Star Trek Wins SAG Stunt Ensemble Award (Presented by Scott Bakula)

I was about to give up on the awards ceremonies after ST09 getting snubbed in some of the earlier awards programs.

Thanks for the update, I will hope for more awards to follow in the other guilds.

Well deserved!

Pretty kool that none other then Scott Bakula was the presenter for the award. Maybe we can get Scott a small role in the next movie as either Admirel Archer or maybe a son or grandson of Capt Archer.

Congrats stunt guys n gals, top work :-)

My god, they have an award for EVERYTHING…..

It is like a kids soccer league…

They should also get the award for best or worst lens flares.

Congrats, guys! Take a bow… or a fall… or a 2X4 to the face… whatever you guys do to celebrate.

Awesomeness! It’s nice to see ‘Trek has any kind of award under its belt.

On a very happy note, “Inglorious Basterds” won best ensemble cast in a feature film… And Zach Quinto held the trophy and gave the speech! Hurrah!

@7. maoman – “My god, they have an award for EVERYTHING…..”

Films are a collaborative art form. Many creative individuals come together to produce what you see and hear. THEY ALL DESERVE TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR TALENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS.

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nothing wrong with the nacelles

Engineering? I’m with ya

In the commercial (#6) is that a stunt double for Pine in the dorm room scene?

Lotta action in that clip.

how fitting Scott Bakula presented the award to Star Trek – that mus be faith…

@ Star Trek’s ‘Supreme Court’, please get Scott Bakula/Archer in the next Star Trek film somehow.

You can do it :)

You know what stunt I wanna see in the Star Trek sequel? Scott Bakula as a centenarian Admiral Archer laying some epic smack down on Scotty while screaming, “Where’s my goddamned dog?! Give me back Porthos!!!”

A Scott Bakula cameo along the same lines as the DeForest Kelly appearance in “Encounter At Farpoint” could work quite spendidly I think.
Maybe Archer and Scotty walk down a corridor together. Archer forgives Scotty for losing his dog (he gets it back) and gives a bit of advice to Mr.Scott. Archer mentions some of Trip’s finest moments and how he didn’t hold back his opinions from his captain.

#26, why would deny the craftsmen working in their field an opportunity to celebrate their achievements? You seemed to be bothered by the fact that this is too many awards for your addled brain to process.

The reality is, the ONLY reason you know about them is because Anthony reports them here. Otherwise, they would go on unheralded in anonymous banquet halls, reported only in industry trades, and you would not have to be inconvenienced with the celebration of someone else’s much earned award for excellence in their field.

I don’t know what you do for a living, but most of these people work extremely hard to get to the level of being nominated (and by hard I mean staying at the top of their game for 16 hour days, 6-7 days a week for several months without a break of any kind, often on location and away from their families). And then they have to work even harder to earn the attention of their peers. It is through such efforts that the bar of excellence is continually raised in this business, in much the same way as in any business which recognizes the efforts of its employees, be it with bonuses and/or awards. And let me tell you the bonuses are far from plentiful for the working class in Hollywood.

Like a dinosaur you speak with a big mouth and a small brain. Stop and think the next time you decide to minimize the accomplishments of those whom you do not understand in a business you are not a part.

Archer should be a former President of the Federation. His offspring should be the Admiral they speak of and the ‘beagle’ should be a desendent of Porthos.

Congrats to Star Trek! I liked the drill platform fighting scene!

Folks — just a correction of sorts:

With all due respect to Terry Jackson, a brilliant stuntman and coordinator, Joey Box was the principal stunt coordinator on Star Trek. Mr. Box worked as assistant stunt coordinator for stunt legend Vic Armstrong on M:I-3 for JJ. When Mr. Armstrong was unavailable for Trek, Mr. Box was promoted to coordinator. Mr. Box is also working as stunt coordinator on JJ’s new television pilot Undercovers.

I know all this because I worked on both M:I-3 and Trek — just to clarify my source of information.

I just wanted to point all this out to give Mr. Box his deserved recognition.

#30 – and you are missing the point completely. No one entity is sub-divinding the awards into subcategories. I really don’t see the objection. It’s not like it is some Hollywood conspiracy to milk awards season. Nobody is forcing you to watch them, to the extent they are even covered anywhere outside of Hollywood.

Films employ hundreds to thousands of very specialized people. Most of whom are simply workers who go where they are told and move what they are told. Their direction is overseen by a select few department heads. A win for the department head is a win for the staff hired by that person who ultimately followed their direction and helped them achieve the acknowledgment. And everyone involved gets to put it on their resume.

When a director or producer accepts an award for best film, they are lucky to even be able to name the department heads, much less even thank them all in their acceptance speech. As far as the viewing public is concerned the director, or producer are solely responsible for the film, along with the actors and perhaps the writers. Are you really suggesting that outside of the limelight of national television and media coverage, the other specialized departments are not entitled to some level of recognition which is just as prominent on screen as the others’?

Further, are you actually suggesting that the film that wins best picture contains the best of all crafts? If Star Trek won best picture, should everyone assume that it had the best costumes of any movie created in 2010 (despite the fact they were just updates of a 40 year old design)? The artisans who contribute to these films are just as deserving of recognition from their peers and colleagues within the industry, if only to get their next job. Why should a department head who did outstanding work be overlooked for acknowledgement simply because they did not happen to do it on the film that won best picture?

And while the Osacrs represent the creme de la creme for many of these technical awards which the average person does not see either, there is far more merit within the individual guilds whose members carry most of the burden of the day to day work and as such are in a position to evaluate the work differently than merely the limited pool of past Oscar winners, or nominees. There is real value to being acknowledged by the people in the guild, which unlike the elite Oscar groups are made up of those “smaller players” you are so concerned about, who in effect are voting for themselves despite not being so named. Or would you deny them the ability to disagree with the Academy’s vote as well as to honor those individual sub-groups who have no counterpart for recognition in the Oscars?

So really what is your point? Who are you really concerned about here that you would deny these people the chance to receive proper recognition and not simply settle for that dictated by the Oscars?

…and if Adm. Archer’s current beagle is and angrrrry one named Khan, then Star Trek II could be The Wrath of Khan

If you can not tell where the stunt people are in TV or Film then we have done our job well. We are Members of the Screen Actors Guild and are only asking to be recognized.

When I first joined SAG, Producers did not even have to list stunt people!