Directed by James Cameron
Produced by James Cameron
Stephanie Austin
B.J. Rack
Gale Anne Hurd
Mario Kassar
Written by James Cameron
William Wisher Jr.
Narrated by Linda Hamilton
Music by Brad Fiedel
Cinematography Adam Greenberg
Editing by Conrad Buff
Mark Goldblatt
Richard A. Harris
Studio Carolco Pictures
Lightstorm Entertainment
Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures
Release date(s) July 3, 1991 (1991-07-03)
Running time 139 minutes
Language English
Budget US $102 million
Gross revenue $519,843,345
Preceded by The Terminator
Followed by Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines
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Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger ... The Terminator
Linda Hamilton ... Sarah Connor
Edward Furlong ... John Connor
Robert Patrick ... T-1000
Earl Boen ... Dr. Silberman
Joe Morton ... Miles Dyson
S. Epatha Merkerson ... Tarissa Dyson
Castulo Guerra ... Enrique Salceda
Danny Cooksey ... Tim
Jenette Goldstein ... Janelle Voight
Xander Berkeley ... Todd Voight
Leslie Hamilton Gearren ... Twin Sarah
Ken Gibbel ... Douglas
Robert Winley ... Cigar-Smoking Biker
Peter Schrum ... Lloyd
Shane Wilder ... Trucker
Michael Edwards ... Old John Connor
Jared Lounsbery ... Kid
Casey Chavez ... Kid
Ennalls Berl ... Bryant
Don Lake ... Mossberg
Richard Vidan ... Weatherby
Tom McDonald ... Cop
Jim Palmer ... Jock
Gerard G. Williams ... Jock
Gwenda Deacon ... Gwen, Night Nurse
Don Stanton ... Lewis, Guard
Dan Stanton ... T-1000 Lewis
Colin Patrick Lynch ... Attendant
Noel Evangelisti ... Hospital Guard
Nikki Cox ... Girl
Lisa Brinegar ... Girl
DeVaughn Nixon ... Danny Dyson
Tony Simotes ... Vault Guard
Diane Rodriguez ... Jolanda Salceda
Dalton Abbott ... Infant John Connor
Ron Young ... Pool Cue Biker
Charles Robert Brown ... Tattooed Biker
Abdul Salaam El Razzac ... Gibbons
Mike Muscat ... Moshier
Dean Norris ... SWAT Team Leader
Charles A. Tamburro ... Police Helicopter Pilot
J. Rob Jordan ... Pickup Truck Driver
Terrence Evans ... Tanker Truck Driver
Denney Pierce ... Burly Attendant
Mark Christopher Lawrence ... Burly Attendant
Pat Kouri ... SWAT Team Leader
Van Ling ... Cyberdyne Tech
Michael Albanese ... SWAT officer
Ed Arneson ... SWAT officer
Bret A. Arnold ... Future Coda Man
Debra Casey ... Mohawk Girl at Biker Bar
Jim Dahl ... SWAT officer
Takao Komine ... Tourist shot by T-1000
Joel Kramer ... Male Nurse
Anne Merrem ... Psychiatric
Scott Shaw ... Cyberdyne Tech
Steven Stear ... SWAT officer
Randy Walker ... SWAT officer
William Wisher Jr. ... Photographer / Cop
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
James Cameron: Director
Plot
In 1995, eleven years after the events of The Terminator, John Connor (Edward Furlong) is ten years old and living in Los Angeles with foster parents. His mother Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) had been preparing him throughout his childhood for his future role as the leader of the human Resistance against Skynet, but she was arrested after attempting to bomb a computer factory and remanded to a hospital for the criminally insane under the supervision of Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen). Skynet sends a new Terminator, a T-1000 (Robert Patrick), back in time to 1995 to kill John.
A more advanced prototype than the Terminator that was sent after Sarah, the T-1000 is composed of "a mimetic polyalloy", a liquid metal that allows it to take the shape and appearance of anything it touches. Though it cannot mimic complex machines such as guns or bombs, it can shape parts of itself into knives and stabbing weapons and can mimic the voice and appearance of humans. It assumes the identity of a police officer and goes in pursuit of John. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), identical to the one that attacked Sarah, to protect his younger self.
The Terminator and the T-1000 converge on John in a mall, and a chase ensues in which John and the Terminator escape by motorcycle. The Terminator explains that he has been programmed to protect and obey John. Fearing that the T-1000 will kill Sarah in order to get to him, John orders the Terminator to help free her. They encounter Sarah in the midst of her own escape attempt, and she is initially terrified by the Terminator but accepts his assistance after he helps them to escape the T-1000. The Terminator informs John and Sarah about Skynet, the artificial intelligence that will initiate a nuclear holocaust on "Judgment Day" and go on to create the machines that will hunt the remnants of humanity.
Sarah learns that the man most directly responsible for Skynet's creation is Miles Bennett Dyson (Joe Morton), a Cyberdyne Systems engineer working on a revolutionary new microprocessor that will form the basis for Skynet. Gathering weapons from an old friend, Sarah plans to flee with John to Mexico. However, after having a horrific nightmare of a nuclear explosion she awakens with strengthened resolve and sets out to kill Miles Dyson. She wounds him at his home but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family. Deducing her plan, John and the Terminator arrive and inform Miles of the consequences of his work.
