Winners and Nominees 2019

A man fights 2 mercenaries in a large commercial kitchen. The men are smashed into metal appliances and use kitchen tools to attack each other. One man is set on fire during the fight and does a full fire burn.

A man is hosting guests at his house and is interrupted by attackers. The ensuing fight moves from the house entrance through multiple rooms, including the kitchen where knives, glassware, trays, and a hanging pot rack become weapons. The fight culminates with a dive through a gas fireplace.

A woman fights for her life against an attacker in an apartment. She is tossed around the room and thrown against furniture, the walls, and ends with a body slam to the floor.

The hero fights an attacker while his body is manipulated by a computer. This results in movement that looks stiff and robotic while the actor looks scared and not in control. The fight sends the men crashing into furniture and walls.

A man is immobilized on the top of a tower and kicked off the side. He does a 75’ fall, starting from his knees and falls backwards looking lifeless. The fall was into boxes and no wires were used.

Following a fight on the top of a soccer stadium, a man falls off the roof. To save himself, he grabs on to a large banner that rips under his weight. While hanging onto the banner, he swings down and crashes into the scoreboard. The stuntman dove off the roof and grabbed onto the banner, and pendulum swung into the scoreboard. He was on a cable line controlled by a goldtail with a bungee deadman. The vertical drop was 65’. The actor completed the impact on stage.

An astronaut needs to eject from a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle during a training accident. This was done in four parts. First, a stuntman was ratcheted 40’ out of the cockpit. Second, the stuntman is ratcheted 150’ up by a winch, and then descended, simulating a parachute decent. Third, a stuntman performed a parachute jump with a period 1960’s round chute. Lastly, the actor performed the landing and drag across the ground, via a winch system.

A man is escaping jail on an island. He does a 118’ free fall jump from a cliff to the ocean below. No wires were used for the fall and CGI removed safety divers and oxygen bubbles.

Aquaman and Mera are chased across the rooftops of a small town. They run from building to building, crashing through roofs and landing inside living rooms and hallways. Mera leaps 20’ into the air to clear a 20’ gap between buildings. The chase concludes with Mera being blasted off a roof, cartwheeling 20’ through the air to another roof, crashing through the roof, and falling 12’ into a wine barrel in the room below.

A man is blasted off the 2nd floor balcony of a casino and lands on a poker table on the 1st floor. To accomplish this, a stuntman is ratcheted 35’ backwards with a gooch wrap. He drops 16’ while executing a 1 ¼ flip, and lands on the poker table. A secondary ratchet decelerator was used to take the curse off the landing, and a 2-inch dense foam pad was used on the poker table.

An astronaut needs to eject from a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle during a training accident. This was done in four parts. First, a stuntman was ratcheted 40’ out of the cockpit. Second, the stuntman is ratcheted 150’ up by a winch, and then descended, simulating a parachute decent. Third, a stuntman performed a parachute jump with a period 1960’s round chute. Lastly, the actor performed the landing and drag across the ground, via a winch system.

A pick up truck with 2 soldiers sitting in the open cargo bed is hit by a RPG. The driver does a pipe ramp as the truck is hit and the 2 men fly out the back of the truck.

Black Panther, Nakia, and Okoye chase men in SUVs through the streets of South Korea. Black Panther rides the top of a blue Lexus, while Okoye rides the top of a gold Lexus. SUVs crash, flip, and roll as they are taken out of the chase. This was a practical high speed car chase, with performers on top of roofs with safety cables. For big jumps and crashes, the performers were replaced with CGI.

A man rides a motorcycle and is chased by two others on motorcycles. They ride through the corridors of a soccer stadium, traveling through narrow hallways and up and down stairs. The chase leads them to the stadium roof, where a rider jumps the bike from one part of the roof to 70’ below on a lower roof. A wire system was used to jump and stop the bike for the roof-to-roof jump.

A woman flees from police on a motorcycle. After crashing into the side of a police car, she evades them by jumping onto a frozen lake and riding across to the shore. To achieve this, the rider did a practical jump with the motorcycle into the water and CGI was used to create the ice. Self-inflating vests were attached to the motorcycle and the double for their landing in the water.

An aluminum rowboat is maneuvered through level 5 rapids. The boat was filled with foam to help with flotation but was otherwise practical. Eyeholes were cut into the blindfolds of those rowing the boat and later filled in with CGI.

A stunt performer runs down a 2nd floor hallway and is ignited on fire. He jumps out of the 2nd floor window, traveling 12’ to a deck covered with 2 layers of high dense foam. He then final falls off the deck through banisters, does a ¾ flip with a full twist 10’ to a port-a pit in the ground. The scene was done with 2 window jumps, 1 balcony fall, and 9 fire burns.

A woman uses a flamethrower to set an attacker on fire. She continues to use the flamethrower until he eventually collapses. The attacker is topless so the stunt performer used a silicone mask and torso over nomex layers and water gel for the full body burn.

Venom is on a motorcycle trying to evade men chasing him through San Francisco. He rides onto a sidewalk while cars are exploding behind him. An explosion happens right in front of him and he nose wheelies through a blue fireball. The cars exploding and the blue fireball were practical. CGI was used to add the Venom character.

The Wasp fights multiple attackers in a restaurant and kitchen. CGI was used for shrinking and growing the character, wire removal, and face replacement.

A stuntwoman is driving a Jeep and does a pipe ramp, sending the car flying and spinning.

A woman flees from police on a motorcycle. She evades them by jumping onto a frozen lake and riding across to the shore. To achieve this, the rider did a practical jump with the motorcycle into the water and CGI was used to create the ice. Self-inflating vests were attached to the motorcycle and the double for their landing in the water.

A woman fights for her life against an attacker in an apartment. She is tossed around the room and thrown against furniture, the walls, and ends with a body slam to the floor.

A man jumps from a truck traveling 25mph and hits the asphalt.

Mera is chased by soldiers across the rooftops of a small town. She is hit by a blast and sent cartwheeling 20’ through the air. She crashes through a roof and falls 12’ into a wine barrel in the room below.

A man and woman jump out of a 2nd floor window, land on a pitched roof, slide down the roof, fall off the edge, and hit the ground rolling. This was done in one shot. A goldtail drop was used for the first 23’ fall from the 2nd floor window, with the landing on the pitched roof. From there, the stunt performers got out of the wires, slid 19’ down the pitched roof, fell 12’ from that roof to the ground, and finally rolled down the hill with no wire support.

A woman fights for her life against an attacker in an apartment. She is tossed around the room and thrown against furniture, the walls, and ends with a body slam to the floor.