Sci-Fi
Prometheus
(2012)
Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof, Dan O'Bannon (elements), Ronald Shusett (elements)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 42 nominations.
Following clues to the origin of mankind a team journey across the universe and find a structure on a distant planet containing a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of alien blood but they soon find they are not alone.
Push
(2009)
David Bourla
1 win & 2 nominations.
Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.
Resident Evil: Extinction
(2007)
Paul W.S. Anderson
2 wins & 1 nomination.
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
(1988)
Stephen F. Andrich, John De Bello, Costa Dillon, J. Stephen Peace
N/A
Mad scientist Professor Gangreen is cooking up the second coming of the Great Tomato Uprising, in which music converted tomatoes into human form to war against mankind. Pizza delivery man Chad Finletter must save the world and beautiful tomato-girl Tara.
Returner
(2002)
Richard Epcar (dubbed version), Kenya Hirata, Takashi Yamazaki
2 wins & 3 nominations.
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Riddick
(2013)
David Twohy, Jim Wheat (based on characters created by), Ken Wheat (based on characters created by)
2 nominations.
The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won't leave the planet without Riddick's head as their trophy.
RoboCop
(2014)
Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
4 wins & 1 nomination.
The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(2016)
Chris Weitz (screenplay by), Tony Gilroy (screenplay by), John Knoll (story by), Gary Whitta (story by), George Lucas (based on characters created by)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 81 nominations.
All looks lost for the Rebellion against the Empire as they learn of the existence of a new super weapon, the Death Star. Once a possible weakness in its construction is uncovered, the Rebel Alliance must set out on a desperate mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. The future of the entire galaxy now rests upon its success.
Rollerball
(1975)
William Harrison (screenplay)
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Shin Godzilla
(2016)
Hideaki Anno, Sean Whitley (english version)
13 wins & 9 nominations.
An unknown accident occurs in Tokyo Bay's Aqua Line, which causes an emergency cabinet to assemble. All of the sudden, a giant creature immediately appears, destroying town after town with its landing reaching the capital. This mysterious giant monster is named "Godzilla".
Skyline
(2010)
Joshua Cordes, Liam O'Donnell
N/A
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
Source Code
(2011)
Ben Ripley
1 win & 8 nominations.
Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is. He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person's consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb. He is told that he is not going back in time but placed in the moment so he can find out who the bomber is and if there are any other targets. On the side, Stevens finds himself falling for the woman traveling with him while he is still in the other man's consciousness.
Splice
(2009)
Vincenzo Natali (screenplay), Antoinette Terry Bryant (screenplay), Doug Taylor (screenplay), Vincenzo Natali (story), Antoinette Terry Bryant (story)
4 wins & 23 nominations.
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.
Stake Land
(2010)
Nick Damici, Jim Mickle
3 wins & 11 nominations
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
(2015)
Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt, George Lucas (based on characters created by)
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 123 nominations.
30 years after the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire, Rey, a scavenger from the planet Jakku, finds a BB-8 droid that knows the whereabouts of the long lost Luke Skywalker. Rey, as well as a rogue stormtrooper and two smugglers, are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance and the daunting legions of the First Order.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
Edward Neumeier (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (book)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 14 nominations.
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
Sunshine
(2007)
Alex Garland
1 win & 17 nominations.
A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Super 8
(2011)
J.J. Abrams
11 wins & 60 nominations.
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Surrogates
(2009)
Michael Ferris (screenplay), John Brancato (screenplay), Robert Venditti (graphic novel), Brett Weldele (graphic novel)
N/A
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Tarantula
(1955)
Robert M. Fresco (screenplay), Martin Berkeley (screenplay), Jack Arnold (story), Robert M. Fresco (story)
N/A
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.