And the award for many tone-deaf award present as soon as once more goes to the Razzies: The Golden Raspberrys have issued an apology, this time for nominating 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress.
The Razzies have been based in 1981 as a satirical awards present devoted to honoring the most effective of the worst. As Selection studies, Armstrong obtained the doubtful honor for her work within the Zac Efron car Firestarter, throughout filming of which she was 11 years outdated. Following the world’s most predictable backlash, Razzies founder John Wilson has apologized and mentioned that the principles can be modified in order that nobody below the age of 18 will probably be eligible sooner or later.
“The current legitimate criticism of the selection of 11 12 months outdated Armstrong as a nominee for one in all our awards introduced our consideration to how insensitive we’ve been on this occasion,” he mentioned in an announcement. “Because of this, we now have eliminated Armstrong’s identify from the Ultimate Poll that our members will forged subsequent month. We additionally consider a public apology is owed Ms. Armstrong, and want to say we remorse any damage she skilled because of our selections.” Try the total assertion under.
That is the second 12 months in a row that the Razzies have been pressured to apologize for an awards determination. Final 12 months, they created an entire class for Bruce Willis performances, solely to rescind the award after his household revealed his neurological dysfunction.
Typically, you do issues with out pondering, Then you might be known as out for it. You then get it. It’s why the Razzies have been created within the first place.
The current legitimate criticism of the selection of 11 12 months outdated Armstrong as a nominee for one in all our awards introduced our consideration to how insensitive we’ve been on this occasion. Because of this, we now have eliminated Armstrong’s identify from the Ultimate Poll that our members will forged subsequent month. We additionally consider a public apology is owed Ms. Armstrong, and want to say we remorse any damage she skilled because of our selections.
Having realized from this lesson, we might additionally prefer to announce that, from this level ahead, we’re adopting a Voting Guideline precluding any performer or film-maker below 18 years of age from being thought of for our awards.
We’ve by no means supposed to bury anybody’s profession. It’s why our Redeemer Award was created. All of us make errors, very a lot us included.
Since our motto is “Personal Your Dangerous,” we understand that we ourselves should additionally reside as much as it.
Sincerely,
John Wilson, The Razzie Awards
