Winners and Nominees 2001

Fall Inside Elevator Shaft … Lincoln (doubling Josh Brolin) climbs 60 ft. ladder inside an elevator shaft. An explosion below shoots the elevator up past him forcing him to flatten against the wall for safety. Next, the ladder breaks on one side, throwing him against the wall. Then the elevator car drops, once again flattening him against the wall. Finally, Linc falls from the ladder to the end of his webbing tie-off.

Fall from the Bell Tower … Andy (doubling Jackie) dangles inverted from a 2 x 12 plank 60 ft. in the air inside a bell tower. He falls head first, catches a rope, swings into the wall and crashes through two wooden planks before falling another 8 ft. to the floor in a ribcrunching splat.

5 Bad Guys on 1 Angel … 5 Stunt performers with Drew Barrymore. Drew begins the fight tied to a chair with only her feet free. Eventually, the chair breaks away and her still-tied hands come to the front. The stunt performers were on the receiving end of a variety of kicks, punches and martial arts moves. Each was felled by Drew.

Bar Fight … Racial tension and insults incite this bar fight between these five stunt performers and Russell Wong. A series of effective kicks sends one stuntman through a glass cabinet and ratchets another stuntman into the back of the bar, crashing through glass shelves and bottles. Wong hoists the third performer into the air and crashes him down onto the glass bar before kicking him to the ground. Then Wong, on wires, faces off with Lloyd, Gaston and Clay in a classic martial arts battle of kicks and punches.

Jackie Fights Two Indians … In this comedic fight scene between Jackie Chan and two Indians, Cheng doubles Jackie Chan and also plays the role of one of the Indians Jackie is fighting-the one with two pigtails and a striped chin. As Chang, Cheng pulls the other Indian from a horse, jumps on to a tree branch, kicks an Indian, then falls off as the branch breaks. As the Indian, Andy was knocked down with a short bush which Jackie flings at him like a weapon. After the other Indian is stuck in the tree, Chang jumps over him and knocks Jackie down. Jackie jumps up to a tree branch, swings over Cheng, flips around and knocks him to the ground.

Barroom Brawl … A wild barroom brawl breaks out as Jackie Chan (Chon Wang) mixes it up with Owen Wilson (Roy) and a group of rough old cowboys. All breaks loose as Wang (Jackie) uses everything from his pony tail to a set of moose antlers to keep the bottle smashing, chair swinging, westerners at bay. Performers fall through chairs, get punched, kicked, thrown off landings, slid down the bar and have chairs crashed over their heads. The scene is total chaos and the bar ends up completely demolished.

Hay Truck Tips Over… Bullwinkle’s car backs off of a car carrier while the carrier is moving down the road. Meanwhile, a hay truck is coming at it from a 90-degree angle. In trying to avoid a collision, the hay truck skis on two wheels and lands on its side.

Double Car Hit … David and Jakob play security guards inside casino. Car crashes through casino wall, hitting both performers – one is knocked out of the way, the other lands on a card table.

Car Hit while in Lingerie… Leslie (doubling Carmen Electra) is trying to flag down car while wearing only bra and panties. She gets hit by a car and does several flips over car (ratchet) before crashing behind. Wore smallest, thinnest harness available and nude-tone body suit.

“Blind” Car Hit… Jalil (doubling Geoffrey Wright) is standing in the street threatening Shaft with a shiv. He’s hit from behind by an oncoming Firebird. He bounces onto the windshield, which he cracks with his head, then is spit back off the front of the car onto the street.

Blown off Andrea Gail … At the height of the storm the crew attempts to secure the wheelhouse. Pete (doubling actor) is snatched by the violence of the storm (ratchet), buffeted by the winds while in the air, then thrown into the churning water.

55′ Descender Through Cages … This final wrestling match takes place 55 ft. up on top of wire cages stacked three high. Using a descender. Scott (doubling Diamond Dallas Page) falls and breaks through the cages from top to bottom.

Log Rolling Sequence … Brent (doubling Owen Wilson) and Jackie are on top of some 40 logs chained to the flatbed car of a train moving at 30mph. The chain is loosened causing the logs, each weighing 1500 lbs., to roll off the car, down some 60 – 70 feet below. Brent and Jackie stay on top of the logs by logrolling. After the last log drops, Jackie jumps off to the car and Brent settles to the deck.

