Winners and Nominees 2014

The Wolverine and Yukio take on assassins who are attacking a funeral. Hand to hand combat and gymnastic moves are used in most of the fight.

Jason Statham fights an attacker in a Florida hotel room. The fight crashes through the bathroom and living room areas, resulting in hard knocks on a television, bathroom counters, and mirrors. The fight ends with the bad guy going over the balcony. This was done with a descender.

Hit Girl pretends to fight ninjas during a cheerleading audition. Using gymnastics and fighting techniques, she defeats the imaginary ninjas.

Kick-Ass takes on a group of bad guys in an alley. All of the fight was done practically and no wires or CGI were used.

A man is thrown from a 5th floor window with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. Colin Ferrell then slides down the cord. This was done with a decelerator.

Two men jump through a window and fall through construction and scaffolding to the ground. The first part of the jump was a 50’ high fall. The second part was done with wire decelerators to crash through breakaway scaffolding and fall 30’.

A man on the roof of Caesar’s Palace attempts to jump to a balcony using bed sheets. Three falls make up the stunt. The first fall is a 15’ fall while trying to grab the sheets. The second fall is another 15’ fall, landing in the letters of Caesar’s Palace. The final fall is a 20’ jump from the letters to a balcony railing. A harness was worn for all falls and the 3 rd fall was decreased in speed via decelerator rigging.

A woman crashes through a window and falls to the ground. The 40’ fall was on a goldtail and she had some foam mats to break the fall.

Ninjas fight with swords while ziplining on a cliff face. A combination of shots done on a real mountain and a large green screen wall were used. Ninjas were flying on 1000’ zip lines between mountain peaks. CGI was used to make the green screen wall look like the face of the mountain.

Man base jumps from the top of Caesar’s Palace and lands on a moving limo. For this two-part stunt, double high lines were rigged between a hotel roof and a crane and then between two cranes. The stunt double moved in the parachute rig and landed on the limo roof.

Magicians fall out of a plexi-glass box hanging mid-air. Safety lines were used, as the stunt was performed at height. The glass box was continuously being lowered from the crane arm, requiring constant adjustment on the lines. A descent rig was used to show one man falling on top of another.

Tonto and the Lone Ranger are snatched on a mail hook on the top of a moving train. They swing around, pick up a man and throw him through the train window. Stunt doubles were ratcheted from the top of the moving train, then suspended on a spinning rig to show the swing around the train. An overhead grid was suspended by 2 cranes that traveled with the stunt double and camera through the train window and out the other side. The stuntman was then ratcheted out the window of a moving train at 18mph and dropped to the ground.

The Wicked Witch gets on her broom, takes off through a crowd while doing an 80’ arc, then flies an additional 100’ off the set, reaching a top speed of close to 20 mph, all in one shot. The three dimensional flying arbor used for the stunt allowed the subject to rotate 180 degrees while maintaining an additional axis that controls or “puppets” the broom all at tremendous speeds. The “puppet” line took the broom from standing in a vertical position to a horizontal one as the Witch mounts the broom. The rotating feature allowed the Witch to point in the direction she was flying so that she could perform the sweeping arc.

Police cars are flipped by a specialty car. Police cars flipping sideways down the street are shot out of a special effects cannon. The driver of the specialty car had a handoperated lever which controlled rear hydraulic steering system so the car can crab over. The driver also drove head on at police cars with a pipe ramp attached to the front of the vehicle. Endo cannon was manned and pushed in the cannon car in front.

Four BMWs are chased through the streets. Highlights of the chase include a sidewinder into a parked car, a cannon through a showroom, and a specialty car using a pipe ramp to turn over a BMW in a tunnel.

Cars and motorcycles chase a tank on a highway. Highlights of the chase include a practical jeep endo cannon, a tank running over unmanned cars, a Mustang being pushed by the tank, motorcycles riding through traffic and transferring to a jeep, and 2 cars cannon rolling together.

Vintage cars engage in a high speed chase at night on a dirt road. Retractable canons and a pipe ramp were used for turnovers and crashes. No CGI used and all driving was practical.

A man is engulfed in a full body burn when a vehicle crashes into a house.

The Lone Ranger rides his horse on top of a moving train. Stunt was executed with stationary shipping containers to simulate the train cars. The containers were 16’ high and the horse was ridden over approximately 15 containers, jumping from one to the other. CGI was used to turn the containers into the moving train.

An escaping bank robber is riding through a neighborhood on a motorcycle and does a laydown, just missing another car.

A man is engulfed in fire and runs through a house chasing his friends. The stuntman did several full burns while chasing the actors. At one point he crashed through a railing and dropped 15’ to the floor below. A wire rig was used to decelerate his fall. CGI was only used for face replacement and all the fire was real.

A woman falls down narrow basement stairs. The staircase was 30 wooden stairs and approximately 18’. Padding was only used on a couple of support beams she passed on the way down.

A woman jumps from a motorcycle to jeep and hangs on as the jeep drives erratically. A safety rig was used for the motorcycle to jeep transfer.

A woman is thrown by a witch, crashing through a wall, falling to a roof, and then to the ground. After going through a breakaway wall, stuntwoman fell 8’ to the roof and then fell 9’ to face plant in a landing mat dug into the dirt.

A woman crashes her car on the open desert road. Driving at 55mph, the stuntwoman sent the car into a 90 degree spin and cannon rolled the vehicle 4 times.

A woman is sucked out of an airplane and is saved by Iron Man. She is ratcheted out of a plane on a green screen stage. She then made multiple parachute jumps from 14,000’ and is eventually dropped into the ocean.

Four nude men jump off a cliff into the water. The stunt doubles jumped about 35’ and did not have clothing to protect them.

A woman is hit by a car in the middle of the street. The car was traveling about 20 mph and she landed on the concrete.

A man is swung by the Lone Ranger and Tonto and tossed through a train. He lands hard on the other side of the train. He was ratcheted out of the moving train at 18 mph and dropped about 6’ to the ground.

A woman is thrown into the wall of a living room. A hand pull cable jerk was used to catapult her 15’ back into the wall.