The Brief

The 46th Golden Raspberry Awards named Ice Cube’s screenlife remake of War of the Worlds the worst picture of 2025, giving it five of its six nominations including worst actor, worst director, worst screenplay, and worst remake. Rebel Wilson took worst actress for Bride Hard, the seven CGI dwarfs in Disney’s Snow White earned two Razzies, and Kate Hudson received the Redeemer Award for her Oscar-nominated turn in Song Sung Blue.

The Report

Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds dominated the 46th annual Golden Raspberry Awards on Saturday in Los Angeles, winning five of the six categories in which it was nominated and entering Razzie history as a near-sweeper on the eve of the Academy Awards.

The film — a screenlife reimagining of H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel in which audiences watch events unfold through phones, laptops, and tablets — took worst picture, worst actor for Ice Cube, worst director for Rich Lee, worst screenplay for Kenny Golde and Marc Hyman, and worst prequel, remake, rip-off, or sequel. Released on Amazon Prime Video last July, the production carries an approximate 4% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 50 critics’ reviews and sits at number 76 on the site’s 100 worst films of all time. Razzie organisers described it as “utterly destroying H.G. Wells’ classic novel” with “a goofy gimmick, hack dialogue, and a particularly hilarious performance by its lead.”

Its only loss came in worst screen combo, where all seven computer-generated dwarfs in Disney’s live-action Snow White took the prize. The dwarfs also won worst supporting actor, giving the CGI ensemble two Razzies in a film that lost Disney an estimated $170 million against total costs of $336.5 million. Razzie officials noted the remake “cost a fortune and lost a fortune, perhaps cursed by Walt himself for having ignored his dying wish for it never to be remade.”

Rebel Wilson won worst actress for Bride Hard, described by Razzie voters as a “not-quite-believable performance as an action hero with weaponized curling irons.” The film opened to $930,000 against a $20 million budget and carries a 15% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. Scarlet Rose Stallone took worst supporting actress for Gunslingers.

The Razzie Redeemer Award — recognising artists who have risen above past critical failures — went to Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Craig Brewer’s drama in which she stars opposite Hugh Jackman as professional stage impersonators. Hudson, a previous Razzie winner for Sia’s Music in 2021, is now nominated for the Academy Award for best lead actress — her first Oscar nomination in 25 years. The film holds a 77% Certified Fresh score from critics and a 97% audience rating.

The ceremony was held one day before the 98th Academy Awards, as is Razzie tradition since the foundation’s establishment in 1981. Some 1,223 voters from 50 states and more than 24 countries selected this year’s winners.

The Angle

The Razzies have always functioned as a pressure valve — an annual permission slip to say plainly what the industry’s economics discourage anyone from saying the rest of the year. What makes this year’s results mildly interesting is not the quality of the films but the production logic behind them. A screenlife War of the Worlds shot in two weeks with a director reportedly absent from set. A Snow White that spent $336.5 million replacing real actors with CGI versions of the characters a real actor publicly criticised the studio for including. A Bride Hard that opened below a million dollars against a $20 million budget. These are not failures of craft in the traditional sense. They are failures of the decision architecture that greenlit them — products of a system optimised for content volume and IP exploitation rather than for making anything a human being would want to watch twice. Kate Hudson’s Redeemer Award is the quiet counterpoint: a film made with less money and more specificity, now sitting at 97% with audiences who noticed the difference. The industry already knows which model scales. It has simply decided that the answer is not the one it prefers.