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Tom Hanks 'wins' Razzies; organizers nominate selves for blunder

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/03/11/20230311-tom-hanks-via-handout.jpg"/><figcaption>Oscar-winner Tom Hanks stars as Elvis Presley’s enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker in Warner Bros.’ &quot;Elvis.&quot; <em>Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES, United States - Tom Hanks is an elite double-Oscar-winning actor, but on Saturday he received two more prizes from an award show that no movie star wants on their CV -- the Razzies.</p><p>Organizers of the parody prizes, which recognize the worst films and performances each year, also awarded themselves a tongue-in-cheek Razzie for having cruelly nominated a 12-year-old child star.</p><p>Razzies voters declared Hanks&#x27; role as Elvis Presley&#x27;s manager in rock &#x27;n&#x27; roll biopic &quot;Elvis&quot; the year&#x27;s most awful performance by a supporting actor.</p><p>The movie has been widely praised, and is up for eight Oscars this Sunday. Its star Austin Butler is a frontrunner for best actor.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KAKR3Xej0Nk?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/movies/06/28/22/how-austin-butlers-elvis-wowed-even-priscilla-presley">How Austin Butler pulled off an Elvis performance that wowed even Priscilla Presley</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/24/22/movie-review-oscars-on-the-horizon-for-elvis">Movie review: Oscars on the horizon for &#x27;Elvis&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>But Hanks&#x27; appearance beneath heavy prosthetics as Presley&#x27;s exploitative manager Colonel Tom Parker was panned by many critics, who viewed his casting as the film&#x27;s biggest flaw.</p><p>A New York Times review said Hanks appears &quot;with a mountain of prosthetic goo, a bizarre accent and a yes-it&#x27;s-really-me twinkle in his eyes.&quot;</p><p>Piling on the insults, Razzies voters on Saturday also awarded &quot;worst screen couple&quot; to &quot;Tom Hanks &amp; His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent).&quot; </p><p>Hanks was at least spared the worst actor award.</p><p>His role as Geppetto in Disney&#x27;s live-action &quot;Pinocchio&quot; remake was deemed less terrible than that of regular Razzies punching bag Jared Leto in Spider-Man spinoff &quot;Morbius.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/03/01/morbius1.jpg"/><figcaption>Jared Leto takes on Marvel&#x27;s Morbius in the first big screen adaptation of the vampire-like character. <em>Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/03/30/22/jared-leto-takes-on-new-comic-book-role">From Joker to Morbius: Jared Leto takes on new comic book role</a></li></ul><p>The controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic &quot;Blonde&quot; was named the year&#x27;s worst movie.</p><p>The Razzies are announced the day before the Oscars, serving to mock the following night&#x27;s self-congratulatory Tinseltown back-slapping.</p><p>But the Razzies themselves have made recent high-profile blunders.</p><p>This year, Razzies organizers were forced to rescind a nomination for Ryan Kiera Armstrong -- then just 12 -- for her role in a &quot;Firestarter&quot; remake.</p><p>Announcing the winners on Saturday, the group said Armstrong&#x27;s spot on the worst actress nominees list was given to the Razzies themselves.</p><p>According to a press release, the Razzies &quot;won by a landslide.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Well, what can we say? We earned this Razzie,&quot; organizers said in a mock acceptance speech posted to YouTube.</p><p>Last year, a new category labelled &quot;Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie&quot; was jokingly created to accommodate all of the former &quot;Die Hard&quot; star&#x27;s questionable output.</p><p>Red-faced organizers retracted the prize after his family revealed Willis suffered from a cognitive illness that doctors now say is dementia.</p><p>The Razzies were first awarded in 1981 in a Los Angeles living room, the brainchild of UCLA film graduates and industry veterans, who chose the raspberry as a symbol of derision.</p><p>amz/hg/jh/lb</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

Tom Hanks is an elite double-Oscar-winning actor, but on Saturday he received two more prizes from an award show that no movie star wants on their CV -- the Razzies.