Stunt actors praise Pirates fight

The Pirates of the Caribbean fight involved swords and acrobatics

Stunt actors have named a swashbuckling battle from Pirates of the Caribbean as the best film fight of the past year.

Tony Angelotti and Mark Wagner won the World Stunt Awards prize after standing in for actors Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom during the acrobatic sword fight.

Keanu Reeves was named best action movie star for his Matrix trilogy work.

Actors Brendan Fraser and Michelle Rodriguez crashed onstage in mock stunts at the Paramount Pictures lot ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

A high-speed boat chase through the canals of Venice in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job won the best speciality stunt prize.

Keanu Reeves was honoured after performing many Matrix stunts

The best fire stunt was judged to be in a scene from The Last Samurai, when soldiers in a battlefield are set alight by several explosions.

Will Smith movie Bad Boys 2 took two awards for a vehicle scene and its stunt coordinators Andy Gill, Steve Picerni and Spiro Razatos.

Debbie Evans was named best stuntwoman for her work in Matrix Reloaded, while stuntmen Paul Eliopolus, JJ Perry, Tanoai Reed and Marko Zaror shared the male stunt of the year prize for The Rundown.

California governor and Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger also attended the event, while Jonathan Mostow, who directed him in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, was named best action movie director.

Prize winners were voted for by the World Stunt Academy, which incorporates nearly 1,000 stunt professionals.