Striking a chord among blogs is the fact that Lindsay Lohan, despite playing a stripper in I Know Who Killed Me and thus satisfying the urges of millions of males who crave some “I was a lot hotter in Mean Girls but now I’m wearing less clothes” action, has snatched not one but TWO nominations for Worst Actress, ironically for playing twins in IKWKM. And also ironically, she had her first sex scene (site NSFW) in it, which I guess went unnoticed because hardly anyone saw the movie!

Also an interesting outcome, Eddie Murphy’s nominations for Worst Actor AND Worst Supporting Actress (first time I think it’s happened?), as well as for Worst Screen Couple (with himself… twice), all coming from his work on Norbit.

Overall I think this year’s Razzies will be one to watch. If memory serves me, the last few Razzies have had too many clear winners (like when Basic Instinct 2 had 12 nominations). This year, it looks pretty spread out.

Oh, and one last sidenote, the Fred Savage nominated for Worst Director (Daddy Day Camp) is indeed the same Fred Savage who was the youngest nominee ever for the Best Actor Emmy back in the late 80s for playing Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years. My, how the mighty have fallen!

And the nominees are…

Worst Picture
Bratz
Daddy Day Camp
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Norbit
Worst Actor
Nicolas Cage in GHOST RIDER, NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS and NEXT
Jim Carrey in THE NUMBER 23
Cuba Gooding, Jr. in DADDY DAY CAMP and NORBIT
Eddie Murphy (as Norbit) in NORBIT
Adam Sandler in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY
Worst Actress
Jessica Alba in AWAKE, FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER and GOOD LUCK CHUCK
Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos & Skyler Shaye (A Four-for-One Deal!) in BRATZ
Elisha Cuthbert in CAPTIVITY
Diane Keaton in BECAUSE I SAID SO
Lindsay Lohan (as Aubrey) in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME
Lindsay Lohan (as Dakota) in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME

Worst Supporting Actor
Orlando Bloom in PIRATES OF THE CAROB-BEAN: AT WIT’S END
Kevin James in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY
Eddie Murphy (as Mr. Wong) in NORBIT
Rob Schneider in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY
Jon Voight in BRATZ, NATIONAL TREASURE 2, SEPTEMBER DAWN and TRANSFORMERS

Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Biel in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY and NEXT
Carmen Electra in EPIC MOVIE
Eddie Murphy (as Rasputia) in NORBIT
Julia Ormond in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME
Nicolette Sheridan in CODE NAME: THE CLEANER

Worst Screen Couple
Jessica Alba & EITHER Hayden Christensen (AWAKE) OR Dane Cook (GOOD LUCK CHUCK) OR Ioan Gruffudd (FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER)
Any Combination of Two Totally Air-Headed Characters in BRATZ
Lindsay Lohan & Lindsay Lohan (as The Yang to Her Own Yin) in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME
Eddie Murphy (as Norbit) & EITHER Eddie Murphy (as Mr. Wong) OR Eddie Murphy (as Rasputia) in NORBIT
Adam Sandler & EITHER Kevin James OR Jessica Biel in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY
Worst Remake or Rip-Off
Are We Done Yet? (Remake/Rip-Off of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE)
Bratz (A Rip-Off If Ever There Was One!)
Epic Movie (Rip-Off of Every Movie it Rips Off)
I Know Who Killed Me (Rip-Off of HOSTEL, SAW and THE PATTY DUKE SHOW)
Who’s Your Caddy (Rip-Off of Caddy Shack)
Worst Prequel or Sequel
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Daddy Day Camp
Evan Almighty
Hannibal Rising
Hostel: Part II
Worst Director
Dennis Dugan for I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY
Roland Joffe for CAPTIVITY
Brian Robbins for NORBIT
Fred Savage for DADDY DAY CAMP
Chris Siverston for I KNOW WHO KILLED ME
Worst Screenplay
Daddy Day Camp, Screenplay by Geoff Rodkey and David J. Stem & David N. Weiss
Epic Movie, Written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
I Know Who Killed Me, Written by Jeffrey Hammond
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Screenplay by Barry Fanaro and Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Norbit, Screenplay by Eddie Murphy & Charles Murphy and Jay Sherick & David Ronn
Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Captivity
Hannibal Rising
Hostel: Part II
I Know Who Killed Me

Check out Variety Asia for a more diplomatic explanation.

So there were a few crew members on Lust, Caution that weren’t from Taiwan. It doesn’t even say which crew members. For all we know it could be the caterer or one of the drivers. How sad would it be if the Academy denied an Oscar nomination to your movie because your fucking caterer wasn’t the same nationality as you???