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Murphy & Lohan Get RAZZIED

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Source: Golden Raspberry Awards

As always, the Golden Raspberry Award Winners have been announced before Hollywood gives out those Oscars. Here's the latest from the Razzies.

Many a RAZZIE® record was broken at this weekend's 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards, which dis-honor Worst Achievements in Film. Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy, each starring in one of 2007's Worst Picture nominees, both managed the unenviable feat of securing three of the gold spray-painted, $4.89 trophies apiece. Murphy became the first performer ever to win three of the four Worst Acting trophies in a single year — all for his multiple roles in the film everyone assumes cost him last year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for DREAMGIRLS. As the nerdy title character in NORBIT, Eddie was named Worst Actor. Painted orange and sporting about four pounds of Latex, Murphy was also chosen Worst Supporting Actor for his ethnically insensitive portrayal of "Mr. Wong." And, in a wig and sporting about 400-pounds of Latex, Murphy took the trophy as Worst Supporting Actress for his portrayal of the foul-mouthed, ill-tempered harpy Rasputia in the same film. Playing two characters who may (or may not) have been twins in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME, Lohan equaled Eddie's triple "achievement." Nominated individually for each of her characters, Lindsay "won" a pair of Worst Actress statuettes when she received the same number of votes for both roles. And, for a scene in which she appears opposite herself at the film's finale, Lohan was also RAZZed as the year's Worst Screen Couple. The film itself, with a less-than-grand total of 8 "wins" from its 9 nominations, broke the long-standing record for most RAZZIES® "won" by a single film. SHOWGIRLS and BATTLEFIELD EARTH, each with 7 "wins," had previously been the champions. In addition to Lindsay's twinsy "wins," KILLED ME copped the awards as Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie and Worst Remake or Rip-Off (where it competed as both a rip-off of the HOSTEL and SAW teen-torture-porn movies and an oddball remake of the 1960s sitcom THE PATTY DUKE SHOW).


The lone "winner" not associated with either KILLED ME or NORBIT still had something to do with Eddie Murphy. An Eddie-Murphy-Sequel-without-Eddie-Murphy, the pooping, belching, vomiting, cacophonous kiddy "comedy" DADDY DAY CAMP was crowned Worst Prequel or Sequel. A complete list of "winners" is included with this release.

The ceremonies were held at the Abracadabra Theatre at Magicopolis in Santa Monica. "Winners" were determined by mailing ballots to more than 750 voters in 44 U.S. states and 18 foreign countries. The RAZZIES® were created in 1980 as a logical antidote to Tinsel Town's annual glut of self-congratulations by John Wilson, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES and THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.


To see the full list of winning losers, click here.

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almostunbiased • Feb 24, 2008, 03:30pm •
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Or at least, oh how the somewhat good have fallen.
Or maybe, oh how the "had a few good movies" people have fallen.

hanso • Feb 24, 2008, 03:38pm •
Eddie needs to call Charile so they can do "The Darkness brothers"!!!!!!!!!

rgtchtiger • Feb 24, 2008, 03:42pm •
While I don't disagree with the Razzie's picks for worst movies of the year, I can't help but feel that there isn't that uber-turkey of a bad movie this past year. We've had Battlefield Earth, Showgirls, Basic Instinct 2, Catwoman, Glitter, and Gigli, but none of the nominees from 2007 really seemed to stink to that deep of a level.

experiMENTAL • Feb 24, 2008, 04:15pm •
The Lohan is at least fun to look...well when she's not looking like a coked-out lot lizard. I'd give her the meat trophy (in an STD free world that is). Eddie Murphy pays his bills but damn his movies are shite. Raw had me crying with laughter. The trailer for Norbit just had me crying. Come on Eddie, pull a Stallone and do a Beverly Hills Cop flick. You could call it 'Axel Foley' (sp?). You could even have Charlie in it. Come ooooooon.

SONYMANswallows • Feb 24, 2008, 04:23pm •
Wow Bland and Squealberg must be glad PIGFORMERS made all that money so they could bribe the Razzie decision makers and TRANSVESTITES could flop right past their noses. With the kind of slop that movie rolled around in it would be hard to sneak the stench past anyone who is smart enough to know what pig shit PIGFORMERS is. (cue fan base reaction)

"Well I loved Transformers because it showed robots fighting and whoever disagrees with me obviously didnt read the box office numbers or see Pearl Necklace Harbor, the best most accurate war film since McHale's Navy."

experiMENTAL • Feb 24, 2008, 04:28pm •
I remember reading about McHale's Navy in my high school history classes. What are you talkin about SONY? I haven't been so inspired by the experience of others since the Pilgrims landed at Fraggle Rock.

mlaforcer • Feb 24, 2008, 04:38pm •
SONYMAN...I think Spielberg and Bay had enough money before Transformers to bribe Razzie decision makers and anything you said beyond that, well you just lost me, I don't know, something about slop, rolled around, stench, something about some pig shit and then you went on about Beniffer Oh, I mean Pearl Necklace Harbor, I guess that was the gist of it...
I think Eddie Murphy's last good movie was Bowfinger and then you can argue Doctor Doo Little was aslo a good movie, for the kids that is...I too would not mind giving Lohan the sausage trophy when she's not looking like a two bit trollip but fear exactly what experiMENTAL fears so I'll keep it in my trousers...I do agree with the selections this year and they are well deserved...

Whiskeymovie • Feb 24, 2008, 06:42pm •
So McHales navy gave a pearl neclklace to Pearl Harbor? Those must have been some horny sailors. I once gave a Strawberry Shortcake to Las Vegas. I think Eddie Murphy has become a joke lately, barring the Shrek movies. I wouldn't mind seeing a Beveryl Hills Cop 4, but only if Bronson Pinchoet comes back as Serge (he was the only good part of part 3). As for LiLo, for is the perfect example of how Hollywood can eff up someones life. Well, actually, it is her own fault, but for some reason, celebrites get treated like they are royalty.

wessmith1966 • Feb 24, 2008, 08:28pm •
As bad as Norbit was, it still made $158 million. Doesn't say much for the general movie-going public. Eddie must be laughing his ass off all the way to the bank. Has Lohan EVER made a good movie? At this point she's more famous for being famous...or should that be infamous? Either way, I'm hoping she melts into obscurity soon and only shows up on reality shows starring actors who can't get work in films because they really have no talent.

Merin • Feb 24, 2008, 09:16pm •
Mean Girls was good. The Parent Trap was good.

But I Know Who Killed Me was painful. My wife rented it because she liked Mean Girls and thought the DVD box blurb sound good.

I want that period of my life back!

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