List of science fiction films of the 1980s
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A list of science fiction films released in the 1980s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1980s have received 14 Academy Awards, 11 Saturn Awards, six Hugo Awards, five BAFTA awards, four BSFA Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Four of these movies were the highest-grossing films of their respective years of release. However, these films also received nine Golden Raspberry Awards.
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1980 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
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Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray | Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis | United States | Horror | ||
Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban | United States | Horror | ||
Aquanauts | , , | Soviet Union | ||||
Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy Murakami | George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Richard Thomas | United States | Space opera | ||
Be Forever Yamato | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Kei Tomiyama (voice), Yōko Asagami (voice), Shūsei Nakamura (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé | Italy West Germany |
Horror | ||
Crazy Thunder Road | Sōgo Ishii | Tatsuo Yamada, , | Japan | |||
Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex | Masayuki Akehi | Kazuhiko Inoue (voice), Fuyumi Shiraishi (voice), Keiichi Noda (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Hongmei Zhang | , , | China | [1][2][3] | |||
Death Watch | Bertrand Tavernier | Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton | France West Germany |
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The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | United States | Space opera[nb 1] | ||
The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross | United States | Alternate history | ||
Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow | United Kingdom United States |
Space opera | ||
Galaxina | William Sachs | Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J. D. Hinton | United States | Science fantasy, comedy | ||
Piotr Szulkin | Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, | Poland | ||||
Hangar 18 | James L. Conway | Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins | United States | |||
Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, , Maria Rosaria Omaggio | Italy Spain |
Horror | ||
Phoenix 2772 | Kaneto Shiozawa (voice), Keiko Takeshita (voice), (voice) | Japan | Anime film | |||
Vladimir Tarasov | Viktor Balashov (voice), Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Vasiliy Livanov (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Возвращение, tr. Vozvrashcheniye[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] | |||
Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen | Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel | United Kingdom | |||
Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer | United States | Romance | ||
Star Inspector | , | Vladimir Ivashov, , | Soviet Union | |||
Superman II | Richard Lester | Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty | United Kingdom United States |
Superhero | ||
Toward the Terra | Hideo Onchi | Junichi Inoue (voice), Masaya Oki (voice), Kumiko Akiyoshi (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Virus | Kinji Fukasaku | Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi | Japan | Post-apocalyptic | ||
Without Warning | Greydon Clark | Jack Palance, Martin Landau, | United States | Horror | ||
1981 | ||||||
Adieu Galaxy Express 999 | Rintaro | Masako Nozawa (voice), Masako Ikeda (voice), Kaneta Kimotsuki (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
The Cabbage Soup | Jean Girault | Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret | France | |||
Earthbound | James L. Conway | Burl Ives, Christopher Connelly, Meredith MacRae | United States | |||
Escape from New York | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine | United States | |||
Galaxy of Terror | Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston | United States | ||||
Heartbeeps | Allan Arkush | Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid | United States | |||
Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | Rodger Bumpass (voice), Jackie Burroughs (voice), John Candy (voice), Eugene Levy (voice) | United States Canada |
Animated film | ||
The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher | Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, John Glover | United States | |||
Inseminoid | Norman J. Warren | Judy Geeson, Heather Wright, Trevor Thomas, Stephanie Beacham | United Kingdom | USA title: Horror Planet | ||
Avo Paistik | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Estonian title: Klaabu kosmoses[12] | ||||
The Last Chase | Martyn Burke | Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace | United States | |||
Looker | Michael Crichton | Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey | United States | |||
Mad Max 2 | George Miller | Mel Gibson | Australia | Post-apocalyptic | ||
Malevil | Christian de Chalonge | Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret | France West Germany |
