I'm a Jason Statham fan, and this just makes me like him more:

Jason Statham hopes to stoke a growing fire under the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to finally recognize stunt actors with their own Oscar category.

“All of the stunt men — these are the unsung heroes,” Statham said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “Nobody is giving them any credibility. They’re risking their necks. And then you’ve got poncy actors pretending like they’re doing [the stunts].”

According to this blog post from 2011, the average stunt actor salary is $70,000. Sure, the big names make more—if the back of your head happens to resemble the back of Tom Cruise's head, you'll probably be making a lot more—but this is highly specialized work that deserves to be recognized. Every year, the producers of the Oscars find time in their interminable broadcast ceremonies for special tributes. They could surely axe one bloated production number to make room to acknowledge the real hardest-working people in showbiz.