There will be an Oscar for the best stunt man: which five films are legendary for their stunts?

In 2028 an Oscar for the best stunt work will be presented for the first time. The Academy has nearly 10,000 film professionals who can vote for those Oscar, about one hundred of which are stunt people or coordinators. There has been a long time on a stunt-scar, a new innovation after the Oscar for Best Casting in 2026.

Stunt people do the tough, dangerous work on the film set, but Stunt Doubles His anonymous in full visibility: the star strokes with the honor. That leads to some latent guilt: recently Hollywood put stuntmen in the sun in Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywoodwhere Brad Pitt as Stunt Double Cliff Booth is the real hero, and in Ryan Goslings action film The Fall Guya nostalgic ode to the analog stuntman who always pays for the mess that the star makes.

Five film classics who had earned an Oscar for their stunt work:

1. ‘Steamboat Bill Jr’, 1928

Jackie Chan, Tom Cruise – there are movie stars that do many stunts, but often that concerns bluff or exaggeration; Studios cannot afford an injured movie star, let alone a dead person. That was also true when Harold Lloyd would have climbed a twelve -storey building in 1923 in the still exciting Safety Last!. That film leaned mainly on trick with perspective, and it became seriously dangerous, then Stuntman Harvey Parry took over, he announced after Lloyd’s death in 1971.

Harold Lloyd was quite a daredevil, but the biggest stuntman filmman of the silent film is Buster Keaton, who made a name in the Vaudeville as ‘the human mop’-he had emotionless swept the floor-and did almost all his stunts himself because otherwise they were not faithful, he thought. His most famous stunt comes out Steamboat Bill Jr.where a facade falls over him. In addition, there was no acrobatics: Keaton just had to stand still on a cross. But with a lot of risk: the facade weighed around five hundred kilos, and it listened closely.

2. ‘Ben-Hur’, 1959

De Western offered many stuntmen yard: in Hollywood you had to be able to go up with horses. But the most extravagant horse scene ever is the car race in the classic spectacle Ben-Hur With the then largest film budget ever: more than 15 million dollars. Hoeven have daverden, cars tilted and dragged drivers dozens of meters through the sand. It is not true that a stuntman was killed, and that this would have been covered up while the incident did the film – that happened in a version of Ben-Hur from 1925. In addition to the recording of the Wagenrace, Sergio Leone was involved as an assistant director Hollywood’s stunt legend Yakima Canutt. In John Waynes’ Internshipach Canutt jumps as an apache writer of his own horse on a carriage horse and is shot, dragged along and run over by the carriage.

3. ‘The French Connection’, 1971

You see the car more often in stunt work than trains or planes. They come everywhere, and everyone can drive them. Steve McQueens Bullit went into the books in 1968 as the first real modern car-striking purification, after which there was a lot of collision and tilted and tilted, but in terms of sweaty adrenaline and authenticity, nothing gets it The French Connection (1971), in which Gene Hackman tries to keep an above -ground metro as inspector ‘Popeye’ in Brooklyn. A breathtaking race, often against the traffic, often filmed by director William Friedkin in ‘guerrila style’ without the required permits, but with the help of brought agents. There were real, unplanned collisions, they sometimes also made the film. Gene Hackman was astonishous amount behind the wheel. And Friedkin’s biggest innovation was a camera on the hood for breathtaking point-of-view shots.

4. ‘The Matrix’, 1999

A stuntman has to fight. Hollywoods Rull Cuddles and Saloon Fighting received a shot elegance and acrobatics in the late 1960s with the arrival of Eastern combat sport and Asian action stars such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Moreover, Hong Kong came wuxiawith fighters of invisible threads (Wire Fu) who completely ignored gravity. The Matrix In 1999, those Asian innovations stunned together with digital and visual tricks such as ‘Bullet Time’, whereby with countless mini cameras-or bullets-could accelerate, delay or freeze in the air during an action. For choreography, specialist Yuen Woo-Ping from Hong Kong was flown in, who also with Ang Lee a year later Crouching tiger,,  » Hidden Dragon worked, who made Wuxia definitively Salonfähig in the west.

5. ‘RRR’, 2022

The Academy illustrated the message that there will be an Oscar for stunt work with pictures by Tom Cruise and SS Rajamouli’s Hindi spectacle Rrr. In terms of stunts and trick, Hollywood is the epicenter, but how long? Anti-colonial epic annex bromance RRRto be found on Netflix, blew Hollywood in 2022 in terms of stunts from the water. A matter of scale: see the initial scene where RAM, then a colonial officer, on his own and armed with just a bat, performed an arrest in a crowd of several thousand insurgents. RRR feels more earthy and physical than Hollywood detached super hero films, minted in acrobatics – even dance becomes stuntwork, choreography and integration of digital tricks with stunts: see one jungle fight With a wolf and a tiger. The century of the American stuntman may end.

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