Harold Russell and Farrah Fawcett present the Oscar® for Visual Effects for "Alien" to H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Denys Ayling at the 52nd Academy Awards in 1980. Hosted by Johnny Carson.
Much-deserved Oscar. It should've also won Supporting Actress for Veronica Cartwright and, most importantly, the Sound awards, as it has the greatest sound design of any film ever made. The blaring klaxons, the oozing of an opening egg, the hiss as the xenomorph lunges from the darkness... it's why "Alien" remains the scariest film ever made.
While the sound is undeniably a major part of why "Alien" remains the classic if is to this day, nothing in 1979 had a snowball's chance in hell against "Apocalypse Now".
@@MontagZoso I just watched the director's cut and they cut the scene with Veronica hitting Weaver in the face with a massive slap. That was the best damn scene in the whole movie!
Yes, if it were up to me, it would be Veronica Cartwright for Supporting Actress (she did win a Saturn for her performance), Sigourney for Lead Actress (who was nominated for the Saturn and a BAFTA but didn't win either for some inexplicable reason), Sir Ian (Holm) for Lead or Supporting Actor, although honestly every single actor deserved accolades. John Hurt even got a BAFTA nom for Kane (which I think he deserved... he acted the SHIT out of such a small role that people don't even remember him for the acting bit of.) Best Sound Design and at least a nom for the Jerry Goldsmith score, the Dan O'Bannon/Ron Shusett script, and Scott's directing. Alien was the best film of 1979 (though Apocalpyse Now and Kramer vs. Kramer were also great movies) and one of the best movies ever made.
Also a Best Cinematography nom, Supporting Actress noms (for Cartwright and Weaver both), a Best Original Score nom (or win), a Best Sound nom, a Best Costume Design win (or nom), a Best Film Editing nom, and it maybe should've won Best Art Direction (was nominated). This movie got snubbed so hard.
Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 - August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong[4] and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien[5] (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial[6] (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
R.I.P. H.R. Giger! For the ones who are interested by the creatures of the Alien saga (the "adult" alien but also the eggs, facehugger, chestburster, and the white pilot and his huge seat whom we see the origin in Prometheus), or also the sets of the alien spaceship, I highly recommand the doc about their creator, - the swiss artist Hansruedi Giger -, named "Dark Star".
Thank you for the tip! I watched Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World and it is indeed a great documentary! Rest in peace, H.R. Giger; may you be well wherever you are now.
@@TillKraemer Pleased to have made someone discover this great documentary, that I rewatched some months ago and saw in theatre when it went out in 2014. And happy that this person liked it as much as I did. 🙂
@@b.willisfederer8720 That is nice to hear! :) Among many other things, it was so interesting to see how H.R. Giger lived and that he also had at least one black wall in his house. He said in an interview: "Schwarz, das blendet nicht so" :) I can understand that so well. That was what I was thinking when I grew up and painted my room black and covered the walls with images of H.R. Giger's fascinating creations. I'm still so thankful my mom supported me with that. She even got the color for me which was not that easy to get since apparently, not many people wanted to paint their home black in that region :) I still love the color black so much.
The Best Years of our lives is an all time favorite of mine, I regularly rewatch this classic and was glad to find this clip of Harold Russel presenting the award here. Even Stephen Spielberg considers it his favorite movie, saying he watches it at least once a year. Not surprising, as it never gets old and its like comfort food to see it again.
Guys, not showing the snippets from the nominated movies is ridiculous. I am sure you are going to tell me its because of the different licensing worldwide. However, I tell you it's a shame.
Well There was 44 Million Star Trek Nominated…Then Steven Spielberg’s 35 Million 1941..Then Disney’s 25 Million Black Hole! Then there was 35 Million Moonraker…and The Winner was…a Nine Million Dollar Film called Alien.
one of the best category vfx is my favourite seeing vfx award has been presenting for 70 years wow that makes oscar is the best every year academy award is the best awards in the world
They really did not want to give any speech. They did a very special movie. The "beautiful speech" was the movie itself... Meryl and Dustin would give another kind of speech a moment later.
Technically, it's pronounced "Gee-ger", not "Guy-ger". (Very "Frankonsteen" moment, I know.) The way you can remember is "Guy-ger" is actually spelt as "Geiger" (like Geiger counter) while HR doesn't have the e in his last name. I made the same mistake for a while too, it's understandable but you think the Academy should have known better. But so funny to see Giger just has resting crazy face. If you look at Alien behind the scenes, 50% of the shots with him are just him staring directly into your soul much like he does in this clip LOL. Mad fucking genius for sure. 1000% deserved that museum. Great to see Rambaldi (who of course also won for ET and also did an excellent horror movie called Possession, animatronic heads were kind of his "thing") and Giger so humble accepting their awards. But honestly Alien should have swept if the Academy considered horror movies as actual movies... everything about it is impeccable!
I walked in to an Upper East Side gallery in the Nineties surprised to see it exhibiting Giger's work and while chatting w/ the owner pronounced his last name as Russell and Fawcett do here. Gallery owner said "You're lucky he just left, if he'd have heard you pronounce his name like that he'd have killed you." For the record, it's GHEE-gər. Like clarified butter.
if anyone doubts that Ridley Scott stole the storyline and special effects ideas from Mario Bava's 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965) all they need to know is that Carlo Rambaldi did special effects for Mario Bava, including 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965).
Okay, seriously, find a way to play these clips. This was the heyday when it actually meant seeing some true creativity behind the visual effects artistry work. Nowadays, it's "ooo, look at how much layering and rendering we had to do". Please, for the sake of actual film history, PLAY THE BEHIND THE SCENES CLIPS!!!
honestly....compare the movies "alien" and "moonraker" from 1979. the settings and design looks so modern, realistic and contemporary for a futuristic film from this time than the frumpy film moonraker!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the Art Direction/Production Design of Alien is still top-notch. The Nostromo has one of the best designed/most believable interiors of any fictional Starships ever
Alien is a rare hollywood movie which I actually like, because it really followed the vision of an artist, which is very rare for movies with such a budget. Alien 2 and 3 for example didn't really listen to Giger anymore and it shows.
Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 - August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong[4] and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien[5] (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial[6] (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
