Actor Awards: Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
American Cinematheque Tribute to the Crafts: Chris O’Hara – Best Stunts
Astra Creative Arts Awards: Chris O’Hara – Best Stunt Coordinator
Astra Creative Arts Awards: Best Stunts
Astra Midseason Movie Awards: David Leitch – Best Director (2nd Place Winner)
Astra Midseason Movie Awards: Ryan Gosling – Best Actor (2nd Place Winner)
Astra Midseason Movie Awards: Best Stunts
Austin Film Critics Association: Sunny Sun, Keir Beck, Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara – Best Stunt Work
Critics Association of Central Florida Awards: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Work
Fido Awards: Jean Claude – Blockbuster Bowser
Golden Trailer Awards: Most Original TV Spot
Hawaii Film Critics Society: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Work
Houston Film Critics Society Awards: Sunny Sun, Keir Beck, Chris O’Hara, Jonathan Eusebio – Best Stunt Coordination
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards: Buster Keaton Award for Best Stunt Ensemble Film
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Best Action Stunts
Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Work
Music City Film Critics’ Association Awards: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Work
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunts
Online Film & Television Association: Jonathan Eusebio, Chris O’Hara, Sunny Sun, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Coordination
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards: Cheesesteak Award
Pittsburgh Film Critics Association Awards: Chris O’Hara, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Performance and Choreography
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Stunt Choreography
St. Louis Film Critics Association: Best Stunts
Taurus World Stunt Awards: Chris O’Hara, Keir Beck – Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director
Taurus World Stunt Awards: Logan Holladay – Best Work with a Vehicle
Taurus World Stunt Awards: Troy Lindsay Brown – Best High Work
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards: Chris O’Hara – Best Stunts

Jody: You are literally the last person on Earth I wanna see. I’d slap the shit outta you. I really could.
Colt: And I’m open to that in a safer environment.

Dan: But it ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.
Colt: Nah, man! You can’t quote Rocky on me like that!

Colt: I’m just a boy in a neon suit, standing in front of a girl, reminding her that Notting Hill is her favorite movie. And she watches Love Actually every year of Christmas.

Jody: I’m the director. You’re a stunt guy. We need to keep it super profesh.
Colt: Profesh is my middle name.
Jody: You said your middle name was Danger.
Colt: That’s my stage name.

Colt: I never forget a fist.

Jody: You fall down, you get right back up. How far would you go for the one that you love?

Tom: What are you gonna do for me?
Colt: Uh, die, I guess. Right? Is that the plan?

Colt: Tom, you need carbs! Your brain runs on glucose! For simple cognitive functions, you need them!

Tom: It’s high noon at the edge of the universe, folks. Now, we’re facing a powerful enemy. An alien species born of the worst of humanity’s traits. Well, what our enemy doesn’t see is that their demise is imminent. And the most powerful weapon in all galaxy? Love. Inside each and every one of you is a spark, baby. An ember. A goddamn fire! Love is how we will win. And even if we lose, we’re gonna die fighting for a happy ending!

Doone: No offense, but I prefer cartoons. See, movies are always trying to make things real. But it’s not real. It’s a movie. It’s not meant to be real. That’s why I like cartoons. Y’see, ’cause cartoons don’t pretend to be real.

Jody: That happy ever after stuff, unsubscribe me.

Colt: I’m just a stunt guy! I’m working on Metalstorm, too!
Iggy: You lie! We’re only on Metalstorm 1!
Colt: I meant “also!”

Colt: I just wanted to say that when I first got here, when you asked how I was doing, and I gave you the thumbs-up, when you were like, “That’s stunt guy bullshit,” and you’re right, it’s total cliché, but, you know, there’s a reason you don’t see the thumbs-down stunt guy. You know, it’s kind of part of our training. Right? You know, you get hit by a car, you get thrown out of a window, you get set on fire, you give the thumbs-up. But, uh, after my accident — turns out, was not an accident, by the way — I, uh… I wasn’t okay. And not because I broke my back, because I just felt like a huge… failure. And I realized that, uh… you know, I’m not invincible. Huge shocker. And I thought maybe I wasn’t so special or something, so I, uh… just figured that the thumbs-down version of me wasn’t what you got into it for, so I disappeared. But, you know, I didn’t just disappear on you. Uh… just disappeared on, on, uh, myself… too. Anyway, I’m sorry. You deserved more than that. I’m sorry.

