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The Oscars’ New Stunt Award, Explained by Chad Stahelski
John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains why the Oscars are finally creating a category for stunts — and his lingering questions and concerns.
John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains why the Academy is finally creating an Oscars category for stunts — and his lingering questions about it. Before Chad Stahelski evolved into America’s foremost gun-fu filmmaker — the director/producer-primary creative force behind the billion-dollar-grossing John Wick franchise — he was a journeyman action coordinator and stunt performer: enacting and organizing mayhem on the Matrix trilogy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Expendables and various Hunger Game s titles among a mile-long list of credits. Reached at a Los Angeles editing bay Thursday where he was overseeing a color-correcting session for the upcoming, Ana de Armas-starring John Wick spinoff Ballerina, Stahelski seemed happy yet somewhat wary at news of the Academy’s newly announced Stunt Design Oscar.
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