List of accolades received by the Alien film series
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Footnotes |
Alien is an action/horror film series created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. The series began with the four films Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). A prequel series directed by Ridley Scott began with Prometheus (2012) and continued with Alien: Covenant (2017). Set between the 21st and 24th centuries, the plot focuses on humanity's violent encounters with a vicious alien life form, with the lead protagonist being Ellen Ripley, a woman determined to stop the creature and prevent the corrupt Weyland-Yutani Corporation from obtaining it for biological weaponry.
The first two installments in the film series were met with universal praise for the technical attributes, as well as Sigourney Weaver's portrayal of the lead, Ellen Ripley, for which she earned nine nominations and two wins (Saturn Award for Best Actress and Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award). Though the subsequent installments were met with generally mixed reviews, all five films in the Alien film series have been critically lauded for their technical attributes, ranging from recognition of the visual and sound effects, to the design of the recurring alien creature. The Alien Quadrilogy and Alien Anthology DVD and Blu-ray Disc collections have both won medium-specific awards.
Alien
Aliens
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes (2005)
- "Get away from her, you bitch!" – Nominated.[17]
Alien 3
Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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Academy Awards | Best Visual Effects | Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and George Gibbs | Nominated | [18] |
British Academy Film Awards | Best Special Effects | Nominated | [19] | |
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | Best Studio/Big-Budget Film | Alien 3 | Nominated | |
Best Actress | Sigourney Weaver | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Charles S. Dutton | Nominated | ||
Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | Alien 3 | Nominated | [20] |
Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing | Alien 3 | Won | |
MTV Movie Awards | Best Action Sequence | Aliens chase through a tunnel | Nominated | [21] |
Saturn Awards | Best Science Fiction Film | Alien 3 | Nominated | [22] |
Best Actress | Sigourney Weaver | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Charles S. Dutton | Nominated | ||
Best Director | David Fincher | Nominated | ||
Best Writing | David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson | Nominated | ||
Best Costume | Rob Ringwood and David Perry | Nominated | ||
Best Special Effects | Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and George Gibbs | Nominated |
Alien Resurrection
Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | Favorite Actress - Sci-Fi | Sigourney Weaver | Nominated | [23] |
Favorite Supporting Actress - Sci-Fi | Winona Ryder | Won | [24] | |
Bogey Awards | Bogey Award | 20th Century Fox | Won | |
Golden Satellite Awards | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill | Nominated | [25] |
Hasty Pudding Theatricals | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | Sigourney Weaver (also for The Ice Storm and Snow White: A Tale of Terror) | Won | [26] |
Saturn Awards | Best Science Fiction Film | Alien Resurrection | Nominated | [27] |
Best Actress | Sigourney Weaver | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Winona Ryder | Nominated | ||
Best Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Nominated | ||
Best Costume | Rob Ringwood | Nominated | ||
Best Special Effects | Pitof, Eric Henry, Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. | Nominated | ||
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Actress | Sigourney Weaver | Nominated | [28] |
Worst Supporting Actress | Winona Ryder | Nominated | ||
Worst Sequel | Alien Resurrection | Nominated | ||
The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For | Alien Resurrection | Nominated |
Prometheus
Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Golden Trailer Awards | Summer 2012 Blockbuster Trailer | Prometheus / "Not Alone", 20th Century Fox, Wild Card | Nominated | [29] |
Best Sound Editing | Prometheus, 20th Century Fox, Skip Film | Nominated | |||
Key Art Awards | Digital | "Weyland Industries" website | Won | [30] | |
Innovative Media | Prometheus | Won | |||
Phoenix Film Critics Society | Best Visual Effects | Richard Stammers, Charley Henley and Martin Hill | Nominated | [31] | |
Satellite Awards | Visual Effects | Richard Stammers, Charley Henley and Martin Hill | Nominated | [32] | |
Sound (Editing and Mixing) | Victor Ray Ennis, Ann Scibelli, John Cucci and Mark P. Stoeckinger | Nominated | |||
Sierra Awards | Best Art Direction | Alex Cameron | Won | [33] | |
Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Breakout | Noomi Rapace | Nominated | [34] | |
Choice Summer Movie – Action | Prometheus | Nominated | |||
Choice Summer Movie Star – Female | Charlize Theron (also for Snow White & the Huntsman) | Nominated | |||
