{"id":244418,"date":"2026-01-21T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244418\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:49:08","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-and-snow-white-lead-razzies-2026-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244418\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018War Of The Worlds\u2019 and \u2018Snow White\u2019 lead Razzies 2026 nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The satirical Razzie Awards shine a light on the worst movies of the year, announcing their nominations a day before the Oscars unveil theirs.<\/p>\n

Love them or loathe them, the anti-Oscars are a tradition and each year, they remind us that for every good film that comes out, the cinematic scales must be balanced with terrible ones.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard making films and not everyone can do it \u2013 however, if the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me is celebrated, many feel like the duds must get a look-in, regardless of punching down. And while they can be taken in jest, the awards aren\u2019t to be taken seriously. After all, this is the organisation who previously nominated Stanley Kubrick as Worst Director for The Shining, deemed that Ennio Morricone’s score for The Thing was rubbish, and had to apologise for nominating a 12-year-old performer<\/a>, regardless of the mean-spirited nature of such a dubious appointment.<\/p>\n

Safe to say that credibility isn\u2019t the Razzies\u2019 main register… But, loathe to say it, it\u2019s hard to argue with their 2026 nominations.<\/p>\n

Leading the noms this year with six nods is War Of The Worlds, starring Ice Cube, an Amazon-sponsored adaptation \/ devastation of H.G. Wells\u2019 classic novel which can only be considered a cinematic crime against humanity. Certainly one mostly likely had the beloved author spinning in his grave like a demented pinwheel.<\/p>\n

The film is tied with Snow White<\/a>, which isn\u2019t getting off the hook just yet.<\/p>\n

The dire live-action adaptation of Disney\u2019s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is up for six awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Remake, Worst Director and Worst Screen Combo (all seven dwarfs).<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, War Of The Worlds and Snow White are up against five-time nominee Hurry Up Tomorrow, Abel \u201cThe Weeknd\u201d Tesfaye\u2019s much-maligned vanity project (for which The Weeknd is nominated for Worst Actor and Worst Screen Combo for The Weeknd & His Colossal Ego) and triple nominee The Electric State.<\/p>\n

Other notable 2026 nominees include some Oscar winners: Jared Leto (Worst Actor for Tron: Ares<\/a>), Natalie Portman (Worst Actress for Fountain of Youth), Michelle Yeoh (Worst Actress for Star Trek: Section 31), and Robert De Niro (Worst Screen Combo for Frank and Vito in The Alto Knights).<\/p>\n

Related<\/p>\n

The 46th annual Razzies will be presented on Saturday 14 March, the day before the 2026 Oscars.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of the 2026 Razzie Awards nominees:<\/p>\n

Worst Picture<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s Snow White (2025)<\/p>\n

Worst Actor<\/p>\n

Dave Bautista in In The Lost Lands<\/p>\n

Ice Cube in War Of The Worlds<\/p>\n

Abel \u201cThe Weeknd\u201d Tesfaye in Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/p>\n

Worst Actress<\/p>\n

Ariana DeBose in Love Hurts<\/p>\n

Milla Jovovich in In The Lost Lands<\/p>\n

Natalie Portman in Fountain Of Youth<\/p>\n

Rebel Wilson in Bride Hard<\/p>\n

Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31<\/p>\n

Worst Remake \/ Rip-Off \/ Sequel<\/p>\n

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)<\/p>\n

Five Nights At Freddy\u2019s 2<\/p>\n

Worst Supporting Actress<\/p>\n

Anna Chlumsky in Bride Hard<\/p>\n

Ema Horvath in The Strangers: Chapter 2<\/p>\n

Scarlet Rose Stallone in Gunslingers<\/p>\n

Kacey Rohl in Star Trek: Section 31<\/p>\n

Worst Supporting Actor<\/p>\n

All Seven Artificial Dwarfs in Snow White (2025)<\/p>\n

Nicolas Cage in Gunslingers<\/p>\n

Stephen Dorff in Bride Hard<\/p>\n

Greg Kinnear in Off The Grid<\/p>\n

Sylvester Stallone in Alarum<\/p>\n

Worst Screen Combo<\/p>\n

All Seven Dwarfs in Snow White (2025)<\/p>\n

James Corden & Rihanna in Smurfs (2025)<\/p>\n

Ice Cube & His Zoom Camera in War Of The Worlds (2025)<\/p>\n

Robert DeNiro & Robert DeNiro (as Frank & Vito) in The Alto Knights<\/p>\n

The Weeknd & His Colossal Ego in Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/p>\n

Worst Director<\/p>\n

Rich Lee for War of The Worlds (2025)<\/p>\n

Olatunde Osunsanmi for Star Trek: Section 31<\/p>\n

The Russo Brothers for The Electric State<\/p>\n

Trey Edward Shults for Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/p>\n

Marc Webb for Snow White (2025)<\/p>\n

Worst Screenplay<\/p>\n

The Electric State – Screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Adapted from the illustrated novel by Simon Stalenhag.<\/p>\n

Hurry Up Tomorrow – Screenplay by Trey Edward Shults, Abel Tesfaye, Reza Fahim<\/p>\n

Snow White (2025) – Screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson and a bunch of others too numerous to mention. Drawing from the original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.<\/p>\n

Star Trek: Section 31 – Screenplay by Craig Sweeny with original story concept developed by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt<\/p>\n

War Of The Worlds (2025) – Screen story and screenplay by Kenny Golde and screenplay by Marc Hyman, adapting (or destroying) the classic novel by H.G. Wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The satirical Razzie Awards shine a light on the worst movies of the year, announcing their nominations a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[143095,156,25400,409,111,139,69,143096,22618,25401,143094],"class_list":["post-244418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disneys-snow-white","tag-entertainment","tag-ice-cube","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-electric-state","tag-the-weeknd","tag-war-of-the-worlds","tag-worst-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}