2012 Films: Best And Worst Of The Year Awards

Worst Actor

WINNER: Leigh Francis (Keith Lemon: The Film) No performance was as grating as Leigh Francis' turn as the titular character in Keith Lemon: The Film, and given that he has proven himself to be hilarious on numerous occasions before (or perhaps I was just young enough to enjoy Bo Selecta!), here he feels like a self-parody without the humour, the sort of thing Ricky Gervais shot for with the depressing catchphrase comedy his character got mired in in Extras. But there's no self-awareness here; Francis humiliates himself and pretty much everyone around him, presenting an infuriating character who can't waltz off the screen soon enough.

Worst Actress

WINNER: Keeley Hazell (St. George's Day) This is a performance so bad that, while many will expect Kelly Brook to take this spot for her part in Keith Lemon, she's actually knocked off by a model with even more dubious aspirations to thesping. Keeley Hazell might have been some much-needed window dressing in the forgettably bad gangster flick St. George's Day, but whoever gave her lines of dialogue needs to be severely reprimanded, because every single line reading of hers is head-smackingly terrible, either overly forced or simply imbued with the wrong sort of emotion. Her easy-on-the-eyes approach makes the blow slightly less cruel, but she still makes a bad film seem staggeringly worse.
 
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