Joaquin Phoenix Nominated For a Razzie Playing Oscar-Winning Role

In 2020, Joaquin Phoenix received an Academy Award for Greatest Actor for taking part in Arthur Fleck in Joker. 

In 2025, Phoenix was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Actor taking part in the very same function in Joker’s sequel, Folie à Deux.

This appears like a joke. However like just about the whole lot in Folie à Deux, it isn’t.

Was Phoenix that a lot better taking part in this similar character within the first film? I don’t assume so. No matter you consider Joker: Folie à Deux — and I used to be actually not an enormous fan — I don’t assume Phoenix was the issue. He was absolutely dedicated to his function, singing and dancing and usually bringing as a lot tortured humanity and psychological instability as he presumably may to Arthur Fleck.

However the film round him was typically a chore — and it felt at instances prefer it was intentionally composed to put followers of the unique film on trial. Half the movie was set in a psychological hospital, and half the movie was set in a courtroom, as Gotham Metropolis’s district lawyer tries Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck for his crimes from Joker.

But Folie à Deux wasn’t a compelling character research or a gripping authorized thriller. However, once more, that’s not on Phoenix. He didn’t write the movie. (And in reality Woman Gaga was type of good in Joker: Folie à Deux despite its conceptual points, and he or she bought nominated for a Razzie for Worst Actress anyway, however that’s one other matter fully.)

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Whereas so far as I can inform this actual circumstance — being nominated for a Razzie for reprising a task that beforehand received an actor their Oscar — is with out precedent within the historical past of the Oscars and the Razzies, it’s virtually occurred earlier than. One prior actor was nominated for an Oscar and later received a Razzie for reprising the identical function.

That’s Sylvester Stallone, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Greatest Actor for the primary Rocky after which years later received the Worst Actor Razzie for taking part in Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV. (He was additionally nominated for Worst Actor as Rocky for Rocky V, however that 12 months he “misplaced” to Andrew Cube Clay from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.)

What does this all imply? Completely nothing! It’s totally meaningless. However it may simply enable you to win at bar trivia some day, so file this away behind your thoughts someplace.

Will Joaquin Phoenix win a Razzie for his beforehand Oscar-winning function? We’ll discover out when the 2025 Razzies are introduced on March 1.