Aliens Trivia

Sigourney Weaver was nominated for her first Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Aliens. It is the only Best Actress nomination in history for a role in a science-fiction film.

Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein and Lance Henriksen went on together to star in Katherine Bigelow's truly excellent modern vampire road movie "Near Dark".

Bishop's knife trick was also previously seen in John Carpenter's "Dark Star" (1974). Like Bishop, Boiler misses too. The inspiration for both scenes surely is to be found in Roman Polanski's "Knife in Water" (1962).

Actor Michael Biehn also apeared in a little know movie called "Hog Wild", as a cop, also with Patti D'Arbanville.

This film was the debut of athlete-turned-actress Jenette Goldstein, who has appeared in at least three Cameron films: In "Aliens" she was the Latina US Marine Vasquez; in "Terminator 2" she was the harpie foster mother of John Connor; and in "Titanic" she was the brave stoic "Irish Mommy." She's hard to spot usually because she is such a chameleon!

The special effects for "Aliens" won an Oscar.

Michael Biehn's (Hicks) shotgun is actually the same weapon he previously kept handy in "The Terminator", in which he played Kyle Reese.

Biehn's characters in 3 of Camerons films all get bitten on the hand. Sarah Conner bites Reese's hand in "The Terminator"; Newt bites Hicks' hand in Aliens and Bud Brigman bites Lt. Coffey's hand in the Abyss.

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Myth: In an early draft of the script, Bishop claims to have been made
by "Cyberdyne", a company from "The Terminator" (1984)

Fact: Bishop actually claims he was manufactured by Hyperdyne Systems.