The 18th Annual Kick Ass Awards
With the Oscars coming up this Sunday (3/10), it’s time for Everything Action to award our Kick Ass Awards for the best and worst of the previous year in movies. Who will be the Ass Kicker of the Year and what will be The Most Kick Ass Movie of 2023? Read on for those and all of our awards.
Best New Horror Icon: M3GAN
Most Straightforward Title: Plane
Worst Houseguests: Dave Bautista and the other Horsemen in Knock at the Cabin
Most Horrifically Bad CG: MODOK in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
Biggest Exaggeration of Real-Life Events: Cocaine Bear (Runner Up: Tetris)
Best Jonathan Majors Villain Role (Before We Learned He’s a Real-Life Villain): Dame Anderson in Creed III
Worst Guy Ritchie Movie: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Best Guy Ritchie Movie: The Covenant
Worst Horror Remake: Children of the Corn
Jason Takes Manhattan Award for NYC-Based Horror: Scream VI
Most Unnecessarily Convoluted Setup: Adam Driver is an Alien from Another Planet in 65
Best Nintendo Fan Service: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Worst Villain Plot: Whatever the Daughters of Atlas were trying to do in Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Best Action Sequence: The “Hotline Miami” Scene in John Wick: Chapter 4
Best Sleazy Hugh Grant Villain: Forge Fitzwilliam in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Most Ridiculous Fake Italian: Russell Crowe in The Pope’s Exorcist (Runner Up: Chris Pratt in The Super Mario Bros Movie)
Worst Boss: Dracula in Renfield
Nastiest Horror Movie: Evil Dead Rise (Runner Up: Cobweb)
Inglorious Basterds Award: Sisu
Best MCU Project of 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Most Hilariously Terrible Twist: The Backlot Reveal in Hypnotic
Worst Live-Action Adaptation of an Anime: Knights of the Zodiac
Most Flamboyant Villain: Jason Momoa in Fast X
Worst New Song Created for a Disney Live-Action Remake: “The Scuttlebutt” from The Little Mermaid
Most Easter Eggs Per Second: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Biggest Sequel Tease: GI Joe in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Worst Fan Service: The Colliding Spheres of The Multiverse in the Finale of The Flash
Best Action Movie if John Wick Chapter 4 Hadn’t Come Out: Extraction 2
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Roger Murtaugh “I’m Too Old For This Shit” Award: Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Most Death-Defying Tom Cruise Stunt: The Motorcycle Cliff Jump in M:I Dead Reckoning Part One
Best Close Up Acting: Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
Best Soundtrack Banger: “Dance the Night” from Barbie
Worst Adaptation of a Beloved Disney Attraction: Haunted Mansion
Most Unhinged Nicolas Cage Performance: Sympathy for the Devil
Most Confusing Scares: Skinamarink
Best Reinvention of Pop Culture Icons: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Best Movie Based on One Specific Chapter of a Classic Novel: The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Red Notice Award for Most Lackluster Streaming Espionage Action Movie: Heart of Stone (Runner Up: Ghosted)
Best New Superhero Introduction: Blue Beetle
Best PlayStation/Sony Commercial: Gran Turismo
Best Impression of a Slasher Villain: Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 3
Most Improved by Adding Horror Elements: Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot series and A Haunting in Venice
Franchise That Needs to Die: The Expendables
Best Original Sci-Fi Movie: The Creator
Biggest Return to Form for a Franchise: Saw X
Biggest Waste of Money: Universal Spending $400 Million for The Exorcist Rights and then Making The Exorcist: Believer
Best Found Footage Anthology: V/H/S/85
Best Graphic Novel Adaptation on Netflix: The Killer (Runner Up: Nimona)
Best Movie for Fans of the Franchise (and that’s pretty much it): Five Nights at Freddy’s
Girls Get It Done Award: The Marvels
Best Old School Slasher Movie: Thanksgiving
SNICK Memorial Award for 90s Nostalgia: Good Burger 2
“I’ll Make My Own Star Wars, with Blackjack and Hookers” Award: Rebel Moon
Weirdest Final Image of a Dead Cinematic Universe: Patrick Wilson Eating a Cockroach Burger in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Ass Kicker of the Year: John Wick (Runners Up: Tyler Rake, Robert McCall)
Jason Statham Award of Excellence in Stathaming: The Meg 2 (Runner Up: Fast X)
The Lincoln Hawks Memorial Over the Top Award: Fast X
Kick Ass Movie of 2023: John Wick Chapter 4
