Stunts are finally getting their own category at the Oscars

After years of stuntwork mostly being overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars are astir to adhd a caller category. Today, the Academy announced that it intends to commencement giving retired Oscar statues for stunt plan starting with films released successful 2027 for the awards ceremony’s 100th anniversary.

“Since the aboriginal days of cinema, stunt plan has been an integral portion of filmmaking,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said successful a connection astir the caller category. “We are arrogant to grant the innovative enactment of these method and originative artists, and we congratulate them for their committedness and dedication successful reaching this momentous occasion.”

The Academy has yet to denote immoderate different eligibility rules for films that volition beryllium nominated successful the caller category. “The specifics of the award’s presumption volition beryllium determined by the Academy’s Board of Governors and enforcement enactment astatine a aboriginal date,” according to the Academy’s property release.

Though implicit 100 stunt workers are presently members of the Academy’s Production and Technology Branch, arsenic The Hollywood Reporter notes, the enactment has lone ever fixed retired 2 (honorary) Oscars to stunt performers. Now that the caller class has been established, we’re astir apt going to commencement seeing studios putting a batch much accent connected their projects’ death-defying acceptable pieces.