Sandler is Razzie's best

27 February 2012 - 02:26 By Sapa-AP
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Showing up to accept their awards were stars such as Adam Sandler, who won the Favourite Funny Male Star award...
Showing up to accept their awards were stars such as Adam Sandler, who won the Favourite Funny Male Star award...

When Adam Sandler is bad, he is really bad, according to voters for the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof award that singles out the worst movies of the year.

Sandler received a record 11 nominations on Saturday for the Razzies as star, producer or writer of three 2011 movies: Jack and Jill, Just Go With It and Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star.

That more than doubled the previous record of five Razzie nominations held by Eddie Murphy for 2007's Norbit.

Sandler's nominations include worst actor for both Jack and Jill and Just Go With It - and worst actress for Jack and Jill, in which he plays a family man and his twin sister.

Sandler also had two nominations as worst screen couple, opposite Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker in Just Go with It and opposite Katie Holmes, Al Pacino or himself in Jack and Jill.

As a producer, Sandler was credited with worst picture and worst prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel for both Bucky Larson and Jack and Jill.

He also shared in worst screenplay nominations as a writer on both movies, and a worst ensemble nomination for Jack and Jill.

"It's almost karmic for someone to have made that much razz-able stuff in one year," said Razzies founder John Wilson.

"He has angered someone really powerful, I would say."

Along with Bucky Larson and Jack and Jill, worst-picture contenders are New Year's Eve, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

Jack and Jill led with 12 nominations, with Transformers second with nine and Breaking Dawn right behind with eight.

The Razzie nominations were released on the eve of the Oscars. Winners will be announced on April Fool's Day.

For worst actor, Sandler is up against Bucky Larson star Nick Swardson, along with Russell Brand for Arthur; Nicolas Cage for Drive Angry, Season of the Witch and Trespass; and Taylor Lautner for Abduction and Breaking Dawn.

Swardson was also nominated for worst supporting actor for Jack and Jill and Just Go With It.

For worst actress, Sandler is joined by another cross-dressing actor, Martin Lawrence, in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.

Also nominated were Sarah Palin for her documentary The Undefeated; Sarah Jessica Parker for I Don't Know How She Does It and New Year's Eve; and Kristen Stewart for Breaking Dawn.

Several Oscar winners made the Razzies list, among them Cage and Pacino, who was nominated for worst supporting actor in Jack and Jill.

The Oscars, held last night, will be screened on M-Net tonight at 8:30pm

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