Today, the winners of the 45th annual Razzies were announced, and Francis Ford Coppola took home the $4.97 trophy for Worst Director for his work on Megalopolis.
The Oscar-winning Director wrote his acceptance speech online:
I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for @megalopolisfilm , and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!
In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the enormous pool of young talent at its disposal, may not create pictures that will be relevant and alive 50 years from now.
What an honor to stand alongside a great and courageous filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself completely to make one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME! My sincere thanks to all my brilliant colleagues who joined me to make our work of art, MEGALOPOLIS, and let us remind ourselves us that box-office is only about money, and like war, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.
Just because we are talking about The Godfather 50+ years later does not mean we will talk about all of his other movies, like Megalopolis, in half a century. The last good movie he did was Peggy Sue Got Married in 1986. And he has made 10 movies since then that we don’t talk about, and the oldest one is 37 years old.
Now, I am going to say something hugely unpopular, but I don’t think The Godfather holds up. It was good for its time. But not as much now.
Talking about now. I did not vote for him as Worst Director. I voted for Todd Phillips for Joker: Folie a Deux. I regret my vote, I should’ve voted for whiny little bitch.
To see who else won the Golden Raspberry, then
45th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie®) Award “Winners”
Worst Picture
Madame Web
Actor
Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted
Actress
Dakota Johnson / Madame Web
Razzie® Redeemer
Pamela Anderson / The Last Showgirl
Supporting Actor
Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers
Supporting Actress
Amy Schumer / Unfrosted
Director
Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis
Screen Combo
Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie a Deux
Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Joker: Folie a Deux
Screenplay
Madame Web, Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharples and Claire Parker & S.J. Clarkson
Do you think the right movies won?
Fun Fact: Dakota Fanning joins her mother, Melanie Griffith, as a Razzie winner. The Oscar-nominated actress won Worst Actress in 1993 for work in Shining Through and A Stranger Among Us.
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