So…Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s movie didn’t turn out exactly how the people expected. It wasn’t a complete box office failure but neither it was also a very successful film compared to the promotion that they had been doing.
Although the film didn’t manage to do extremely well at the box office, the film is already revolutionizing Hollywood while you are reading this article! With stunts, recognition, and, fame, the world hopes that the Oscars will soon have a category specially for stunts and stuntmen and women. As it happens so, Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy was just the spark that was needed!
Ryan Gosling performs a stunt in The Fall Guy
The Stunt Team Deserves Their Own Oscars!
Since the Oscars started, there have been almost no categories that awarded an Oscar for “Best Stunt in a Film” or “Best Stuntman/woman”. Gosling...
Although the film didn’t manage to do extremely well at the box office, the film is already revolutionizing Hollywood while you are reading this article! With stunts, recognition, and, fame, the world hopes that the Oscars will soon have a category specially for stunts and stuntmen and women. As it happens so, Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy was just the spark that was needed!
Ryan Gosling performs a stunt in The Fall Guy
The Stunt Team Deserves Their Own Oscars!
Since the Oscars started, there have been almost no categories that awarded an Oscar for “Best Stunt in a Film” or “Best Stuntman/woman”. Gosling...
- 5/6/2024
- by Visarg Acharya
- FandomWire
While Keanu Reeves' John Wick faces off against the High Table this weekend, franchise filmmaker and veteran stunt performer Chad Stahelski is facing off against an awards system that still doesn't recognize stunt work nearly a century into its existence. In an interview with Deadline, Stahelski was asked to "make the case" for the Oscars to "reconsider" adding a stunts category, a question that garnered an appropriately strong response from the filmmaker.
"What makes you think they've ever really considered it?" Stahelski responded, referencing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "Have you ever talked to anyone in the Academy about it, or talked to anyone in the stunt world who has talked to the Academy about this?" The director and stunt performer then shared what he sees as "the fundamental problem" in the conversation about awarding stunts in the same way the Oscars award sound, editing, costuming, and...
"What makes you think they've ever really considered it?" Stahelski responded, referencing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "Have you ever talked to anyone in the Academy about it, or talked to anyone in the stunt world who has talked to the Academy about this?" The director and stunt performer then shared what he sees as "the fundamental problem" in the conversation about awarding stunts in the same way the Oscars award sound, editing, costuming, and...
- 3/25/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
The cohort includes Screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Benjamin Bee
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has unveiled 15 filmmakers who will participate in London Film Festival’s professional development programme Network@Lff.
Taking place October 7-10, the programme will consist of masterclasses and networking events with established filmmakers from around the world who are presenting work at this year’s festival.
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The 2022 cohort, who were selected out of 596 participants, includes Screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Benjamin Bee. The filmmaker, who identifies as neurodivergent and disabled, is currently working on his debut feature Marwell which was selected for Biennale College Cinema,...
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has unveiled 15 filmmakers who will participate in London Film Festival’s professional development programme Network@Lff.
Taking place October 7-10, the programme will consist of masterclasses and networking events with established filmmakers from around the world who are presenting work at this year’s festival.
Scroll down for participants
The 2022 cohort, who were selected out of 596 participants, includes Screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Benjamin Bee. The filmmaker, who identifies as neurodivergent and disabled, is currently working on his debut feature Marwell which was selected for Biennale College Cinema,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
David White, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director, met Tuesday night with some 80 stunt performers to hear their concerns about safety, pensions and contract issues. Stuntwoman Jane Austin, who’s the union’s national secretary-treasurer and president of its Los Angeles local, also attended the meeting, which was held at the offices of Stunts Unlimited in Chatsworth, CA.
Safety is the chief concern of all stunt professionals – an issue that was highlighted when two stunt performers were killed on the job last year: Joi Harris on Deadpool 2 in Vancouver and John Bernecker on The Walking Dead in Atlanta.
One of the safety issues on last night’s agenda was a proposal that SAG-AFTRA should demand in the next round of contract talks that ambulances be required on set when major stunts are performed, and that emergency medical technicians should be required on set for all stunts, according to...
Safety is the chief concern of all stunt professionals – an issue that was highlighted when two stunt performers were killed on the job last year: Joi Harris on Deadpool 2 in Vancouver and John Bernecker on The Walking Dead in Atlanta.
One of the safety issues on last night’s agenda was a proposal that SAG-AFTRA should demand in the next round of contract talks that ambulances be required on set when major stunts are performed, and that emergency medical technicians should be required on set for all stunts, according to...
