In the world of 2025, bad is good. Dumb is smart. Ghastly is great. And winning a Razzie® is a good thing. Just ask any of the well-known talents represented in this year’s 45th Annual Razzies list.

Even a cinematic maestro occasionally musters up a misfire. And one of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola, is not above claiming his Razzie as director for Megalopolis.  

Francis Ford Coppola is inarguably one of the few great auteur directors, in the tradition of the film d’auteur movement. Francois Truffaut, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Andersen, Martin Scorcese and Stanley Kubrick could all be considered in this classification of filmmaker.

What separates these directors from the rank and file of Hollywood is their attitude about cinema, and the creative vision each brings to the medium. It makes sense, then, that Coppola has seized upon this opportunity to remind us all that film is, in fact, supposed to be an art form when all is said and done, and we applaud him for this.

The Razzie Awards serve an important role in the industry, all the congenial roasting and tomfoolery aside: they remind us that there is another way of looking at film, and that the art of filmmaking and the film industry with which it is inextricably intertwined are, in fact, two separate things.

And so we come to the Raazie Awards themselves.

The $4.97 trophies for Worst Picture, Screenplay and Actress (Dakota Johnson) went to a comic-book-based movie that spent most of 2024 being touted by movie-goers everywhere as “a serious Razzie contender”:  Madame Web.

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel and Worst Screen Combo were both “won” by Joker: Folie a Deux, a much-anticipated sequel whose predecessor was a monster hit worldwide (and an Oscar winner). But this follow-up disappointed (i.e. pissed off!) audiences all over the world and thus wound up in the Razzie winners’ circle.

This year’s Razzie Redeemer choice was previously named Worst New Star of 1996 for Barb Wire.  But in 2024 Pamela Anderson was critically acclaimed for her stellar performance in the title role of The Last Showgirl, earning her our Razzie halo.

Other winners include Jon Voight as Worst Supporting Actor for Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land and Strangers, as well as Jerry Seinfeld (Worst Actor) and Amy Schumer (Supporting Actress) both for Unfrosted.

 A complete list of “winners” is included below and is also available at Razzies.com.
 
Results were determined by emailing ballots to 1,217 Razzie Members (movie buffs, film critics and journalists) from 49 US States and about two dozen foreign countries who chose the “winners” in nine categories. The Redeemer award was decided by the Razzie Board of Governors.
 

45th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie®) Award “Winners”

Worst Picture

      Madame Web

Actor

     Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted

Actress

      Dakota Johnson / Madame Web

Razzie® Redeemer

      Pamela Anderson / The Last Showgirl

Supporting Actor

      Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers

Supporting Actress

      Amy Schumer / Unfrosted

Director

      Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis

Screen Combo

      Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie a Deux

Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel

      Joker: Folie a Deux

Screenplay

      Madame Web,
           Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharples and
           Claire Parker & S.J. Clarkson

“WINS” per PICTURE

Madame Web – 3

  • Worst Picture
  • Worst Actress
  • Worst Screenplay

Joker: Folie a Deux – 2

  • Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip Off
  • Screen Combo

Megalopolis – 2

  • Director
  • Supporting Actor (Shared)

Unfrosted – 2

  • Worst Actor
  • Worst Supporting Actress

The Last Showgirl – 1

  • Razzie Redeemer Award
Gene Turnbow

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