2008 Taurus World Stunt Award Nominees & Winners
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* Best Fight
* Best Fire Stunt
* Best High Work
* Best Work with a Vehicle
* Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman
* Hardest Hit
* Best Specialty Stunt
* Best Stunt Coordination and/or 2nd Unit Direction
BEST FIGHT
1. 300
Spartans fight the Persians with swords and spears in a bloody battle. No wires were used, all self-thrown ground pounders.
Nominees: Max White, Jon Valera, Danny Hernandez, Ryan Watson, Matt Rugetti, Tim Rigby, Jonathan Eusebio, Stephane Julien, Matheiu Ledox, Don Lew - WINNER
2. Code Name: The Cleaner
Two stunt men confront one of the lead characters in hopes of taking him out. Although they have some moves, they are no match for his fast kicks and hard hitting hands that cause them to go down hard, over and over again.
Nominees: Phillip Mitchell, Mike Desabrais, Marny Eng, Jase-Anthony Griffith, Rob Hayter
3. Death Sentence
Two men engage in a brutal fight on top of a parking garage and end up wrestling in a car as it rolls backwards towards the edge of the structure. During the fight the front window is kicked out and the hero escapes through the window a moment before the car and bad guy fall.
Nominees: Steven Ritzi, Freddy Bouciegues
4. The Kingdom
A stunt woman doubling Jennifer Garner has a fight to the death with a large attacker. The fight Is all hand to hand combat with hard pounding blows and bodies being hurled against walls and to the floor. The fight ends with a deadly knife attack.
Nominees: Shauna Duggins, Sala Baker, Mike Smith
5. Live Free or Die Hard
Fight between Bruce Willis and woman using various martial arts moves. Fight progresses to a down and dirty brawl, sending male double backwards out a 3-story window, careening off a catwalk and airduct then to the ground. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.
Nominees: Ming Qiu, Dane Farewell
BEST FIRE
1. American Gangster
Stuntman wearing nomex and fire jell sits in a chair as Denzel Washington drops a lighter on him. Stunt man is engulfed in flames for 20 seconds before he falls over and is then shot.
Nominee: Manny Siverio - WINNER
2. The Comeback
A stuntman wearing a football uniform sprints down the field while fully engulfed in flames. He ends up at the sidelines where his teammates try in vain to douse him with the water cooler.
Nominee: Mark Chadwick
3. Hot Rod
A stuntman performs a full body burn as he stumbles, falls and crawls through a kid’s birthday party.
Nominee: Dave Hospes
4. The Mist
Stuntman does full fire burn after being engulfed from a bucket of gas
Nominee: Jason Gray
5. Reno 911!: Miami
One stuntman catches his hands and jacket sleeves on fire. His partner tries to put him out and in doing so engulfs himself in the fire. Fully ignited he then jumps from the yacht 18' into the marina. This was a full and real burn with no added CGI or effects.
Nominees: Cole McKay, Patrick J. Statham
BEST HIGH WORK
1. Bourne Ultimatum
Roof top foot chase. No wires were used. The chase ends with a jump from a balcony through a window where no wires or safety cables were used for the stunt double.
Nominees: Kai Martin, David Leitch - WINNER
2. The Golden Compass
Stunt performers fall 45’ down the side of a glacier. Shot at 7000’ on a real glacier, a slightly sprung wood base was built for the landing. Two 30’ long channels were dug into the ice on the top of the glacier to form a guiding groove for the stunt men to slide at speed over the edge of the ice wall where they were then launched into space.
Nominees: Nicholas Daines, Paul Herbert
3. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman is kicked out a 3-story window careens off a catwalk, hits an air duct then into a truck payload and then the ground. Stunt was done in 3 parts. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.
Nominee: Dane Farewell
4. The Number 23
Stuntman executed a backwards fall through candy glass 70+ feet high. He comes through the window backwards. He falls a long way before tucking for the air bag landing. The stunt was performed without the use of wires, green screen, CGI, or composite enhancing.
Nominee: Bobby Brown
5. The Shooter
The film’s lead stunt double falls through a window backwards, tumbling out of control and ends up landing hard on a sky light on a roof top below. The skylight breaks and sends him falling again to a hard landing inside a building.
