There’s a brand-new category coming to the Academy Awards: Best Stunt Design. A writer and two stunt performers explain why it took almost a century. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers with help from Amina Al-Sadi, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. On the set of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Oscars are so last month, and yet they're still making news. This week, a new rule. Members gotta watch the movies before they vote. Big yikes. But earlier this month, a new category, best stunt design.
It's almost like an issue of justice, kind of like justice for stunts, like for the work that they do and the fact that they don't really get credited the way that a lot of other people in the film industry do with Oscars and industry awards and things like that.
But for me, as a film critic and a cinephile and also someone who's studied film history, the stunt people were here before the movie stars were. Like, stunts built Hollywood. And the idea that over the years they never quite got their due just seemed to be such a miscarriage of justice.
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Bilga Abiri says an Oscar for stunt design is justice for all those stunt people who never got their due. We asked him who the first stunt people in Hollywood were.
I mean, in many ways, we don't even know, really.
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