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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Original Language AwardHugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1 Release Year CountryUnited Kingdom, United States 1 FAQs
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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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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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.
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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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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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