And the loser is ... Tom Green! Again!

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Tom Green swept the "Razzies" awards yesterday for his much-reviled comedy "Freddy Got Fingered" — and was the first actor to accept an award in person.

"Freddy" was named worst picture of 2001 at the Golden Raspberry Awards, the annual booby-prize spoof held on the eve of the Academy Awards. The film outpolled Sylvester Stallone's "Driven," Mariah Carey's "Glitter," "Pearl Harbor" and Kevin Costner's "3000 Miles to Graceland."

Green "set out to make something stupid and offensive. It's got bestiality, incest, child abuse. Ugh," Razzies founder John Wilson said. "If it is an intentionally bad movie, it is the 'Citizen Kane' of intentionally bad movies."

Green also was chosen as worst actor and director, shared the worst screenplay award with co-writer Derek Harvie and was cited for worst screen couple — "Tom Green and any animal he abuses."

He brought a length of cheap, red carpet and unrolled it across the sidewalk to walk on as he entered a magic shop whose small theater was the site of the awards.

"I'd just like to say to all the other nominees in the audience, I don't think that I deserve it any more than the rest of you," Green said as he accepted the worst-picture trophy. "I'd like to say that. I don't think that it would be true, though."

Other Razzies "winners":

• Worst actress: Carey, "Glitter."

• Worst supporting actor: Charlton Heston, "Cats & Dogs," "Planet of the Apes" and "Town & Country."

• Worst supporting actress: Estella Warren, "Driven" and "Planet of the Apes."

• Worst remake or sequel: "Planet of the Apes."