And the worst picture is ...

Throw out the envelope, please. Tom Green is Tinseltown's top turkey.

Comedian Green and his big-screen debut, Freddy Got Fingered, were panned as the worst of the merely bad at the 22nd Annual Razzie Awards, given to Hollywood's most dubious achievements on the eve of its biggest night.

As well as worst actor, Green, who starred in Freddy as a 30-ish, basement-dwelling slacker who dreams of Hollywood fame, was co-credited for the worst script and as half of the worst screen couple for his various on-screen encounters with animals.

In a movie that challenged critics to find synonyms for witless and offensive, those included him drinking from a cow's udder, cavorting inside the bloody carcass of a deer and sexually servicing a horse and an elephant.

In all, Freddy took five gold-spray-painted Razzie Awards, first launched in 1980 as a "derby of dishonour" and a parody of the Academy Awards.

Mariah Carey was named worst actress for the box-office disaster Glitter, taking 60 per cent of the votes cast by Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members, and beating challenges from a field that included Penelope Cruz (Blow), Angelina Jolie (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), Jennifer Lopez (Angel Eyes) and Charlize Theron (Sweet November).

The rest of the annual Razzies was pure monkey business as Planet of the Apes took a bow for worst remake or sequel and for featuring two other worst-of-class performances by Charlton Heston and Estella Warren.

- REUTERS

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