‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Star Ryan Reynolds Makes Case For Oscars To Award Stunt Work: “I Hope That’ll Change Someday”

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1. It should, unequivocally, exist. And please don’t star the tired “…then stunt people will keep trying to top each other till it’s fatal.” No. These are professionals, they don’t think like this – no one in the industry does. I don’t expect everyone to have spent time on a film set but, if you did, you would see how tremendously competent and safety-first everything is.

2. There should be some retroactive awards to people like Hal Needlman or the Baxleys. Though the latter may be more of an Emmy thing

3. Absolutely!
   Stunt workers, maybe body double/stand-in workers, and set safety. A lot of smaller people are tremendously impactful in movies, maybe one Oscar for like Contributing Work

4. It has been an integral part of filmmaking for decades. It should’ve happened years ago, they also should highlight great stuntwork but safe stuntwork aswell.

5. If this happens it can be directly linked to *The Fall Guy* movie.

   They should have some recognition too. Look at the stuff they have to pull off in the *Mad Max* movies.

6. I wonder how the Academy members could judge stunt work, in view of the fact that CGI is already used to hide wires, and the presence of an actor within a really dangerous scene might be entirely CGI?

7. One of the awards should literally be “Most Gnarliest Stunt Award” – also, actors who do their own stunts shouldnt necessarily be considered for this (looking at you Cruise)

8. Tom cruise would win it every year