It’s awards season in the film industry, with the Golden Globes earlier this month and the BAFTAs next month, leading up to March’s Academy Awards ceremony. But if the backslapping and self-aggrandizement get to be too much to bear, we can always count on the Golden Raspberry Awards to puncture the egotism.

This year’s Razzie nominations were published this week, and they contain some familiar names — and also more than the odd surprise. Here’s the pick.

Tom Hanks

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It goes without saying that none of Tom Hanks’ performances has ever even been mentioned in the same sentence as the Golden Raspberry Awards. Even when he plays against type — as in the movie adaptations of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Inferno, where he played Harvard University professor Robert Langdon — Hanks managed well enough, even if his debate scene opposite Ian McKellen in the first film smacked less of scholarly back-and-forth and more of acting artifice. (Last year, Hanks let fly with his less-than-complimentary opinions of the trilogy.)

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However, as many a previous Academy Award winner has discovered (Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, and Ben Affleck), having a career of rave reviews behind you is no guarantee that a Razzie win will not come knocking. This year, Hanks has garnered not one, but two Razzie nominations. The first is for Worst Actor for his work in Disney’s critically panned live-action remake of Pinocchio, a film that brought together Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis once more. It’s fair to say that the pair make a good team — Zemeckis directed Hanks to his second Academy Award for Best Actor in Forrest Gump, and Zemeckis’s film Cast Away (2000) secured Hanks his fifth nomination.

In Pinocchio, however, Hanks’s work as Geppetto was distinctly underwhelming, attracting fire for his erratic Italian accent. Hanks has form for this — when playing an Irish gangster in Cloud Atlas, his accent was, shall we say, a little wayward. And it’s a similar story for his second nomination, this time for Worst Supporting Actor for his work as “Colonel” Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis. Hanks plays well enough as Elvis’s volatile manager but struggles throughout to pull off Parker’s Dutch accent. Perhaps doing a Sean Connery — another actor with a less than impressive range of accents — and not attempting one in the first place (think Connery’s distinctly Scottish-sounding Russian submarine captain in The Hunt For Red October) might have been the better move.

Sylvester Stallone

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Let’s not pretend that Sly Stallone is a uniformly bad actor. When material and personality match, the results can be compelling — his work as Rocky Balboa in Rocky is nothing short of excellent, and it earned him Academy Award and BAFTA nominations.

But Stallone’s limited range means that venturing outside his strongman persona has led to some dud performances over the years, with his ill-judged comedy roles in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over bagging Razzies for him in the past. This year, he is nominated for Worst Actor in Julian Avery’s superhero film Samaritan.

Is the nomination deserved, however? While the movie hardly counts as his best work, Stallone turns in a decent if unspectacular performance, and it’s hard to escape the conclusion that this nomination owes more to the derivative plot than to his onscreen work.

Good Mourning

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Unfortunately, this stoner comedy might well get the nod for Worst Film this year. The pet project of rapper Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun, the film starts promisingly enough, with Kelly’s character, an actor named London Clash, receiving what appears to be a break-up text from his girlfriend. Is it, or isn’t it? And if it isn’t, what does it mean?

Good Mourning certainly looks the part; it’s got glamour aplenty when it comes to location and esthetic, and it attracted some major talent, including Megan Fox and Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson. But a threadbare plot and contrived action conspired to leave audiences largely unmoved at the spectacle of watching a group of pretty young things get high, getting into all the scrapes and mischief that entails, with no stakes or complications to speak of. In the same way, although the cast is (mostly) giving it all they’ve got, the dialogue is rather stilted, and a host of cameo appearances from the likes of Snoop Dogg, basketball great Dennis Rodman, and singer Avril Lavigne isn’t enough to save Good Mourning from what may well be multiple Golden Raspberries, with Kelly and Sun up for Worst Screen Combo, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Director, and Davidson getting a nomination for Worst Supporting Actor.