Wolverine Blown out of Truck … Truck hits fallen tree. Steven is launched out of the drivers side of truck through the windshield and hits boxes at approx. 35 feet. He’s then dragged approx. 150 feet on a slide board in the snow.

Climactic End Car Boost/Chase Scene … With Nick Cage & Del Ray Lindo. This was an intricate, realistic, high speed car chase of over 5 minutes. Often the actual speeds were in excess of 90 mph, on wet pavement. It includes slides, near misses of cars, trucks and pedestrians, a t-bone, drift slide, high speed reverse 90 with near miss of big rig, opposing 90’s, high speeds through wash, jump-off ramps, multiple cars hit by construction containers and a ramp-to-ground jump (the beginning and end of the jump are live action, the center of the jump is CG). Nick Cage was doubled by Chuck Picerni Jr. Del Roy Lindo was doubled by Alan Oliney.

Car Hit/Ambulance Crash … The sequence starts out with a Cadillac being driven by Jack Gill. The Cadillac races into the entrance to a hospital. A security guard (Scott Workman) steps out in front of the Cadillac to stop it but ends up being hit hard up onto the hood, into the windshield and thrown off the side. The Cadillac comes to a stop at the hospital entrance, throws a body out the back, begins to reverse away but collides with an ambulance. We took all the structural reinforcements out of the trunk of the Cadillac so the impact would look a lot greater than actually happened because the travel space was limited. The front of the ambulance was reinforced with a larger steel bumper. As the impact occurs the ambulance driver (Kevin Scott) goes into the windshield. A seven camera set-up.

Militia vs. Redcoats Battle … Militia and Redcoats fire on each other in a desperate faceto- face battle. A horse charge from the Red Coats chases the militia into a valley and at first seems to turn the tide, however they are then ambushed by the Colonial Army. There are cannonball explosions, saddle falls, horse falls, back over and squibs aplenty. Then there’s an all-out hand-to-hand battle with pistols, swords, rifles and bayonets. The scene integrates an army of performers and horses and intricately timed explosions.

Daring Military Rescue … Armed demonstration of 1500 Middle Easterners threatens to take over the US Embassy in South Yemen. The Ambassador calls on the military to evacuate himself and his family. Three helicopters take off from the USS Independence loaded with special forces personnel specially trained for this type of situation. The Ambassador, his family and the Marine detachment narrowly escape with their lives as the armed and riotous crowd utilize heavy fire power in their attempt to thwart the daring rescue.

Partial Burn While Tied to Chair … Erik, playing a dramatic role as an abusive father, is tied to a chair and gagged. He is naked from the waist up with no protective nomex. He was doused with gasoline and ignited. He is in the scene with Giovanni Ribisi, who plays his son.

Full Burn within Circle of Fire … Performer is fully engulfed by fire and trapped with a circle of fire. He desperately attempts to put himself out. He is shot and falls face down on the floor, still fully burning.

Full Burn in Casino… Ernie Jackson (doubling Clarence Williams III) is in a Santa Suit. As he lights a cigarette he is squirted with alcohol. He ignites and burns for several seconds before backing through a window and falling out onto a car windshield and hood below.

Two Full Burns inside Sub … In the beginning of the film, two submarine mechanics are working in the engine room when there is a big explosion. Jerry immediately goes up in flames in a full burn. Robert runs for a fire extinguisher, but as he turns with it to help his friend, he is hit face on by a huge fireball from three feet away, does a full burn and falls dead.

Bronco Jump … Rick (doubling Bill Murray) landed an antique Bronco from a large jump into boxes and then onto the ground from a smaller jump. Its extremely short wheelbase makes this a difficult vehicle to jump; Rick had the extra challenge of being directed not to damage the Bronco. Meticulous planning, several radar gun measured practice runs through the take-off ramp area, and extensive experience combined to create an exciting stunt that resulted in zero damage to the antique vehicle.

