Winners and Nominees 2018

Two stuntmen fight using martial arts skills while on a speeding boat going through rough seas. The movement of the boat causes them to be tossed around the small cabin, while simultaneously trying to fight each other.

John Wick fights an attacker in a European city, using weapons and martial arts. The fight features a multiple story stair fall by both stunt performers.

Fat Amy fights off 3 bad guys while trying to rescue her friends being held on a yacht. The fight finishes with a scorpion kick.

Wonder Woman fights the German military in a building. The fight features squib hits, gunfire, and wirework. CGI was used for face replacement and for the glass as Wonder Woman crashes through a window.

Four stunt performers leap off a 120’ waterfall, landing in the water below. A descender was used for the initial fall and stunt performers used a quick release from 25’ for entry into the water.

Four stunt performers leapt from a 90’ cliff to the water below. The stunt performers jumped into a quarry and VFX were used to make the quarry look like a flowing river.

The lead character is pushed out the window of a glass elevator 10 stories up. He works his way to the ground by hanging from military drones and uses them as stepping stones while the drones are in flight. A 210’ crane rig was created to suspend the stuntman.

A stuntman and a cargo pallet are launched from an aircraft. He dives to catch up with the pallet mid-air and climbs on top of it.

The lead character jumps off a 5th story balcony and swings down to the 3rd floor, crashing into the apartment door below. This stunt was filmed in 2 parts. For the first part, the stunt double leapt from 5th floor balcony, dropped past the 4th floor, and swung into the opening of the 3rd floor balcony. The double held on to a practical garden hose that was attached to the wire system. CGI was used to remove these wires. For the second part of the stunt, the double stood on a scissor lift about 15’ away from the balcony opening, swung on a rope, through the opening, let go, crashed into the wall, then fell to the ground. No wires were used to assist in this part of the stunt.

A stuntman is lifted away from a boat by birds. A two-stage ratchet system was rigged to the side of a crane. The stunt performer was rigged and on the side of the boat as the boat travelled down the river. At the correct time, the performer was dragged off the boat along the water, and then up into the air.

The lead character attacks the Mummy, only to get beaten down over and over. He finally gets the upper hand and throws the Mummy against a pillar, onto a stone tomb, and eventually kills her. Wires and rigs were used to enhance the actors and performers being tossed around in the fight.

A harnessed stuntman on skis does a 200’ drop from a tower, alongside a cliff, and into the jungle.

Motorcycle chase through the streets of Los Angeles with motorcycles and a SWAT Hummer. The bikes navigate up and down stairs, jump across sand dunes at the beach, and finally end on a bridge, where a rider lays down the bike as he is “decapitated”. The SWAT vehicle then crashes through a parked RV, hits a CHP police officer, and finally hits a police car, creating an explosion.

Driven and un-driven vehicles are hacked to attack a police-escorted motorcade. Blind drive seats and rear-seat steering/brake/gas cars were used to create the illusion of unmanned vehicles slamming into the motorcade.  Multiple cannons, T-bones, explosions, and chaos lead up to multiple unmanned cars raining down from a parking structure above and stopping the motorcade.

Dom’s team corners Dom and blocks off any chance of escape.  Dom blows through a flower store and the chase is on. Dom uses his car to drop a 60’ high scaffold rig on the team.  The team race through it and around it, causing chaos in a park and a Corvette to ski on 2 wheels. VFX harpoons are shot into Dom’s car to stop him, trapping him from all sides. He manages to escape after being harpooned by maneuvering with the tensions in the VFX harpoons.

A motorcycle chases a black SUV on a roadway next to a canal in Amsterdam. The car does a pipe ramp into the canal, landing in the water, and missing a speedboat driving in the canal. The stunt driver of the SUV performed the pipe ramp and went into the water, while a stunt performer drove the speedboat. No CGI or wires were used for this sequence.

John Wick drives a vintage Mustang through a warehouse and around a shipping dock, while evading bad guys in yellow cabs and a motorcyclist. High speed maneuvers, crashes, and drifts are featured.

With a rope tied to his foot and attached to a runaway horse, a stunt performer is yanked off his feet and dragged out of a classroom and down a narrow, 150’ long hallway, bouncing along the walls. The stunt performer wore an ankle harness that was anchored to a jerk vest. The other end was tied off to a rubber bungee harness on the horse.

A stunt performer does a full body burn in a crowded bar, while the lead actors slow dance in the forefront of the shot.  There was no CGI used for this burn.

A man catches on fire and in his efforts to extinguish the fire, the fire grows. The actor’s arm was lit on fire, but the rest of the burn was performed by a stunt performer who did the burn in two stages. The first stage features the performer having a fueled blanket thrown over his head while doing a full burn. The second stage has the performer doing another full burn and being rolled up in a carpet.

A stuntman and a cargo pallet are launched from an aircraft. He dives to catch up with the pallet mid-air and climbs on top of it.

The lead character jumps off a 5th story balcony and swings down to the 3rd floor, crashing into the apartment door below. This stunt was filmed in 2 parts. For the first part, the stunt double leapt from 5th floor balcony, dropped passed the 4th floor, and swung into the opening of the 3rd floor balcony. The double held on to a practical garden hose that was attached to the wire system. CGI was used to remove these wires. For the second part of the stunt, the double stood on a scissor lift about 15’ away from the balcony opening, swung on a rope, through the opening, let go, crashed into the wall, then fell to the ground. No wires were used to assist in this part of the stunt.

A woman is driving a taxi cab in an effort to evade a grey sedan. The chase features two 180 degree spins, driving at high speed in reverse, and ends with the taxi cab T-boning the sedan.

A stuntwoman is hit by a vehicle, sending her rolling up the windshield. As the vehicle makes a turn, the stunt performer falls to the pavement. No wires were used for this stunt.

A small girl fights a group of bad guys in an old manufacturing plant. Using her claws, she attacks the men as they try to trap her. Wires were used to enhance the men being thrown and her flipping in the air.

A stuntman is hit by a car, sending him crashing onto the back of a parked van. The stunt performer was pulled on wires into the van, then dropped to the ground. A ratchet was used to initiate the stunt performer on wires into the parked van.

A woman is thrown upside down against lockers and falls to the ground. An air ram was used to propel her into the lockers.

A stuntman is sent flying into a steel beam after being hit by John Wick’s Mustang. The stuntman was ratcheted into a padded beam and the vehicle was CGI.

Two bad guys on dirt bikes are chasing a limo. The limo swerves and hits one of the bikers, sending the bike and the rider to the ground.