This month I’m going to do some bragging. Forgive me if you will, but here it comes.
It’s all about my film producer, stunt coordinator, and stunt performer daughter Amy and her producer partner Chris Stinson. They have spent most of the last couple of months attending the movie industry’s multiple awards ceremonies.
Topping the list is the annual Academy Awards event where one of their films, The Holdovers, was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress (a winner), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.
In January, The Holdovers staring Paul Giamatti, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Da’Vine Joy Randolph landed the Best Supporting Actress to go along with her Oscar.
Amy, credited as Stunt Coordinator and Chris, recognized as Executive Producer, were present on Oscar Night where the tickets are very tough to come by.
But, that’s just one of their movies.
Recent projects include the Academy Award winning Sound of Metal, Academy Award nominated Knives Out and they have won awards at film festivals including Sundance, Cannes, and The Independent Spirit Awards, including Leave No Trace, Chronic, and Low Down.
Amy had the pleasure of doubling Meryl Streep, Laura Linney, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amy Ryan, Taissa Farmiga and more.
Both Amy and Chris were Executive Producers for Ray Romano’s directorial debut and starring role in Somewhere in Queens.
Amy’s lovable little dog Louie has his own credits as he appears in many of her films, most memorably in Sound of Metal as Paul Raci’s service dog in the deaf community. Louie also worked with Thomasin McKenzie in Leave No Trace, Ray Romano and Laurie Metcalf in Somewhere in Queens. Unfortunately Louie crossed the Rainbow Bridge last year.
She played dual roles in the 2019 film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile where Zac Efron played the serial killer Ted Bundy. She served as co-producer and appeared briefly as Bundy’s only victim portrayed in the film. She also managed Efron’s stunts in the story.
Altogether her film credits include 11 as Producer, 12 as Production Manager and 22 as Stunts.
Chris’ film credits include 30 as Producer, 12 as Production Manager and 14 as Assistant Director.
Their latest movie, as Executive Directors, is the recently released Suncoast filmed in Charleston, South Carolina. Sylvia and I spent a day on the set there and got to see movie making in progress featuring Nico Parker, Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson.
Surrounded by cast and crew of a couple hundred in every aspect of the trade, she and Chris seemed in command of all the moving parts in putting the project together.
After leaving the Oscars big event that followed their appearance on the Academy Awards Red Carpet, they left the next day for Portland, Oregon, to begin their newest project.
Amy has developed a successful career doing what she always wanted to do beginning in her drama classes at Martin High School. She graduated in 1997 and moved into seeking her college major in the field and then headed to Los Angeles and found work with a casting firm.
With that job she began networking – the essential method of advancing in the highly competitive field – and now among the leading professionals in the art.
Closer to home, last year she was among those honored with her own commemorative bronze medallion in the Walk of Fame entrance to the newly renovated Theatre Arlington.
If I had more space, I would continue this bragging because her’s and Chris’ journey has lots more stories to tell and new ones yet to come.
As lifetime movie lovers, her mother and I, along with the whole family, continue to anticipate the next award-winning production featuring their names coming early in the opening credits.
Richard Greene is a former
mayor of Arlington.