Nominee: Patrick Mark
BEST WORK WITH A VEHICLE
1. Bourne Ultimatum
Lead character is being chased in a parking structure. To escape he drives in reverse crashing through cars. After stealing a police car, the chase continues in the streets of New York. There are multiple high speed crashes ending in a VW pushing the police car up onto a K-rail doing a rail slide. Both cars end in a high speed crash. The K-rail police car is unmanned
Nominees: Scott Rogers, Chris O’Hara, Martin Ivanov, Darrin Prescott, Greg Tracy, Gil Combs, Craig “Frosty” Silva, Kevin Scott, Jeremy Fry, Jeffrey Medeiros - WINNER
2. Grindhouse
High speed chase featuring a stunt woman on the hood of the car. Reaching high speeds and receiving hits from another car, only one shot shows a dummy on the hood. Once the stunt woman climbs back into the car, chase continues with a reverse 180, double car jump and cannon roll.
Nominees: Zoe Bell (two dots over the E), Tracy Keehn Dashnaw, Buddy Joe Hooker, Steve Davison
3. The Hitcher
Sequence involved driver operating an air cannon turn over of a police van on a two-lane highway. The van lands in the road then, in a separate cut, is hit at very high speed by an El Camino driven from the opposite direction. Then in another cut, a driver slides a SUV into the two crashed vehicles.
Nominees: Kurt Bryant, Denney Pierce, Russel Solberg, Corey Eubanks, Jennifer S. Badger
4. The Kingdom
Convoy moves down the freeway. An SUV rear ends a Mercedes that explodes, setting off a multi car crash including cannon rolls, T-bones and pyrotechnics. First SUV was on tracks. Second was remotely driven. Third SUV performs a cannon roll and flips several times. This SUV was driven by a stuntman who performed the stunt three times. No enhancement.
Nominees: Nick Hermz, Michael Hilow, Allen Robinson, Robert Patrick Nagle, Chris Guzzi, Mario Roberts
5. Rush Hour 3
High-speed chase through the narrow cobblestone streets of Paris. Motorcycles vs. Taxi. Doors get torn off exposing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who gets pulled into a tug of war. Taxi ends up driving on two wheels and on top of the motorcycle. The only green screen used was to cover the actors.
Nominees: Peng Zhang, Ousaun Trippe Elam, David Julienne, Christophe Roblin, Marsaud Christophe, CONSEIL Gilles, Bernaud Patrick, Patrick Demeria, Vladimir Houbart
BEST SPECIALTY STUNT
1. Ghost Rider
Motorcycle rider takes off to catch a van and has two head-on near misses with semi trucks. Driver finishes with a long nose wheelie into 90 degree stop
Nominees: Robert Jones, Shea Adams
2. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman jumps on fence as a car hits fence. The fence is cabled on to the car as stuntman rides the car through alley. As fence collides with dumpster stuntman is ratcheted off to a wall.
Nominee: Ralf Koch
3. Pathfinder
Stunt man jumps from a higher vantage point and bulldogs the rider who in turn falls with his horse.
Nominees: Jeffrey C. Robinson, Greg Hanson “Digger”
4. Seraphim Falls
Performer was in rapids to 160’ waterfall. He was attached by a cable to helicopter flying backwards above. When he dropped over falls, cable was tripped by the pilot, releasing performer to free fall down waterfall with completely slack cable into mist before being stopped by bungee. No CGI or green screen was used.
Nominees: Mark Vanselow, Craig Hosking - WINNER
5. Wild Hogs
Motorcycle rider grabs a handful of throttle and slips off the back of the bike sliding across the ground. Motorcycle keeps going and crashes.
Nominee: Erik Stabenau
HARDEST HIT
1. 3:10 to Yuma
Stuntman does backwards fall from horse.
Nominee: Brian Lee Brown
2. Death Sentence
A man is standing in the street facing away as a car approaches and he is cued to turn a moment before impact. He is struck head on by the car, breaking the windshield and is thrown over the car and lands in the street.No dummies, cables, or computer graphics were used, only a speed change on the profile impact shot.
Nominee: Nick Stanner
3. Hot Rod
A stuntman attempts a ramp-to-ramp jump over a mail truck with a moped. The take off ramp breaks and the jump goes bad. The stuntman collides upside down and backwards into the catch ramp, causing him to fall on his neck and shoulders
on the pavement.
Nominee: Lars Grant - WINNER
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman is thrown backward down a flight of stairs in a computer chair. The chair was on a ratchet to gain speed but no wires were on the stuntman.
Nominee: Adam Hart
5. We Own the Night
Stuntman jumps out a 2-story window to the ground. First part of the stunt he falls to a catcher. For the landing he was hung by a wire above the fence then free released to the ground.
Nominee: Bob Colletti
BEST OVERALL STUNT BY A WOMAN
1. The Brave One
Stuntwoman gets hit head on by a car.
