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Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1981 | Dominic
1980 | Richard
Best Actor | 1981 | Peter
Top Ten Films | 1980
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1981
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1981 | Peter
Best Director | 1981 | Richard
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | 1981 | Peter
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1981
Best Director Motion Picture | 1981 | Richard
New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture Male | 1981 | Steve
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1981
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1981
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1981 | Richard
Best Actor | 1980 | Peter
Director Richard Rush has said of this movie in a 2001 interview with Paul Hupfield: "I was lecturing at a university film school to a bunch of potential film students and asked them if any of them had seen my films. I started with Color of Night (1994), and I'd say about 80 hands went up out of a room of about 200 kids. Then I asked if anyone had seen The Stunt Man (1980), the film I actually wanted to talk to them about, and only two hands went up. Two hands in a room of 200! I thought, 'Oh boy, my film is totally lost on this generation...'."
The film was a dream project for director Richard Rush. The film has frequently being publicized as taking nine years to get to the screen. However, Rush has said on the website for The Sinister Saga of Making 'the Stunt Man' (2000), that the picture took ten years to make from inception to release, seven years to finance it and then three years to release it. The script was first written in 1970 when the rights were first sold. The film was shot in 1977 with post-production conducted in 1979. The picture had trouble getting distributed until 20th Century Fox picked it up and released it in 1980.
On the film's DVD audio commentary, the picture's star Peter O'Toole said of the movie's distribution: "The film wasn't released, it escaped". while talking about the absolute struggle to get the film made from pre-production up through its limited theatrical rollout before an eventual Oscar nomination raised its profile.
Stunt coordinator Charles Bail, who is frequently known as Chuck Bail, worked as an actor in the film playing a character, Chuck, also a stunt coordinator, who had the same first name as his own. Bail also worked uncredited on stunts for the picture.
During the long period of the making and release of this film director Richard Rush suffered two heart attacks.
"Eli Cross: [after a cameraman says cut because there's only 22 seconds of film left] In 22 seconds, I could break your fucking spine. In 22 seconds, I could pinch your head off like a fucking insect and spin it all over the fucking pavement. In 22 seconds, I could put 22 bullets inside your ridiculous gut. What I seem unable to do in 22 seconds is to keep you from fucking up my film!"
"Cameron: What should I congratulate you for? The fucking scene or for fucking the director? Nina: [miffed] For fucking the director, honey. Didn't you know that's how little girls get into the movies?"
