Alien

Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film[9] written and directed by James Cameron,
produced by Gale Anne Hurd and starring Sigourney Weaver. The second installment in
the Alien franchise, it follows Ellen Ripley (Weaver) as she returns to the moon where her crew
encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines. Additional
roles are played by Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Jenette
Goldstein, William Hope, Al Matthews, and Bill Paxton.
Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the
first Alien (1979) and its later sequels, served as executive producers. They were immediately
interested in a sequel to Alien, but the new management at 20th Century Fox postponed plans until
1983. Brandywine picked Cameron to write after reading his script for The Terminator (1984); when
that film became a hit, Fox greenlit Aliens with Cameron as director and a budget of $18 million. It
was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and a decommissioned power plant in Acton, London.
Aliens was released on July 18, 1986, and grossed $180 million worldwide. It was nominated for
seven Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, winning Sound
Effects Editing and Visual Effects. It won eight Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best
Actress for Weaver, Best Supporting Actor for Paxton, Best Supporting Actress for Goldstein,
and Best Direction and Best Writing for Cameron), and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic
Presentation. Empire magazine voted it the "Greatest Film Sequel of All Time". Aliens was the
seventh-highest-grossing film of 1986 in North America. Alien 3 was released in 1992, with Weaver
reprising her role as Ripley and Henriksen as Bishop.