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AWARDS FOR PREDATOR 1987
(1988 Awards)

Academy Awards

Nominated for Oscar Best Effects, Visual Effects
Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg, Stan Winston

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

Won Saturn Award for Best Music - Alan Silvestri
Nominated for Saturn Award Best Actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nominated for Saturn Award Best Science Fiction Film
Nominated for Saturn Award Best Special Effects
Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg, Stan Winston

BMI Film & TV Awards
Won BMI Film Music Award - Alan Silvestri

Hugo Awards
Nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
Won Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing
Sound Effects, Richard Shorr

Predator-Boxset (1987/1990)

Catch all of the action the hugely successful sci-fi thrillers PREDATOR and PREDATOR 2, brought together for this release. Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall.

The first film, released in 1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this action-packed adventure story of fighting men pitted against an unseen enemy, a force more powerful than their fiercest weapons.

Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy unimaginably more deadly than any on Earth--because the Predator is not of this Earth.

For the second film, the invisible creature from another world is back - but this time seeking out heat and conflict. This electrifying action sequel unleashes the deadly invisible Predator in another jungle--the gang-ruled and ravaged city of Los Angeles.

Danny Glover stars as a lieutenant who mistakenly concludes that mangled bodies found by the police are the work of feuding gangs.

The detective-lieutenant and his police force set out to capture this brutal murderer, ignoring the warnings from a mysterious government agent to stay away. Instead, he finds himself confronting a savage alien who has come from a distant world to hunt humans for sport.

Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Bill Paxton, and Maria Conchita Alonso co-star in this suspense-packed, high-tech thriller. Crew: Stephen Hopkins - Director, Jim and John Thomas - Writers, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon, and John Davis - Producers.

Predator - Widescreen Collectors Edition

Explore the depths of the Predator jungle with this all-new 2-disc set packed with over 5 hours of out-of-this-world extras, including an in-depth documentary, director's commentary, never-before-seen bonus footage, revealing featurettes and more!

Features: 2 Camouflage Tests, 3 Outtakes, 7 Featurettes, An Inside Look, Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Documentary, Easter Eggs, Special Effects Featurettes, Special Effects Featurettes, and more.

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Predator 2 - Special Edition

Features: Dolby Digital 5.1, Interactive Menus, Scene Selection, Subtitles: English, Spanish, Theatrical Trailers, and Two Featurettes.

Predators [Blu-ray]

Executive producer Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse) is the driving force behind this energetic reboot of the popular Predator films, which pits the dreadlocked alien hunters against a rogues' gallery of human antiheroes, led by a bulked-up Adrien Brody. The Oscar winner acquits himself nicely in the role of a gritty mercenary who finds himself stranded on a jungle planet with a host of criminals and professional killers (among them such scene-stealers as Walton Goggins and Danny Trejo), as well as a seemingly innocent doctor, well played by Topher Grace.

They've been deposited there to serve as living targets for a horde of Predators--whose looks, designed by Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger, are impressively varied and sleek--that use the planet as their private hunting grounds. Laurence Fishburne is also on hand as a soldier who has managed to survive for years in the jungle; he, Brody, and Grace do much to make the pulpy dialogue by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch (adapting a premise penned by Rodriguez in the mid-'90s) palatable.

Likewise, Hungarian director Nimrod Antal (Vacancy) lends a great deal of atmosphere and Rodriguez-style momentum to the picture--perhaps more than necessary, since the end result is, like the 1987 original with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fun B-movie and nothing more, designed entirely to give moviegoers a slick, unchallenging roller-coaster ride. Having said that, it's a vast improvement over the 1990 sequel and the dreadful tie-ins with the Alien franchise, and should provide movie monster aficionados with an afternoon's worth of thrills.

Official Predators Site

Unlike the Alien Series where hordes of the alien creatures are in full force, the Predator Series offered up a limited number of the Predator Hunter spanning from the original Predator movie, Predator 2, and the AVP series. Below is a roll call of Predators that have appeared in these films. There were other predators that appeared in various scenes and are not included below because they were mostly silohuettes or images too dark to distinguish their look. You can click on some of the image thumbnails for a larger view.

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #2

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #4

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #5

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #6

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #8

Predator 2 (In the ship)
Hunter #10