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The Razzies Should be Ended.

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Read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards

The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known as the Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic failures. Co-founded by UCLA film graduates and film industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy, the Razzie Awards’ satirical annual ceremony is predated by its progenitor, the Academy Awards, by five decades. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in “blowing a raspberry“. The statuette is a golf ball-sized raspberry atop a Super 8mm film reel atop a 35-millimeter film core with brown wood shelf paper glued and wrapped around it—sitting atop a jar lid spray-painted gold. The Golden Raspberry Foundation has claimed that the award “encourages well-known filmmakers and top-notch performers to own their bad.”

But those award events don’t have much credibility when they have to take back nominations for themselves being tasteless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Golden_Raspberry_Awards

The Worst Actress nomination of then twelve-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong for her performance in the Firestarter remake was the subject of backlash,[8][9][10][11][12] following which Razzies co-founder John J. B. Wilson issued a public apology and announced that the organization would no longer allow children to be nominated in any category,[8] placing itself in Armstrong’s place on the ballot.[1][8][13]

But even adults can be badly hurt by such mockery. Do we really need to be so mean spirited towards people who are just trying to make a living?

In the comments section of that video, someone wrote:

So for that very reason, I think we need to end the Razzies for good…..no pun intended.