The Razzie Awards - celebrating Hollywood's spectacular failures with the same pomp and circumstance the Oscars reserve for artistic achievement - have announced their 2026 nominations. And this year's slate is a beautiful disaster.
Leading the pack with six nominations each are Disney's live-action Snow White remake and Ice Cube's War of the Worlds adaptation. They're joined in the Worst Picture race by The Electric State, Hurry Up Tomorrow, and Star Trek: Section 31.
Let's start with the obvious: Disney's Snow White getting savaged was as inevitable as it was deserved. The studio's compulsive need to remake their animated classics into soulless live-action cash grabs has finally hit critical mass. But this one stands out for sheer audacity - they somehow made seven CGI dwarfs creepy enough to earn Razzie nominations in both Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Combo categories.
Yes, you read that right. Artificial characters received acting nominations. The Razzies are basically saying the digital dwarfs gave such terrible performances they deserve recognition alongside actual human actors. That's brutal.
The Worst Actor category is its own kind of fascinating disaster. Abel 'The Weeknd' Tesfaye earned a nomination for Hurry Up Tomorrow, competing against Dave Bautista, Ice Cube, Scott Eastwood, and Jared Leto. That's a murderer's row of actors who should have known better.
Worst Actress includes Ariana DeBose, Milla Jovovich, Natalie Portman, Rebel Wilson, and Michelle Yeoh - which is particularly painful because several of these women are genuinely talented performers who got stuck in terrible material.
But the Worst Screen Combo category is where the Razzies show their satirical teeth. Nominees include "Ice Cube & His Zoom Camera" and "The Weeknd & His Colossal Ego." That's not film criticism - that's performance art.
What's most telling about this year's nominations is the sheer number of remakes and adaptations. Snow White, War of the Worlds, Smurfs, I Know What You Did Last Summer - Hollywood isn't just failing to come up with original ideas, it's actively ruining the ideas it's already had.
Disney deserves special recognition here. Their remake strategy has been wildly profitable, but Snow White might finally be the one that breaks the camel's back. Between the CGI dwarf controversy, the casting drama, and apparently just making a bad movie, this feels like the moment audiences collectively say "enough."
Though let's be honest - they'll probably still make money, and Disney will announce a live-action Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Timothée Chalamet or something equally cursed.
The Razzies have always walked a fine line between legitimate criticism and mean-spirited mockery. At their best, they're a useful corrective to Hollywood's self-congratulatory award season. At their worst, they're piling on artists who probably already know they made something terrible.
But this year? This year feels deserved.
When you greenlight a live-action Snow White with creepy CGI dwarfs, or let The Weeknd star in a vanity project, or produce your fifth unnecessary War of the Worlds adaptation, you're basically asking for a Razzie nomination.
The awards ceremony is scheduled for March 14, 2026 - one day before the Oscars, as tradition demands. It'll be interesting to see if any of the nominees show up to claim their dishonor. Sandra Bullock famously accepted her Razzie in person, which was both classy and hilarious.
Somehow I don't see Disney sending anyone to collect the award for those CGI dwarfs.
In Hollywood, nobody knows anything - but we definitely know bad when we see it.
