The last time the Oscars proposed a new category was in 2018 in the form of Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film. (People were not too happy about the proposed category, and it was eventually discarded.) Though with a lot of these “popular movies” from major studios utilizing stunt work more and more, many have been campaigning for an award recognizing stunts. Now, John Wick’s Chad Stahelski, who's called for the Oscars to add a stunt category, has weighed in on whether this will finally come to fruition.
It goes without saying that stunt work is incredibly important, and crews have only managed to up the ante with their work in recent years. For an example, you can look to John Wick: Chapter 3’s challenging stunt that has Keanu Reeves’ titluar character trying to shoot someone on horseback There's also Tom Cruise’s epic motorcycle sequence in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, which is incredibly impressive. So where do things stand when it comes to a stunt-centric Academy Award honor? Chad Stahelski, who directed the 2023 movie release of John Wick: Chapter 4 and the franchise's previous installments, discussed that with Comic Book Movie.com. In his estimation, there's been no movement up to this point because serious discussions just hadn't been conducted:
