Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT From John Wick to Mad Max: Fury Road, there are plenty of great action movies from the past decade that deserved an Oscar for Best Stunts . After years of campaigning by the stunt community – most recently by the cast and crew of the stunt-centric action comedy The Fall Guy – the Academy is officially considering introducing a stunt category at the Oscars.
9 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller returned to the Mad Max universe with one of the greatest action movies ever made in 2015. Mad Max: Fury Road was stuck in development hell for years, and for a while, it seemed as though it might never get made. But when it finally hit theaters, it was well worth the wait. Fury Road has all the grit and visceral spectacle of The Road Warrior, but with a much bigger budget and more advanced technology to pull it off.
7 2017 – Baby Driver Reeves and co. came back with even more breathtaking stunts in John Wick: Chapter 2 in 2017, but those fistfights and firefights were topped by the jaw-dropping vehicular stunts in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. Wright’s tale of a hard-of-hearing getaway driver who burns rubber to the tune of his banging iPod playlists pioneered a whole new subgenre: the action jukebox musical.
5 2019 – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum The John Wick team raised the bar yet again with their high-octane threequel, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. The stunts in Parabellum are just as stunning as the first two movies, but with even more impressive feats and outside-the-box thinking. Wick rides a horse down a busy New York street while being chased by armed motorcyclists; he takes a pair of attack dogs into battle with a legion of goons.