'Joker 2', Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga nominated for Razzies


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'Joker: Folie a Deux' 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. Photo: Handout

Joker: Folie a Deux 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 Joker picked up unwanted nods such as worst picture and worst sequel.

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

The film took in US$200mil - 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 Megalopolis, and Dakota Johnson's much-mocked superhero spin-off Madame Web.

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

Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted, 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. – AFP

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