Although the film was nominated for four Academy Awards nominations (without recognition for director Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, or cinematographer Michael Chapman): Best Picture, Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster), and Best Original Score (Bernard Herrmann, nominated posthumously -- Herrmann passed away shortly after completing his work in this film) - all were unrewarded.When news arrived of the loss of contact with terraforming space-colonists at Hadleys Hope (with a population of 158) on the moon LV-426 where the alien was first discovered in the initial film, Ripley reluctantly led a rough military crew of Colonial Marines with "state-of-the-art firepower" on board theUSS Sulacoand one of its drop-ships ("an express elevator to hell") to investigate a "xenomorph.Don: Yeah? Where would you take me?Gloria: Lots of places.The Music Hall, thenThe New Yorkerroof, maybe.Don: There is now being presented in the theatre on Forty-Fourth Street the uncut version ofHamlet.Now I see us as heading out for that.Do you knowHamlet?Gloria: I know Forty-Fourth Street.Don: I""d like to get your interpretation of Hamlet""s character.Gloria: I""d like to give it to you.When her potential, uninteresting customer from Albany arrives late, Gloria blows him off with an excuse - preferring "to go out" in the company of Birnam.She momentarily disappears (just before an express train roars through the station), and then returns in a distressed state, standing at the doorway of the tea room and explaining: "I just wanted to see the express go through.