AFP
Los Angeles (AFP) โ His recent hit film โElvisโ is an Oscars frontrunner, but Tom Hanks was left all shook up Monday as he earned three nominations from the Razzies, which โcelebrateโ the yearโs worst films.
Hanks was short-listed by the tongue-in-cheek awards for his roles as Presleyโs manager in rock โnโ roll biopic โElvis,โ and Geppetto in Disneyโs critically slated live-action โPinocchioโ remake.
A press release from organizers of the Razzies dubbed Hanksโ โElvisโ role as โ2022โs most widely derided performance,โ and piled on a further nomination for โworst screen coupleโ to โTom Hanks & His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent).โย
While โElvisโ and its star Austin Butler have generally received acclaim, Hanksโ appearance as his exploitative manager Colonel Tom Parker was panned by many critics.
A New York Times review said Hanks appears โwith a mountain of prosthetic goo, a bizarre accent and a yes-itโs-really-me twinkle in his eyes,โ and portrays Parker as โpart small-time grifter, part full-blown Mephistopheles.โ
โDisneyโs Pinocchioโ was among five โworst pictureโ nominees for the annual Golden Raspberry โ or Razzie โ awards, as was the controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic โBlonde.โ
Also in the running were regular Razzies punching bag Jared Leto, and his Spider-Man spinoff โMorbius.โ
Just last year, Leto was named worst supporting actor for his flamboyant performance โ complete with a campy Italian accent and heavy prosthetics โ in โHouse of Gucci.โ
The Razzies are usually announced the day before the Oscars, serving to mock the following nightโs self-congratulatory Tinseltown back-slapping.
But last year, the Razzies themselves were left embarrassed, after jokingly creating a new category labelled โWorst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movieโ to accommodate all of the former โDie Hardโ starโs questionable output.
Organizers rescinded the prize after his family revealed Willis suffered from a cognitive illness called aphasia.
Nominations for this yearโs Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday.