2004 Razzie Award Winners

By Unknown on 2004-03-01 12:29:00

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's mega-flop film Gigli won a record six awards at Saturday night's Razzies, which go to the worst films of the year. Finally the Bennifer Duo win an award! Gigli was streets ahead of its rivals this year, The Cat in the Hat and Charlie?s Angels: Full Throttle.

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Although it fell one statuette short of the record 7 ?wins? racked up by all-time champions SHOWGIRLS and BATTLEFIELD EARTH, the Bennifer Box Office Blowfest GIGLI set an impressive new record of its own at Saturday?s 24th Annual RAZZIE? Awards, dis-honoring 2003?s WORST Achievements in Film. It?s six award sweep of Tinsel Town?s Tackiest Trophy Derby make GIGLI the equivalent of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT ? The first film ever to take ALL SIX ?top? RAZZIES?: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Ben Affleck), Worst Actress (Jennifer Lopez) and Worst Screen Couple (Affleck & Lopez combined) as well as Worst Screenplay and Worst Director (both the work of Triple-Crown ?winner? Martin Brest, who also co-produced the film). As usual, no ?winners? were expected to be in attendance when envelopes were opened and results revealed in The Penthouse Suite of the 4-Points/Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica, California.

Stopping GIGLI from collecting every award given were two RAZZIE? stalwarts. All-Time RAZZIE? Cham-Peen Sylvester Stallone beat out GIGLI Supporting Actor nominees Al Pacino and Christopher Walken to set a new record of his own: a staggering 30 nominations and 10 ?wins.? Another long-term RAZZIE? target took the OTHER Worst Supporting award from GIGLI nominee Lainie Kazan: Two-time Worst Actress ?winner? Demi Moore not only ?won? Worst Supporting Actress, but her ?comeback vehicle? CHARLIE?S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE was also picked as Worst Remake or Sequel. Landing with a resounding ker-splat in the litter box next to these box office duds was the RAZZIE? voters? choice in a new category, Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie, the over-hyped, hopelessly tasteless Mike Myers version of THE CAT-IN-THE-HAT, which entered the competition with an impressive 8 nominations. Also presented in the one-hour ceremony satirizing Hollywood award shows in general (and the Oscars? in particular) was a Special Governor?s Award for Distinguished Under-Achievement, given to Travis Payne, whose choreography for Worst Picture nominee FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY was deemed too amusingly awful to go un-dissed.

?Winners? were determined by mailing ballots to 617 Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members throughout 39 U.S. states and 15 foreign countries. The award itself is a handcrafted gold spray-painted golf-ball-sized raspberry atop a mangled reel of Super 8 film, with an estimated street value of $4.89. The RAZZIES? were created in 1980 by John Wilson, a life-long cynic and Cine-Maniac as well as the author of both EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES and the up-coming Warner book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE? MOVIE GUIDE, scheduled for release to tie-in with next year?s 25th Annual RAZZIE? Awards.

24th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE?) Award ?Winners?

WORST PICTURE
GIGLI (Sony-Columbia/Revolution) Produced by Casey Silver & Martin Brest

WORST ACTOR
Ben Affleck / DAREDEVIL, GIGLI and PAYCHECK

WORST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lopez / GIGLI

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sylvester Stallone (Playing 5 Roles, All Badly!) SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Demi Moore / CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE

WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez / GIGLI

WORST EXCUSE for an ACTUAL MOVIE (All Concept/No Content!) (New Category)
THE CAT-IN-THE-HAT

WORST REMAKE or SEQUEL
CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE

WORST DIRECTOR
Martin Brest / GIGLI

WORST SCREENPLAY
GIGLI, Written by Martin Brest

GOVERNOR?S AWARD for DISTINGUISHED UNDER- ACHIEVEMENT in CHOREOGRAPHY
Travis Payne for His Work on FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY

AWARDS PER PICTURE:

GIGLI ? 6 (Picture, Actor, Actress, Screen Couple, Director & Screenplay)

CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE ? 2 (Worst Remake or Sequel, Worst Supporting Actress)

CAT-IN-THE-HAT & FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY ? 1 EACH

Sylvester Stallone has now ?won? 10 RAZZIES? and has a career record of 30 nominations.

Demi Moore has now ?won? 4 RAZZIES? and has a career total of 9 nominations.

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