(Co-stars Winger and Lithgow competed against MacLaine and Nicholson.)The other nominations included Best Actress (Debra Winger), Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.The atmosphere is so quiet and still that the slightest cough and accidental crackling of another gentleman""s newspaper disturbs the elderly club members.As the titles and credits play, carefully-selected images of the Old South are portrayed as backgrounds - a green pasture with horses grazing, a river at night, magnolias, a mill constructed from bricks, slaves working in the fields, peaceful Southern plantations, the city of Atlanta, and a sunset.With Hicks in command, he ordered the group to evacuate and "nuke the site from orbit," although Burke objected - revealing his ties to the company to save alien speciments and use them as biological weapons; the dropship (with an alien onboard) crashed trying to pick them up, and Bishop announced that the nuclear-powered facility would blow up in four hours - time enough to remotely program theSulaco""s second drop ship to rescue them; Newt and Ripley were sabotaged by Burke when locked in the med-lab and two face-huggers threatened them.]While standing mute by himself on the automated, conveyor walkway moving to the left (with a monotonous recording saying the exact opposite: "Please hold the handrail, and stand to theright.