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Memoirs of a Survivor | David Gladwell | Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger | United Kingdom | |||
Mobile Suit Gundam | , Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice) | Japan | |||
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya (voice), Shûichi Ikeda (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), Fuyumi Shiraishi (voice) | Japan | |||
The Mystery of the Third Planet | Roman Kachanov | Vasiliy Livanov (voice), (voice), Grigoriy Shpigel' (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated film | ||
, , | Brazil | Eco-dystopian film. Portuguese title: Abrigo Nuclear[13][14][15][16][17] | ||||
The Orion Loop | , , | Soviet Union | ||||
Outland | Peter Hyams | Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen | United Kingdom | |||
Per Aspera Ad Astra | Aleksandr Mikhajlov, Gleb Strizhenov, Alexander Lazarev | Soviet Union | Alternate titles: Through the Thorns to the Stars; Humanoid Woman | |||
Scanners | David Cronenberg | Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan | Canada | |||
Scared to Death | William Malone | United States | ||||
Space Warrior Baldios | Kazuyuki Hirokawa | Japan | ||||
Visitors from the Galaxy | Dušan Vukotić | Ljubiša Samardžić, , | Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia |
[18] | ||
The War of the Worlds: Next Century | Piotr Szulkin | Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski | Poland | |||
1982 | ||||||
1990: The Bronx Warriors | Enzo G. Castellari | Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williamson | Italy | |||
The Aftermath | Sid Haig, Forrest J Ackerman, Jim Danforth | United States | UK title: Zombie Aftermath | |||
Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman | Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges | United States | |||
Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro | Joe D'Amato | , Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani | Italy | [19] | ||
Android | Aaron Lipstadt | Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser | United States | [nb 2] | ||
Arcadia of My Youth | Tomoharu Katsumata | Makio Inoue (voice), Kei Tomiyama (voice), (voice), Reiko Mutō (voice) | Japan | |||
Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah | United States Hong Kong |
[nb 3] | ||
Burst City | Sōgo Ishii | , Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Kou Machida | Japan | |||
Button | Vladimir Tarasov | Soviet Union | Animated short film | |||
Café Flesh | Stephen Sayadian | Michelle Bauer, Richard Belzer | United States | |||
Cat People | Paul Schrader | Nastassja Kinski, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell | United States | |||
Chronopolis | France | Animated film | ||||
Creepshow | George A. Romero | Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver | United States | Science fiction horror[20] | ||
Crosstalk | Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart | Australia | ||||
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton | United States | [nb 4] | ||
Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley | United States | [21] | ||
Forbidden World | Jesse Vint, June Chadwick | United States | ||||
Kamikaze 1989 | Wolf Gremm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis | West Germany | [22] | ||
The Masters of Time | René Laloux | (voice), (voice), (voice), (voice) | France West Germany Switzerland United Kingdom Hungary |
Animated film | ||
Megaforce | Hal Needham | Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Henry Silva | United States | |||
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space | Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Tôru Furuya (voice), Shûichi Ikeda (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), (voice) | Japan | |||
The New Barbarians | Enzo G. Castellari | Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini | Italy | [nb 5] | ||
Nightbeast | Don Dohler | Donald Leifert, | United States | Horror | ||
Parasite | Charles Band | Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore | United States | Horror | ||
Queen Millennia | Masayuki Akehi | Keiko Han (voice), Keiko Toda (voice), Ichirô Nagai (voice), Mami Koyama (voice) | Japan | |||
The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | Elizabeth Hartman (voice), Peter Strauss (voice), Arthur Malet (voice), Dom DeLuise (voice), John Carradine (voice), Derek Jacobi (voice), Hermione Baddeley (voice), Paul Shenar (voice) | United States | Animated Film | ||
Space Adventure Cobra | Osamu Dezaki | Shigeru Matsuzaki (voice), (voice), (voice), Toshiko Fujita (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Ricardo Montalbán | United States | [nb 6] | ||
Swamp Thing | Wes Craven, | Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise | United States | |||
The Thing | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan, David Clennon | United States | Horror[nb 7] | ||
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | William Dear | Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur, Ed Lauter, Chris Mulkey, | United States | |||
Time Walker | Tom Kennedy | Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy | United States | |||
