20 Terrible Razzie Mistakes - Corrected

8. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts I And II - Worst Director (In Both Ceremonies)

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Don't worry, this isn't a defence of Twilight. Breaking Dawn Part I is one of the worst big-budget films of the 2010s and Breaking Dawn Part II is also terrible, although it's the second-best of the franchise after the original film (which was, as hard as it is to remember now, perfectly OK), so they deserved most of the Razzie nods (Eight for Part I and eleven for Part II, as well as seven wins for the latter), but there was one major anomaly: Bill Condon's nomination for Worst Director.

Bill Condon was by far the best director the franchise ever had and he actually did a good job despite how awful the material was, so this was very unfair. Worse still, he won in 2013 despite being the least deserving out of the five nominees. While the Razzies were doing what the Oscars did with the Lord of the Rings films and heaping awards on the final instalment, that doesn't mean they needed to give it everything.

Corrected:

For the 2012 ceremony, Joel Schumacher should've been nominated for Trespass and for the 2013 ceremony, Johnathan Liebesman should've been nominated for Wrath of the Titans. Bill Condon deserved so much better than this.

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