The War of the Worlds remake starring Ice Cube dominated the 2026 Golden Raspberry Awards, taking home five Razzies at the annual anti-Oscars that celebrates Hollywood’s worst the day before the Academy Awards.
The straight-to-streaming sci-fi disaster flick nearly swept the Razzies, earning the show’s least prestigious award Worst Picture, as well as “wins” for Worst Actor (Ice Cube), Worst Remake/Rip-Off/Sequel, Worst Director (Rich Lee), and Worst Screenplay (which notably was “adapting (or destroying) the classic novel by H.G. Wells,” the Razzies said).
War of the Worlds was only shut out in one category, with “Ice Cube & His Zoom Camera” losing Worst Screen Combo to “All Seven Dwarfs” in the recent Snow White live-action remake. Snow White also received the Worst Supporting Actor Razzie, given to “all seven artificial dwarfs.”
Other Razzie winners this year include Rebel Wilson (Worst Actress for Bride Hard) and Scarlet Rose Stallone (Worst Supporting Actress for Gunslingers). On a positive note, the Razzie Redeemer Award, given to former Razzie honorees who become Oscar nominees, went to Kate Hudson, who won Worst Actress in 2021 for Music; Hudson, already an Oscar winner for Almost Famous, is up for Best Actress at the Academy Awards on Sunday for Song Sung Blue.
Upon its release in the summer of 2025, War of the Worlds initially registered a rare zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a scathing review from Rolling Stone. “Bad movies have existed forever, and sometimes they’re so awful they spin all the way back around to beloved. Works like The Room, Sharknado, and Repo! The Genetic Opera have built cult followings from this narrative, and it’s a canon this new War of the Worlds would be lucky to join,” our review said.
“Too bad the film is such a trainwreck that it is forever barred entry by me personally. No, thank you. Do not pass go. Is this a movie or a money laundering scheme? It’s not even enjoyably funny, because you’re immediately distracted from the alien invasion unfolding in front of you and instead stuck thinking about the gambling debts the actors in this film are trying to wipe clean.”
From Rolling Stone US
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