44th Golden Raspberry Awards


The 44th Golden Raspberry Awards, or the Razzies, honored the worst the film industry had to offer in 2023 on March 9, 2024. These awards are based on votes from members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. The nominations were announced on January 22, 2024. Additionally, with four nods, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe its first-ever Razzie nominations, breaking the franchise's 16-year streak without a single Razzie Award nomination.
In August 2023, a statement by John J. B. Wilson and Maureen "Mo" Murphy announced that the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation was considering the possibility of setting a new precedent by awarding [Walt Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios] the Barry L. Bumstead Award to an entire studio for the first time ever. This is due to Disney's centennial anniversary releases causing "the once phenomenally profitable Walt Disney Pictures failure after failure at the box office" when "corporate honchos had hoped to spend th entire year celebrating a century of success". Ultimately the award was not presented.
Upon hearing of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sweeping every award it was nominated for, the film's director, Rhys Frake-Waterfield reacted in an interview for Variety, "I'm surprised our micro-budget film is being compared to Hollywood, but nevertheless I don't mind the dubious honor as it places me in the same pool as directors whose work I admire so much." Producer, Scott Chambers, also chimed in with his reaction being “I think it is something to celebrate. But yeah, I’m always a little bit protective of Rhys because obviously he’s so early on in his career where the others, David Gordon Green and stuff that were in his category, they’ve got a solid career whereas Rhys is so early,” expanding with “And I feel like the director one was probably the one I disagree with the most, but the others, I’m like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ Do you know what I mean? It is what it is it’s, and it’s fine.”

Winners and nominees

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey – Scott Jeffrey and Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
  • * David Gordon Green – The Exorcist: Believer
  • * Peyton Reed – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • * Scott Waugh – Expend4bles
  • * Ben Wheatley – Meg 2: The Trench
    • Jon Voight – Mercy as Patrick Quinn
  • * Russell Crowe – The Pope's Exorcist as Father Gabriele Amorth
  • * Vin Diesel – Fast X as Dominic Toretto
  • * Chris Evans – Ghosted as Cole Turner
  • * Jason Statham – Meg 2: The Trench as Jonas Taylor
    		• Megan Fox – Johnny & Clyde as Alana Hart
  • * Ana de Armas – Ghosted as Sadie Rhodes
  • * Salma Hayek – Magic Mike's Last Dance as Maxandra Mendoza
  • * Jennifer Lopez – The Mother as The Mother
  • * Helen Mirren – Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Hespera
    • Sylvester Stallone – Expend4bles as Barney Ross
  • * Michael Douglas – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Hank Pym
  • * Mel Gibson – Confidential Informant as Kevin Hickey
  • * Bill Murray – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Lord Krylar
  • * Franco Nero – The Pope's Exorcist as The Pope
    		• Megan Fox – Expend4bles as Gina
  • * Kim Cattrall – About My Father as Tigger
  • * Bai Ling – Johnny & Clyde as Zhang
  • * Lucy Liu – Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Kalypso
  • * Mary Stuart Masterson – Five Nights at Freddy's as Aunt Jane
    • Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
  • * Any 2 "Merciless Mercenaries" – Expend4bles
  • * Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist – The Exorcist: Believer
  • * Ana de Armas & Chris Evans – Ghosted
  • * Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum – Magic Mike's Last Dance
    		• Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
  • * Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • * The Exorcist: Believer
  • * Expend4bles
  • * Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    • Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey – screenplay by Rhys Frake-Waterfield
  • * The Exorcist: Believer – screenplay by Peter Sattler and David Gordon Green; story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green
  • * Expend4bles – screenplay by Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart, and Max D. Adams; story by Spenser Cohen, Kurt Wimmer, and Tad Daggerhart
  • * Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – screenplay by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp, and James Mangold
  • * Shazam! Fury of the Gods – screenplay by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan
    		• Fran Drescher – 1998 Nominee and current SAG/AFTRA president, for her brilliant shepherding of the actors' guild through a prolonged 2023 strike with a successful conclusion.

    Films with multiple wins and nominations

    The following films received multiple nominations:
    NominationsFilm
    7Expend4bles
    5The Exorcist: Believer
    5Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    4Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    4Shazam! Fury of the Gods
    3Ghosted
    3Meg 2: The Trench
    2Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    2Johnny & Clyde
    2Magic Mike's Last Dance
    2The Pope's Exorcist

    The following films received multiple wins:
    WinsFilm
    5Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    2Expend4bles