The Sandman Cometh (for His Oscar)

We’ve come a long way from Adam Sandler’s days as Hollywood’s preeminent punching bag. For much of the 2000s, he was a punchline à la Nickelback or Twilight, responsible for some of the perceived worst movies of all time. That’s not an exagerration—Sandler holds the second-most Razzie nominations with 39 nods, with seven of those being for Worst Picture. He’s got several films in the single-digit club on Rotten Tomatoes, including one zero-percenter: 2015’s The Ridiculous Six. He was routinely panned in reviews and the butt of jokes on Family Guy and South Park—a comedian who was a laughingstock for all the wrong reasons.