Behold one of the coolest pieces of original content to emerge from the quarantine era. France’s Campus Univers Cascades, a school that specializes in training stunt workers for film and television, rallied together dozens of stuntmen and stuntwomen to show off their best work for a video that seamlessly edits together their skills into a single fight scene. The ingenious two-and-a-half minute video has gone viral with nearly 10 million views and counting on social media, plus it’s made big fans out directors like Edgar Wright.
As if blockbuster action films like “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” weren’t enough proof, the viral video below proves what an artistic craft stunt work is in film and television. The ingenuity on display in each action beat makes yet another strong case that stunt performers deserve to be recognized at the Academy Awards. Actors such as Helen Mirren...
As if blockbuster action films like “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” weren’t enough proof, the viral video below proves what an artistic craft stunt work is in film and television. The ingenuity on display in each action beat makes yet another strong case that stunt performers deserve to be recognized at the Academy Awards. Actors such as Helen Mirren...
- 4/23/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Stunt performers in the U.S. are eyeing an Oscars boycott because of the Academy’s refusal to give them their own awards category for Best Stunt Coordination, Vulture reports. Stunt performers boycotted the Oscars earlier this year and “they’re now considering a protest at next year’s ceremony. Vulture writer Bilge Ebiri spoke with Jake Gill, a stunt coordinator who has been lobbying for nearly three decades for the Academy to honor his craft.
“When I first approached them, they were extremely eager to help,” Gill said. “As the years went on, they got tired of me. Now it’s hard to even get a meeting.”
Gill said he’s tried various ways to get the Academy to pay attention to stunt work but nothing has stuck. One Academy member from a different branch went to advocate to higher-ups on Gill’s behalf but was also rejected. “He...
“When I first approached them, they were extremely eager to help,” Gill said. “As the years went on, they got tired of me. Now it’s hard to even get a meeting.”
Gill said he’s tried various ways to get the Academy to pay attention to stunt work but nothing has stuck. One Academy member from a different branch went to advocate to higher-ups on Gill’s behalf but was also rejected. “He...
- 8/13/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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