It was met with mixed reviews on release but was a box-office success, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright), and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.Ĭritical reassessment since then has resulted in Alien being widely considered one of the greatest and most influential science fiction and horror films of all time. It received a wide release on June 22 and was released on September 6 in the United Kingdom. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human settings.Īlien premiered on May 25, 1979, as the opening night of the fourth Seattle International Film Festival, presented in 70 mm at midnight. The Alien and its accompanying artifacts were designed by the Swiss artist H. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script Shusett was the executive producer. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions and was distributed by 20th Century-Fox.

The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the Nostromo.

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon.

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