If anyone knows How to fall is Cara Marie Chooljian. As a stunt performer It's everywhere at once By this Friday Ballet dancershe got used to blowing and recovering. She just hopes she doesn't have to take a blow, at least not now - she won't win an Oscar.

It's clear that it's not her cannot Win an Oscar, or she doesn't have the skills. Until April this year, there was no category for technical performers. The School of Film Arts and Sciences announced a new trophy this spring specifically designed for stunts, but will not be eligible until 2027. Ballet dancer Not in the theater.

"Kill me," Chooljian joked when I asked about the college's announcement and the timing of her latest movie. “I was thinking, why don’t we push it”?

Stunts have been part of filmmaking since the film was in place. In an industry of actors who are actually worth millions of dollars, there are often people who are willing to do something really dangerous to save their skin. Many stars - Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, Chooljian's Ballet dancer Corresponding to Ana de Armas - involved in stunt work, but for many large-scale actions of life or death, there is a double action. Their name is credit, but due to the nature of their work, many viewers cannot see it either.

Dating back to the 1990s, stunt performers have been demanding recognition from the closure of the academy. But when the movie is like Angry 7, John Wickand Mad Max: Angry Road Starting to go to the theater, the stunts are so incredible that it is clearer that the stunts work is just as essential to certain films as scripts or directors. There is no movie without action. Nevertheless, the creators behind it have never been recognized by the same college as visual effects artists or costume designers.

As part John Wick Franchise, Ballet dancer It is tailored to the new Oscar category. In it, Chooljian and de Armas must fight in every possible situation of every possible weapon - the plate, the burner, all kinds of imaginable guns. There are gunfights in clubs and in close combat. David Leitch, former stunt performer Wick And continue to act directly Atomic Blonde and dead Poolis the forefront of the sport to receive the Academy’s creation of awards for the stunt award. if Ballet dancer Come out later and it will be at the forefront of packaging.

Not that this is a shoo-in. It came out in just a few weeks Task: Impossible - The final estimatein which Tom Cruise is hung again on a flying object that he absolutely shouldn't have. But, if anything, the existence of two highly competitive films in these two categories will prove why it should have been long overdue.