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First Oscar, then “Golden Raspberry”: Hollywood mocks Tom Hanks and Jared Leto with a disgraceful award
Tom Hanks won an Oscar for “Philadelphia” in 1994 (photo from May 2022)
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They already have an Oscar, now there’s an anti-Oscar as well. Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Jared Leto have now been awarded the “Golden Raspberry” for particularly bad acting performances.
The coronation of the film year is coming up in Hollywood, the Oscars will be awarded this weekend. The Academy Award is considered the highest honor in the industry. The prize, which is traditionally awarded a day in advance, is more of a slap in the face than a compliment: the “Golden Raspberry” or “Razzies”. The so-called anti-Oscar stands for the worst acting performance of the year. This year, two Oscar winners have to accept the unwelcome ridiculous prize: Tom Hanks and Jared Leto.
The lenders of the slander prize announced the “winners” of the prizes, which should not be taken too seriously, on Saturday. Leto won the Worst Actor award for his role as the vampire-like anti-hero in the comic book adaptation Morbius. Hanks got two “razzias” – for his supporting role as music executive Tom Parker in the biopic “Elvis” and for the category “Worst Screen Couple” – for Hanks along with his latex face mask and his “ridiculous” accent in “Elvis “.
Ridiculous price: the lenders punish themselves
Double abuse for “Blonde”: The Netflix biopic about Marilyn Monroe by director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik outperformed the competition in the categories “Worst Movie” and script.
This time, the ridiculous award for “worst actress” did not go to one person, but to the distributors themselves. They were reacting to the controversy in January, when they nominated twelve-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong (“Firestarter”), among others. After heavy criticism, they reversed this and introduced an age limit of at least 18 years.
Colin Farrell has redeemed himself
This year’s “Razzies Redeemer Award” went to Irish star Colin Farrell. The “Redeemer Award” is intended for those who make up for past failures through good cinematic performance. According to the jury, Farrell has now achieved this with his role in the tragic comedy “The Banshees Of Inisherin”, which could also bring the actor the Oscar for best leading actor on Sunday. In 2005 he was nominated in the “Razzies” as the worst actor for the monumental film “Alexander”.
The “Razzies” were created by filmmaker John Wilson as a counterpart to the glamorous Oscars. According to earlier information from the group, a good thousand members in the USA and other countries vote on the ridiculous prices.