BUBBLEGUM OSCARS

Kids are people, too, right? So Splice magazine’s teen readers may soon have something to watch besides all those dumb adult award shows that honor weird films like “Blue Velvet” and “Hannah and Her Sisters.”

Publisher Ira Friedman’s trying to get a syndicated, one-hour special underway based on those coveted Splice Awards, to be decided by mail-in ballots clipped from the December-January issue of “the teen movie scene” magazine.

Among this year’s nominees:

Best actor--Matthew Broderick (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”), Tom Cruise (“Top Gun”), Corey Haim (“Lucas”), Rob Lowe (“About Last Night . . .”), Ralph Macchio (“Karate Kid Part II”).

Best actress--Lucy Deakins (“Boy Who Could Fly”), Demi Moore (“About Last Night . . .”), Molly Ringwald (“Pretty in Pink”), Ally Sheedy (“Short Circuit”), Lea Thompson (“Howard the Duck”).

Best movie--”Ferris Bueller,” “Karate Kid II,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Stand By Me,” “Top Gun.”

“Our readers were complaining that they just weren’t getting any respect,” explained Friedman, who has published Splice in NYC since August, with a 200,000 run. “The most important segment of the moviegoing population tends to get ignored at Oscar time.”

So Splice offers categories like Best Couple (among them, Broderick and Mia Sara from “Ferris Beuller,” Demi Moore and Rob Lowe from “Last Night”), Best Movie Moment (such as “After eating the dust on the football field, Lucas returns to his locker to find a brand-new team jacket”), Character You Love to Hate (like Ace in “Stand by Me”), and Nerdiest Nerd (for instance, Ducky in “Pretty in Pink”).

Even “St. Elmo’s Fire” gets a chance to win--as Best Movie on Video in 1986.

Best director, screenwriter or foreign film? Forget it.

But Splice is soliciting votes for Worst Movie. Nominees: “American Anthem,” “Howard the Duck,” “Labyrinth,” “Shanghai Surprise” and “Under the Cherry Moon.”