Colt: Y’know, honestly? It, uh, it all hurts. Getting hit by a car hurts. Being thrown out of a window hurts. Getting set on fire really hurts. But, uh… None of it ever hurt as much as not being with you.
Jody: Where are you?
Colt: Is that from a movie, or did I just make that up? It’s pretty good. You can use it, if you want.
Dressler: There he is!
Jody: No, please…
Colt: For what it’s worth, I’m still in love with you. And I don’t think you should give up on that happy ending.
Jody: Colt…
Colt: I gotta go.

Colt: Did you just turn Jody into the sexy bacon?
Gail: She’s been the sexy bacon all along.

Martian Warrior: I had a similar situation when I fell in love with my wife’s sister.

• Ryan Gosling has a fear of heights, but still did the 150-foot fall at the beginning of the movie.
• The movie is based loosely on The Fall Guy (1981). In it, Lee Majors played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who also moonlights as a bounty hunter when there is little movie work. Majors himself and the show’s famous vehicle, the 1981 GMC K-2500 Wideside, have cameos in the film, as well as his co-star Heather Thomas, who played Jody Banks in the series.
• David Leitch, a former stuntman himself, said that he made The Fall Guy as a “love letter” to the stunt community, giving them the recognition they deserve.
• While rehearsing the reunion scene between Colt and Jody, Emily Blunt really was wearing a large hat that kept getting knocked off when a nearby helicopter landed. Costar Ryan Gosling thought this would make for a funny interaction and encouraged Blunt to wear the hat during filming.
• Ryan Gosling had a chance encounter with Steven Spielberg, who told him he loved this movie. Gosling said, “As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t matter anymore what happens. Steven Spielberg liked it. That was an all-time moment for me. I’m really excited for people to see it. I think it’s a really special movie.”
• At one point in the movie, Tom Ryder appears to be doing a bad Matthew McConaughey impersonation and says the line “I’ve been killing aliens long before anybody paid me to.” This is a reference to the infamous Lincoln car commercials where McConaughey said, “I’ve been driving Lincolns long before anybody paid me to.”
• One of the Post-It notes in Tom Ryder’s apartment says “Pirate Download Bullet Train.” Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the actor who plays Ryder, also appeared in Bullet Train (2022), which was directed by David Leitch.
• During the boat chase, Colt pauses his speedboat in front of a sailboat with distinctive rectangular portholes. This is an Endeavor 42, the same boat that Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) calls home in the dramatic series Miami Vice (1984). The theme song for the series is played as an additional homage.
• Chris O’Hara received a credit for the crew position of ‘stunt designer,’ believed to be the first credit of its kind. The role of Stunt Designer is meant to acknowledge the high-level artistic contribution of the traditional stunt coordinator role, and recognize creative leadership within the stunt industry.
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) bionic sound effect is used as a tribute to Lee Majors, who starred as the lead in the series on which this film is based.
• Emily Blunt partially based her character on Greta Gerwig, explaining, “With the warmth and the charm, I guess there’s a little Greta in there.”
• The stock sound effect of Colt getting the wind knocked out of him (while hitting a rock wall while on fire) is reused repeatedly for many of his full-body thuds and landings afterward, a la the Wilhelm scream.
• Alma asks for a producer credit in exchange for giving Colt Tom’s phone. The Metalstorm credits list her as producer.
• Exhausted after his international flight, Colt fails to get coffee five times: the on-set personal assistant doesn’t fetch it, he asks for the coffee lady but has to drive a stunt instead, the coffee machine in Gail’s trailer is broken, in Ryder’s apartment he gets a cup but is attacked, and in the hotel room he gets a cup but drops it upon discovering the body in the bathtub.
• An inside industry joke, Hannah Waddingham’s character, the film producer, is chained to her phone the whole movie. This alludes to film producers always being on the phone.
• The script writer suggests that the characters in MetalStorm could wink at the camera by admitting in dialogue that they’re having trouble with the film’s third act. Director Jody dismisses the idea, but of course, by doing this, The Fall Guy is winking at the audience.
• Lee Majors has a cameo as a police officer during the mid-credit scene. Heather Thomas, who is from the original Fall Guy (Jody Banks), is the blonde police officer with Lee Majors.
• Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has sticky notes all over his apartment, with random thoughts written on them. One of them says, “Is it Momoa or Mamoa?” At the end, Jason Momoa has a cameo as himself, replacing Tom Ryder as Space Cowboy.