Winners and Nominees 2024

A fight between Cipher & Letty takes place in a laboratory. The performers have a hand-to-hand fight that ends with a kick through window glass. The window glass was CGI and stunts performers ended up crashing on a box rigg. CGI has been used on the box rigg to make it look like a big cube made of glass. The final part of the fight used one wire gag for the kick made by the performer.

During the fight we used a wire assist to enhance/strengthen the throws. CGI was used only at the end of the fight, where Holga catches the axe. The fight was filmed over three days—one with the first unit and two days with the second unit.

John Wick fight takes place in a large nightclub with massive waterfalls. The fight is a blend of actors and stunt doubles. Stunt double had to wear a large fat suit for the character of Killa, which absorbed much of the surrounding water, adding 60 lbs. to the performers. Additional stunts in the sequence include being waterboarded, and a three story, wire assisted, high fall to a stair fall. All stunts were performed practically except for the use of wires for the fall.

Prison Courtyard fight with over 200 stunt performers and 9 practical fire burns all shot as a “oner” simulating one long take. Includes hand to hand combat, hard hits and falls, wire pulls and fire burns. Stunt doubles were used for hard hits and falls.

John wick tries to escape, jumps out a window and lands on a van.

Performer gets tossed over a railing into an 80’ high fall. A box catcher was built instead of using an airbag because the ground floor had stairs and railings in the way. This was a practical high fall without wire assist.

This high stunt placed the lead stunt double, on a wire dangling from the top of the Eiffel Tower. This stunt was the first-ever female descent from the Eiffel Tower and the inaugural tandem descent by both a male and female. The performers traversed over 500ft of distance on their descent with the aid of winches. All stunts were performed practically.

Two actors are chased by gun fire across a solid steel research station. As the camera crosses one of the structural beams, there is a VFX blend to the two stunt doubles as they run and jump over a handrail of a set piece that is suspended 60ft above an exterior tank. They are closely followed by a stunt camera operator. The two performers and camera operator fell 55ft unassisted until the deceleration systems kicked in. The water depth of the tank was 12ft and the deceleration systems were required to ensure that they didn’t reach the bottom of the tank.

Heroine is tackled off the edge of a 600-foot building by an enemy mercenary. The two fall 16 feet to a glass awning below, clipping a metal frame on the way down. The two stunt doubles were on gold tail rigs to slow their speed slightly at impact. The stunt was done in one shot and the doubles fell 6 feet to a metal grating, then another 10 feet to the glass awning. No stunt mats were used to soften the fall, the glass was real.

This scene used 6 winches as the actress skillfully lifted, traveled, and executed smashing and rotating maneuvers with a stuntman between shelving and a wall—all captured in a single shot down the hallway.

Two performers, aided by 4 winches, dramatically crashed through a breakaway ceiling, plummeting 20 feet onto a breakaway floor.

To save his sister, Blue Beetle takes on numerous Kord henchmen. The scene showcases over 20 intricately choreographed wire stunts. Ratchets and hand pulls were used to showcase the characters strength / combat skills. The stunts include a mix of aerial maneuvers and swift take downs, all while maintaining a visceral and realistic feel.

An enemy attack helicopter pursues the train. A stunt pilot landed the right skid of his helicopter on a real train moving at speeds between 40 – 50 MPH and 5 stunt performers offloaded onto the train before the chopper took off again. There was a 45 second window on the train track to execute the entire stunt. No blue screen, no wires.

Cops chase an armored car full of bank robbers. T-Bones, sidewinders, near-misses, and multiple turnovers punctuate this chase as they leave the streets and careen through a cemetery during a service. All stunts were practical.

A group of people jump from an overpass and land on moving trucks.

The city sequence was filmed in downtown Montreal. The Porsche jumps off the tow truck was done practically, as well as the rest of the chase sequence.

