Talkback: Do You Think Stuntpeople Should Have An Oscar Category?

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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.

Gill — who has coordinated stunts on nearly 150 films including Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Pearl Harbor and Con Air — will join a group of stuntmen and women on Tuesday night to lobby the AMPAS Board of Governors for their own annual award, which they propose be handed out in advance of the main telecast with the other technical categories. Gill isn’t alone in his wish for recognition; veteran stunt icon Vic Armstrong told Movieline last month that it was “ridiculous” stuntpeople didn’t have an Oscar category all to themselves… not that Armstrong felt the goal would never be achieved.

I don’t think we ever will get accepted. I’m in the Academy, and we keep having petitions and votes and everything, but it doesn’t seem to get anywhere. I think it is ridiculous when you have two categories for editing, two categories for sound, you’ve makeup separate, you’ve got wardrobe separate — all these things that are all deserving in their own way. In the old days they used

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