Nominee: Chrissy Weathersby
2. Mr. Brooks
A stunt woman doubling Demi Moore fights off an attacker in the back of a speeding van. The van careens off cars and slides to an abrupt stop, slamming into a parked car and pitching the stunt woman out of the van landing her hard into a taxi's windshield. The travel of the stunt woman was aided by a ratchet.
Nominees: Boni Yanagisawa, Tracy Keehn Dashnaw
3. Grindhouse
High speed chase featuring a stunt woman on the hood of the car. Female driver reaches high speeds and receives hits from another car, only one shot shows a dummy on the hood. Once the stunt woman climbs back into the car, chase continues with a reverse 180, double car jump and hits tail end of car causing the other car to turn over.
Nominees: Zoe Bell (two dots over the E), Tracy Keehn Dashnaw - WINNER
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntwoman is hit by SUV coming through a wall. SUV was on a limit line to start then stuntwoman attached to hood as it drove through walls, shelving and a window. Wire assisted in the start of the stunt.
Nominee: Ming Qiu
5. Redline
Ford GT enters race track at high speed in reverse through narrow opening. The GT narrowly misses the Ford Mustang and does a reverse 180 down the track. She starts racing the Mustang and does a series of drifting maneuvers in the infield and on the track. Female driver also does spin out in Ford Mustang.
Nominee: Debbie Evans
BEST STUNT COORDINATOR AND/OR 2ND UNIT DIRECTOR
1. 300
Nominees: Damon Caro, Stephane Lefebvre
2. Bourne Ultimatum
Nominees: Dan Bradley, Gary Powell, Darrin Prescott, Scott Rogers, Miquel Pedregosa, Evangelos Grecos
3. Grindhouse
Nominee: Jeff Dashnaw
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Nominees: Brad Martin, Brian Smrz, John Branagan - WINNER
5. Rush Hour 3
Nominees: Conrad E. Palmisano, Eddie Braun, Brad Allan
BEST ACTION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. Code of Appocalipce
Nominee: Vladimir Orlov
2. Das Inferno
Nominee: Torsten Jerabek
3. Flash Point
Nominee: Mr. Donnie Yen - WINNER
4. Paragraph 78
Nominee: Vladimir Orlov
5. The Last Legion
Nominees: Steve Griffin, Lubomir Misak, Monika Fiserova
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* Best Fight
* Best Fire Stunt
* Best High Work
* Best Work with a Vehicle
* Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman
* Hardest Hit
* Best Specialty Stunt
* Best Stunt Coordination and/or 2nd Unit Direction
BEST FIGHT
1. 300
Spartans fight the Persians with swords and spears in a bloody battle. No wires were used, all self-thrown ground pounders.
Nominees: Max White, Jon Valera, Danny Hernandez, Ryan Watson, Matt Rugetti, Tim Rigby, Jonathan Eusebio, Stephane Julien, Matheiu Ledox, Don Lew - WINNER
2. Code Name: The Cleaner
Two stunt men confront one of the lead characters in hopes of taking him out. Although they have some moves, they are no match for his fast kicks and hard hitting hands that cause them to go down hard, over and over again.
Nominees: Phillip Mitchell, Mike Desabrais, Marny Eng, Jase-Anthony Griffith, Rob Hayter
3. Death Sentence
Two men engage in a brutal fight on top of a parking garage and end up wrestling in a car as it rolls backwards towards the edge of the structure. During the fight the front window is kicked out and the hero escapes through the window a moment before the car and bad guy fall.
Nominees: Steven Ritzi, Freddy Bouciegues
4. The Kingdom
A stunt woman doubling Jennifer Garner has a fight to the death with a large attacker. The fight Is all hand to hand combat with hard pounding blows and bodies being hurled against walls and to the floor. The fight ends with a deadly knife attack.
Nominees: Shauna Duggins, Sala Baker, Mike Smith
5. Live Free or Die Hard
Fight between Bruce Willis and woman using various martial arts moves. Fight progresses to a down and dirty brawl, sending male double backwards out a 3-story window, careening off a catwalk and airduct then to the ground. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.
Nominees: Ming Qiu, Dane Farewell
BEST FIRE
1. American Gangster
Stuntman wearing nomex and fire jell sits in a chair as Denzel Washington drops a lighter on him. Stunt man is engulfed in flames for 20 seconds before he falls over and is then shot.
Nominee: Manny Siverio - WINNER
2. The Comeback
A stuntman wearing a football uniform sprints down the field while fully engulfed in flames. He ends up at the sidelines where his teammates try in vain to douse him with the water cooler.
