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Have you ever been nominated for other awards? Over the years a few unique - let's call them weird - competitions evolved around the globe. Would you be selected for one of these?
Golden Raspberry Awards
First up on the list is the opposite of the Oscars.
The Golden Raspberry Awards celebrate the worst movies of each year. It started in the 1980s in a publicist's - John J.B. Wilson - living room.
Though it started as a joke to determine the winner of 'Worst Movie' and many other film related categories, people and the press loved the idea. Within five years it received national acclaim and many people wanted to attend.
Today it's held the day before the Academy Awards and the crowd is much too large for John's living room.
Ig Nobel Prize
Here's another weird award inspired by one of the most coveted awards on earth. While it would be an honor to win a Nobel Prize for science, you don't necessarily want an Ig Nobel on your resume.
It was started in 1991. The awards relate to:
- Research that will first make people laugh before it makes them think
- Research and findings that should preferably not be repeated
This includes research on 'The 5 Second Rule' and levitating a frog with magnetism. The research isn't very useful, thought who's to say what may develop from it in future.
Shorty Awards
This proves that we'll never run out of new entertaining awards ceremonies. With the implementation of social media platforms, new weird awards came about. Since 2008, if you want to win a Shorty Award you need to share weird content in text of 140 characters or less on Twitter.
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