Tron | Steven Lisberger | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan | United States | [nb 8] | ||
Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig | Australia | |||
Warlords of the 21st Century | Harley Cokliss | Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright | United States | [23][nb 9] | ||
Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport | Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer, Simon Nash, Maryam d'Abo, | United Kingdom | Horror | ||
Zapped! | Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Heather Thomas, Robert Mandan | United States | ||||
1983 | ||||||
2019, After the Fall of New York | Sergio Martino | Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis | Italy France |
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Vladimir Tarasov | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Юбилей, tr. Yubiley[24][25][26][27] | ||||
Anna to the Infinite Power | Robert Wiemer | Martha Byrne, Dina Merrill | United States | |||
The Atlantis Interceptors | Ruggero Deodato | Ivan Rassimov | Italy | |||
Born in Flames | Lizzie Borden | , Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston | United States | |||
Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull | Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher | United States | |||
Ulli Lommel | Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Tony Curtis | United States | [28] | |||
The Creature Wasn't Nice | Bruce Kimmel | Leslie Nielsen, Cindy Williams, Gerrit Graham | United States | |||
Crusher Joe | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Japan | ||||
Daijōbu, My Friend | Ryū Murakami | Peter Fonda, Reona Hirota | Japan | |||
The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen | United States | |||
The Deadly Spawn | Douglas McKeown | , , | United States | |||
Document Fang of the Sun Dougram | Ryōsuke Takahashi | Japan | ||||
Endgame | Joe D'Amato | Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman | Italy | |||
Escape from the Bronx | Enzo G. Castellari | Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici | Italy | |||
Exterminators of the Year 3000 | Giuliano Carmineo | Robert Iannucci, , Eduardo Fajardo | Italy | |||
Final Yamato | Tomoharu Katsumata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Masuda | Kei Tomiyama (voice), Yôko Asagami (voice), Gorô Naya (voice), Isao Sasaki (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Horror | ||
Harmagedon | Rintaro | Tôru Furuya (voice), Mami Koyama (voice), Masako Ikeda (voice), Keiko Han (voice) | Japan | |||
, | Soviet Union | Comedy | ||||
Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones | United Kingdom United States |
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The Last Battle | Luc Besson | Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper | France | |||
Liquid Sky | Slava Tsukerman | Anne Carlisle, , | United States | |||
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll | United States | |||
Moon Rainbow | Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Solomin | Soviet Union | ||||
The Pod People | Juan Piquer Simón | Óscar Martín, Concha Cuetos, Manuel Pereiro | Spain France |
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe | Terry Marcel | Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon | United Kingdom | |||
The Prize of Peril | Yves Boisset | Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier | France Yugoslavia |
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Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | United States | Space opera[nb 10] | ||
Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | Paul Le Mat (voice), Deborah Harry (voice), Don Francks (voice) | Canada | Animated film | ||
Space Raiders | Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease | United States | ||||
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside | United States | |||
Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid | Canada United States |
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Superman III | Richard Lester | Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Annette O'Toole | United States | Superhero film | ||
Twilight Zone: The Movie | Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, George Miller | Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan | United States | |||
Urusei Yatsura: Only You | Mamoru Oshii | Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Saeko Shimazu (voice) | Japan | First film in the Urusei Yatsura film series | ||
Videodrome | David Cronenberg | James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry | Canada | Horror | ||
WarGames | John Badham | Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy | United Stages | |||
Warrior of the Lost World | David Worth | Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson | Italy | |||
Wavelength | Mike Gray | Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, Keenan Wynn | United States | |||
Xabungle Graffiti | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Japan | ||||
Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport | Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, | United Kingdom | |||
Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner | Italy France Turkey |
