Nicole
Kidman
was
named
worst
actress
for
her
performance
in
'Grace
of
Monaco'
at
the
Barfta
Awards,
which
honours
the
most
egregious
works
to
hit
the
cinemas
over
the
past
year.
Each
year
the
British
Academy
for
Rubbish
Films
and
Terrible
Acting
commemorates
the
worst
films
and
performances
of
the
year,
and
according
to
the
organisers
"2015
has
proved
a
vintage
year
for
terrible
films",
reported
Independent
online.
'Grace
of
Monaco',
about
American
actress
Grace
Kelly's
marriage
to
Prince
Rainier
III,
was
met
with
laughter
in
the
auditorium
and
eviscerated
by
the
critics
when
it
opened
last
year's
Cannes
Film
Festival.
The
Barfta
judges
took
aim
at
a
film
–
dubbed
"Dis-Grace
of
Monaco"
–
where
"a
plucky
woman
fights
to
stop
the
super-rich
having
to
pay
their
taxes.
We
almost
miss
Diana.
Last
year,
the
biopic
of
Princess
Diana
swept
the
boards,
winning
worst
film
and
worst
actor
for
Naomi
Watts
in
the
lead
role.
Worst
British
film
went
to
'Pudsey
the
Dog:
the
Movie'.
Simon
Pegg,
who
starred
in
the
"frankly
creepy"
'Hector
and
the
Search
for
Happiness'
won
worst
actor.
This
year
Cameron
Diaz
pulled
off
an
extraordinary
double.
She
was
nominated
for
worst
actress
in
Sex
Tape,
and
for
worst
supporting
actress
for
her
role
in
Annie.
That
remake
won
worst
US
film
for
being
so
sickly
sweet
"watching
it
may
well
induce
type
two
diabetes".
Special
prizes
included
the
Dick
van
Dyke
award
for
calamitous
accent
awarded
to
Russell
Crowe
for
his
"frankly
baffling
accent
in
the
frankly
baffling"
'A
New
York
Winter's
Tale'.