Razzies Founder: ‘The Academy is Pretty Predictable’

After getting wind of this year’s Academy Award nominations, Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson said the announcements offered few surprises, and that they followed last year’s trend of bypassing blockbusters.

“Everybody loved the ‘Star Trek’ movie, and they just blew it off,” he said. “The Academy is pretty predictable…The Academy, in general, has a tendency to not nominate something if it makes a certain amount of money. ‘Inception’ is, I guess, an exception to that rule.”

On a positive note, Wilson said he liked “Inception,” “The Kids Are All Right,” and “Toy Story 3,” which got nominations for best picture. Besides, he said, there were a few standouts among the academy’s picks.

“The only thing I heard this morning that I hadn’t heard everyone in the business saying was going to be nominated was Javier Bardem [for best actor in ‘Biutiful’], because I didn’t think enough people had seen that film,” he said. “People literally faint and throw up in the arm-severing sequence of ‘127 Hours,’ so that one does surprise me just a little bit.”

Wilson created the Golden Raspberry Awards – otherwise known as the Razzies – in 1981 as a booby prize for the worst movies of the year. “Eclipse,” the third installment of “The Twilight Saga,” racked up nine nominations this year, tying with “The Last Airbender.” The latter even turned up in a new category: worst eye-gouging misuse of 3-D. “You felt like you were looking through muddy lenses,” he said of “The Last Airbender.” “It did not have anywhere near the quality that ‘Avatar’ did.”

Wilson accused the people behind “Yogi Bear” of “trying to lure small children to watch a piece of crap in 3-D,” and added that “3-D is a phenomenon, but it does not justify making something as stupid as ‘Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.’”

This article originally appeared on AllMediaNY.com