🎬Brian Smrz

Brian Smrz (/smɜːrʃ/; born c. 1960), also Brian Delaney Smrz, is a Hollywood stunt coordinator and second unit director of projects such as Mission: Impossible 2, Live Free or Die Hard, Taxi, Eagle Eye, Night at the Museum, Windtalkers, Iron Man 3, and Superman Returns, among others. He is also the director of Hero Wanted, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ray Liotta, and of 24 Hours to Live, starring Ethan Hawke and Xu Qing. He won the Taurus Award twice and was nominated for a third time.

Smrz has worked as a stunt performer and stunt coordinator on Hollywood films since 1981. In more recent years, he has acted as second unit director and director on projects such as Hero Wanted, Fantastic Four, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Predator, and Face/Off. He has worked on several of director John Woo's American films, including Windtalkers, Pay cheque, and Mission: Impossible 2.

Smrz shared a Taurus Award for stunt work on Mission: Impossible 2 and Live Free or Die Hard. He was also nominated for Taxi. In an otherwise negative review of Taxi, Variety praised Smrz's stunts.

Hero Wanted is his directorial debut. It is a crime drama/action film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ray Liotta, and Norman Reedus. Shooting occurred in Sofia and Bulgaria with a crew composed mostly of Bulgarians.

Smrz is from Strafford, Pennsylvania, and was the brother of the stuntman Brett Smrz, who died while performing a stunt jump off a building. Smrz was hospitalised after a stunt went wrong in 1992 on Cyborg 2. The incident was investigated by the Screen Actors Guild.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character
1	Expend4bles (2023)	Director / Writer	5.9
2	Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Director / Writer	6.3
3	The Adam Project (2022) Top movies in 2022	Director / Writer	6.9
4	Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Top movies in 2021	Director / Writer	6.3
5	Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Top movies in 2021	Director / Writer	7.4
6	Love and Monsters (2020)	Director / Writer	6.8
7	Dark Phoenix (2019)	Director / Writer	5.8
8	The Predator (2018)	Director / Writer	5.9
9	24 Hours to Live (2017)	Director / Writer	6.4
10	X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)	Director / Writer	7.1
11	Fantastic Four (2015)	Director / Writer	5
12	X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer	8
13	Iron Man 3 (2013) Oscars 2014	Director / Writer	7.6
14	This Means War (2012)	Director / Writer	6.7
15	X-Men: First Class (2011)	Director / Writer	7.8
16	The Hangover Part II (2011)	Director / Writer	6.6
17	Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Oscars 2012	Director / Writer	7.5
18	Knight and Day (2010)	Director / Writer	6.3
19	Surrogates (2009)	Director / Writer	6.4
20	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	Director / Writer	6.6
21	Whiteout (2009)	Director / Writer	5.2
22	Eagle Eye (2008)	Director / Writer	6.7
23	Hero Wanted (2008)	Director / Writer	5.3
24	Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	Director / Writer	7.1
25	Night at the Museum (2006)	Director / Writer	6.8
26	Superman Returns (2006) Oscars 2007	Director / Writer	5.9
27	Fantastic Four (2005)	Director / Writer	5.9
28	Taxi (2004)	Director / Writer	4.9
29	X2 (2003)	Director / Writer	7.4
30	Paycheck (2003)	Director / Writer	6.1
31	Minority Report (2002) Oscars 2003	Director / Writer	7.6
32	Windtalkers (2002)	Director / Writer	6.3
33	Mission: Impossible II (2000)	Director / Writer	6.3
34	Sudden Death (1995)	Thug	6.1
35	They All Laughed (1981)	(uncredited)	4