Top 10 Sci-Fi movies

Blade Runner was released 25th of June, 1982. The film is roughly based on the novel written by Philip Dick entitled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The movie revolves in the life of Blade Runner, played by Harrison Ford, a police officer in the miserable city of Los Angeles whose mission is to dismiss biologically engineered robots called replicants.

Aliens was the sequel to the 1979 Alien which was released 18th of July, 1986. This movie revolves on the story of Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, the sole survivor in the previous movie Alien and her renewed fight against the same extraterrestrial beasts in LV-426. The movie won 17 awards mainly Best Science Fiction Film in the 1987 US Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and gained 21 nominations including Best Actress in a Leading Role for actress Sigourney Weaver in the 1987 US Academy Awards.

The Matrix was released 31st of March, 1999. The movie starred Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer programmer/hacker who allies with Morpheus, played by Lawrence Fishburne, and his group. Their mission is to convince Neo that he is the chosen one. This movie won 32 awards mainly Best Science Fiction Film in the 2000 US Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and gained 36 more nominations including Best Foreign Film in the 2000 Norway Amanda Awards.

The big daddy of Sci-Fi films.

With low-grade plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists (racist, but it's the 80s we're talking about), or 1.21 gigawatts of electricity (what the hell is a gigawatt?), or eventually a Mr. Fusion nuclear reactor, one can time travel in a DeLorean and visit parents in their, as yet, untarnished youth.

2001: A Space Odyssey was released 6th of April, 1968. The movie revolves in the story of evolution of both computers and human beings and their race to gain the next pace into evolution. The movie won 11 awards mainly Best Effects, Special Visual Effects in the 1969 US Academy Awards and gained another 6 nominations Best Film in the 1969 BAFTA Awards. The movie’s budget is estimated at $10.5 million and it earned $56.7 million.

Need I say more? This was the first Sci-Fi film I remember that did not force me under my bed covers and instead sent me exploring my garage as a child. The warm hearted alien encounter directed by Steven Spielberg explores the possibilities that the Extra Terrestrial could actually be welcoming and friendly creatures rather than a danger to us Earthlings. E.T was the best film of the 80s and arguably the best Sci-Fi film of all time.

Alien was released 25th of May, 1979. The movie depicts the story of how extraterrestrial beasts stalk and kill the crew of a space shuttle. This movie won 12 awards mainly Best Science Fiction Film in the 1980 US Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and gained 18 nominations including Best Art Direction-Set Direction in the 1980 UA Academy Awards.

Kkkkkhhhhhaaaaaannnnnnnn! Enough said.