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1984 | ||||||
2010 | Peter Hyams | Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Keir Dullea | United States | [nb 11] | ||
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | W. D. Richter | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd | United States | |||
Babičky dobíjejte přesně! | Ladislav Rychman | Daniela Kolářová, Jana Dítětová | Czechoslovakia | |||
Bloodsuckers from Outer Space | Glen Coburn | Thom Meyes, Dennis Letts, Laura Ellis | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | Joe Morton, , Steve James | United States | |||
Dreamscape | Joseph Ruben | Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer | United States | |||
Dune | David Lynch | Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif | United States | Space opera | ||
Electric Dreams | Steve Barron | Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Bud Cort | United States | |||
The Ewok Adventure | John Korty | , Warwick Davis, Tony Cox, Fionnula Flanagan | United States | [29] | ||
The Element of Crime | Lars von Trier | Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai | Denmark | |||
Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear | United States | |||
Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
Gremlins | Joe Dante | Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
I Guerrieri dell'anno 2072 | Lucio Fulci | Jared Martin, Fred Williamson, Howard Ross | Italy | |||
Iceman | Fred Schepisi | Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone | United States | |||
The Ice Pirates | Stewart Raffill | Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts | United States | |||
Impulse | Graham Baker | Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn | United States | |||
The Invisible Man | Andrey Kharitonov, Romualdas Ramanauskas, Leonid Kuravlyov | Soviet Union | ||||
The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |||
Lensman | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Toshio Furukawa (voice), Mami Koyama (voice), Chikao Ōtsuka (voice), Nachi Nozawa (voice) | Japan | |||
Macross: Do You Remember Love? | Shoji Kawamori | Mari Iijima (voice), Arihiro Hase (voice), Mika Doi (voice), Michio Hazama (voice) | Japan | |||
The Meeting | Soviet Union | Animated short film | ||||
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | Sumi Shimamoto (voice), Mahito Tsujimura (voice), Hisako Kyôda (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
The Next One | Nico Mastorakis | Keir Dullea, Adrienne Barbeau, Peter Hobbs | Greece | |||
Night of the Comet | Thom Eberhardt | Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran | United States | |||
Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton | United Kingdom | |||
The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | Richy Müller, | West Germany | |||
The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas | United States | |||
Repo Man | Alex Cox | Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash | United States | Comedy | ||
Return from Orbit | Juozas Budraitis, Vitaliy Solomin, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov | Soviet Union | ||||
The Return of Godzilla | Koji Hashimoto (director) | Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka | Japan United States |
Kaijū | ||
Runaway | Michael Crichton | Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley | United States | |||
Sayonara Jupiter | Koji Hashimoto | Tomokazu Miura, , Miyuki Ono, | Japan | |||
Sexmission | Juliusz Machulski | Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Hanna Stankówna | Poland | |||
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd | United States | |||
Starman | John Carpenter | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith | United States | |||
The Terminator | James Cameron | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton | United States | Time travel film[nb 12] | ||
Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Будет ласковый дождь, tr. Budet laskovyy dozhd'[30][31][32][33][34][35] | |||||
The Toxic Avenger | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda | United States | Science fiction action superhero[36] | ||
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer | Mamoru Oshii | Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice) | Japan | Second film in the Urusei Yatsura film series | ||
1985 | ||||||
Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | United States | Time travel film[nb 13] | ||
Brazil | Terry Gilliam | Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro | United Kingdom | [nb 14] | ||
City Limits | Aaron Lipstadt | Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall | United States | |||
Cocoon | Ron Howard | Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy | United States | |||
Contract | Vladimir Tarasov | Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Yevgeniy Steblov (voice), Boris Ivanov (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film | ||
Creature | William Malone | Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger | United States | |||
D.A.R.Y.L. | Simon Wincer | Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker | United States | |||