Spiral Pipe Ramp … Swerving to miss an Indy car, Gill’s car swerves and hits a trailer with a bulldozer on back. The car smashes through van and up a 20 ft. pipe ramp at 55mph, spirals in air, lands on its nose, slides across intersection, and hits another car. Rehearsed 3 times into boxes to coordinate landing area and flight path, which was critical due to number of people in the vicinity of the stunt.

Cadillac/Jag Car Chase … Corey (in Caddy) chased by Al (in Jag). Chase travels down streets, through alleys, under train rails. Drivers bear down on loaded tow truck and split to either side at last minute. Corey purposely hits towed car, causing it to smash Al into pillar. Drivers meet again in head-on duel. Al’s car bails at last minute, makes a sharp right, and spiral pipe ramps into underground walkway.

Lincoln/Cadillac/SUV Car Chase … Roy driving a red Continental, is chased by Jalil in a Silver Cadillac through city streets at night. They careen off of each other and dodge in and out of traffic at high speeds. Harry joins the chase in an SUV. The Caddie T-Bones a car towed in its path, catches the Lincoln again and bumps it from behind. Ongoing gun battle blows out windows of both cars, then hits Roy, causing Caddie to veer right and canon-roll over parked cars before coming to rest on the sidewalk. SUV picks up chase by T-boning Lincoln and heading it in direction of gated pier. Automatic gunfire from SUV hits trunk and inside of Lincoln. Return fire kills Harry just before the Lincoln does a cannon, slides to a stop and gets rammed by the SUV.

Rollover and Rescue of the “Mistral” … The stunts took place in the water tank at stage 16 at Warner Bros on a gimble-operated sailboat “The Mistral.” Three-ton water tanks, water cannons and wind machines were continuously dumped and blown on us as the stunts were performed, making the waves and the weather as real as the film shows. As high seas and waves were blowing the sailboat it capsizes and the crew needs to be rescued. Tim Rigby jumped 20′ from a mock helicopter into the water and swam to the boat to attempt a rescue which was unsuccessful. Dana and Jennifer are tethered to the side of the sailboat and are nearly drowned as it reels from side to side. George assists them back on board for another attempt at rescue from the crew in the helicopter. Dana, Jennifer and George then jumped from the boat into the high seas and kept afloat while Tim Rigby swam through the waves and helped them into the rescue basket.

Storm Tossed from Tower to Deck into Water … Sean (doubling Mark Wahlberg) was on top of the look out tower trying to fix a broken antenna and save the Andrea Gail from certain death. He was hit by 50 ft. man-made waves and by several powerful water cannon. At the same time, the Andrea Gail was on a gimble system that violently rocked the boat in all directions up to 45 degrees and 100 mph fans were bulleting rain. All elements were used in combination to knock Sean from his perch and send him reeling to the steel whales deck some 16 ft. below. No pads. After surviving the high fall, Sean was immediately hit by another dump tank that sent him off the ship, down to the next level and into the steel railing.

Helicopter Chase … Shelby Mustang leads police cars on a chase through LA into the aqueducts. They are joined by a police helicopter flown by both Chuck and John. The copter covers the chase, tracking the car and flying over and under several bridges in the process.

Biplane Acrobatics … Craig (doubling Tommy Lee Jones) flies a bi-plane between the ground and 500ft. (low-level flying). Smoke machines were working throughout. Craig performed such aerial acrobatic maneuvers as barrel rolls, loop-de-loops and inverted flying … all the while staying in camera frame..

Horse Breaking Montage … Mike (doubling Henry Thomas) and Richard (doubling Matt Damon) rode and “broke” some 20 horses in this montage which was shot over three days: one day for roping, two days for breaking. The pair roped the horses in the corral, snugged them to posts, saddled and blindfolded them and rode the bucking horses. It required extensive knowledge of riding and roping unbroken horses.

Horse Rear and Fall … Gibson avenges the death of his sons in the climactic battle scene. Lance (doubling Gibson) is carrying the US flag and is charging his enemy on foot while Richard (doubling the enemy) charges back on horseback. When the two meet, Lance drops in front of the horse and thrusts the flag up its chest, causing Richard to be launched forward as in a running “w”. Stunt integrates work on a real and a mechanical horse.