- 12/19/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Dame Helen Mirren wishes the “craftsmen” of the stunt world could join her in the Academy Award winner’s circle. “There really should be an Oscar for stunt work,” she told the UK site Female First. “These guys are incredible and they’re so careful and so professional. And they’re artists. They do amazing things.”
This decade, Mirren has shaken up her 50-year career with roles in a pair of action films — “Red” and “The Fate of the Furious” — an opportunity she credits to winning her own gold statuette for “The Queen” in 2007. She’d had the desire to kick literal onscreen ass for quite some time: “I put it out there and then I begged. That was one of the wonderful advantages of winning an Oscar. I got to be in action movies!” Her tentpole collaborators Robert Schwentke and F. Gary Gray “love having Oscar winners in their action movies,...
This decade, Mirren has shaken up her 50-year career with roles in a pair of action films — “Red” and “The Fate of the Furious” — an opportunity she credits to winning her own gold statuette for “The Queen” in 2007. She’d had the desire to kick literal onscreen ass for quite some time: “I put it out there and then I begged. That was one of the wonderful advantages of winning an Oscar. I got to be in action movies!” Her tentpole collaborators Robert Schwentke and F. Gary Gray “love having Oscar winners in their action movies,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
When you compare the relatively grounded and taut nature of The Fast and the Furious – Point Break with cars, as one comparison so aptly put – with the recently-released sequel The Fate of the Furious, you’ll begin to get a sense of just how far Universal’s franchise has come, both in terms of death-defying stunts and box office success.
The actioner formerly known as Fast 8 has been crowned king of the international box office, and with a worldwide haul of $900 million and climbing, it’ll be some time yet before F. Gary Gray’s over-the-top sequel begins to run out of gas. It’s no wonder the Powers That Be are already beginning to make headway on a spinoff movie, one that’ll seemingly be headlined by The Rock and The Stath – that’s Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, of course. Will said offshoot find room in its ranks for the menacing Cipher?...
The actioner formerly known as Fast 8 has been crowned king of the international box office, and with a worldwide haul of $900 million and climbing, it’ll be some time yet before F. Gary Gray’s over-the-top sequel begins to run out of gas. It’s no wonder the Powers That Be are already beginning to make headway on a spinoff movie, one that’ll seemingly be headlined by The Rock and The Stath – that’s Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, of course. Will said offshoot find room in its ranks for the menacing Cipher?...
- 4/24/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
I.m sure we all have our issues with the Academy, whether it.s how seemingly deserving films and directors get snubbed or how motion capture isn.t a recognized Oscar category. But Jack Gill has been fighting for years to get his fellow stuntmen the recognition they deserve from the Academy, and now he has more backing from high-profile celebrities than ever before. According to The L.A. Times, Gill speaks with and writes letters to the heads of the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences every year in the hope that they will eventually recognize stunt work as a worthy category for the Oscars. Gill is a 40-year veteran of this sub-genre of moviemaking, and he.s worked on films and TV shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider and Furious 7. Remember that scene when cars were dropped from a C-130 transport plane at 12,000 feet?...
- 6/24/2015
- cinemablend.com
The trailers for Fast & Furious 7 have shown just some of the incredible stunts to look forward to with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and co.
A new video has explained how the production team managed to film the impressive shot of several cars being dropped out of a plane.
Stunt co-ordinators Andy and Jack Gill revealed that several aerial camera flyers were used to track the shots, and that the cars were strapped with strong parachutes.
Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russell will also star in the upcoming seventh instalment of the action series.
It marks the final film for the late Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash as production was coming to a close.
Jordana Brewster and Elsa Pataky are also back for the sequel.
A new Universal Pictures teaser was revealed earlier this week.
Fast & Furious 7 opens on April 3 in the UK and in the Us,...
A new video has explained how the production team managed to film the impressive shot of several cars being dropped out of a plane.
Stunt co-ordinators Andy and Jack Gill revealed that several aerial camera flyers were used to track the shots, and that the cars were strapped with strong parachutes.
Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russell will also star in the upcoming seventh instalment of the action series.
It marks the final film for the late Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash as production was coming to a close.
Jordana Brewster and Elsa Pataky are also back for the sequel.
A new Universal Pictures teaser was revealed earlier this week.
Fast & Furious 7 opens on April 3 in the UK and in the Us,...
