Jack Black nominated for 'worst actor' award

Jack Black has been nominated for a Razzie Award for 'Worst Actor' in the traditional pre-Oscar nomination night awards that recognise all that is bad in films.

The nominations for Golden Raspberry Awards - or Razzie for short - were announced on Sunday night, with Jennifer Aniston nominated for Worst Actress for her role in The Bounty Hunter and The Switch.

The blockbuster supernatural tale "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" and the action fantasy "The Last Airbender" tied for the most nominations with nine each, including worst picture.

The Razzies lineup was announced a day before Oscar nominations come out. Razzie winners, chosen by the group's 600 voters, will be announced on 26th February, the night before the Oscars.

The awards, founded by American copywriter and publicist John J.B. Wilson in 1981, precede the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry". The awards themselves typically cost around £5 each, in the form of a "golfball-sized raspberry" which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray-painted gold. Continue ►