Cameron Diaz stars as Carly in The Other  Woman. Photo by Barry Wetcher
Cameron Diaz stars as Carly in The Other Woman. Photo by Barry Wetcher

And the Razzie for worst performances goes to...



Cameron Diaz and Kirk Cameron were named the year’s worst actress and actor at the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – also known as the “Razzies” – on Saturday.

Diaz earned the title for her performances in raunchy comedies The Other Woman, in which the wife and two mistresses of the same man team up to make his life miserable, and Sex Tape, in which a couple accidentally releases their private recording to the world. The remake of Annie, which also starred Diaz as Miss Hannigan, along with Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis as the little orphan girl, was named Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.

Cameron picked up the award for Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, a widely derided faith-based comedy, which also won Worst Picture, Worst Screen Combo – for Cameron and his ego – and Worst Screenplay. Razzie favourite Michael Bay was named Worst Director for Transformers: Age of Extinction – or, as the Razzies called it, "Age of Ex-STINK-tion".

Five-time Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer picked up Worst Supporting Actor not just for his role as the evil counter-intelligence agent in Bay's film, but also for his performances in Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too and Expendables 3.

Megan Fox, a former star of the Transformers franchise, was named Worst Supporting Actress for her role as reporter April o'Neill in the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Ben Affleck was the only one who was spared.

The actor-director who won a Razzie for the 2003 movie Gigli, received a Razzie redeemer award for to his Oscar-winning film Argo and his performance in David Fincher's Gone Girl.

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ACC 2019: The winners in full

Best Actress Maha Alemi, Sofia

Best Actor Mohamed Dhrif, Weldi  

Best Screenplay Meryem Benm’Barek, Sofia  

Best Documentary Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki

Best Film Yomeddine by Abu Bakr Shawky

Best Director Nadine Labaki, Capernaum
 

Tightening the screw on rogue recruiters

The UAE overhauled the procedure to recruit housemaids and domestic workers with a law in 2017 to protect low-income labour from being exploited.

 Only recruitment companies authorised by the government are permitted as part of Tadbeer, a network of labour ministry-regulated centres.

A contract must be drawn up for domestic workers, the wages and job offer clearly stating the nature of work.

The contract stating the wages, work entailed and accommodation must be sent to the employee in their home country before they depart for the UAE.

The contract will be signed by the employer and employee when the domestic worker arrives in the UAE.

Only recruitment agencies registered with the ministry can undertake recruitment and employment applications for domestic workers.

Penalties for illegal recruitment in the UAE include fines of up to Dh100,000 and imprisonment

But agents not authorised by the government sidestep the law by illegally getting women into the country on visit visas.