 300.
Bullock implied that many Razzie voters had not actually seen
the movie but cast ballots for her hoping to get her to show
up at the awards.
Bullock said if they watched the DVD - "I mean really watch
it" - and decided it was not the worst performance of the
year after all, then she would come back next year and "give
back the Razzie. ... then we'll go drink afterwards."
The worst-actor Razzie went to siblings Kevin, Joe and Nick
Jonas for Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
The Jonas' pal Miley Cyrus, star of Hannah Montana: The
Movie, lost the worst-actress category to Bullock. But
her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, was named worst supporting actor
for the big-screen Hannah Montana.
Sienna Miller received the worst supporting-actress Razzie
for the action tale G.I. Joe.
Will Ferrell's action comedy flop Land of the Lost
had come in tied with Transformers for the Razzies
lead with seven nominations, but it was nearly shut out in
every category.
Once ballots had been counted from the roughly 650 Razzies
voters, Land of the Lost was tied for the group's
worst remake, rip-off or sequel prize. Razzies founder John
Wilson, who always votes last, gave the tie-breaking vote to
Land of the Lost.
"It really did stink and I thought, well, it ought to get
something, because it is a very bad movie," Wilson said.
Razzie voters also made worst-of-the-decade picks, with John
Travolta's science-fiction debacle Battlefield Earth
winning worst picture.
Among all-time Hollywood dreck, Battlefield Earth is
"like the 800-pound mongrel gorilla in the room," Wilson
said. "It's one of my favorite type of bad movies. It's so
bad, it's entertaining, in ways that the people who made it
had no idea it would be."
Paris Hilton was chosen as the decade's worst actress for
movies such as The Hottie and the Nottie and
Repo: The Genetic Opera. Eddie Murphy, a 2009 Razzie
nominee for Imagine That, was named the decade's
worst actor for such bombs as The Adventures of Pluto
Nash, I Spy and Meet Dave.
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