Mike Myers, Paris Hilton and Uwe Boll lead "bad" film nominations
Los Angeles - Canadian comedy star Mike Myers is unlikely to get any love from the Oscars for his recent movie The Love Guru.
But he can console himself with a leading seven nominations from this year's Golden Raspberry Awards which commemorate the very worst the film world has to offer.
The box office bomb about a self-help romance advisor swept all the major categories including acting dishonours for Myers, Verne Troyer, Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Jessica Alba.
But Myers, the creator and star of Austin Powers, has plenty of competition.
Also featuring highly in the list of nominees was Paris Hilton, whose every screen moment seemed to yield a Razzie nod. She was nominated for worst actress for the classic comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, worst supporting actress for Repo: The Genetic Opera and as one-half of the year's worst screen couple together with either Hottie costar Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore.
The Hottie and the Nottie will compete for worst movie with The Love Guru, The Happening, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Meet the Spartans.
Besides Meyers, the worst actor nominees include Eddie Murphy for Meet Dave, Al Pacino for both 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill and Mark Wahlberg, who also scored a double nomination for The Happening and Max Payne.
No less than nine women are vying for the worst actress prize, thanks to an ensemble nomination for the cast of The Women, which featured Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan. The other nominees are Cameron Diaz (What Happens in Vegas), Kate Hudson (Fool's Gold and My Best Friends Girl), Alba and Hilton.
The biggest winner might turn out to be German director Uwe Boll who will be the recipient of the Worst Career Achievement. Boll, who specializes in adapting video games to movies, was also nominated as worst supporting actor for Postal and 1968: Tunnel Rats, while his In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is up for the worst movie award. (dpa)