Taurus World Stunt Awards

The Taurus World Stunt Awards is a yearly award ceremony that honors stunt performers in movies. It is held each year in Los Angeles.

There are 7 categories in the taurus world stunt awards :

• Best Fight
  The winner for this category in 2012 was Fast Five
  The stunt :
  Two men face off in a bare knuckle fight in a warehouse, crashing into props, breakaway walls and windows. 
• Best Fire Stunt
  The winner for this category in 2012 was Fright Night
  The stunt :
  While attached together with wires, stunt people perform a double burn and are thrown around a room. 
  
• Best High Work
  The winner for this category in 2012 was  Fast Five
  The stunt :
  Two men who jumped out of the car into the water. The stuntmen were connected to a fan descender and jumped 160’ to the water below. They fall very quickly and get into the water with a drop of 20%. CGI was used to add the Corvette falling into the water.
  
• Best Work with a Vehicle
  The winner for this category in 2012 was  Fast Five
  The Stunt :
  1. Three cars overtake a prison bus causing it to swerve, hit the back of a car and turn over. Stunt was done in 2 parts. The first part had all of the cars overtaking the bus and doing slides. The second part placed an unoccupied car in the road for the bus to fire the cannon. The bus was traveling 60mph and it took 3 air cannons to turn over.
  
  2. A police SUV flips 5 times after a street lamp is knocked into its path. The SUV was traveling   50mph and used a powder cannon to turn over.
  
  3. Two vehicles tow a large bank vault through city streets. The vault was really an all-wheel steering vehicle and the cables connecting the cars and the vault were CGI. 
• Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman
  The winner for this category in 2012 was Thor
  The Stunt :A stuntwoman jumps 35' down and 25' out to land on top of a large metal destroyer. She is flipped off the destroyer, hitting the street and eventually sent backwards over a car.
  
• Best Specialty Stunt
  The winner for this category in 2012 was Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  The Stunt :
  Wingsuit performers perform air maneuvers over a city with tall buildings. 
• Best Stunt Coordinator and/or second Unit Director
  The winner for this category in 2012 was  Fast Five