People Who Live in Glass Houses

Watching the Star Trek reboot last night, a question came up: who’s won more well-known awards for acting, William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy? Turns out it’s Shatner; he’s won two Emmys out of seven nominations. Nimoy has been nominated for four Emmys (three for Star Trek), but never won.

On the flip side, Shatner’s penchant for overacting has won him two Razzies out of five nominations. One of the nominations he didn’t win was for Worst Actor of the Century. Intrigued, I headed over to The Razzies website:



As soon as my eyes stopped bleeding, I began to wonder: Is this a joke? If I wait long enough will a popup appear saying “Ha! Ha! Just Kidding! Click here to go to our real website.”? Did they actually pay someone for building this website? Was the intent to make the content and ads indistinguishable? Was the person who approved the design both color- and clutter-blind?

For comparison, here’s the stylish website for the The Oscars:



The delicious irony here is the complete lack of taste shown by The Razzies, an organization whose purpose is to point out other people’s complete lack of taste.

This isn’t surprising. A key aspect of incompetence is a lack of awareness of one’s own ability (something known as the Dunning-Kruger effect). The truly worst movies are made by people who think they’ve created a masterpiece.

So here’s to you Razzies, for being the butt of your own joke.

And if you want to add more total awesomeness to your website, head over to The World’s Worst Web Site Ever for some ideas.