| Aliens | |
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| 7 Nominations / 2 Wins | |
| Year | 1986 |
| Director | James Cameron |
| Writer | James Cameron |
| Starring | Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, Paul Reiser |
| 59th Academy Awards | |
Aliens is a 1986 epic science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton and is the offical sequel to Alien. Aliens'action-adventure tone was in contrast to the horror motifs of the original Alien. Following the success of The Terminator, which helped establish Cameron as a major action director, 20th Century Fox greenlit Aliens with a budget of approximately $18 million. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a decommissioned power plant.
Wins
- Best Sound Editing — Don Sharpe
- Best Visual Effects — Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Suzanne Benson
Nominations
- Best Actress — Sigourney Weaver
- Best Art Direction — Peter Lamont, Crispian Sallis
- Best Film Editing — Ray Lovejoy
- Best Original Score — James Horner
- Best Sound Editing — Don Sharpe
- Best Sound Mixing — Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas le Messurier, Michael A. Carter, Roy Charman
- Best Visual Effects — Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Suzanne Benson
Plot[]
Fifty seven years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. nobody believed her epic story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed planet to find out good and evil if there are powerful aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come to full her destiny.
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