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If anyone knows How to take a fall is Cara Marie Chooljian. As a stuntman in everything, All everywhere at the same time this Friday BallerinaShe is used to blows and get up. There is only one blow that she wants not to take, at least not at the moment – that she will not win an Oscar.
To be clear, it’s not that she can’t Win an Oscar or does not have the skills. Is that Until April of this year There was simply no category for stuntmen. The Academy of Arts and the Cinema Sciences has announced a new trophy specifically for cascade design this spring, but no film will be eligible for the price until 2027 – long after Ballerina is out of theaters.
“Kill Me”, joking Chooljian when I ask questions about the announcement of the Academy and the moment of his last film. “I said to myself, why don’t we push it” behind?
Cascade’s work has been part of the cinema since there have been films. In an industry where actors are literally worth millions of dollars, there is often someone on the set ready to do things really dangerous to save their skin. Many stars – Keanu Reeves, Tom CruiseChooljian Ballerina The counterpart Ana de Armas – participating in the work of Cascade, but for a large part of the great action of life or death, there is a double. They are named in the credits, but due to the nature of their work, they are also invisible for a large part of the public.
To return in the 1990s, the stuntmen asked that recognition of the academy be closed. But when movies love Furious 7, John WickAnd Mad Max: Fury Road I started hitting the rooms, the waterfalls were so incredible that it became clearer than the work of the stuntmen was as essential to certain films as the script or the director. There was no film without action. However, the creators behind this have never obtained the same recognition of the academy as, for example, artists with visual effects or costume designers.
As part of John Wick franchise, Ballerina was tailor -made for the new category of Oscars. In this document, Chooljian and Armas must fight in all possible scenarios with all possible weapons – flat, flame launcher, all kinds of imaginable firearms. There are shootings in clubs and hand -to -hand combat. David Leitch, a former stuntman who has Wick and continued to make heavy action movies like Atomic blonde And dead Poolwas at the forefront campaign to bring the academy to create a cascades’ price. If Ballerina Came out a little later, it would be at the forefront of the peloton.
Not that it is a shoo-in. It comes out a few weeks later Mission: Impossible – The last calculationin which Tom Cruise is again suspended from a flying object that he should certainly not be. But, if anything, the existence of two highly competitive films in the category would prove why it has been expected for a long time.