- 3/13/2015
- Digital Spy
Big explosion and plenty of shoot'em up descended upon Harbor City yet again and its up to the cops to restore the peace in Tsai Yueh-hsun's Black & White Episode II: The Dawn of Justice, the second installment of the big-budget Taiwanese action franchise. Mark Chao and Huang Bo returns to reprise their previous role as the unlikely duo while Lin Gengxin joins the main cast. As with most sequels, the action set-pieces and production value has ratchet up a notch with an international crew that includes France-based visual effects studio Buf (The Grandmaster), production designer Yoshi Akasuka (The Flowers of War) and second unit action direction by Jack Gill (Fast Five), Ron Yuan (Fast & Furious) and Lan Hai-Han (Ip Man 2)Police officer in...
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- 5/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Taipei-based sales company Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Tsai Yueh-hsun’s Black & White: The Dawn Of Justice.
Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.
Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.
The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.
Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.
Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.
Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.
The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.
Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.
- 3/11/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Taipei-based sales company Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Tsai Yueh-hsun’s Black & White: The Dawn Of Justice.
Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.
Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.
The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.
Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.
Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.
Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.
The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.
Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.
- 3/11/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
As we all know, Jason Statham is no stranger to action movies, and knows first hand how important stunt actors are to this genre. They bring the action sequences that sometimes make our jaws hit the floor to life, and in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences they go unnoticed, something which Statham feels unfair. Speaking in an interview with Vanity Fair, he called for the Academy to craft an award to finally give those who make their name in the stunt world recognition, saying, "All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They are risking their necks. And then you've got poncy actors pretending like they're doing (the stunts)." Considering the genre he mostly works, and the fact he performs most of his own stunts, he certainly knows what he is talking about.
- 11/22/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Ken Jeong has experienced a quite the rise to fame over the last couple of years. After catching his first big break in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the doctor turned actor went on to make films like Role Models, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers and more. Then, in 2009, director Todd Phillips cast Jeong as Mr. Chow in The Hangover and the rest is, as they say, history.
This week The Hangover Part III heads into theatres and Jeong once again reprises his role as the series’ villain. Though his part was more of a supporting one in the first two outings, this time he has a much larger role as the entire story basically revolves around him. He has a ton of screen time and is funnier than ever.
Recently, Ken Jeong was in Toronto to promote the film and we had the chance to catch up with him for a bit.
This week The Hangover Part III heads into theatres and Jeong once again reprises his role as the series’ villain. Though his part was more of a supporting one in the first two outings, this time he has a much larger role as the entire story basically revolves around him. He has a ton of screen time and is funnier than ever.
Recently, Ken Jeong was in Toronto to promote the film and we had the chance to catch up with him for a bit.
- 5/21/2013
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Have you watched the Fast 6 Super Bowl trailer a couple dozen times? Do you feel like you’ve sufficiently dissected that car-flip-tastic minute of cinema? Well, fellow films fans: Prepare yourself. Get yourself a body bag, strap yourself in, and check out the full three-and-a-half minute trailer which just hit the internet in the face. Here’s a quick tease of what you’ll see: More cars. Gina Carano getting into a totally badass punch-and-kick-you-down-the-stairs fight with Michelle Rodriguez. The dude from The Raid doing a flying kick into Tyrese. Things collapsing. Everything Collapsing. Vin Diesel saying “Ride or die...
- 2/5/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside Movies
After two years of terrible waiting, Americans can rest easy: There is finally a new Fast & Furious movie. It’s called Fast & Furious 6, but we’re all just going to call it Fast Six, although a more accurate title based on the Super Bowl trailer would be Tank Fast Plane Furious: Resurrection. (Update: Check out our deep dive into the Fast & Furious 6 trailer here.) In a clear homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, Vin Diesel and his glistening biceps are brought out of retirement by The Rock and his glistening biceps, because The Rock needs to track...
- 2/4/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside Movies
Dreamworks Animation chief heads quartet of winners including Hal Needham, Da Pennebaker and George Stevens Jr
Dreamworks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg is to be awarded an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
Katzenberg, the former Disney chairman who co-founded studio Dreamworks in 1994 with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, is one of four men who will receive honorary Oscars at the Governors awards ceremony in November. The executive, who previously had one Oscar nomination for his producing work on Dreamworks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, is being rewarded with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award for his philanthropic work.
