Fresh from another year of pouring buckets of gluey shit across our screens, Adam ‘look what a big T-shirt I’ve got’ Sandler has finally been appropriately recognised for his unique contribution to cinema; he has been personally nominated for eleven Razzies, a new record for a single year.

 

In an unexpected break with tradition, this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards are being handed out on April Fools’ Day rather than during their traditional timeslot of ‘Oscar Eve’. However, Razzie organisers once more took advantage of the world’s press descending on Hollywood to announce the 2012 nominations the day before the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.

Sandler received two Worst Actor and one Worst Actress nominations (for Jack & Jill, Just Go With It and Jack & Jill again), an astonishing three nominations for Worst Screen Couple (with Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker in Just Go With It and Katie Holmes AND Al Pacino in Jack & Jill) and two Worst Screenplay nominations (for Jack & Jill and Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star). Jack & Jill also picked up nominations for Worst Screen Ensemble, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and, simply, Worst Picture.

Even more impressively, the three films mentioned above (all of which were produced by Sandler’s company Happy Madison) picked up a joint total of twenty-four nominations. We think we might tattoo that on Adam Sandler’s cheek if we ever meet him, but until we get a chance we’re going to say that again: twenty-four nominations in one year for films that were essentially his fault.

Other heavy hitters included Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which scored eight nominations each, and New Year’s Eve with five nominations. Nicolas Cage garnered three Worst Actor nominations (for Drive Angry, Season Of The Witch and Trespass), as well as a Worst Screen Couple nod for him and “anyone sharing the screen with him in his three 2011 movies”.

In other news, we’re very pleased to note that a total of four men were nominated for Worst Actress/Supporting Actress prizes – Sandler and David Spade for Jack & Jill, Martin Lawrence and Brandon T Jackson for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. Ken Jeong also managed to be nominated for Worst Supporting Actor four times this year, which is going some even by Sandler’s standards.

The full list follows – try not to vomit on your keyboard…

Worst Picture

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Jack & Jill
New Year’s Eve
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

Worst Actor

Russell Brand (Arthur)
Nicolas Cage (Drive Angry, Season Of The Witch, Trespass)
Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, Abduction)
Adam Sandler (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)
Nick Swardson (Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star)

Worst Actress

Martin Lawrence (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Sarah Palin (Sarah Palin: The Undefeated)
Sarah Jessica Parker (I Don’t Know How She Does It, New Year’s Eve)
Adam Sandler (Jack & Jill)
Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1)

Worst Supporting Actor

Patrick Dempsey (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)
James Franco (Your Highness)
Ken Jeong (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, The Hangover Part 2, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Zookeeper)
Al Pacino (playing Al Pacino in Jack & Jill)
Nick Swardson (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)

Worst Supporting Actress

Katie Holmes (Jack & Jill)
Brandon T Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Nicole Kidman (Just Go With It)
David Spade (Jack & Jill)
Rosie Huntington Whiteley (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)

Worst Screen Ensemble

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Jack & Jill
New Year’s Eve
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

Worst Director

Michael Bay (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon)
Tom Brady (Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star)
Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1)
Dennis Dugan (Jack & Jill, Just Go With It)
Garry Marshall (New Year’s Eve)

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
The Hangover Part 2
Jack & Jill
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

Worst Screen Couple

Nicolas Cage, and anyone sharing the screen with him in his three 2011 movies
Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of The Moon)
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker (Just Go With It)
Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes, Adam Sandler and Al Pacino (Jack & Jill)
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1)

Worst Screenplay

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (Written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson)
Jack & Jill (Screenplay by Steve Koren & Adam Sandler, Story by Ben Zook)
New Year’s Eve (Written by Katherine Fugate)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Written by Ehren Kruger)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg)

Ugh.