Nominee: Mark Chadwick
3. Hot Rod
A stuntman performs a full body burn as he stumbles, falls and crawls through a kid’s birthday party.
Nominee: Dave Hospes
4. The Mist
Stuntman does full fire burn after being engulfed from a bucket of gas
Nominee: Jason Gray
5. Reno 911!: Miami
One stuntman catches his hands and jacket sleeves on fire. His partner tries to put him out and in doing so engulfs himself in the fire. Fully ignited he then jumps from the yacht 18' into the marina. This was a full and real burn with no added CGI or effects.
Nominees: Cole McKay, Patrick J. Statham
BEST HIGH WORK
1. Bourne Ultimatum
Roof top foot chase. No wires were used. The chase ends with a jump from a balcony through a window where no wires or safety cables were used for the stunt double.
Nominees: Kai Martin, David Leitch - WINNER
2. The Golden Compass
Stunt performers fall 45’ down the side of a glacier. Shot at 7000’ on a real glacier, a slightly sprung wood base was built for the landing. Two 30’ long channels were dug into the ice on the top of the glacier to form a guiding groove for the stunt men to slide at speed over the edge of the ice wall where they were then launched into space.
Nominees: Nicholas Daines, Paul Herbert
3. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman is kicked out a 3-story window careens off a catwalk, hits an air duct then into a truck payload and then the ground. Stunt was done in 3 parts. Wires were used for safety only, no assistance.
Nominee: Dane Farewell
4. The Number 23
Stuntman executed a backwards fall through candy glass 70+ feet high. He comes through the window backwards. He falls a long way before tucking for the air bag landing. The stunt was performed without the use of wires, green screen, CGI, or composite enhancing.
Nominee: Bobby Brown
5. The Shooter
The film’s lead stunt double falls through a window backwards, tumbling out of control and ends up landing hard on a sky light on a roof top below. The skylight breaks and sends him falling again to a hard landing inside a building.
Nominee: Patrick Mark
BEST WORK WITH A VEHICLE
1. Bourne Ultimatum
Lead character is being chased in a parking structure. To escape he drives in reverse crashing through cars. After stealing a police car, the chase continues in the streets of New York. There are multiple high speed crashes ending in a VW pushing the police car up onto a K-rail doing a rail slide. Both cars end in a high speed crash. The K-rail police car is unmanned
Nominees: Scott Rogers, Chris O’Hara, Martin Ivanov, Darrin Prescott, Greg Tracy, Gil Combs, Craig “Frosty” Silva, Kevin Scott, Jeremy Fry, Jeffrey Medeiros - WINNER
2. Grindhouse
High speed chase featuring a stunt woman on the hood of the car. Reaching high speeds and receiving hits from another car, only one shot shows a dummy on the hood. Once the stunt woman climbs back into the car, chase continues with a reverse 180, double car jump and cannon roll.
Nominees: Zoe Bell (two dots over the E), Tracy Keehn Dashnaw, Buddy Joe Hooker, Steve Davison
3. The Hitcher
Sequence involved driver operating an air cannon turn over of a police van on a two-lane highway. The van lands in the road then, in a separate cut, is hit at very high speed by an El Camino driven from the opposite direction. Then in another cut, a driver slides a SUV into the two crashed vehicles.
Nominees: Kurt Bryant, Denney Pierce, Russel Solberg, Corey Eubanks, Jennifer S. Badger
4. The Kingdom
Convoy moves down the freeway. An SUV rear ends a Mercedes that explodes, setting off a multi car crash including cannon rolls, T-bones and pyrotechnics. First SUV was on tracks. Second was remotely driven. Third SUV performs a cannon roll and flips several times. This SUV was driven by a stuntman who performed the stunt three times. No enhancement.
Nominees: Nick Hermz, Michael Hilow, Allen Robinson, Robert Patrick Nagle, Chris Guzzi, Mario Roberts
5. Rush Hour 3
High-speed chase through the narrow cobblestone streets of Paris. Motorcycles vs. Taxi. Doors get torn off exposing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who gets pulled into a tug of war. Taxi ends up driving on two wheels and on top of the motorcycle. The only green screen used was to cover the actors.
Nominees: Peng Zhang, Ousaun Trippe Elam, David Julienne, Christophe Roblin, Marsaud Christophe, CONSEIL Gilles, Bernaud Patrick, Patrick Demeria, Vladimir Houbart
BEST SPECIALTY STUNT
1. Ghost Rider
Motorcycle rider takes off to catch a van and has two head-on near misses with semi trucks. Driver finishes with a long nose wheelie into 90 degree stop
Nominees: Robert Jones, Shea Adams
2. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman jumps on fence as a car hits fence. The fence is cabled on to the car as stuntman rides the car through alley. As fence collides with dumpster stuntman is ratcheted off to a wall.