The Dungeonmaster | Dave Allen, Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Leslie Wing, Richard Moll | United States | |||
Day of the Dead | George Romero | Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Richard Liberty, Sherman Howard | United States | |||
Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James | United States | |||
Explorers | Joe Dante | Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson | United States | |||
Galaxy Invader | Don Dohler | Richard Ruxton, George Stover, Faye Tilles, Glenn Barnes | United States | |||
Gwen, or the Book of Sand | Jean-François Laguionie | Michel Robin (voice), Lorella Di Cicco (voice) | France | Animated film | ||
Joey | Roland Emmerich | , | West Germany | |||
Lifeforce | Tobe Hooper | Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay | United Kingdom United States |
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Ogilvie, George Miller | Mel Gibson, Tina Turner | Australia | Post-apocalyptic | ||
Morons from Outer Space | Mike Hodges | Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Brown | United Kingdom | |||
My Science Project | John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge | United States | ||||
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization | Piotr Szulkin | Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jędrusik | Poland | |||
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight | Toshio Masuda | Japan | ||||
Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Планета 888, tr. Planeta 888. Armenian title: Մոլորակ 888[37] | |||||
The Quiet Earth | Geoff Murphy | Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge | New Zealand | |||
Radioactive Dreams | Albert Pyun | Michael Dudikoff, Lisa Blount, Don Murray | United States | |||
Real Genius | Martha Coolidge | Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret | United States | |||
Re-Animator | Stuart Gordon | Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
The Return of the Living Dead | Dan O'Bannon | Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa | United States | Science fiction horror comedy[38] | ||
Space Rage | Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin | United States | ||||
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin | Steven Hahn | (voice), Anthony De Longis (voice), Carmen Argenziano (voice) | United States | Animated film | ||
The Stuff | Larry Cohen | Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino | United States | |||
Trancers | Charles Band | Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt | United States | |||
Underworld | George Pavlou | Denholm Elliott, Miranda Richardson, Steven Berkoff | UK | Sci-fi horror[39] | ||
Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember My Love | Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice) | Japan | Third film in the Urusei Yatsura film series | |||
Horst Seemann | Grażyna Szapołowska, , Rolf Hoppe | East Germany West Germany |
German title: Besuch bei Van Gogh[40][41][42][43][44][45] | |||
Weird Science | John Hughes | Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton | United States | |||
1986 | ||||||
Aliens | James Cameron | Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton | United States | [nb 15] Action | ||
, , | Brazil | Super 8 eco-dystopian short film. Portuguese title: Sangue de Tatu[13][46] | ||||
The Aurora Encounter | Jim McCullough, Sr. | Jack Elam, Peter Brown, | United States | [28] | ||
Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Сражение, tr. Srazheniye[6] | |||||
Chopping Mall | Jim Wynorski | Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd | United States | [28] | ||
Critters | Stephen Herek | Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
Dead End Drive-In | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Ned Manning, , Peter Whitford | Australia | |||
Dead Man's Letters | Konstantin Lopushansky | Rolan Bykov, | Soviet Union | antiutopia, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama | ||
Death Powder | Shigeru Izumiya | Shigeru Izumiya, , | Japan | |||
Deadly Friend | Wes Craven | Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett | United States | |||
Dirty Pair: Project Eden | Kōichi Mashimo | Saeko Shimazu (voice), Kyōko Tongū (voice), Katsuji Mori (voice) | Japan | |||
Eliminators | Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds | United States | ||||
Fist of the North Star | Toyoo Ashida | Akira Kamiya (voice), Yuriko Yamamoto (voice), Kenji Utsumi (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker | United States | |||
The Fly | David Cronenberg | Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz | United States Canada |
[nb 16] | ||
From Beyond | Stuart Gordon | Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree | United States | Science fiction horror[47] | ||
Katarzyna Figura, Daniel Olbrychski, Marek Walczewski, Jan Nowicki | Poland | |||||
Carl Billquist, , | Sweden | [48][nb 17] | ||||
Howard the Duck | Willard Huyck | Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins | United States | [nb 18] | ||
Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper | Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher | United States | |||
Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Galabru | France | [49] | ||||
