'Joker 2,' Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga nominated for Razzies
Khaleej Times January 22, 2025 08:39 PM

was nominated for seven Razzies on Tuesday, leaving the sad clown atop the annual tongue-in-cheek list of the worst movies of the year.

The flop musical follow-up to 2019's billion-dollar-grossing picked up unwanted nods such as worst picture and worst sequel.

Joaquin Phoenix -- who won best actor at the Oscars in the first film -- is nominated for worst actor, alongside Lady Gaga for worst actress.

The film took in $200 million -- around one-fifth of its predecessor's box office, despite being far more expensive to make -- and was savaged by critics.

In a year of several high-profile expensive flops, the parody prizes awarded six nods to Francis Ford Coppola's confusing epic , and Dakota Johnson's much-mocked superhero spin-off .

Fawning presidential biopic and video game adaptation equally incurred the wrath of Razzie voters with six.

Jerry Seinfeld's , a somewhat surreal original story for Pop-Tarts pastries, earned four.

Voted for by some 1,200 members of an irreverent group that any film fan can join, the Razzies -- or Golden Raspberries -- were created as an antidote to the movie industry's self-obsessed series of glitzy award shows.

Nominations for this year's Academy Awards will be announced Thursday.

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