Stuntman Hal Needham, documentary film-maker Da Pennebaker and American Film Institute founding director George Stevens Jr are the other honorary Oscar winners. The selection of Needham, who has more than 300 feature films on his CV, may offer some solace to campaigners who believe...
Dreamworks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg is to be awarded an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
Katzenberg, the former Disney chairman who co-founded studio Dreamworks in 1994 with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, is one of four men who will receive honorary Oscars at the Governors awards ceremony in November. The executive, who previously had one Oscar nomination for his producing work on Dreamworks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, is being rewarded with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award for his philanthropic work.
Stuntman Hal Needham, documentary film-maker Da Pennebaker and American Film Institute founding director George Stevens Jr are the other honorary Oscar winners. The selection of Needham, who has more than 300 feature films on his CV, may offer some solace to campaigners who believe...
- 9/6/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Guest Author Ed Travis served as Editor In Chief of the ActionFest 2012 blog. Part of the mission of ActionFest is to pay tribute to the unsung heroes of action cinema, the stunt men and women. Jack Gill is one of the most important names in action cinema stunt work. Without the daring work of the stunt coordinators who make action scenes pop, the entire Hollywood machine would break down. This is a fact which I had no trouble believing personally, but came face to face with in my work at ActionFest this past year. ActionFest founders Bill Banowsky, Tom Quinn (Radius TWC) and Aaron Norris use the festival both as an showcase for films and as a platform to connect fans to the real makers of action, the stunt community. It was through ActionFest that I came in contact with Jack Gill, a legendary stuntman and the primary activist who is fighting for the creation of an...
- 8/1/2012
- by Ed Travis
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Though the 2012 edition of ActionFest has come and gone it's not too late to get a little taste of the action. Outside of the films screened ActionFest always makes a great point of honoring the professionals that make action cinema possible - both the stars and the stunt professionals. Honored this year were Mma fighters turned screen stars Gina Carano and Cung Le along with stunt vets Jack Gill, Jj Perry and Mickey Gilbert.Video presentations for all were created for the festival and you can take a look at all of them below....
- 4/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
If franchises were baseball teams, then The Fast and the Furious would be the Oakland Athletics. As recounted in last year’s Moneyball, the A’s could never afford to pay superstar salaries. So, using a system known as sabermetrics, they put together a ragtag band of players: aging players who could make base hits, rookies who could read pitches, journeyman has-beens with the uncanny ability to just keep getting on base. None of these dudes was a star. But together, they made a franchise.
I submit to you that last year’s Fast Five is a model for Hollywood sabermetrics.
I submit to you that last year’s Fast Five is a model for Hollywood sabermetrics.
- 4/24/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
In the wake of ActionFest 2012 and with today marking the home video release of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, it's as good as any time to talk about stunts. Plus, master stunt coordinator Jack Gill is apparently meeting this week with Dawn Hudson, the new head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, about adding a Best Stuntman category to the Oscars. That's a suggestion made yearly by movie fans and bloggers already, and Gill says that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese have also literally signed off on the idea. I only wonder if Tom Cruise would get an inaugural nomination, both because he's a star and he performed his character's building climbing stunt in Ghost Protocol himself. I think part of the difficulty of recognizing stuntmen...
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- 4/18/2012
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Actionfest, the all-action movie film festival in Asheville, Nc, celebrates the movie stuntmen who make movies so awesome. This year Mickey Gilbert and Jack Gill were special honorees for Lifetime Achievement (Gilbert) and Man of Action (Gill) Awards. As they spoke to fans in a panel on Trailblazing Stuntmen, and Gilbert spoke after a screening of the classic The Wild Bunch, Gilbert and Gill revealed the close calls that stuntmen survived making films like Fast Five, Showtime and TV shows like Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard. 1. The Vault driver from Fast Five – When Vin Diesel and Paul Walker pull a bank vault behind their cars, there’s actually a driver steering the vault from inside. “We found out that with the engine running and with...
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- 4/17/2012
- by Fred Topel
- Movies.com
Asheville, N.C. -- If Jack Gill has his way, this will be the year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally acknowledges stunt work at the Oscars. Gill, a master stunt coordinator whose credits range from Dukes of Hazzard to Fast Five, has spent the past 21 years trying to get the Academy to salute the risky work of the men and women who make the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Jeremy Renners look so dangerous. And he will have his chance again in three weeks when he meets with Dawn Hudson, the new Academy leader, to formally petition
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- 4/14/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Persona, Breathless, Hoop Dreams, King Kong, Caddyshack — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Fast Five, the fifth film in the unexpectedly long-lived Fast & Furious franchise, starring basically every actor who has ever been in a Fast film.