Kin-dza-dza! | Georgi Daneliya | Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeni Leonov, Yury Yakovlev | Soviet Union | |||
Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz | Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs (voice) | United Stage | Musical comedy horror | ||
Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King | Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington | United States | |||
Night of the Creeps | Fred Dekker | Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow | United States | |||
Robert Ginty, Sandahl Bergman, , | United States | [50] | ||||
Project A-ko | Katsuhiko Nishijima | Japan | ||||
Short Circuit | John Badham | Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens | United States | |||
Star Crystal | , , | United States | ||||
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks | United States | |||
TerrorVision | Ted Nicolaou | Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov | United States | Horror[51] | ||
They Were Eleven | Satoshi Dezaki | Japan | ||||
The Transformers: The Movie | Nelson Shin | Leonard Nimoy (voice), Robert Stack (voice), Judd Nelson (voice), Orson Welles (voice), Peter Cullen (voice) | United States | Animated film | ||
Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever | Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice) | Japan | Fourth film in the Urusei Yatsura film series | |||
Vendetta dal futuro | Sergio Martino | Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, John Saxon | Italy | |||
The Wraith | Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Randy Quaid | United States | ||||
Zone Troopers | Danny Bilson | Tim Thomerson, Tim Van Patten | United States | [52] | ||
1987 | ||||||
*batteries not included | Matthew Robbins | Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae | United States | |||
Amazon Women on the Moon | John Landis | Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Guttenberg | United States | |||
Bad Taste | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, , Pete O'Herne | New Zealand | Horror, Comedy | ||
Cherry 2000 | Steve De Jarnatt | Melanie Griffith, David Andrews | United States | |||
Creepozoids | David DeCoteau | Linnea Quigley, Ashlyn Gere | United States | |||
Cyclops | Jôji Iida | Kai Atō, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuhiro Sano | Japan | |||
The Curse | , David Keith | Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare | United States | [53] | ||
Death Run | Rob Bartlett, Lynn Lowry | United States | ||||
Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Прямое попадание, tr. Pryamoye popadaniye[54] | |||||
The Dolphin's Cry | Aleksey Saltykov | Ivars Kalniņš, Donatas Banionis, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan | Soviet Union | |||
The End of Eternity | , , Georgiy Zhzhonov | Soviet Union | ||||
The Hidden | Jack Sholder | Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian | United States | |||
Innerspace | Joe Dante | Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan | United States | [nb 19] | ||
The Kindred | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays | United States | [55] | ||
The Lesson | Robert Sahakyants | Soviet Union | Animated short film | |||
Making Mr. Right | Susan Seidelman | John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly | United States | |||
Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster | United States | |||
Mr. India | Shekhar Kapur | Anil Kapoor, Sri Devi, Satish Kaushik, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor | India | |||
Nightflyers | , Gene Warren | Catherine Mary Stewart, John Standing, Michael Praed, Lisa Blount | United States | [56] | ||
Predator | John McTiernan | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo | United States | Action | ||
Fred Olen Ray | Ross Hagen, , , John Carradine | United States | [nb 20][57][58] | |||
Project X | Jonathan Kaplan | Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, William Sadler | United States | |||
RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith | United States | Action[nb 21] | ||
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise | Hiroyuki Yamaga | Japan | ||||
The Running Man | Paul Michael Glaser | Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson | United States | |||
Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga | United States | |||
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity | Elizabeth Kaitan, , Brinke Stevens | United States | ||||
Steel Dawn | Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Brion James | United States | ||||
The Stepford Children | Alan J. Levi | Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Randall Batinkoff, Tammy Lauren | United States | |||
Timestalkers | Michael Schultz | William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Forrest Tucker, James Avery, John Ratzenberger | United States | |||
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Sidney J. Furie | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker | United States | |||
The Veldt | Yuriy Belyayev, , | Soviet Union | Dystopian | |||
Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Japan | Anime film | |||
1988 | ||||||
The 13th Apostle | Suren Babayan | Juozas Budraitis, Andrey Boltnev, | Soviet Union | |||
