The Ice Cube starrer War of the Worlds has been named the worst picture of 2025 by voters of the 46th Razzie Awards.
The movie “won” five of the six categories in which it was nominated, including worst actor (Ice Cube); worst prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel; worst director (Rich Lee); and worst screenplay (Kenny Golde, Marc Hyman).
The movie became “a cult hate-watch classic almost immediately,” the Razzies said. “War of the Worlds (the 2025 version) has been cemented in Razzie history as a near sweeper of our $4.97 trophy winner.”
Organizers went on to say: “Utterly destroying H.G. Wells’ classic novel, director Rich Lee (maybe inspired by Ed Wood) chose a goofy gimmick, hack dialogue and a particularly hilarious performance by its lead, Ice Cube, to seize 2025’s biggest number of statues.”
Other winners for this year’s Razzie Awards — aka the Golden Raspberry Awards, which honor the “worst” of the year — include “all seven artificial dwarfs” in Snow White, with two Razzies. Of the film, organizers said: “It cost a fortune and lost a fortune, perhaps cursed by Walt [Disney] himself for having ignored his dying wish for it never to be remade.”
Rebel Wilson won for “her not-quite-believable performance as an action hero in Bride Hard with weaponized curling irons,” while Scarlet Rose Stallone won “for her modernized performance in the odd western Gunslingers.”
Meanwhile, Kate Hudson has been named the recipient of this year’s Razzie Redeemer Award for her “pitch-perfect performance” in Song Sung Blue. Hudson, who is nominated for an Oscar this year for her role in the film, has previously been singled out by the Razzies for her roles in Music, Mother’s Day and My Best Friend’s Girl after having earned an Oscar nom for Almost Famous in 2001.
Awards are voted on online by 1,223 Razzie members from all 50 states and more than two dozen countries.
A full list of the 46th Razzie Award winners follows.
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Worst Picture
The Electric State
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Disney’s Snow White (2025)
Star Trek: Section 31
War of the Worlds (2025) (WINNER) -
Worst Actor
Dave Bautista / In the Lost Lands
Ice Cube / War of the Worlds (WINNER)
Scott Eastwood / Alarum
Jared Leto / Tron: Ares
Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye / Hurry Up Tomorrow -
Worst Actress
Ariana DeBose / Love Hurts
Milla Jovovich / In the Lost Lands
Natalie Portman / Fountain of Youth
Rebel Wilson / Bride Hard (WINNER)
Michelle Yeoh / Star Trek: Section 31 -
Worst Supporting Actress
Anna Chlumsky / Bride Hard
Ema Horvath / The Strangers: Chapter 2
Scarlet Rose Stallone / Gunslingers (WINNER)
Kacey Rohl / Star Trek: Section 31
Isis Valverde / Alarum -
Worst Supporting Actor
All Seven Artificial Dwarfs / Snow White (2025) (WINNER)
Nicolas Cage / Gunslingers
Stephen Dorff / Bride Hard
Greg Kinnear / Off the Grid
Sylvester Stallone / Alarum -
Worst Remake / Rip-Off / Sequel
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Smurfs (2025)
Snow White (2025)
War of the Worlds (2025) (WINNER) -
Worst Screen Combo
All Seven Dwarfs / Snow White (2025) (WINNER)
James Corden & Rihanna / Smurfs (2025)
Ice Cube & His Zoom Camera / War of the Worlds (2025)
Robert De Niro & Robert De Niro (as Frank & Vito) / The Alto Knights
The Weeknd & His Colossal Ego / Hurry Up Tomorrow -
Worst Director
Rich Lee / War of the Worlds (2025) (WINNER)
Olatunde Osunsanmi / Star Trek: Section 31
The Russo Brothers / The Electric State
Trey Edward Shults / Hurry Up Tomorrow
Marc Webb / Snow White (2025) -
Worst Screenplay
The Electric State / Screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Adapted from the illustrated novel by Simon Stalenhag.
Hurry Up Tomorrow / Screenplay by Trey Edward Shults, Abel Tesfaye, Reza Fahim
Snow White (2025) / Screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson and a bunch of others too numerous to mention. Drawing from the original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
Star Trek: Section 31 / Screenplay by Craig Sweeny with original story concept developed by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt
War of the Worlds (2025) / Screen story and screenplay by Kenny Golde and screenplay by Marc Hyman, adapting (or destroying) the classic novel by H.G. Wells (WINNER) -
Razzie Redeemer Award
Kate Hudson / Song Sung Blue (WINNER)
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