Francis Ford Coppola is discovering the razzle dazzle in his a number of 2025 Razzie Award nominations.
The “Megalopolis” auteur garnered six nominations for the futuristic characteristic — which sarcastically can also be precisely what number of Academy Award wins he has. Whereas Coppola’s self-funded “Megalopolis” was decidedly not an Oscar contender, the author/director remains to be honored to be acknowledged for taking a “threat” with the movie, even when it was deemed Razzie-worthy. The Razzie Awards infamously rejoice the “worst” movies of the yr.
“I’m thrilled to simply accept the Razzie award in so many vital classes for ‘Megalopolis,’ and for the distinctive honor of being nominated because the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst image at a time when so few have the braveness to go towards the prevailing developments of up to date moviemaking!” Coppola wrote on Instagram. “On this wreck of a world at the moment, the place artwork is given scores as if it had been skilled wrestling, I selected to not comply with the gutless guidelines laid down by an trade so scared of threat that regardless of the big pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create footage that will probably be related and alive 50 years from now.”
Coppola continued, “What an honor to face alongside a fantastic and brave filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself fully to make one in all cinema’s most beloved failures, ‘Playtime.’ My honest due to all my good colleagues who joined me to make our murals, ‘Megalopolis,’ and allow us to remind ourselves that field workplace is just about cash, and like struggle, stupidity and politics haven’t any true place in our future.”
“Megalopolis” was retitled “WTF the Film” by the Razzies, and billed as an “incoherent $120 million mess from the fabled director of ‘The Godfather.’”
The Razzie Award “winners” had been then introduced February 28, with “Madame Net” beating “Megalopolis” for the title of Worst Image. Coppola gained Worst Director, and “Megalopolis” actor Jon Voight gained the Worst Supporting Actor title, sharing it together with his different 2024 turns in “Reagan,” “Shadow Land,” “Strangers.” “Joker: Folie à Deux” had essentially the most Razzie nominations with seven nods.
Coppola beforehand advised IndieWire that he credited his ensemble forged for influencing the ultimate model of his long-gestating epic “Megalopolis.”
“No matter worth ‘Megalopolis’ has is considerably from my collaborators,” he mentioned. “It’s not solely the film I needed to make; it’s higher than the film I needed to make as a result of it was the results of a fantastic collaboration.”
Coppola additionally mirrored on the decades-long course of to carry the characteristic to the display.
“My behavior of creating motion pictures is I work on one thing very intensely till I hate it a lot that I abandon it,” Coppola mentioned. “Then I work on a second film as a reduction to get away from that one I hate. Then I work on it a lot that I hate that one, and I take a look at the primary one I hated and say, ‘That wasn’t so unhealthy.’ After which I’m going and make that. I’m all the time making a film that I had beforehand deserted.”
He added, “In the long run, solely the director is aware of what they’re attempting to perform. It’s very laborious when there are individuals who have fantastic concepts, however they’re totally different out of your thought. That makes collaboration a tough enterprise. There’s one thing in me that has an concept that I’m attempting to attain, and the one solution to obtain it’s to undergo the Sturm and Drang of the expertise. The making of this film was similar to the making of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ remains to be being seen 40 years later. I hope that ‘Megalopolis’ is a film like that, the place the extra you see it the extra it adjustments in your thoughts.”
For what it’s price, IndieWire Chief Movie Critic David Ehrlich gave “Megalopolis” a B+ score in his evaluation from Cannes, and the movie appeared on a number of IndieWire staffers’ year-end Prime 10 lists.