Razzies 2018: Transformers leads contenders among the year's worst films

The Razzies are an annual celebration of all that is bad in cinema, and the nominations have just been announced

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (2017)
Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager
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Awards season is upon us, and last night the nominations for the awards no one wants to win were announced. Yes, the contenders for the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, are out. These are the annual awards for the worst films of the year, co-founded by industry veterans John JB Wilson and Mo Murphy in 1980.

The Razzies nominations always come out a day before the Oscars and the ceremony is also held on the day before the Academy Awards.

The nominees were announced via an online video titled How to Protect Humanity from Toxic Waste. The big "winner" on the night was the latest Transformers movie, which the announcement cheekily referred to as Transformers XVII: The Last Knight throughout, with a whopping eight raspberries blown its way, including the not-so-coveted Worst Picture, Worst Director for Michael Bay, and Worst Actor for Mark Wahlberg, who stormed this category with a second Worst Actor nomination for Daddy's Home 2 .

Fifty Shades Darker also put up a strong fight with seven nominations, while other big names in the running included Tom Cruise for The Mummy and Emma Watson for The Circle.

Among the nominations:

WORST PICTURE

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

WORST ACTRESS

Katherine Heigl / Unforgettable

Dakota Johnson / Fifty Shades Darker

Jennifer Lawrence / Mother!

Tyler Perry / BOO! 2: A Medea Halloween

Emma Watson / The Circle

WORST ACTOR

Tom Cruise / The Mummy

Johnny Depp / Pirates of The Caribbean XIII: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Jamie Dornan / Fifty Shades Darker

Zac Efron / Baywatch

Mark Wahlberg / Daddy's Home 2 & Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Javier Bardem / Mother! & Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Russell Crowe / The Mummy

Josh Duhamel / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

Mel Gibson / Daddy’s Home 2

Anthony Hopkins / Collide & Transformers XVII: Last Knight

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kim Basinger / Fifty Shades Darker

Sofia Boutella / The Mummy

Laura Haddock / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

Goldie Hawn / Snatched

Susan Sarandon / A Bad Moms Christmas

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL

Baywatch

BOO 2: A Medea Halloween

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: Last Knight

(L-R) Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon and Zac Efron as Matt Brody in BAYWATCH by Paramount Pictures, Montecito Picture Company, FlynnPicture Co., and Fremantle Productions
The Baywatch remake has been 'honoured' by the Razzies. Supplied

WORST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky / Mother!

Michael Bay / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

James Foley / Fifty Shades Darker

Alex Kurtzman / The Mummy

Anthony (Tony) Leonidis / The Emoji Movie

WORST SCREENPLAY

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: The Last Knight