By BBC News Online's Darren Waters in Los Angeles

Forget The Lord of the Rings and A Beautiful Mind the real clash of the titans in Hollywood is between Freddy Got Fingered and Glitter.

Tom Green's comedy and Mariah Carey's box office flop are the two leading contenders for the prize of worst film at the Razzies on Saturday.

And on Friday at the Stinkers, Freddy Got Fingered was handed five titles, including worst film, worst sense of direction and worst performance by a lead actor for Green.

I love the Oscars - I just wish they would stop the dance numbers

Mike Lancaster, The Stinkers

The two "anti-Oscar" ceremonies work to "dishonour the worst achievements in film" and provide a healthy antidote to the glamour and excess of the Academy Awards.

Pearl Harbor and 3000 Miles to Graceland also made the worst film shortlist of both events, showing a remarkable degree of consensus.

While Town and Country was on the Stinkers' shortlist, the Razzies opted for Sylvester Stallone's Driven.

'Cringe'

"We don't take this too seriously and I hope no-one else does," says Mike Lancaster, co-founder of the Stinkers.

"It is an anti-Oscars. They have best picture, we have worst picture."

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He adds: "They don't take us seriously at all. But they cringe when they see us and the Razzies and see us listed in the newspaper."

The Stinkers celebrates a whole host of mediocrity in cinema - categories include worst sense of direction, worst actor in a leading role, most painfully unfunny comedy, most annoying fake accent and most intrusive musical score.

"I have a great love of film and respect of film. It is tongue in cheek, it is just a poke and a jab at Hollywood because I really love cinema," says Mr Lancaster.

'Cinematic torture'

"Sometimes some of the stuff they put out is not very good. As well meaning as they are, no-one sets out to make a bad film. Somehow it turns out that way."

Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered must have gone seriously awry because as well as its five Stinkers awards it is up for eight Razzies.

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"Freddy Got Fingered was probably the definition of cinematic torture.

"I knew it would be bad but I could never have imagined it would have been as gut-wrenchingly awful as it was."

But Mr Lancaster says he is not being vindictive - the nominations and winners are chosen by members of the public in a ballot.

Mr Lancaster says: "It is very subjective - we announced Freddy Got Fingered got nominated and we got emails from people saying 'Tom Green is the funniest man on the planet'.

Movie ushers

"This isn't about making fun of his fans or Mariah Carey's fans. Everybody is entitled to their opinion."

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The Stinkers started in 1979 with two friends who were movie ushers picking their worst films of the year.

Mr Lancaster says: "It went on year after year, even when we stopped being ushers, adding categories. Then we discovered the internet and it changed everything.

"Almost immediately we got media attention and then we went public and allowed people to join our group and vote."

The size of the failure for Mariah Carey's Glitter took Hollywood by surprise says Lancaster.

"If half of the people who bought her records went to see it, it would have opened in the top two. It shocked Hollywood that it did so badly."

Accolade

Unlike the Razzies there is no awards ceremony for the Stinkers, although this year, for the first time, there was a prize for the worst film - a small, plastic, flushing toilet.

Despite the mocking and the sniggering, Mr Lancaster says he loves the Oscars.

"I just wish they would stop the dance numbers.

"Every year they complain the ceremony is too long. They need to stop the singing and the dancing."