Winners and Nominees 2008

Two stunt men confront one of the lead characters in hopes of taking him out. Although they have some moves, they are no match for his fast kicks and hard hitting hands that cause them to go down hard, over and over again.

Two men engage in a brutal fight on top of a parking garage and end up wrestling in a car as it rolls backwards towards the edge of the structure. During the fight the front window is kicked out and the hero escapes through the window a moment before the car and bad guy fall.

A stunt woman doubling Jennifer Garner has a fight to the death with a large attacker. The fight is all hand to hand combat with hard pounding blows and bodies being hurled against walls and to the floor. The fight ends with a deadly knife attack.

Fight between Bruce Willis and woman using various martial arts moves. Fight progresses to a down and dirty brawl, sending male double backwards out a 3-story window, careening off a catwalk and airduct then to the ground. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.

Stunt performers fall 45’ down the side of a glacier. Shot at 7000’ on a real glacier, a slightly sprung wood base was built for the landing. Two 30’ long channels were dug into the ice on the top of the glacier to form a guiding groove for the stunt men to slide at speed over the edge of the ice wall where they were then launched into space.

Stuntman is kicked out a 3-story window careens off a catwalk, hits an air duct then into a truck payload and then the ground. Stunt was done in 3 parts. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.

Stuntman executed a backwards fall through candy glass 70+ feet high. He comes through the window backwards. He falls a long way before tucking for the air bag landing. The stunt was performed without the use of wires, green screen, CGI, or composite enhancing.

The film’s lead stunt double falls through a window backwards, tumbling out of control and ends up landing hard on a sky light on a roof top below. The skylight breaks and sends him falling again to a hard landing inside a building.

High speed chase featuring a stunt woman on the hood of the car. Reaching high speeds and receiving hits from another car, only one shot shows a dummy on the hood. Once the stunt woman climbs back into the car, chase continues with a reverse 180, double car jump and cannon roll.

Sequence involved driver operating an air cannon turn over of a police van on a two-lane highway. The van lands in the road then, in a separate cut, is hit at very high speed by an El Camino driven from the opposite direction. Then in another cut, a driver slides a SUV into the two crashed vehicles.

Convoy moves down the freeway. An SUV rear ends a Mercedes that explodes, setting off a multi car crash including cannon rolls, T-bones and pyrotechnics. First SUV was on tracks. Second was remotely driven. Third SUV performs a cannon roll and flips several times. This SUV was driven by a stuntman who performed the stunt three times. No enhancement.

High-speed chase through the narrow cobblestone streets of Paris. Motorcycles vs. Taxi. Doors get torn off exposing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who gets pulled into a tug of war. Taxi ends up driving on two wheels and on top of the motorcycle. The only green screen used was to cover the actors.

Motorcycle rider takes off to catch a van and has two head-on near misses with semi trucks. Driver finishes with a long nose wheelie into 90 degree stop

Stuntman jumps on fence as a car hits fence. The fence is cabled on to the car as stuntman rides the car through alley. As fence collides with dumpster stuntman is ratcheted off to a wall.

Stunt man jumps from a higher vantage point and bulldogs the rider who in turn falls with his horse.

Motorcycle rider grabs a handful of throttle and slips off the back of the bike sliding across the ground. Motorcycle keeps going and crashes.

Stuntwoman gets hit head on by a car.

A stunt woman doubling Demi Moore fights off an attacker in the back of a speeding van. The van careens off cars and slides to an abrupt stop, slamming into a parked car and pitching the stunt woman out of the van landing her hard into a taxi’s windshield. The travel of the stunt woman was aided by a ratchet.

Stuntwoman is hit by SUV coming through a wall. SUV was on a limit line to start then stuntwoman attached to hood as it drove through walls, shelving and a window. Wire assisted in the start of the stunt.

Ford GT enters race track at high speed in reverse through narrow opening. The GT narrowly misses the Ford Mustang and does a reverse 180 down the track. She starts racing the Mustang and does a series of drifting maneuvers in the infield and on the track. Female driver also does spin out in Ford Mustang.

Stuntman does backwards fall from horse.

A man is standing in the street facing away as a car approaches and he is cued to turn a moment before impact. He is struck head on by the car, breaking the windshield and is thrown over the car and lands in the street. No dummies, cables, or computer graphics were used, only a speed change on the profile impact shot.

Stuntman is thrown backward down a flight of stairs in a computer chair. The chair was on a ratchet to gain speed but no wires were on the stuntman.

Stuntman jumps out a 2-story window to the ground. First part of the stunt he falls to a catcher. For the landing he was hung by a wire above the fence then free released to the ground.

A stuntman wearing a football uniform sprints down the field while fully engulfed in flames. He ends up at the sidelines where his teammates try in vain to douse him with the water cooler.

A stuntman performs a full body burn as he stumbles, falls and crawls through a kid’s birthday party.

Stuntman does full fire burn after being engulfed from a bucket of gas

One stuntman catches his hands and jacket sleeves on fire. His partner tries to put him out and in doing so engulfs himself in the fire. Fully ignited he then jumps from the yacht 18′ into the marina. This was a full and real burn with no added CGI or effects.