2013 | Academy Awards | Best Visual Effects | Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill | Nominated | [35] |
ADG Excellence in Production Design Award | Fantasy Film | Arthur Max | Nominated | [36] | |
BAFTA Awards | Special Visual Effects | Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth | Nominated | [37] | |
Critic's Choice Award | Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie | Prometheus | Nominated | [38] | |
Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing — Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film | Prometheus | Nominated | [39] | |
Visual Effects Society | Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture | Xavier Bourque, Sam Cole, Simone Riginelli, Denis Scolan for "Engineers & the Orrery" | Nominated | [40] | |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Julien Bolbach, Marco Genovesi, Martin Riedel, Marco Rolandi for "LV-233" | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture | Paul Butterworth, Charley Henley, Allen Maris, Richard Stammers for Prometheus | Nominated | |||
London Film Critics' Circle Awards | Supporting Actor of the Year | Michael Fassbender | Nominated | [41] | |
Saturn Awards | Best Science Fiction Film | Prometheus | Nominated | [42] | |
Best Supporting Actor | Michael Fassbender | Nominated |
Alien: Covenant
Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | IndieWire Critics Poll | Most Anticipated of 2017 | Alien: Covenant | Nominated | [43] |
2017 | Golden Schmoes Awards | Biggest Disappointment of the Year | Alien: Covenant | Nominated | [44] |
Golden Trailer Awards | Best Horror Poster | Domestic Teaser, 20th Century Fox, InSync Plus | Won | [45] | |
Best Sound Editing | Theirs, 20th Century Fox, Wild Card | Nominated | |||
Best Summer 2017 Blockbuster TV Spot | Run / Madness, 20th Century Fox, Wild Card | Nominated | |||
Best Summer Blockbuster Poster | Domestic Teaser, 20th Century Fox, InSync Plus | Nominated | |||
Best Teaser Poster | Domestic Teaser, 20th Century Fox, InSync Plus | Nominated | |||
Hawaii Film Critics Society | Best Supporting Actor | Michael Fassbender | Nominated | [46] | |
Satellite Awards | Best Visual Effects | Alien: Covenant | Nominated | [47] | |
Sierra Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Michael Fassbender | Nominated | ||
2018 | Australian Production Design Guild Awards | Docklands Studios Melbourne Award for Excellence in Screen - Acknowledging Excellence in Design and Practice or Artisan Excellence on Australian or International Productions | Ian Gracie (Supervising Art Director) Damien Drew (Senior Art Director) Michelle McGahey (Senior Art Director) Charlie Revai (Art Director) Jacinta Leong (Art Director) | Won | [48] |
Golden Trailer Awards | Best Horror TV Spot | Born Neo, 20th Century Fox, Wild Card | Nominated | [49] | |
Saturn Awards | Best Science Fiction Film | Alien: Covenant | Nominated | [50] |
DVD and Blu-ray Disc re-issues
Alien Quadrilogy
Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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DVD Exclusive Awards | DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) | Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Terry Rawlings, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt (only for Alien) | Won | [51] |
James Cameron, Michael Biehn, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, Christopher Henn, Lance Henriksen, Gale Anne Hurd, Pat McClung, Bill Paxton, Dennis Skotak, Robert Skotak and Stan Winston (only for Aliens) | Nominated | |||
Best Overall DVD, Classic Movie (Including All Extra Features) | Charles de Lauzirika | Won | ||
Best New Movie Scenes (Finished-Edited Into Movie or Stand-Alone) | Charles de Lauzirika and David Crowther (only for Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection) | Nominated | ||
Best Behind-the-Scenes Program (New for DVD) | The Beast Within: The Making of Alien, Charles de Lauzirika | Nominated | ||
Best Menu Design | Matt Kennedy | Nominated | ||
Sierra Awards | Best DVD | Alien Quadrilogy | Won | [33] |
Satellite Awards | Best DVD Extra | Alien Quadrilogy | Nominated | |
Best Overall DVD | Alien Quadrilogy | Nominated | ||
Saturn Awards | Best DVD Collection | Alien Quadrilogy | Nominated | [52] |
Alien Anthology
Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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IGN Movie Awards | Best Blu-ray | Alien Anthology | Won | [53] |
Sierra Awards | Best DVD | Alien Anthology | Won | [33] |
Saturn Awards | Best DVD Collection | Alien Anthology | Won | [54] |
See also
- List of accolades received by the Predator film series
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External links
- Awards for Alien at IMDb
- Awards for Aliens at IMDb
- Awards for Alien 3 at IMDb
- Awards for Alien Resurrection at IMDb
- Awards for Prometheus at IMDb
- Awards for Alien: Covenant at IMDb
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- Alien: Romulus (2024)
- TED 2023 (2012)
- Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series (2019)
- Alien: Earth (2025)
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