The nominations for the 40th annual Golden Raspberry Awards were announced on Saturday. Better known as the Razzies, the parody award celebrates the worst in cinema over the past year and coincides with their more illustrious cousin, the Academy Awards, which are scheduled for Sunday.“Voting members of The Golden Raspberry Awards have sifted through a bumper crop of cinematic crud and made their selections for 2019’s Worst Achievements in film,” the organisation said on its website.Leading the nominations were the much-derided A Madea Family Funeral, major-studio flop Cats, and the horror film The Haunting of Sharon Tate, the latter of which review website Rotten Tomatoes describes as “dishonoring the events” it portrays and “offensively exploitative” towards the innocent victims of the notorious Manson family killings.Much has been made of the disaster that was Cats, which was directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper, who had a massive budget, and for which the studio planned a massive Oscar campaign that it quietly withdrew from in December. Audiences were turned off by the strange and poorly-executed CGI, uneven tone, and the disappointing turns by many celebrated actors and singers.In the acting categories, other Academy favourites like Jessica Chastain and Judi Dench were nominated. Chastain for the X-men film Dark Phoenix, of which one reviewer said that the only good part of the film was that the credits were correctly spelled, and Dench for Cats.Perennial Razzie nominee John Travolta was also called out for acting twice, in the critically-panned The Fanatic and the racing drama Trading Paint, which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $0 in the North American box office.Also read: The ‘Cats’ HorrorA Madea Family Funeral was nominated for seven awards, famously having been shot in only seven days as creator Tyler Perry becomes increasingly well-known for the swiftness with which he puts films together without regard to quality.The Razzies also announced their nominees for the “Redeemer” award, honouring actors who have previously been in poor quality films but had redeemed themselves in 2019. This included Eddie Murphy, Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Lopez. Many film critics had expected Lopez to receive a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for her acclaimed performance in the crime drama Hustlers.Here is a list of the major categories:Worst PictureCatsThe FanaticThe Haunting of Sharon TateA Madea Family FuneralRambo: Last BloodWorst ActorJames Franco / ZerovilleDavid Harbour / HellboyMatthew McConaughey / SerenitySylvester Stallone / Rambo: Last BloodJohn Travolta / The Fanatic & Trading PaintWorst ActressHilary Duff / The Haunting of Sharon TateAnne Hathaway / The Hustle & SerenityFrancesca Hayward / CatsTyler Perry (As Medea) A Madea Family FuneralRebel Wilson / The HustleAlso read: Razzie ‘Worst Film’ 2018 Nominations Are an Oscar-Studded AffairWorst Supporting ActressJessica Chastain / Dark PhoenixCassi Davis / A Madea Family FuneralJudi Dench / CatsFenessa Pineda / Rambo: First BloodRebel Wilson / CatsWorst Supporting ActorJames Corden / CatsTyler Perry / A Madea Family Funeral (as “Joe”)Tyler Perry / A Madea Family Funeral (as “Uncle Heathrow”)Seth Rogan / ZerovilleBruce Willis / GlassWorst DirectorFred Durst / The FanaticJames Franco / ZerovilleAdrian Grunberg / Rambo: Last BloodTom Hooper / CatsNeil Marshall / HellboyRazzie Redeemer AwardEddie Murphy / Dolemite Is My NameKeanu Reeves / John Wick 3 & Toy Story 4Adam Sandler / Uncut GemsJennifer Lopez / HustlersWill Smith / AladdinThe article was originally published on DW. You can read it here.