Akira | Katsuhiro Ōtomo | Mitsuo Iwata (voice), Nozomu Sasaki (voice), Mami Koyama (voice) | Japan | Anime film | ||
Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland, Thom Mathews, Don Michael Paul | United States | |||
Alien Nation | Graham Baker | James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp | United States | [nb 22] | ||
Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure | Deborah Brock | Randy Josselyn, Dianne Kay, | United States | |||
As Time Goes By | Max Gillies, Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles | Australia | Comedy | |||
The Blob | Chuck Russell | Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch | United States | Horror, Remake | ||
The Brain | Edward Hunt | Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale | Canada | Horror[59] | ||
Critters 2: The Main Course | Mick Garris | Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper | United States | |||
Dead Heat | Mark Goldblatt | Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Vincent Price | United States | Sci-fi horror[60] | ||
Earth Girls Are Easy | Julien Temple | Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Michael McKean | United States United Kingdom |
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Gandahar | René Laloux | France | Animated film | |||
Hell Comes to Frogtown | Donald G. Jackson, | Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith, Rory Calhoun | United States | |||
Killer Klowns from Outer Space | Stephen Chiodo | Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
The Lawless Land | Jon Hess | Nick Corri, Leon Robinson, Xander Berkeley, Amanda Peterson | United States | [61][62] | ||
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars | Noboru Ishiguro | Ryō Horikawa (voice), Kei Tomiyama (voice) | Japan | |||
Lilac Ball | Pavel Arsenov | Natalya Guseva, , Boris Shcherbakov | Soviet Union | Children's film | ||
Mac and Me | Christine Ebersole, Tina Caspary, Jonathan Ward | United States | [63][nb 23] | |||
Mark Stock, | Robert Clarke, Anne Robinson, , | United States | [64][65] | |||
Miracle Mile | Steve De Jarnatt | Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar | United States | |||
Mirai Ninja | Keita Amemiya | , , | Japan | Action | ||
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Japan | ||||
Moonwalker | , Colin Chilvers | Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon | United States | The Smooth Criminal segment is a noir/sci-fi film | ||
My Stepmother Is an Alien | Richard Benjamin | Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Jon Lovitz | United States | |||
The Nest | Terence H. Winkless | Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois | United States | |||
Not of This Earth | Jim Wynorski | Traci Lords, | United States | |||
On the Silver Globe | Andrzej Zulawski | Andrzej Seweryn, , Jerzy Trela | Poland | Art film | ||
The Pass | Vladimir Tarasov | Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Vasiliy Livanov (voice), (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film | ||
Pulse | Paul Golding | Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence | United States | |||
Robowar | Bruno Mattei | Reb Brown, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni | Italy | |||
Short Circuit 2 | Kenneth Johnson | Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb | United States | |||
Space Mutiny | , Neal Sundstrom | Reb Brown, Cameron Mitchell, Cisse Cameron | South Africa | Science fiction action[66] | ||
They Live | John Carpenter | Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster | United States | Action | ||
Rex Smith, Lisa Langlois, Patrick Macnee | United States | [67] | ||||
Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter | Satoshi Dezaki | Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice) | Japan | Fifth film in the Urusei Yatsura film series | ||
Fred Olen Ray, Sid Haig | David Carradine, , Sid Haig | United States | [68] | |||
Robert Sahakyants | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Ветер, tr. Veter. Armenian title: Քամի[69][70] | ||||
World Gone Wild | Lee H. Katzin | Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart | United States | [71] | ||
1989 | ||||||
Alienator | Fred Olen Ray | Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen | United States | |||
Alien Seed | Erik Estrada | United States | ||||
Arena | Claudia Christian, Marc Alaimo | Italy | ||||
The Abyss | James Cameron | Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn | United States | [nb 24] | ||
Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | United States | Time travel film | ||
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | United States | Comedy, time travel film | ||
The Blood of Heroes | David Webb Peoples | Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo | Australia United States |
[72][73] | ||
Bunker Palace Hôtel | Enki Bilal | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoît Régent | France | [74] | ||
Communion | Philippe Mora | Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen | United States | |||
Cyborg | Albert Pyun | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter | United States | |||
Deceit | Albert Pyun | Sam Phillips, Norbert Weisser, Scott Paulin | United States | |||