The Film: Fast Five, the fifth film in the unexpectedly long-lived Fast & Furious franchise, starring basically every actor who has ever been in a Fast film.
- 1/25/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
How did The Fast and the Furious become one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood? The original film was a campy mash-up of West Side Story and Point Break, filled with hack-and-slash car chases that overdosed on digital effects. The Diesel-free sequel was actually named 2 Fast 2 Furious and basically played out like a very special episode of Fastlane, which is a TV show you’ve hopefully never heard of. The third film — immortally subtitled Tokyo Drift — should have put the nail in the coffin, but new director Justin Lin turned out to be the rare commercial filmmaker in modern Hollywood...
- 12/21/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
As 2011 comes to a close, EW.com wanted to honor some of the hardworking names and faces from behind the scenes for their outstanding achievements. Stunt Coordinator Jack Gill is a veteran of the stunt trade. (One of his earliest gigs was stunt driving on The Dukes of Hazzard.) His skills were pushed to the limit for the climactic sequence in Fast Five, in which our heroes attach a pair of Dodge Chargers to a massive bank vault and drive said bank vault all around Rio De Janeiro while being chased by every police car on the continent. Learn all...
- 12/17/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Jack Gill is at a loss. "I just am baffled that the discrimination goes on like it does," said the stunt coordinator, who for more than 20 years has been lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a new award category for stunts. "For some reason we're different than every other category that's in there."On June 14, the academy denied Gill's proposal. In a written statement, the academy said: "Stunt coordinators play an important role in many movie productions and the Academy currently honors those at the very top of their craft by inviting them to become Academy members. While the Board recognizes that stunt coordinators make unique contributions to filmmaking, it voted against instituting a new annual category."Among the reasons the academy gave Gill for not creating a new Oscar category were the length of the broadcast and the fact that many other industry professionals.
- 6/22/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Suzy Evans)
- backstage.com
Filed under: Movie News, Oscar News, Awards
Sorry, your explosions are no good here.
On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences denied stunt coordinators the right to an Oscar category in recognition of their work. According to The Hollywood Reporter, stunt coordinator Jack Gill, who has been leading the 20-year effort to get coordinators recognized by the Academy, said, "I will try again next year and gather more and more support."
Stunt coordinators are hired to design stunts like car chases and fight scenes, which are then performed by the stunt performers. Yet despite their importance to the film industry, only one stunt performer in history got an Academy Award, and it was more honorary than anything else. )(Yakima Canutt was given the Oscar for helping develop safety devices to protect stuntmen.)
Hit the jump to see the Academy's statement on the controversial move:
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Sorry, your explosions are no good here.
On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences denied stunt coordinators the right to an Oscar category in recognition of their work. According to The Hollywood Reporter, stunt coordinator Jack Gill, who has been leading the 20-year effort to get coordinators recognized by the Academy, said, "I will try again next year and gather more and more support."
Stunt coordinators are hired to design stunts like car chases and fight scenes, which are then performed by the stunt performers. Yet despite their importance to the film industry, only one stunt performer in history got an Academy Award, and it was more honorary than anything else. )(Yakima Canutt was given the Oscar for helping develop safety devices to protect stuntmen.)
Hit the jump to see the Academy's statement on the controversial move:
Continue Reading...
- 6/16/2011
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The Academy was in the mood for change earlier this week, announcing tweaks to the Best Picture race and altering Animated and Effects categories. But the organization wasn’t in the mood to accept every change put before it, much to the stuntman’s chagrin.
In fact, the Academy flat out “declined” to launch a special category that recognized the work of stunt coordinators on major motion pictures, THR reports. Stunt coordinator Jack Gill told the trade that while the Academy “appreciates” the work of these coordinators, a new category will not be added, even if it isn’t part of the annual telecast.
But Gill’s not giving up the fight.
“I will try again next year and gather more and more support,” Gill said, acknowledging the appreciation of big-screen heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have supported his cause.
Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information.
Hollywoodnews.com: The Academy was in the mood for change earlier this week, announcing tweaks to the Best Picture race and altering Animated and Effects categories. But the organization wasn’t in the mood to accept every change put before it, much to the stuntman’s chagrin.
