This category (dis)honors the worst attempts at acting, a category that grows more competitive by the year. These performances all threatened to derail the movies they were in all on their own, if there was even anything to derail. Some were victims of poor direction or screenplays, some just miscast. But the really special terrible performances were from those who really had no business being on the big screen in the first place.

All three of those classifications fit nicely for our winner of this category, Tara Reid, who managed to find herself in over her head in a Uwe Boll film, Alone in the Dark. Playing the world's most unlikely archaeologist, she made the decline from American Pie hottie to nipple-slipping rehab candidate complete. Basic pronunciation escaped her in one memorable moment, and she didn't even have the decency to get naked in her one love scene, which would have upped the ante on real horror. It's the kind of performance that makes Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist look like genius casting.

Finishing just behind her was Ioan Gruffudd of Fantastic Four, playing Mr. Fantastic, or more accurately, Mr. Ho-Hum. His charisma-free performance made being a superhero look as exciting as going for groceries, and he was unable to display any romantic tension against a half-naked Jessica Alba, which may indicate that that he's actually an automaton.

While we at BOP feel it's ultimately unfair to judge an actor's ability when directed by George Lucas, Hayden Christensen's performance in Star Wars III is a special case. While George's direction to him probably didn't consist of more than "show me your grr face", there's something really incredible about managing to turn one of the most badass villains in cinema history into a morose, sniveling chump. Thanks for helping to ruin our childhood, Hayden!

The second of three nominees in this category from Alone in the Dark is next in fourth spot, namely Stephen Dorff. While a variant of the George Lucas rule might be warranted here, these actors all agreed to be in an Uwe Boll film in the first place, which calls their smarts into question in its own right. Dorff's testosterone-filled action-hero clichés grew tiring pretty quickly, like everything else in this film, until we were just embarrassed for him.

Perennial whipping boy and 2004 Worst Performance winner Paul Walker (it's a good thing he's pretty) slides in for fifth place, for his role in Into the Blue. So wooden you'd like to make a ship out of him, Walker does battle with pirates and drug dealers, or something, but his painfully stilted line readings make it impossible to care.

Although it amounts to little more than a cameo, Burt "You got cash? I'll sign on" Reynolds' performance in The Longest Yard was equal turns shameful and pathetic, especially since it came in the remake of one of the films that made him famous so many years ago. Do you think we'll see Bruce Willis in a cameo role as a flunkie in a remake of Die Hard in 30 years? Didn't think so.

Following them is the uniformly hot and vapid Jessica Alba, from Fantastic Four, who seems to have been cast as Sue Storm mostly because she fit the costume. Christian Slater is next as the third cast member of Alone in the Dark to get a top ten nod here; other cast members should be thankful we can't remember their names.

Ben Stiller's voice acting efforts in Madagascar come in at ninth, as Alex the lion who seems to have no concept of where meat comes from. Rounding out the list is yet another member of the Fantastic Four cast, Julian McMahon. A graduate of Scenery Chewing 101, McMahon gave us a Dr. Doom that was merely a petulant joke. (Reagen Sulewski/BOP)

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