In this scene, our Dracula stunt double was fully engulfed in a practical fire. While suspended on a wire, he flew across the room and tackled another stunt double to the ground. The two performers continued to stay engulfed in fire, while the fight continued. 

Two performers hang onto a ladder that is attached to a helicopter. The heroine cuts the rope ladder with a knife sending both characters to free fall with only one parachute to use.  A blue screen was used as a backdrop for the sky and a hovercraft set was built 20’ off the ground with pyro explosions running off the surface for the top of the hovercraft.  VFX was used to enhance explosions and to input sky plates for the helicopter ladder jump. Wires were used to accentuate jumps and a gold tail decelerator was used to simulate the beginning of the free fall above the stage floor.  Two skydiving doubles were used for the in camera free fall interaction.  CG was used to enhance the sky and face replacement as needed.  

Two motorcycles chase through narrow alleys and up multiple stairs. The rider nose wheelies up to the bar with speed, spins 180 on the front wheel, hops the bike over the blocking rail landing on the other side of the rail on the back wheel.

An enemy attack helicopter pursues the train. A stunt pilot landed the right skid of his helicopter on a real train moving at speeds between 40 – 50 MPH and 5 stunt performers offloaded onto the train before the chopper took off again. There was a 45 second window on the train track to execute the entire stunt. No blue screen, no wires.

Drag race among 4 lead characters. One car is slammed into a row of parked cars as another car blows up and endos in a huge fireball. Heroine car then slams to the ground and slides on the roof with the undercarriage on fire. Hero car slides in front to stop heroine car. All stunts were practical except the VFX used for the bombs under the car and the bomb flying off the car.

Heroine is tackled off the edge of a 600-foot building by an enemy mercenary. The two fall 16 feet to a glass awning below, clipping a metal frame on the way down. The two stunt doubles were on gold tail rigs to slow their speed slightly at impact. The stunt was done in one shot and the doubles fell 6 feet to a metal grating, then another 10 feet to the glass awning. No stunt mats were used to soften the fall, the glass was real.

A car chase through the narrow winding streets, stairwells, tramways, and plaza of Lisbon with multiple vehicles and motorcycles in tow.  Sliding a van across hairpin cobble stone roads was required as well as jumping a van up a hill on a ramp and over 20 stairs landing in a tramway lined with cobble stone and tram rails.  The van also was impacted several times by other vehicles in which the stunt double had to recover from an out of control 270-degree spin to continue the chase.  The stunt double then had to battle between two vehicles as she slammed one car on either side into blockades that sent them reeling while the hero van escaped sliding down and out of the plaza. A majority of the chase was in camera action with practical crashes, slides, jumps, and landings on location. VFX was used to enhance the tram section, k-rail markers were used with lighting effects and flame bars to enable digital trams.  

This full body burn was the ending of a violent fight in which the stuntwoman is ignited into a full body burn inside a barn, she then runs outside, falls, and then gets up and runs down the country road quite far. This was all done in one shot with no CG supplement to the burn.

Hero spikes a person headfirst into a running treadmill, sending him flying back, through a glass railing and 15 feet to the ground. The stunt was done in 2 pieces – for the first piece, the double did a scorpion faceplant fall and was yanked back on a wire, as soon as he hit the treadmill, sending him over the edge. The 2nd piece he was on a gold tail rig and he AND the camera fell 15 ft to the deck.

Counter-Earth motorcyclist gets clothes-lined off his bike by Drax the Destroyer. This stunt was done practically on a wire to the ground.

John Wick fights at the Arc de Triomphe. Chidi throws John wick on to a van doing a side slip.

Heroine is tackled off the edge of a 600-foot building by an enemy mercenary. The two fall 16 feet to a glass awning below, clipping a metal frame on the way down. The two stunt doubles were on gold tail rigs to help rotation and offered a slight deceleration at impact. The stunt was done in one shot and the doubles fell 6 feet to a metal grating, then another 10 feet to the glass awning. No stunt mats were used to soften the fall, the glass was real.