In fact, the Academy flat out “declined” to launch a special category that recognized the work of stunt coordinators on major motion pictures, THR reports. Stunt coordinator Jack Gill told the trade that while the Academy “appreciates” the work of these coordinators, a new category will not be added, even if it isn’t part of the annual telecast.
But Gill’s not giving up the fight.
“I will try again next year and gather more and more support,” Gill said, acknowledging the appreciation of big-screen heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have supported his cause.
Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information.
- 6/16/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Earlier this year, Vin Diesel boldly told the Los Angeles Times that he "wouldn't be surprised" if Fast Five garnered "Oscar talk" this award season. While the fifth Fast and Furious film won't be winning any statuettes for its acting this lifetime (sorry, Vin, The Rock and Ludacris), it might have a legitimate shot at an Academy Award if the movie's stunt coordinator Jack Gill convinces the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to add a Best Stunt category.
- 6/14/2011
- Movieline
Should there be an Oscar for Best Stunt? A group of stunt coordinators plan to lobby the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors tonight for their own category at the annual awards. Veteran stunt coordinator Jack Gill (Fast Five) has been petitioning AMPAS for two decades now, to no avail. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the stunt coordinators are proposing that their award be handed out before the main telecast, though they want a clip of the presentation to be shown during the broadcast.
So would the addition of a Best Stunt award make you more likely to watch the Oscars?...
So would the addition of a Best Stunt award make you more likely to watch the Oscars?...
- 6/14/2011
- by Dave Karger
- EW - Inside Movies
February 17, 2010: Zee TV’s ‘Dance India Dance’ has finally got its 12 finalist who will henceforth battle out for ‘Sunehri Takdir Ki Topi’. The last episode telecasted the wild card entry and saw 8 contestants selected for a second shot. Now 4 winners who will be chosen amongst the wild card contestants will get a green card to join the 12 finalist.
Our source form the sets informs, “Dharmesh Yelande and Amrita from Geeta Ki Gang who gave a splendid performance last week are back into the competition, followed by Jack Gill from Terrenac Ki Toli and Saajan from Remo Ke Rangelee..
Our source form the sets informs, “Dharmesh Yelande and Amrita from Geeta Ki Gang who gave a splendid performance last week are back into the competition, followed by Jack Gill from Terrenac Ki Toli and Saajan from Remo Ke Rangelee..
- 2/17/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Ajay Devgan and Kajol shot some really stunning action scenes recently in Mehboob Syudios for their forthcoming film, Toonpur Ka Superhero sometime back. Hollywood action director Jack Gill, whose work repertoire includes big action successes like the Spiderman and Superman series, The Rock and Terminator-2 was at the helm of the affairs.
It is learnt that while Kajol was a little apprehensive of doing the difficult action scenes, Jack managed to convince her to go ahead without fear.
“Kajol is quiet a lot like my wife in the sense that she does not want to do action. She likes love.
It is learnt that while Kajol was a little apprehensive of doing the difficult action scenes, Jack managed to convince her to go ahead without fear.
“Kajol is quiet a lot like my wife in the sense that she does not want to do action. She likes love.
- 4/20/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Ajay Devgan and Kajol shot some really stunning action scenes recently in Mehboob Studios for their forthcoming film, Toonpur Ka Superhero. Hollywood action director Jack Gill, whose work repertoire includes big action successes like The Spiderman and Superman series, The Rock and Terminator-2 was at the helm of the affairs. It is learnt that while Kajol was a little apprehensive of doing the difficult action scenes, Jack managed to convince her to go ahead without fear....
- 4/19/2009
- GlamSham
Hollywood's stunt community has been left fuming after Academy Awards bosses decided not to introduce an Oscar category to recognize their work. Following a protest outside the Academy Awards headquarters in Los Angeles earlier this week, Oscar organizers were forced to consider a category honoring stunt work but made their unpopular decision to keep the annual ceremony's running time down. Academy president Frank Pierson explains, "At a time when the Academy is trying to find ways to reduce the numbers of statuettes given out, the board is simply not prepared to institute any new annual awards categories." But stuntman Jack Gill, 50, who has worked on big-budget films such as Pearl Harbor and The Day After Tomorrow, fumes, "Stunt co-ordinators are an integral part of the filmmaking business yet we are totally overlooked by the Academy. It seems like every picture that is promoted has an action piece to lure audiences in there and the stunt people are central to those scenes. Even the Academy shows action scenes at the Oscars, yet they keep us out of it, despite the fact that we play a major role before, during and after production."...
- 6/24/2005
- WENN
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