Cameron Diaz stars as Carly in The Other  Woman. Photo by Barry Wetcher
Cameron Diaz stars as Carly in The Other Woman. Photo by Barry Wetcher

And the Razzie for worst performances goes to...



Cameron Diaz and Kirk Cameron were named the year’s worst actress and actor at the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – also known as the “Razzies” – on Saturday.

Diaz earned the title for her performances in raunchy comedies The Other Woman, in which the wife and two mistresses of the same man team up to make his life miserable, and Sex Tape, in which a couple accidentally releases their private recording to the world. The remake of Annie, which also starred Diaz as Miss Hannigan, along with Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis as the little orphan girl, was named Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.

Cameron picked up the award for Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, a widely derided faith-based comedy, which also won Worst Picture, Worst Screen Combo – for Cameron and his ego – and Worst Screenplay. Razzie favourite Michael Bay was named Worst Director for Transformers: Age of Extinction – or, as the Razzies called it, "Age of Ex-STINK-tion".

Five-time Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer picked up Worst Supporting Actor not just for his role as the evil counter-intelligence agent in Bay's film, but also for his performances in Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too and Expendables 3.

Megan Fox, a former star of the Transformers franchise, was named Worst Supporting Actress for her role as reporter April o'Neill in the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Ben Affleck was the only one who was spared.

The actor-director who won a Razzie for the 2003 movie Gigli, received a Razzie redeemer award for to his Oscar-winning film Argo and his performance in David Fincher's Gone Girl.

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Dates: July 1-23
Distance: 3,540km
Stages: 21
Number of teams: 22
Number of riders: 198

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Name: Kumulus Water
 
Started: 2021
 
Founders: Iheb Triki and Mohamed Ali Abid
 
Based: Tunisia 
 
Sector: Water technology 
 
Number of staff: 22 
 
Investment raised: $4 million 
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Starring: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen

Directed by: Bill Condon

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