DeepStar Six | Sean S. Cunningham | Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard | United States | |||
The Evil Below | Wayne Crawford | Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, Paul Siebert | United States | |||
The Five Star Stories | Japan | |||||
Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol | United States | Horror, Comedy | ||
Godzilla vs. Biollante | Kazuki Ōmori | Megumi Odaka, | Japan | Kaijū | ||
Gunhed | Masato Harada | Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke | Japan | |||
Hard to Be a God | Peter Fleischmann | Edward Zentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester, | West Germany Soviet Union France Switzerland |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman | United States | |||
Jetsons: The Movie | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | George O'Hanlon (voice), Mel Blanc (voice), Penny Singleton (voice) | United States | Animated film | ||
Journey to the center of the earth | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland | United States | |||
Leviathan | George Pan Cosmatos | Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern | Italy United States |
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Lords of the Deep | Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, | United States | ||||
Meet the Hollowheads | John Glover, Richard Portnow, Juliette Lewis | United States | [75][76] | |||
Millennium | Michael Anderson | Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy | United States | |||
Moontrap | Robert Dyke | Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, | United States | |||
Kyle T. Heffner, Scott Williamson, John Durbin | United States | [77] | ||||
My 20th Century | Ildikó Enyedi | Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker | Hungary West Germany Cuba |
Comedy-drama | ||
Patlabor: The Movie | Mamoru Oshii | Japan | ||||
The Return of Swamp Thing | Jim Wynorski | Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas | United States | |||
Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | United Kingdom United States |
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Spontaneous Combustion | Tobe Hooper | Brad Dourif | United States | |||
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | William Shatner | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan | United States | [nb 25] | ||
The Terror Within | George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff | United States | Horror | |||
Tetsuo: The Iron Man | Shinya Tsukamoto | , Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | Horror, Comedy | ||
UFO Abduction | Dean Alioto | United Stages | Horror, found footage | |||
Venus Wars | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Japan | ||||
A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | Viktor Mikhaylov, , , | Soviet Union Switzerland West Germany |
[78] |
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Winner of Academy Awards for Visual Effects (special achievement award) and Sound, a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Highest-grossing film of the year.
- ^ Won a BSFA Award for media presentation.
- ^ Won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, a BSFA Award for media presentation, and BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design/Art Direction.
- ^ Highest-grossing film of the year. Winner of Academy Awards for Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Sound, and Original Music Score, a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.
- ^ Also known as Warriors of the Wasteland.
- ^ Winner of Saturn Awards for Best Director and Best Actor.
- ^ Remake.
- ^ Won a Saturn Award for Best Costumes.
- ^ Alternate title: Battletruck.
- ^ Winner of an Academy Award for Visual Effects (Special Achievement Award), a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Highest-grossing film of the year.
- ^ Won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
- ^ Winner of a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.
- ^ Won an Academy Award for Sound Editing, a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Highest-grossing film of the year.
- ^ Winner of BAFTA Awards for Best Production Design and Best Special Visual Effects. Won a BSFA Award for media presentation.
- ^ Won an Academy Award for Visual Effects and Sound Editing, a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, a BSFA Award for media presentation and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
- ^ Winner of an Academy Award for Makeup.
- ^ Alternate title: Green Men From Outer Space
- ^ Received Razzie Awards for Worst Picture (tie), Worst Screenplay, Worst New Star and Worst Visual Effects.
- ^ Won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
- ^ Also known as Star Slammer, the Escape.
- ^ Winner of an Academy Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.
- ^ Won a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.
- ^ Winner of 1988 Raspberry awards for Worst New Star and Worst Director. Nominated for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay.
- ^ Winner of an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
- ^ Received Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Director.
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