Razzie Awards Admit It Probably Wasn’t a Good Idea to Nominate a 12-Year-Old for Worst Actress - Rolling Stone

The organizers of the Razzie Awards are listening and taking accountability — for nominating 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress.

The Razzies person decided to rescind Armstrong’s information for her show successful the widely-panned Stephen King adaptation, Firestarter. The information placed the yearly celebration/roast of Hollywood’s astir dubious flicks astatine the halfway of a fierce backlash, which included disapproval from immoderate existent and erstwhile kid actors, similar Devon Sawa and Julian Hilliard.

In response, Razzie organizer John Wilson (not that John Wilson) issued an apology, saying, “Sometimes, you bash things without thinking, Then you are called retired for it. Then you get it. It’s wherefore the Razzies were created successful the archetypal place.”

Wilson acknowledged that nominating Armstrong was “insensitive” and called the disapproval “valid.” There was besides a nonstop apology to Armstrong, with Wilson saying, “[W]e regret immoderate wounded she experienced arsenic a effect of our choices.”

The backlash besides appeared to punctual a spot of soul-searching and reform, with Wilson saying that the Razzie Voting Guidelines would present commencement “precluding immoderate performer oregon filmmaker nether 18 years of property from being considered for our awards.” 

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“We person ne'er intended to hide anyone’s career,” Wilson said. “It is wherefore our Redeemer Award was created. We each marque mistakes, precise overmuch america included. Since our motto is “Own Your Bad,” we recognize that we ourselves indispensable besides unrecorded up to it.”

Some would astir apt reason that this alteration to the voting guidelines is agelong overdue, considering galore kid actors person been nominated for Razzies implicit the years. Gary Coleman was nominated successful 1982 erstwhile helium was 14, portion Macaulay Culkin received the Worst Actor information successful 1995 for 3 movies, Getting Even With Dad, The Pagemaster, and Richie Rich (he mislaid to Kevin Costner for Wyatt Earp). More recently, Jake Lloyd, who portrayed a young Anakin Skywalker successful Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, was nominated for Worst Actor erstwhile helium was 11. Lloyd later said the bullying and disapproval helium received, some from classmates and the press, prompted him to permission acting.