(For makeup and hairstyling, but a nomination nonetheless.) A handful of movies were also released under the Jackass Presents label: a tribute to the then-recently deceased Evel Knievel, and the Borat-esque hidden camera comedy Bad Grandpa, which is the first Jackass film to be nominated for an Oscar.
The format proved popular enough to spawn a video game and a series of movies that allowed the gang to perform stunts and skits not possible on MTV, with some of the movies receiving companion movies of their own consisting of unused footage from their productions. Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians more or less had panic-induced heart attacks at the very thought of their kids watching this show, let alone being influenced to copy its stunts, and their outrage resulted in a huge movement to get the show canned ( which, ironically, may have increased its popularity). When Big Brother began talks with Spike Jonze to create a pilot for MTV, the staff joined forces with Margera's group of skater friends, and after recruiting ex-snowboarder "Danger" Ehren McGhehey, local legend Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Bam's buddies Ryan Dunn and Brandon DiCamillo, and commercial actor Preston Lacy into the mix, the conglomeration of Tremaine, Jonze, Margera, Knoxville, and their friends created Jackass. Tremaine and his editors, upon filming test footage, found it so funny that the rest of the staff (including Knoxville, Dave England, Chris Pontius and Steve-O) got in on recording similarly masochistic videos. Jackass has roots in skateboard culture with the magazine Big Brother, headed by series director Jeff Tremaine, as well as Bam Margera's humor/stunt video series "Camp Kill Yourself" (or CKY), with its point of origin being Johnny Knoxville (then a struggling actor and Big Brother writer) pitching an article about becoming a human guinea pig for various self-defense weapons - which culminated in Knoxville getting shot in the chest to test out a bulletproof vest.