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Stunt personnel are sounding off at their disappointment with the Academy Awards and their continued exclusion from Hollywood's biggest night. 

The Stand Up For Stunts movement is calling for a boycott of the Oscars since there is no category designated to honor those that risk their lives for entertainment. 

'91 years of Oscars, yet there is still NO category for Stunt Professionals! Show your LOVE for stunts here and #StandUPforStunts,' the group state on their social media accounts. 

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The Stand Up For Stunts group is calling for a boycott of the Oscars since there is no category designated to honor those that risk their lives for entertainment.

Best Stunts has been a proposed category for the award show since 1991. It has been rejected every year since. 

Included on their pages are a plethora of photos showing various stunt actors, coordinators and allies holding signs that read: 'Oscars, add a stunt coordinator category!'  

Stand Up For Stunts also includes a link to a petition demanding that stunt professionals be honored for their work. It has just under 100K signatures.

Included on their pages are a plethora of photos showing various stunt actors, coordinators and allies holding signs that read: 'Oscars, add a stunt coordinator category!'

Best Stunts has been a proposed category for the award show since 1991, but it has been rejected ever since. The group launched a petition hoping to get the attention of The Academy

The petition reads: 'Many people do not know that Stunt Professionals do not get an Academy Award, even though they are the ones who literally risk life and limb for their life's passion, the ART FORM they have spent their lifetimes MASTERING. The ART of ACTION! 

'Without their selfless contribution to film, the movies we know and love, would not be nearly as impactful. It is the ART of ACTION, that allows us to experience those thrilling and breathtaking moments that makes our hearts beat faster. Observing the ARTWORK of Stunt Professionals can literally change the way our bodies function!'

Jazzy Ellis - a stunt woman based in Atlanta - stressed that every day she goes to work, she is put in life-threatening situations

'I train hard everyday to go to set and be in charge of protecting the cast and crew,' she explained to the DailyMail.com. 'I've been injured many times. At least twice a year, I get hurt badly. I barely get recognition from the actresses I double. The least The Academy can do is show how important, necessary and dangerous our job is.'

Jazzy Ellis - a stunt woman based in Atlanta - stressed that every day she goes to work, she is put in life-threatening situations. 

'I train hard everyday to go to set and be in charge of protecting the cast and crew,' she explained to the DailyMail.com. 'I've been injured many times. At least twice a year, I get hurt badly. I barely get recognition from the actresses I double.

'The least The Academy can do is show how important, necessary and dangerous our job is.' 

Ellis has done stunt and acting work for seven years, appearing in more than 40 TV-shows and movies

She even was a member of the Jabari tribe in Avengers: Infinity War, which was nominated for Best Stunts at the January Screen Actors Guild Award

Ellis has done stunt and acting work for seven years, appearing in more than 40 TV-shows and movies. She even was a member of the Jabari tribe in Avengers: Infinity War, which was nominated for Best Stunts at the January Screen Actors Guild Award.

'The Academy doesn't want to give recognition to stunt performers because since the beginning, the actors wanted to create a facade of doing their own stunts and truly being the character they're portraying,' she added. 'We all know this isn't the truth.'

The stunt actress asserted that she is insistent about the recognition because she has lost 'too many friends on the job to not fight.'

Ellis continued: 'My friend John Bernecker (left), who brought me to my first stunt training, lost his life on the set of The Walking Dead. Joi Harris (right) lost her life on her very first stunt job on Deadpool 2. We risk it all for your entertainment and don't get recognition because of actors' egos. It's b******t.

Ellis continued: 'My friend John Bernecker, who brought me to my first stunt training, lost his life on the set of The Walking Dead. Joi Harris lost her life on her very first stunt job on Deadpool 2.

'We risk it all for your entertainment and don't get recognition because of actors' egos. It's b******t.  

'And it's been time we get awarded for our work. We are skilled performers. We train hard. We do a job that most actors physically can't do safely.'

The Academy could not be reached for a comment.  

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