‘Joker 2,’ Phoenix and Gaga nominated for Razzies

‘Joker 2,’ Phoenix and Gaga nominated for Razzies

The flop musical picks up seven unwanted nods including for worst actor for Joaquin Phoenix and worst actress for Lady Gaga.

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Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are nominated for Razzies for their roles in ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’. (Warner Bros pic)
LOS ANGELES:
“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 Lady Gaga for worst actress.

The film took in US$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 “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.

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