Forget the Oscars: 2008 Razzie Nominations Announced!

If the pompous, self-congratulations of Oscar season is more than you can bear, never fear, the Razzies are here! If you ever left a movie disappointed that it was a waste of your time, the Razzies are for you.

The 2008 Razzie Award nominations have been announced, celebrating the worst in movies, acting, and filmmaking. The aptly named "Disaster Movie" led all films with six nominations, including worst picture, worst director and worst screenplay. Users on the Internet Movie Database already rank it was the #2 Worst Film of All Time. Among the films that garnered five Razzie nominations were the spoof "Meet the Spartans," Mike Myers' truly awful "The Love Guru," and Paris Hilton's ego-fest "The Hottie and the Nottie."

While most of the nominees are box-office flops and C-list celebrities, many big budget hits and some of Hollywood's A-list earned nods. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" may have been one of the year's biggest movies, but that didn't stop the Razzies from giving it a nomination for Worst Sequel. Oscar nominees Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Kate Hudson, and M. Night Shyamalan all managed nominations for their poor work this year.

Author John Wilson founded the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation nearly thirty years ago to recognize the truly poor effort put into film. The 2008 Razzies will be awarded the night before the Oscars, February 21, 2009. In January and February, Encore, the cable movie network, will also hold a "Razzie" film festival on the channel, showcasing past Razzie nominees such as "Encino Man," "Striptease," "Shanghai Surprise," and "Battlefield Earth."

The nominees for the 2008 Razzies are:

WORST PICTURE

Disaster Movie

Meet the Spartans

The Happening

The Hottie and The Nottie

In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

The Love Guru

WORST ACTOR

Larry the Cable Guy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

Mike Myers, The Love Guru

Al Pacino, 88 MInutes and Righteous Kill

Mark Wahlberg, The Happening and Max Payne

WORST ACTRESS

Jessica Alba, The Eye and The Love Guru

The Cast of "The Women" (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)

Cameron Diaz, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton, The Hottie and the Nottie

Kate Hudson, Fool's Gold and My Best Friends Girl

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Uwe Boll (as Himself). Uwe Boll's Postal

Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!

Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru, War Inc., The Wackness

Burt Reynolds, Deal and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Verne Troyer, The Love Guru and Uwe Boll's Postal

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Carmen Electra, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Paris Hilton, Repo:The Genetic Opera

Kim Kardashian, Disaster Movie

Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Leelee Sobieski, 88 Minutes and In the Name of the King

WORST SCREEN COUPLE

Uwe Boll and ANY Actor, Camera or Screenplay

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas

Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and the Nottie

Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection

Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Disaster Movie and Meet The Spartans

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Speed Racer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

WORST DIRECTOR

Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In The Name Of The King and Postal

Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans

Tom Putnam, The Hottie and the Nottie

Marco Schnabel, The Love Guru

M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening

WORST SCREENPLAY

Disaster Movie and Meet The Spartans, Both Written By Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer

The Happening, Written By M. Night Shyamalan

The Hottie And The Nottie, Written By Heidi Ferrer

In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Screenplay By Doug Taylor

The Love Guru, Written By Mike Myers & Graham Gordy

WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Uwe Boll (Germany's Answer to Ed Wood)

Source: Razzies.com, Internet Movie Database