The Golden Raspberry Awards, shortened to the “Razzies,” are the award season’s homage to every god-awful, scratch-your-eyes-out, never-getting-those-two-hours-back film of the year.

Loosely based on the Oscars, the awards mimic many of the same categories including, but not limited to, Worst Actor, Worst Actress, and Worst Picture.

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Pixels,” “Jupiter Ascending,” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” have received the most nominations this year with six each, and “Fantastic 4” was in second with five. All of these movies will be up for the Worst Picture award.

Many actors and actresses from these movies will also be nominated for Worst Actor/Actress including Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson from “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis from “Jupiter Ascending,” Adam Sandler from “Pixels,” and Kevin James from “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

Although “Mortdecai” was not nominated for Worst Picture, its leading actors, Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow, are also up for Worst Actor/Actress.

Twenty five New Trier students were shown the nominations and placed their own votes. Dakota Johnson won Worst Actress with ten votes, and Adam Sandler won Worst Actor with nine.

For Worst Picture, “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” won by a landslide, nabbing more than half of the votes.

In “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” the cover image of Kevin James cruising on a Segway was sufficient to make junior Giulia Liebovich say, “I haven’t even seen the movie, but the cover is enough to get my vote.”

The reactions of New Trier students only reinforce the failure of this film, which rarely got more than one star in mainstream media reviews.

While such movies become a bad joke to viewers and critics alike, they are perfect for the Razzies.

Since it started as a joke at a potluck party hosted by copywriter and publicist John Wilson, the Razzies have grown vastly. In 1981, the first Razzie awards involved Wilson himself standing at a cardboard podium in an old tux, speaking into a broom as a microphone.

Winners were awarded, and still are today, with a gold spray-painted trophy worth approximately five dollars.

The impromptu ceremony was a success, and by the following week, multiple newspapers picked up the story. The awards have now grown to be included in segments on popular channels such as Comedy Central, although nowhere on television is the show available in its entirety.

The only place to watch the whole show is on their YouTube channel, Razziechannel, and there are live updates available on their Twitter feed, @RazzieAwards.

Although the show itself is open to anyone who wants to watch, voting requires a bit more effort, and frankly, a fair amount of money.

In order to vote, a membership is required at the cost of forty dollars. The membership includes access to forums about the show, chances to get tickets to the event, the ability to vote, and, as their website says, “Bragging rights – Your friends and rivals will now know your opinion actually matters!”

This year, the Razzies are set for Feb. 27, intentionally the evening before the Oscars, and will be bigger than ever. The nominations, which came out on Jan. 12, were showcased in a skit, depicting a man observed in a scientific experiment as he hears the 2016 nominations.

The scientists supposedly conducting the experiment comment with playful banter as his reactions go from mild displeasure to trying to saw his own arm off.

But this mocking humor is all part of the fun. Sophomore Rita Murphey admitted that many of the nominated films are ridiculous, but according to her, that’s just part of their charm.

“Movies like this need to exist,” she said, “if not just as something to laugh at.” Murphy argued that many of the movies that get nominated for these awards are sentient in their stupidity.

“‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2’ was never made to be a masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be entertained by it,” she said.

Although most students weren’t aware that the Razzies even existed, those who did thought they were pretty great.

“I think the idea’s pretty funny,” junior Michelle Cheng said.

“The Oscars tend to make people think too seriously when it comes to the film industry. You have to remember that there are tons of dumb, goofy movies every year too.”