Razzie Awards: Tom Hanks, 'Blonde', 'Morbius' lead nominations

The Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies for short, are back and this time they have targeted Netflix's "Blonde", a fiction film that depicts Marilyn Monroe (played by Ana de Armas) as an emotionally broken person. The movie has been criticised for portraying gratuitous nudity, sexual violence and for indirectly taking an 'anti-abortion stance'. The film received eight nominations, including Worst Picture, Worst Director (Andrew Dominik), and Worst Screenplay.

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Jared Leto's vampiric antihero "Morbius" received another nail in the coffin with Monday's Razzie Awards announcement, earning five nominations, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor (Leto).

De Armas, who was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance, was left off the list of the Worst Actress.

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Tom Hanks, on the other hand, was not so fortunate. The A-lister was nominated for the Worst Actor category, for "Disney's Pinocchio"—where he played Geppetto. He was also nominated in the Worst Supporting Actor category for "Elvis", where he plays Colonel Tom Parker, opposite Austin Butler's Elvis Presley.

Other celebrities who received Razzies nomination were Diane Keaton ("Mack & Rita"), Penelope Cruz ("The 355"), Sylvester Stallone ("Samaritan"), and Colson Baker—better known as Machine Gun Kelly ("Good Mourning"). Pete Davidson, a friend of Baker's, received two nominations in the Worst Performance category for "Good Mourning" and "Marmaduke".

The Razzies are voted for by approximately 1,000 members (a mix of moviegoers and those in the film industry), who select the most dreadful films in cinema history. The show, now in its 43rd year, will announce its "winners" on March 11, the night before the Academy Awards.