Razzies finally put Twilight in spotlight

LOS ANGELES: The Twilight team finally has earned some love – or loathing – from Team Razzies.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was picked as last year’s worst picture on Saturday by the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that hands out prizes for Hollywood’s lousiest movies on the eve of the Oscars.

The finale to the blockbuster supernatural romance dominated the Razzies with seven awards, including worst actress for Kristen Stewart, supporting actor for Taylor Lautner, director for Bill Condon and worst screen couple for Lautner and child costar Mackenzie Foy.

Adam Sandler was named worst actor for the raunchy comedy That’s My Boy, his second-straight win after 2011’s Jack and Jill, which swept all 10 Razzie categories a year ago. Pop singer Rihanna won worst supporting actress for Battleship.

Twilight movies had been well represented in Razzie nominations over the years but had not won any key awards there. Razzie voters joke that as with The Lord of the Rings finale winning best picture at the Academy Awards, they were waiting for the last Twilight flick on which to heap their scorn.

“I have a pet theory, which is the box office on Twilight films is very impressive, but my theory is that instead of 40 million individual girls going to see it, it’s 8 million girls going to see it five times each,” said Razzies founder John Wilson.

“I believe the attitude of people who really love Twilight movies toward this subject is similar to the pomposity with which the Academy Awards addresses the whole rest of the world. Our whole existence is all about making fun of pompous, so Twilight really is right up our alley.”

Stewart’s worst-actress prize came for both Twilight and her fairy-tale update Snow White and the Huntsman. – Sapa-AP