Kick, Bang Bang! nominated for stunt awards in US

Mumbai: Bollywood blockbusters Kick and Bang Bang! have been nominated in Taurus World Stunt Awards alongside Hollywood biggies like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and “Transformers: Age of Extinction”. Salman Khan-starrer “Kick” is up against “The Expendables 3”, “22 Jump Street” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction” for Best High Work Award, read taurusworldstuntawards.com. [caption id=“attachment_2194719” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Courtesy: Facebook, Kick page.[/caption] It is also nominated in Best Stunt Rigging category along with “22 Jump Street”, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. Hrithik Roshan-starrer “Bang Bang!”, which has several death-defying stunts, may bag the Best Fight award if it manages to defeat “300: Rise of an Empire”, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “John Wick”. It has even won nomination for Best Work With a Vehicle. Other nominees are “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, “Need for Speed” and “Nightcrawler”. The Hindi movie with power-packed action scenes is also nominated for Best Specialty Stunt award. It will vie against “Dumb & Dumber To”, “Fury”, “Need for Speed” and “Pompeii”. “Bang Bang!”, which also stars Katrina Kaif, may get honoured with Best Overall Stunt By a Stunt Woman at a ceremony to be held in California on May 9. Other contenders are “Need for Speed”, “Pompeii”, “The Sacrament” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. Taurus World Stunt Awards in the form of a Taurus statuette is given annually to members of the Taurus World Stunt Academy for outstanding stunt and stunt-related achievements in eligible, theatrically released motion pictures. IANS