INDIANA JONES RUNNING for his life from a giant boulder. Just about everything that happens in Mad Max: Fury Road. Ethan Hunt scaling the Burj Khalifa. Ethan Hunt hanging from the side of a mid-air plane. Ethan Hunt jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle. (You get the point with Ethan Hunt.) So many of blockbuster cinema’s most memorable moments don’t necessarily come from writing or acting, but, rather, the way the stunt sequences in those big-scale films were impeccably crafted to both engage and impress viewers all over the world. Movies can sometimes have a language barrier that needs breaking down, but a great stunt is universal.
Director David Leitch (a former stuntman himself) and star Ryan Gosling both agree that the teams behind those incredible stunts have gone largely under-appreciated, so they’ve teamed up to make a movie that glorifies the Hollywood stuntman (The Fall Guy). They’re also becoming a key part of the charge for the industry to finally create an Oscar to honor some of the most creative, daring, and important people on the set of any major film production.
“So many of these sequences that are a part of cinema history, and sometimes what people like most about a film or remember most, were designed not by the filmmakers but by the stunt designers and the performers,” Gosling says in a new Men’s Health cover story. “It’s also impossible to separate the history of cinema with the history of action. It’s a huge part of why people fell in love with cinema in the first place.”
As someone with deep roots in the stunt portion of cinema, it’s clear this is a cause near and dear to Leitch’s heart (he doubled Brad Pitt on Fight Club and Ocean’s Eleven, among many other credits). He says he’s part of a group currently pushing hard to establish that Oscar for stunts, and explained exactly what would go into it.
“There’s been confusion in the past where it was like, ‘What are you going to award? Who’s the stunt?’ It’s not like an actor, where you’re going to award the performer,” Leitch says. “That’s important because we have some incredible performers that are doing one-off stunts, but it’s like the making of a movie—there’s an army of people in every department. We want to celebrate the department, and so the award will be for stunt design.”
Leitch has since put his money where his mouth is. Earlier this month, The Fall Guy officially became the first movie to ever officially include a “Stunt Designer” credit (for longtime stunt choreographer Chris O’Hara), as agreed to by both SAG-AFTRA and the DGA. The campaign to honor stunts at the Academy Awards reached its (to date) peak at this past year’s ceremony in March when an on-stage moment featuring Gosling and his Fall Guy costar Emily Blunt celebrated stunts. But that’s not good enough—stunts deserve a category at the Oscars, and the process for that to happen certainly seems to be well underway.
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