Action movies rule the box office. So why isn't there an Oscar for stunt people?

The Sunday Magazine23:58Action movies rule the box office. So why isn’t there an Oscar for stunt people?

In 2020, a stunt double strode on stage to accept Hollywood’s biggest award.

The thing was, the Oscar was handed to Brad Pitt for playing a stuntman in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — not being one.

“Isn’t it amazing that an actor who plays a stuntman can win an Oscar? But yet being a stuntman, you can’t win an Oscar,” said Jack Gill, a Hollywood stunt coordinator who for decades stunt doubled in TV shows and movies, including for John Schneider in The Dukes of Hazzard and