‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Cleans Up the Razzie Awards

Poor Dakota…

Thomas Freeman

Feb 28, 2016

As stars toast the year’s greatest tonight at the Academy Awards, let’s remember the real winners here—the constant flow of stinkers churned out by the Hollywood machine. Hey, there can be a sense of honor in being the worst.

Unsurprisingly, Fifty Shades of Grey took home top honors at Saturday night’s 2016 Razzie Awards, which are devoted to rewarding Hollywood’s biggest turds in the cinema punch bowl.

The BDSM drama tailor-made for silently frustrated suburban soccer moms cleaned up last night, taking home five Golden Razzies: Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor (Jamie Dornan), Worst Actress (Dakota Johnson), and Worst Screen Combo (Dornan and Johnson). However, Fifty Shades did have to share the Worst Picture trophy with the misbegotten box-office bomb that was the ill-advised reboot of Fantastic Four.

Poor Dakota Johnson, daughter of Don, put herself through the wringer for her role in Grey: getting completely naked, acting out prolonged spanking scenes with stiff dialogue, and biting her lips so many times even Kristen Stewart would wince. But the film killed at the box office, and Dakota is following up with some stronger work better suited for her talent.

She was not the only winning loser Saturday night. Even last year’s Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne, who is again nominated this year for his sublime work in The Danish Girl, was given the Razzie stamp of disapproval. You win some; you lose some.

Below, the worst of 2015:

WORST PICTURE
WINNER: Fantastic Four
WINNER: Fifty Shades of Grey
Jupiter Ascending
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Pixels

WORST ACTOR
Johnny Depp, Mortdecai
WINNER: Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey
Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler, The Cobbler and Pixels
Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending

WORST ACTRESS
Katherine Heigl, Home Sweet Hell
WINNER: Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending
Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mortdecai

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 + Vacation
Josh Gad, Pixels + The Wedding Ringer
Kevin James, Pixels
Jason Lee, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip + The Wedding Ringer
Rooney Mara, Pan
Michelle Monaghan, Pixels
Julianne Moore, Seventh Son
Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers and Pan

WORST REMAKE/RIP-OFF/SEQUEL
Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip
WINNER: Fantastic Four
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

WORST SCREEN COMBO
All Four “Fantastics,” Fantastic Four
Johnny Depp and His Glued-On Moustache, Mortdecai
WINNER: Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
Kevin James and EITHER His Segue OR His Glued-On Moustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Adam Sandler and Any Pair of Shoes, The Cobbler

WORST DIRECTOR
Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Tom Six, Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence
Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
WINNER: Josh Trank, Fantastic Four
Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending

WORST SCREENPLAY
Fantastic Four
WINNER: Fifty Shades of Grey
Jupiter Ascending
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Pixels

RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD
Elizabeth Banks
M. Night Shyamalan
Will Smith
WINNER: Sylvester Stallone