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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
The visuals in that movie still hold up today. Classic!
@TsarSamuil lmao you seen the cgi in today's films 2018 and you say a film around 1979 dont hold fk off idiot
It's definitely organic and visceral and this adds to the the brutal realism of the death scenes. The movie is perfectly horrific.
@@youturd55 lol the CGI in modern movies ages like fruit, especially Marvel films. The next year it looks utter shite.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 It does. The only scenes where this looks a little shaky are at the end with the full shots of the suit.
I think they mean special effects but whatever
I can't believe "Alien" ONLY got 2 nominations that year. This cult classic deserved like 10 ones. Everything about this movie is awesome
time is the best prize
haha You're 100% right!
+irina1296 two wins, seven nominations
@@HAL-vm3wn it was 2 nominations and 1 prize
Absolutely right
No Alien without Giger's amazing work. Awesome movie.
its an incredible delight for me to see such an odd egg (and flat-out genius) like H.R. Giger up on that stage.
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.
Agreed and Yes Veronica was so amazing in this film. She should have gotten a Oscar. 👍
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.
Denys Ayling rip '98
Harold Russell rip '02
Johnny Carson rip '05
Farrah Fawcett rip '09
Carlo Rambaldi, rip '12
H.R. Giger, rip '14
"All My Heroes Are Dead"
They won’t be forgotten because of the body of work they created and left behind....
LEGACY lives on !
Kane's facehugger rip...hold on...
Farrah looking Beautiful as always RIP Farrah
H.R. Giger.............You are the winner.
It must have got him mainstream attention because of it.
Extraordinary movie and wonderful mans.RIP Carlo Rambaldi and H.R. Giger
Glad it won an Oscar. Should have been nominated for a lot more though. :(
Wow. Carlo Rambaldi won here for co-designing the scariest alien in film history, and three years later for co-designing the friendliest one.
The friendliest were 2: he designed and built the alien for Close Encounters too
Carlo Rambaldi had all the italian's humor and i'm very proud to say he was born and grown up in my own little village called Vigarano Mainarda.
Should've been nominated for Picture and Director. Good times when Ridley Scott was still doing good movies.
Because Black Hawk Down and Gladiator were shit, right?
Yeah, especially Black Hawk Down
What is bad about Black Hawk Down? It's a competently made film
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.
yep. the last decent film he made was prolly black rain...that was 30 years ago!
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.
The great Harold Russell. He tears your heart out in Best Years of Our Lives.
He was extraordinary in that movie wasn't he?
@@goring19 Absolutely!!
"ALIEN" absolutely deserved this. Wished it could've gotten more nominations.
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.
Harold Russell, wherever you are, I salute you for your outstanding endurance.
Carlo Rambaldi altro orgoglio italiano!! ci manchi!
Alien has great visual effects.
Harold Russell a wonderful spirit.
Thank u Ridley
Beautiful! Love it
GIGER is a genius. Alien is one of my favorite movies. Thank you.
Happy 45th Anniversary To Alien.
i could watch farrah fawcett all night long - BEAUTIFUL
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.
GRANDE CARLO!!!
I'll bet Farah Fawcett never thought Alien would be more famous than her today.
Introducing one of the greatest men ever to take the Oscar stage...Harold Russell.
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.
Who else didn't notice he didn't have hands until opening up the envelope?
Why crop out the highlighted footages of the nominees?
copyright
ah, Farrah. The greatest hair ever. I miss her so much!
Una SEÑORA PELÍCULA...hasta el día de hoy.
That was some harsh competition that year... impressive!
never getting old: A L I E N
the visual efects this movie is all time
So glad this is on here ! Even though Giger (geeger) was not happy with the mispronounciation of his name.
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.
He was so shy.. so shy.
I lost all faith in the Oscars when Goodfellas didn't sweep the board, when Al Pacino didn't win for G2 and when Alien wasn't more recognised.
How about Star Wars losing best picture to woody Allen in 78
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.
H.R.Giger is the person solely responsible for the success of alien
Without his vision, it would never have been as amazing.
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
Like for Giger🎉
fuck yeah giger!
They get to pose with Farrah later backstage...how's that for a bonus.
So well deserved. Next to nosferatu the alien is the scariest movie monster ever! Happy halloween everyone!
I like how unprepared they were for the speech.
Miss Weaver deserved to win also. BTW, Farrah looks amazing! We miss you!
Giger !!!
No political or transgender crap, just pure entertainment
The Lambert character was transgender according to the bio listed on her in Aliens. The parents chose to change him to a her in utero. Fact.
Lambert es trans.
Bravo!
I'm willing to bet that Giger's Oscar was misplaced under the piles of books and old paint brushes at his house.
+Mike Shearman....Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World, his former partner discussed how she found an rotting Ibex head with long horns in the bathtub.
Giger was very proud of his Oscar tho. I can confirm it is displayed in his museum in Gruyère (which I was lucky enough to visit recently).
Mike Shearman i can confirm it too, it stands proudly in Gigers museum.
Weird - 5 nominations that year, but in 1981 they just gave it to Empire Strikes Back with no nominated competitors.
he has no hands wtf, who was that guy?
When announced, the theme for "Alien" was played too fast.
That sounds it was based on the original opening title score Goldsmith composed.
0:15
oh shit! you couldn't say that nowadays.
time's up!
H.R.GIGER
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.
Acceptance speech done right
Jodorowsky must be proud, his team.
I think it’s hilarious that Moon Raker was right next to Alien 😂
Shame parts of the video are cropped.
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!
Let;s See...Moonraker 30 million...Star Trek..40 million 1941 35 Million, BlackHole 35 Million...and ALIEN 9 Million!!! guess who won! Alien's Visuals were excellent.
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).
the yanks may have the cash but it takes a brit and 2 foreigner for visual effects...good on them
How did Black Hole get nominated. The strings were clearly visible and the keying was terrible.
Moonragger!
douglas trumbell? who he?
„Age Are Geiger“ oh man, dieses English 😅✌🏻
who is Etchagaga? lol
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!!!!!!!!!!!
pronounced Moonraker wrongly
Pronounced Giger wrongly!! Giger lke Geeger / Geager!
I didnt know Alien won awards
SHOULD HAVE WON FOR BEST PICTURE
up against kramer v kramer among others? no chance.
The team didn't speak English all that well but that's ok because the presenter was there to give them a "hand". ;)
HR GIGA.
no oscar to Sigourney Weaver. shame on them.
👀
And thus the mispronunciation of h.r. giger's last name began
bit kinky...
To be completely fair, while the effects of Alien still hold up, Star Trek TMP should have won. The effects of that Movie were simply better.
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
STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE should have won!
Not very damn likely, Kostas Matsablokos!
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.
Una SEÑORA PELÍCULA...hasta el día de hoy.