Nominee: Ralf Koch
3. Pathfinder
Stunt man jumps from a higher vantage point and bulldogs the rider who in turn falls with his horse.
Nominees: Jeffrey C. Robinson, Greg Hanson “Digger”
4. Seraphim Falls
Performer was in rapids to 160’ waterfall. He was attached by a cable to helicopter flying backwards above. When he dropped over falls, cable was tripped by the pilot, releasing performer to free fall down waterfall with completely slack cable into mist before being stopped by bungee. No CGI or green screen was used.
Nominees: Mark Vanselow, Craig Hosking - WINNER
5. Wild Hogs
Motorcycle rider grabs a handful of throttle and slips off the back of the bike sliding across the ground. Motorcycle keeps going and crashes.
Nominee: Erik Stabenau
HARDEST HIT
1. 3:10 to Yuma
Stuntman does backwards fall from horse.
Nominee: Brian Lee Brown
2. Death Sentence
A man is standing in the street facing away as a car approaches and he is cued to turn a moment before impact. He is struck head on by the car, breaking the windshield and is thrown over the car and lands in the street.No dummies, cables, or computer graphics were used, only a speed change on the profile impact shot.
Nominee: Nick Stanner
3. Hot Rod
A stuntman attempts a ramp-to-ramp jump over a mail truck with a moped. The take off ramp breaks and the jump goes bad. The stuntman collides upside down and backwards into the catch ramp, causing him to fall on his neck and shoulders
on the pavement.
Nominee: Lars Grant - WINNER
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntman is thrown backward down a flight of stairs in a computer chair. The chair was on a ratchet to gain speed but no wires were on the stuntman.
Nominee: Adam Hart
5. We Own the Night
Stuntman jumps out a 2-story window to the ground. First part of the stunt he falls to a catcher. For the landing he was hung by a wire above the fence then free released to the ground.
Nominee: Bob Colletti
BEST OVERALL STUNT BY A WOMAN
1. The Brave One
Stuntwoman gets hit head on by a car.
Nominee: Chrissy Weathersby
2. Mr. Brooks
A stunt woman doubling Demi Moore fights off an attacker in the back of a speeding van. The van careens off cars and slides to an abrupt stop, slamming into a parked car and pitching the stunt woman out of the van landing her hard into a taxi's windshield. The travel of the stunt woman was aided by a ratchet.
Nominees: Boni Yanagisawa, Tracy Keehn Dashnaw
3. Grindhouse
High speed chase featuring a stunt woman on the hood of the car. Female driver reaches high speeds and receives hits from another car, only one shot shows a dummy on the hood. Once the stunt woman climbs back into the car, chase continues with a reverse 180, double car jump and hits tail end of car causing the other car to turn over.
Nominees: Zoe Bell (two dots over the E), Tracy Keehn Dashnaw - WINNER
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Stuntwoman is hit by SUV coming through a wall. SUV was on a limit line to start then stuntwoman attached to hood as it drove through walls, shelving and a window. Wire assisted in the start of the stunt.
Nominee: Ming Qiu
5. Redline
Ford GT enters race track at high speed in reverse through narrow opening. The GT narrowly misses the Ford Mustang and does a reverse 180 down the track. She starts racing the Mustang and does a series of drifting maneuvers in the infield and on the track. Female driver also does spin out in Ford Mustang.
Nominee: Debbie Evans
BEST STUNT COORDINATOR AND/OR 2ND UNIT DIRECTOR
1. 300
Nominees: Damon Caro, Stephane Lefebvre
2. Bourne Ultimatum
Nominees: Dan Bradley, Gary Powell, Darrin Prescott, Scott Rogers, Miquel Pedregosa, Evangelos Grecos
3. Grindhouse
Nominee: Jeff Dashnaw
4. Live Free or Die Hard
Nominees: Brad Martin, Brian Smrz, John Branagan - WINNER
5. Rush Hour 3
Nominees: Conrad E. Palmisano, Eddie Braun, Brad Allan
BEST ACTION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. Code of Appocalipce
Nominee: Vladimir Orlov
2. Das Inferno
Nominee: Torsten Jerabek
3. Flash Point
Nominee: Mr. Donnie Yen - WINNER
4. Paragraph 78
Nominee: Vladimir Orlov
5. The Last Legion
Nominees: Steve Griffin, Lubomir Misak, Monika Fiserova
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