It finally happened. The Academy announced yesterday that the 2028 Oscar ceremony will hand out the first-ever Best Stunt Design award at the 100th anniversary of the Academy Awards. It’s a move that ...
In the early 1990s, filmmaker Sydney Lumet put an idea in stuntman Jack Gill’s head: stunt people ought to have an Oscars category. Gill met with the then-Academy leadership as the opening salvo in ...
One of the most rewarding examples of movie magic, stunts represent cinema at its most visceral. Performers have been executing stunts on screen from the very beginning. Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film ...
The Academy Awards have made a huge step forward with the announcement that it will finally feature a category for Best Stunt Design. According to Variety, this award will be given out starting with ...
Jackie Chan is one of the greatest stuntmen ever, mostly for his willingness to hurl himself into extreme danger and his ability to keep delivering his lines afterward – not to mention basically ...
The biggest "Jingle All the Way" fan you know, Will Jones is a writer on Game Rant, who has previously worked at sites such as WhatCulture and CBR. Stunts have been integral to cinema since its ...
Following the casting directors' footsteps, the stunt community educated the film community about the craft of action storytelling, which is far more than what the word "stunt" implies. It finally ...