Stuntmen demanded a separate nomination from the Film Academy
The directors and stunt performer for popular Hollywood movie projects will make another attempt to convince the Academy leadership of the need for a special Oscar nomination, which will recognize their achievements. For this purpose, the Stuntmen's Association initiated a collection of signatures for a petition posted on the aggregator site The Petition. “For 90 years, the Academy has been discriminating against stunt performers and their contributions to creating an industry that we all love and for which we literally shed our blood. And this is not about discrimination on the basis of skin color or gender. All stuntmen are without the exceptions are outraged by the ignorance of their merits, "the president of the Association, Jeff Wolfe, said in a statement. At the time of this writing, about 50 thousand people have signed the petition. The association plans to hold a protest at the Academy headquarters on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, and attempt to present the document to its president, Sherryl Boone Isaacs. Recall that in 2016 the Film Academy reacted very vividly to the protests of a number of black actors about the absence of "colored" artists in the list of nominees. An ambitious transformation program was announced that is designed to "bring greater diversity to staffing and decision making." The Topic of Article: Stuntmen demanded a separate nomination from the Film Academy. |
