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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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English 1
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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1
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1979 1
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United Kingdom, United States 1
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    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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    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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