If someone knows How to make a fall, is dear Marie Choljian. As an acrobatic artist in all from All everywhere all at once To this Friday DancerShe is used to taking blows and getting up. There is only one shot that would like to not take, at least not at this moment, that it will not win an Oscar.
To be clear, it’s not that she I cannot Win an Oscar or that does not have the skill. It’s that Until April of this year There was not only a category for acrobatics artists. The Academy of the Arts and Sciences of Cinema has announced a new trophy specifically for the design of the stunt this spring, but no film will be suitable for the award until 2027, long after Dancer It is out of theaters.
“Kill me”, jokes Choljian when I ask for the announcement of the Academy and the times of his latest film. “I was like, why don’t we push him”?
The acrobatics works have been part of the cinema since there have been films. In a sector where the actors literally apply millions of dollars, often there is someone on the set willing to do things really dangerous to save their skin. Many stars: Keanu Reeves, Tom CruiseCholjian’s Dancer Counterparty Ana de Armas-Paricict in acrobatic work, but for much great action of life or death, there is a double. They are appointed in the credits, but because of the nature of their work, they are also invisible to most of the public.
Returning to the 90s, the acrobatics artists asked that the recognition of the Academy was closed only. But when you like movies Furious 7, John WickAND Mad Max: Fury Road They began to hit the theaters, the stunts were so incredible that they become clearer that the acrobatics work was essential for some films such as the script or the director. There was no film without the action. However, the creators behind it have never obtained the same recognition of the Academy of, for example, artists of visual effects or costume designers.
As part of the John Wick franchise, Dancer It has been made to measure for the new Oscar category. In it, Choljian and De Armas must fight in every possible scenario with every possible weapon: plates, lamps, every type of imaginable gun. There are shootings in clubs and hand -to -hand combat. David Leitch, a former acrobatics projector that Cocroato has Wick and continued to direct heavy action films such as Atomic blonde AND Dead Poolera on the front line of the campaign to obtain the Academy to create a premium for stunts. If Dancer He was going out a little later, he would be at the forefront in the pack.
Not that it would be a shoot-in. Is coming out only weeks later Mission: Impossible: the final reckoningIn which Tom Cruise is once again hooked by a flying object that should certainly not be. But if anything, the existence of two highly competitive films in the category would demonstrate the reason why it has been expected for some time.
