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ARNOLD HOSTS "WORLD STUNT AWARDS" TONIGHT! Watch Arnold host on May 31st on ABC! Reported By: René de Jong Sunday, May 19, 2002 Arnold Schwarzenegger will host this year's World Stunt Awards tonight, with presenters to include Michael Clarke Duncan ("The Scorpion King"), Charlton Heston ("Planet Of The Apes"), Dennis Hopper ("Speed"), Lucy Liu ("Charlie's Angels"), Matthew McConaughey ("Friends") and Billy Bob Thornton ("The Man who Wasn't There"). Nominations for the 2nd Annual World Stunt Awards were announced April 10th by the World Stunt Academy for extraordinary performances in the year¹s best feature films in 14 different categories. Winners of the awards will be announced during a taped broadcast at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar on Sunday, May 19, 2002. The telecast will air on ABC at 8:00pm EST/PST on Friday, May 31, 2002. The World Stunt Awards, the only awards show dedicated to honoring stunt professionals in film, will be executive produced by Don Mischer through his Don Mischer Productions company. "Rush Hour II" leads with nine nominations, including three for Best High Work and two for Best Stunt By a Stuntman along with Best Fight, Best Specialty Stunt, Best Water Work and Best Stunt Coordination-Feature Film. Seven nominations each went to "Apocalypse Now Redux," and "The Fast and the Furious." "Apocalypse Now Redux," which made its original theatrical debut in 1979 and was re-released in 2001, is nominated for Best Aerial Work, Best Fire Stunt, Best High Work, Best Water Work, Best Work with a Vehicle, Best Stunt Coordination-Feature Film and Best Stunt Coordination-Sequence. "The Fast and the Furious" earned two nominations for Best Work with a Vehicle along with Best Driving, Hardest Hit, Best Stunt by a Stuntman, Best Stunt by a Stuntwoman and Best Stunt Coordination-Feature Film. "American Outlaws," received six nominations including three for Best Work with an Animal, two for Best Specialty Stunt and one for Best Water Work. Other top nods went to "Planet of the Apes," "The Animal," "Rat Race," "Swordfish," "Pearl Harbor," "A Knight's Tale" and "The Last Castle." In addition to winners chosen from 14 categories for extraordinary performances in the year¹s best feature films, there will also be honorary and lifetime achievement award categories. Past honorees and participants of the World Stunt Awards have included Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Woo, Alec Baldwin, Sandra Bullock, Nicolas Cage, Chuck Norris, Michael Keaton, Jackie Chan, Ving Rhames, Burt Reynolds, John Travolta, Sharon Stone, James Cameron and more. World-renowned action film star and stuntman Jackie Chan (Rush Hour II, Shanghai Noon), blockbuster director Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, The Rock, Bad Boys) and legendary stuntman Buddy Van Horn have been selected by the World Stunt Academy to receive honorary Taurus Awards at the 2nd Annual World Stunt Awards for their continued support of the stunt community and their contribution to the world of action films. Jackie Chan will receive the 2002 honorary Taurus Award for Best Action Movie Star via live satellite from Prague where he is currently filming Rush Hour III, an honor that was presented during last year¹s inaugural show to Arnold Schwarzenegger. The World Stunt Awards benefits the Taurus World Stunt Awards Foundation which is sustained by an endowment from Red Bull® Energy Drink and supports stunt professionals that have suffered severe physical injury in pursuit of their work. The Taurus World Stunt Foundation and the World Stunt Academy were created as a result of the vision of Dietrich Mateschitz, founder of the Red Bull company. The Academy was formed in 2000 and now has a membership of nearly 1000 stunt professionals, who vote for the nominees and winners of the World Stunt Awards. Watch it for yourselves airing May 31 on ABC! ---------- |