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.

"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.

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.

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are up for worst actor and worst actress respectively. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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,

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.

Not only was "Joker 2" a box office bomb, but the Todd Phillips sequel has now garnered a near-sweep of every award for this year's Razzies.

Todd Phillips’ Joker 2 continues to break all kinds of records in the negative sense, securing the joint most number of Razzie nominations in 2025. The sequel, released five years after its predecessor,