Joker: Folie a Deux leads Razzie Awards nominations

Joker: Folie a Deux leads this year’s Razzie nominations – five years after the first film led the nods for the Oscars.

The infamous Golden Raspberry Awards mark the films its voters believe to be the worst of the year, with the winners always announced the night before the Academy Awards.

While Joker received 11 Oscar nominations in 2020 – with a best actor win for star Joaquin Phoenix – the sequel was not so well received.

It is up for seven prizes including worst film at this year’s Razzies, with Phoenix and his co-star Lady Gaga also nominated in the acting categories.

Also up for worst film are sci-fi comedy Borderlands, starring Oscar winner Cate Blanchett; the critically panned Spider-Man spin-off Madame Web, starring Dakota Johnson; Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed passion project Megalopolis; and Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as the former president.

Other actors nominated for what the Razzies describes as “less-than-stellar star turns in 2024” include Jennifer Lopez (Atlas), Kevin Hart (Borderlands), and one of Donald Trump’s newly appointed apparent “ambassadors to Hollywood” Jon Voight.

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Voight has a “near record” four titles (Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land and Strangers) that have been included in consideration for his nomination for worst supporting actor, organisers said.

Meanwhile, in contention for worst director alongside Coppola for Megalopolis are SJ Clarkson (Madame Web), Todd Phillips (Joker: Folie a Deux), Eli Roth (Borderlands), and Jerry Seinfeld (Unfrosted).

The Razzies nominations come a day before the shortlists for the Oscars are announced.

More than 1,200 Razzie members – “movie buffs, film critics and journalists” from across the US and more than 20 other countries – voted for the nominees.

The winners will be unveiled on Saturday 1 March, with the Oscars ceremony taking place on Sunday 2 March.