This year’s Academy Award nominations are set to be announced Thursday, after being delayed due to the devastating Los Angeles fires. As such, the annual Golden Raspberry Awards got to get ahead of the Oscars on Tuesday with their own crop of nominees,

Razzies on Tuesday, leaving the sad clown atop the annual tongue-in-cheek list of the worst movies of the year. The flop musical follow-up to 2019's billion-dollar-grossing picked up unwanted nods such as worst picture and worst sequel.

The nominees for the best of the worst of cinema – the awards known as the Razzies – were released Tuesday, and the oft-derided “Joker” sequel led the pack.

Stars nominated for what the Razzies describes as "less-than-stellar star turns in 2024" include Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, for their performances in the Joker sequel, alongside Cate Blanchett for Borderlands,

In the Worst Actor category, nominees include Joaquin Phoenix for Joker: Folie à Deux, Dennis Quaid for Reagan, and Jerry Seinfeld for Unfrosted. Meanwhile, high-profile names like Cate Blanchett (Borderlands), Lady Gaga (Joker: Folie à Deux), and Dakota Johnson (Madame Web) made the cut for Worst Actress.

Borderlands, Joker: Folie a Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis and Reagan have tied for the most Razzie Awards noms, which recognize the worst movies and performances of the year. The five films each earned six noms apiece, it was announced Tuesday.

Joker: Folie a Deux was nominated for seven Razzies on Tuesday, leaving the sad clown atop the annual tongue-in-cheek list of the worst movies of the year.

Joaquin Phoenix won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Arthur Fleck in Joker. In 2025, Phoenix was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Actor playing the exact same role in Joker’s sequel, Folie à Deux.

Joaquin Phoenix -- who won best actor at the Oscars in the first "Joker" film -- is nominated for worst actor, alongside Lady Gaga for worst actress.