LOS ANGELES ,SANDRA BULLOCK warmed up for the Academy Awards with a stop at the Razzies to collect a dubious honour: A worst-actress prize for her romantic comedy flop All About Steve. Bullock swung by the Razzies on the eve of her expected triumph at Sunday’s Oscars, where she is considered the favourite to win best actress for The Blind Side. If she wins, Bullock will be the first person to win an Oscar and a Razzie over the same weekend.

“I think this is an extraordinary award,” said Bullock, who had promised throughout the awards season that if she won the Razzie, she would accept it in person. “And I didn’t realise that, in Hollywood, all you had to do was say you’d show up, and then you’d get the award. If I’d known that, I would have said I was appearing at the Oscars a long time ago.”
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was picked as 2009’s worst picture and won two other Razzies, worst director for Michael Bay and worst screenplay for Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Bay and his team probably will not lose any asleep over it. Though reviled by critics, Transformers took in $402.1 million domestically, No. 2 on the 2009 box-office chart behind Avatar.
Bullock, who also shared the Razzie for worst screen couple with All About Steve co-star Bradley Cooper, was the first acting winner to show up at the Razzies since Halle Berry won worst-actress for Catwoman five years ago.
As she took the stage, Bullock pulled a little red wagon filled with DVDs of All About Steve, saying she was giving a copy to everyone in the audience of about 300. Bullock implied that many Razzie voters had not actually seen the movie but cast ballots for her hoping to get her to show up at the awards. Bullock said if they watched the DVD — “I mean really watch it” — and decided it was not the worst performance of the year after all, then she would come back next year and “give back the Razzie. ... then we’ll go drink afterwards.”
The worst-actor Razzie went to siblings Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas for “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.” The Jonas’ pal Miley Cyrus, star of Hannah Montana: The Movie, lost the worst-actress category to Bullock.     —AP

DAVID GERMAIN