They learn that much of his research has been reverse engineered from the CPU and arm of the previous Terminator sent after Sarah. Convincing him that these items and his designs must be destroyed, they break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the CPU and arm. The police arrive and Miles is mortally wounded, but stays behind to trigger the detonator that will destroy his research. The T-1000 pursues John, Sarah, and the Terminator, catching up to them in a steel mill.
In a climactic battle, the Terminator fires a grenade into the T-1000 and it falls into a vat of molten steel where it is destroyed. John throws the pieces of the first Terminator into the steel as well. The Terminator then sacrifices himself, asking Sarah to lower him into the steel so that his technology cannot be used to create Skynet. Sarah looks to the future with hope, believing that if a Terminator can learn the value of human life, then perhaps humanity is not doomed to self-destruction.
Production
Shooting began on October 9, 1990 and was completed on April 4, 1991. Most of the key Terminator effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic for computer graphics and Stan Winston for practical effects. The external shots of Cyberdyne Systems Corporation were filmed on location at an office building on the corner of Gateway Boulevard and Bayside Parkway in Fremont, California. Of the fifteen minutes that the T-1000 displays its morphing and healing abilities, only six of those minutes were accomplished with pure computer graphics.
The other nine were achieved in camera with the use of advanced puppets and prosthetic effects created by the Stan Winston studio, who were also responsible for the metal skeleton effects of the T-800. Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie was used in scenes that required two Sarahs. She is the mirror image of Sarah in the scene where they open up the Terminator's head, and in the scene where the T-1000 impersonates Sarah, she is whichever one is farthest from the camera, alternating between the real Sarah and the T-1000 based on camera position.
Another set of twins, Don and Dan Stanton, were used to play the mental hospital security guard and the T-1000 copying him. James Cameron nearly removed Edward Furlong from the project after Furlong messed up his lines out of nervousness from being in the same scene as Linda Hamilton, in a scene that was ultimately deleted (in which the Connors attempt to reboot the Terminator), but Cameron was persuaded by casting director Mali Finn to give Furlong one more chance.
At that point, Furlong was able to deliver his lines without any problems. The scene is available in the Extreme and Ultimate editions of the DVD. The sawed-off shotgun used by Schwarzenegger throughout the film was a modified Winchester Model 1887, modified especially for the film to allow it to be "flip-cocked" by the actor in several of the film's scenes.
Box Office
The movie was made for approximately $102 million,[13] and at the time was the most expensive movie ever made. It was a box-office success, earning $204.8 million in the United States alone, and was the highest grossing film of 1991, beating Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.[13] The original Terminator grossed only $38 million in the U.S. in its theatrical run,[14] making Terminator 2's 434% increase a record for a sequel.
Upon its release, the theatrical cut ran 137 minutes. On November 24, 1993, the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition cut of the film was released to Laserdisc and VHS, containing 17 minutes of never-before-seen footage including scenes with Michael Biehn reprising his role as Kyle Reese in a dream sequence. The subsequent "Ultimate Edition" and "Extreme Edition" DVD releases also contain this version of the film.
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Awards
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1992 - Won ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films - Brad Fiedel
Academy Awards
1992 - Won Oscar Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing - Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders
Won Best Effects, Visual Effects - Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak
Won Best Makeup - Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn
Won Best Sound - Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff
Nominated Oscar Best Cinematography - Adam Greenberg
Nominated Best Film Editing - Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1992 - Won Best Actress - Linda Hamilton
Won Best Director - James Cameron
Won Best Performance by a Younger Actor - Edward Furlong
Won Best Science Fiction Film
Won Best Special Effects - Stan Winston
Nominated Best Actor - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nominated Best Make-Up - Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn
Nominated Best Supporting Actor - Robert Patrick
Nominated Best Writing - James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.
American Cinema Editors, USA
1992 Nominated Eddie Best Edited Feature Film
Mark Goldblatt, Conrad Buff IV, Richard A. Harris
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
1992 Nominated ASC Award Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
Adam Greenberg
Awards of the Japanese Academy
1992 Nominated Award of the Japanese Academy Best Foreign Film
BAFTA Awards
1992 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Sound - Lee Orloff, Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers
Nominated Best Special Visual Effects - Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak
Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Production Design - Joseph C. Nemec III
British Society of Cinematographers
1991 Nominated Best Cinematography Award - Adam Greenberg
DVD Exclusive Awards
2003 Nominated DVDX Award Best Games and Interactivities - Chris Brown - (Extreme Edition).
Nominated Best Menu Design - Van Ling - (Extreme Edition).
2001 Nominated Video Premiere Award Best DVD Menu Design - Van Ling - For The Ultimate Edition.
Golden Screen, Germany
1992 Won Golden Screen
Hugo Awards
1992 Won Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation
MTV Movie Awards
1992 Won MTV Movie Award Best Action Sequence - For the L.A. freeway chase.
Won Best Breakthrough Performance - Edward Furlong
Won Best Female Performance - Linda Hamilton
Won Best Male Performance - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Won Best Movie
Won Most Desirable Female - Linda Hamilton
Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Movie Song - "Guns N' Roses" - For the song: "You Could Be Mine".
Nominated Best Villain - Robert Patrick
Mainichi Film Concours
1992 Won Readers' Choice Award Best Foreign Language Film - James Cameron
Online Film Critics Society Awards
2001 Nominated OFCS Award Best DVD Special Features - For the "The Ultimate Edition" edition.
People's Choice Awards, USA
1992 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Motion Picture
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
1992 Won Bradbury Award - James Cameron
Young Artist Awards
1992 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Motion Picture - Danny Cooksey
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