The best and worst year in movie moments

LOS ANGELES - Leave the Academy Awards to the important movies in the serious categories. Here are a few bests (and worsts) that, regardless of the quality of the films in which they occurred, are much more fun:

Best fight/chase scene: The opening of "Casino Royale."

Best car chase: "Deja Vu."

Best naked wrestling match: "Borat"

Most ill-advised reprise of an iconic role: Tie between Sharon Stone, "Basic Instinct 2," and Sylvester Stallone, "Rocky Balboa."

Most incomprehensible Southern drawl: Sean Penn, "All the King's Men."

Best cleavage: Penelope Cruz, "Volver."

Best kiss: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson on the playground in "Little Children."

Best sex scene: The entire opening sequence of "Shortbus" — because they're really doing it.

Best self-introduction: "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America," from "An Inconvenient Truth."

Most needless sequel: Tie between "Big Momma's House 2" and "Jackass 2."

Lamest horror remake: Tie between "The Omen" and "When a Stranger Calls."

Biggest waste of Scarlett Johansson: "A Good Woman."

Best use of Lindsay Lohan: "A Prairie Home Companion."

Best actor playing a gay, suicidal Proust scholar: Steve Carell in "Little Miss Sunshine."

Most persuasive argument for clean living: Tie between "Thank You For Smoking" and "Fast Food Nation."

The life-imitating-art award: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston in "The Break-Up."

Best-dressed man: Andre Benjamin in "Idlewild."

Best-dressed woman: Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada" (post-makeover, of course).

Best dig at a guy who did not win the role of James Bond, agent 007: "Boswell. Nigel Boswell. 006. You know what that means?" asks agent Boswell ( Clive Owen) in "The Pink Panther." "Of course!" answers Inspector Clouseau ( Steve Martin). "It means you are one away from the big time."

Best use of Spandex: "Nacho Libre." (Sorry, Superman.)

Best excuse for a good cry: "Lassie"

Best soundtrack: "Marie Antoinette," a New Wave mix that includes Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Biggest genealogical news: "You are the last living descendant of Jesus Christ!" Tom Hanks to Audrey Tautou in "The Da Vinci Code."

Best argument for everybody going down with the ship: "Poseidon."

Best withering gaze: Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen."

Best performance by an actor playing a decomposing corpse through much of the movie: Jeff Bridges, "Tideland."

Guy with the most movies: Hugh Jackman ("X-Men: The Last Stand," "Scoop," "The Prestige," "Flushed Away," "The Fountain," "Happy Feet").

Hairiest actor: Robert Downey Jr. in "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus."

Most memorable line: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these (expletive) snakes on this (expletive) plane!" — Samuel L. Jackson in (you guessed it) "Snakes on a Plane."