This year, I quite enjoyed Oscar contending films like Inglorious Basterds, Up, The Hurt Locker and Up In the Air. I also really enjoyed a non-Oscar consideration with the Michael Jackson documentary This Is It. That is all beside the point, because I am going back to the 80s to give you my 3rd Annual Old School Movie Awards (Also known as the OldSchooly's).

As I stated last year, the OldSchooly's are my own special awards to honor the great films from my younger formative years and will surely not be your traditional awards. Instead they feature unique categories (all new for each year) that address the ‘80s genre. So without further ado let's get on to the 3rd ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL MOVIE AWARDS 80s STYLE:

• Special Achievement Award for Most Times Struck By Lightning- And the OldSchooly goes to... "Reg" played by Britt Leach in the 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors. He has been struck not 6, but 66 times in the head yet. Here is a link to watch the scene where he explains it to Dan Aykroyd and John Candy's characters in this very funny John Hughes classic.

• Special Achievement Award for Fake Orgasm - And the OldSchooly goes to... Meg Ryan as "Sally" in 1989's When Harry Met Sally. Here is a link to watch the scene. "I'll have what she's having."

• Special Achievement Award for Use of a Laser for a Prank - And the OldSchooly goes to... Real Genius (1985) where a laser target is changed in order to fill Professor Hathaway's house with popcorn. Here is a link to watch the ending scene of one of my favorite comedies.

• Special Achievement Award for Turning from a Complete Dork in the 80s to a Hot Stud Today - And the OldSchooly goes to... Patrick Dempsey who played "Ronald Miller" in the 1987 under-rated comedy Can't Buy Me Love. Here is a link to watch a particularly dorky scene from that film. Now, Dempsey is better known and drooled over as McDreamy Dr. Derek Shepherd on television series Grey's Anatomy.

• Worst idea for a remake of an 80s film - The OldSchooly goes to... ALL OF THEM. Dear Hollywood, please stop remaking our 80s classics! Sequels are not so bad, but remakes are so unnecessary.

• Best Use of Winter and Snow - The nominees include Spies Like Us (1985), training in Russia during Rocky IV (1985), sledding scene in Christmas Vacation (1989), skiing scenes in Better Off Dead (1985), but the OldSchooly goes to... the ice planet of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). [link to short scene showing Hoth]

• Best Performance by a "One Hit Wonder" (similar to in music, an actor who never really had another major role again) - The nominees include Ilan Mitchell-Smith as "Wyatt" in Weird Science (1985), Jeff Cohen as "Chunk" in The Goonies (1985), Maris Valainis as "Jimmy Chitwood" in Hoosiers (1986), Ione Skye as "Diane Court" in Say Anything, Apollonia Kotero as "Apollonia" in Purple Rain (1984), Amanda Peterson as "Cindy Mancini" in Can't Buy Me Love (1987), but the OldSchooly goes to... Taimak as "Bruce Leroy" in The Last Dragon (1985). [link to my issue on The Last Dragon]

• Best Jilted Woman Plots Her Revenge - It is a tie and the OldSchooly goes to both... Carrie Fisher as the Mystery Woman who was jilted by John Belushi's "Jake" in 1980's The Blues Brothers AND Glenn Close as "Alex Forrest" who is obsessed with Michael Douglas' character in 1987's Fatal Attraction

• Best Jennifer Warnes Song from a Movie - The nominees include "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" with Bill Medley from Dirty Dancing (1987), "Nights Are Forever" from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), "One More Hour" from Ragtime (1981), but the OldSchooly goes to... "Up Where We Belong" with Joe Cocker from An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) [link to my issue on Best Duet Songs of the 80s]

• Best Use of a Boombox by a Character - The nominees include "Johnny Lawrence" played by William Zabka breaking one on the beach in The Karate Kid (1984), "Radio Raheem" played by Bill Nunn blasting the Public Enemy song "Fight the Power" in Do The Right Thing (1989), but the OldSchooly goes to... without a doubt "Lloyd Dobler" played by John Cusack holding it over his head blasting "In Your Eyes" in Say Anything.

• Best Baseball Movie - The nominees include Field of Dreams (1989), Bull Durham (1988) but the OldSchooly goes to... Major League (1989). The other two are better movies, but I just enjoy Major League the best, not to mention having a quick cameo in the ending scene when the fans storm the field after the big win. I am really looking forward to baseball season starting in less than a month!

• Most Racist (especially looking back now) Character Depiction - The nominees include "Pedro Cerrano" played by Dennis Haysbert in Major League (1989), "Mark Watson" played by C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man (1986), "Tony Montana" played by Al Pacino in Scarface (1983) but the OldSchooly goes to... "Long Duk Dong" played by Gedde Watanabe in the outstanding John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles (1984). [link to scene where he says "Wha's happenin' hot stuff?"]

• Special Tribute IN MEMORIUM to some actors who we lost this past year who had some 80s movie moments -

Michael Jackson (1958-2009) did star as "The Scarecrow" in the 1978 film adaptation of The Wiz. Many of his music videos were actually more like short films. Here is a link to my short R.I.P. issue which includes a back link to my Favorite Michael Jackson 80s Songs list.

Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) lost his brave battle with cancer last year. Here is a link to my issue which includes my Top Patrick Swayze 80s Movies list.

The one and only John Hughes (1950-2009) had not made a movie in many years, but his sudden death this past summer hit me like a ton of bricks. Here is a link to my first tribute issue which includes my Top John Hughes 80s Movies list and my second tribute issue which continues dealing with his loss. There is a special tribute to Hughes planned at tonight's Oscar ceremony and I am looking forward to that more than any of the individual awards. Sadly for many, Hughes is an example of not knowing what you had until it is gone, but at least he is getting the recognition he truly deserved from the very beginning.

That is all for tonight's awards, please drive home safely. Hope you enjoyed this year's incarnation. I may have missed some deserving nominees for these awards, so please leave comments if you can think of any obvious (or not so obvious) nominees you would have included. I look forward to watching the real Academy Awards tonight.

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Check this out: Hate to think this would be such a big problem that it would require a sign unless it was located next to a urinal. Made me chuckle so decided to share it with you...

Quote of the day: "The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it." -Jean-Luc Godard