High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewRazzies Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/razzies/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The 2019 Spirit and Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2019-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2019-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:00:33 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=96744 Wrapping up the awards season hoopla, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both also handed out trophies this weekend. The Spirits did a decent job of offering concession prizes to movies that Oscar would pass over, while the Razzies remain difficult to care much about. Spirit Awards I think the assumption that Roma would...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2019-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 0 The 2018 Spirit and Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:00:45 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=90381 After four consecutive years of simply mirroring the Oscars’ Best Picture pick, the Independent Spirit Awards actually attempted to follow their mission this year and rewarded a different movie that Oscar passed over. Meanwhile, the Razzies are still a thing that happens for some reason. Spirit Awards Jordan Peele and ‘Get Out’ were the big...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 6 The 2017 Spirit & Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2017-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2017-spirit-razzie-awards/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:00:00 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83491 For the fourth year in a row, the Independent Spirit Awards gave the top trophy to the same movie that would win a Best Picture Oscar on the following night. For the first time in possibly ever, the Razzie Awards did something kind of interesting. Spirit Awards I’ve grumbled before and will no doubt do...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2017-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 5 The 2016 Spirit & Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-spirit-razzie-awards/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:00:16 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=76149 The Oscars may not have given out any awards to black people this weekend, but at least the Spirit Awards weren’t afraid to. In other news, the Razzies continue to be a pointless waste of time. Spirit Awards I’ve given the Spirit Awards plenty of grief in recent years. What should allegedly be a celebration...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 1 Statuesque: The 2015 Spirit & Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-spirit-and-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-spirit-and-razzie-awards/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:00:10 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=68380 Though you undoubtedly had little reason to notice, the Oscars actually weren’t the only movie awards handed out over the weekend. As per tradition, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both continued to demonstrate their ever-growing irrelevance. Independent Spirit Awards Originally intended as a celebration of the small indie films that other award ceremonies...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-spirit-and-razzie-awards/feed/ 0 Statuesque: Confessions of a Razzie Awards Voter https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-razzie-award-nominations/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-razzie-award-nominations/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:00:28 +0000 Shannon Nutt http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=67589 Per tradition, the day before the new Oscar nominees were announced last week, the nominations for the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – better known to all as the Razzies – were announced first. As most of you are aware, the Razzie Awards acknowledge the worst of the worst of the year’s movies – except...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2015-razzie-award-nominations/feed/ 8 Statuesque: The 2013 Also-Ran Awards – Spirits & Razzies https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2013-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2013-spirit-razzie-awards/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:20 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=47960 While the world turned its eyes to the Oscars this past weekend, a couple of the film industry’s alternative awards ceremonies – the Spirits and Razzies – also pressed on, even though no one pays any attention to them anymore. Honestly, I forgot all about them until just now. As originally conceived, the Independent Spirit...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2013-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 17 Late to the Party, Razzies Announce 2012 Loser(s) https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/razzies-2012-winners/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/razzies-2012-winners/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:00:29 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=32582 It wouldn’t be movie awards season without the Golden Raspberry Awards to let some of the air out of Hollywood’s celebratory balloon. Well, actually, this year it would. More than a month after the Oscars ceremony, the official point at which everyone stops caring about movie awards, the committee behind the Razzies finally got around...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/razzies-2012-winners/feed/ 5 Razzie Nominations Announced Too https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/razzie-nominations-2011/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/razzie-nominations-2011/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:19 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=11115 In the midst of all the hoopla surrounding yesterday’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, the committee behind the Golden Raspberry Awards once again stepped forward to deflate Hollywood’s celebratory back-slapping. The organization announced its nominees for the worst of all the crap that plagued movie screens last year. Would it surprise you to learn...

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