Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas ‘won’ a boatload of Razzie awards

By Rick Marshall February 24, 2015

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The Oscars ceremony wasn’t the only big, movie-related awards event happening over the past weekend. The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation also announced the winners of its somewhat dubious honors the day before the Academy Awards kicked off. Let’s just say that if winning a “Razzie” was the sort of thing actors and filmmakers celebrated, Kirk Cameron would’ve been partying like a rock star.

The widely panned Saving Christmas and its star took home four Razzies during a ceremony held Saturday (February 21) evening in Hollywood — which would be a pretty good night if the Golden Raspberry Awards weren’t created to call out the worst films and performances of the year.

Not only did Saving Christmas “win” the Worst Picture category, but it also earned Cameron a Razzie in the Worst Actor category, earned screenwriters Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey a Razzie in the Worst Screenplay category, and even earned Cameron another Razzie in the Worst Screen Combo category, which was won by “Kirk Cameron and his ego.” Ouch.

Here’s how the rest of the Golden Raspberry Awards panned out:

Worst Actress: Cameron Diaz, The Other Woman and Sex Tape

Worst Supporting Actress: Megan Fox, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Worst Suppoting Actor: Kelsey Grammer, Expendables 3, Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too, and Transformers: Age of Extinction

Worst Director: Michael Bay, Transformers: Age of Extinction

Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel: Annie

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