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Today, Explained

The most dangerous award

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

The Oscars are so last month, and yet they're still making news.

0:04.4

This week, a new rule.

0:06.1

Members got to watch the movies before they vote.

0:09.7

Big yikes.

0:11.4

But earlier this month, a new category, best stunt design.

0:15.1

It's almost like an issue of justice, kind of like justice for stunts, like for the work that they do and the fact

0:22.9

that they don't really get credited the way that a lot of other people in the film industry

0:27.9

do with Oscars and industry awards and things like that.

0:32.2

But for me, as a film critic and a cinephile and also someone who studied film history, the stunt people were

0:39.7

here before the movie stars were.

0:42.0

Like, stunts built Hollywood and the idea that over the years they never quite got their

0:48.0

dude just seemed to be such a miscarriage of justice.

0:53.5

Justice for Stunton on today's plight.

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