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Alien (1979 film)

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Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, and produced for 20th Century-Fox by Brandywine Productions. It follows the commercial spaceship crew of the Nostromo, led by Warrant Officer Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, who investigate a derelict alien vessel and are hunted one by one aboard their own ship by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The creature and its environments were designed by Swiss artist H. R. Giger, and the film's slow-building dread and industrial, working-class setting made it enormously influential on later science fiction and horror filmmaking.

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Classification
Original Language
English 1
Award
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1
Release Year
1979 1
Country
United Kingdom, United States 1
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Which films was Alien up against for its Hugo Award?

Time After Time, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Muppet Movie and The Black Hole.

Alien is listed in the Best Dramatic Presentation category of the 1980 Hugo Awards, presented at Noreascon Two in Boston from August 29 to September 1, 1980. The official Hugo Awards site lists the category as Alien, Time After Time, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Muppet Movie and The Black Hole, all films released in 1979.
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1. Alien (film), Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
  • Infobox, Country
    United Kingdom
  • Alien (1979 film), lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
    In 2008, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and as the 33rd-greatest film of all time by Empire.
  • Wikipedia category (hugo-award-for-best-dramatic-presentation), checked 2026-09-27
    Wikipedia category for hugo-award-for-best-dramatic-presentation
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
  • Created By: Ridley Scott, Article lead sentence
    Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
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