Eva Mendes is celebrating the Oscars' new award for stunts — and shouting out her husband, Ryan Gosling, for serving to to advocate for the change.

Following Thursday's announcement that the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences will introduce a Finest Stunt Design class on the 2028 Oscars, the 2 Quick 2 Livid actress praised her partner's dedication to highlighting the stunt group as he promoted his film The Fall Guy final yr.

"My man is the F finest!" Mendes wrote in an Instagram publish. "I'm further happy with my man for turning his whole Fall Man press tour right into a marketing campaign to get stunts acknowledged by the Oscars."

Gosling portrayed stuntman Colt Seavers within the action-comedy, and repeatedly turned the highlight on stunt performers as he did press for the movie. The actor launched a phase on the 2024 Oscars that honored stunt groups, appeared in a Carpool Karaoke segment with a few of The Fall Man's stunt performers, and introduced two of them to the movie's Hollywood premiere for a shock stunt that yanked his doubles by means of the material of the purple carpet backdrop and towards a fiery blaze.

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On the identical premiere, Gosling informed audiences, "This film is only a big marketing campaign to get stunts an Oscar," according to The New York Times.

In her Instagram publish, Mendes went on to have a good time the movie business's stunt performers. "This can be a HUGE success!" she wrote. "And an achievement that may final. Congratulations to the the unbelievable stunt group!!"

Mendes additionally playfully ribbed Gosling's Fall Man costar Emily Blunt, who stands alongside him within the last photograph within the publish. "BTW, that is the final time I publish a pic of my man and the full babe that’s Emily Blunt," she wrote. "No más!"

The Fall Man was directed by David Leitch, who labored as a stunt performer and doubled for stars like Brad Pitt and Jean-Claude Van Damme earlier than helming movies like Atomic Blonde and Bullet Prepare. Leitch was one of the vital vocal advocates lobbying for the Academy to acknowledge stunts on the Oscars.

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Leitch expressed his dismay on the lack of recognition for stunt performers throughout an interview with Entertainment Weekly final yr. "Possibly it's all the time been within the DNA of the job," he stated. "We’re type of the ninjas of the film enterprise. We create the magic however get not one of the credit score. Possibly that's the place it's all the time going to be, however I hope not. I hope that our voices are heard and we begin to get acknowledged."

The filmmaker celebrated the Academy's choice in an Instagram publish Thursday. "This has been a journey for therefore many people!" Leitch wrote. "[Stunt designer Chris O'Hara] and myself have invested a number of years into this. We constructed on the work of all of the stunt designers who fought so exhausting for this prior to now over the previous many years. We’re very grateful."

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