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as nomination for Best Actor (Schwarzenegger). [155] [156] It also won
Favorite Motion Picture at the 18th People's Choice Awards . [157] For the
45th British Academy Film Awards , Terminator 2 received awards for Best Sound
( Lee Orloff , Tom Johnson , Gary Rydstrom , Gary Summers ) and Best Special
Visual Effects (Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr. , Robert Skotak ),
as well as a nomination for Best Production Design (Joseph Nemec III). [158]
The 64th Academy Awards earned Terminator 2 four awards: Best Makeup (Winston
and Jeff Dawn ), Best Sound (Orloff, Johnson, Rydstrom, and Summers), Best
Sound Effects Editing (Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders ), and Best Visual
Effects (Muren, Winston, Warren Jr., and Skotak), as well as nominations for
Best Cinematography (Adam Greenberg) and Best Film Editing (Conrad Buff, Mark
Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris). [159] It was the first film to win an
Academy Award when its predecessor had not been nominated. [58] It received
six awards at the 1992 MTV Movie Awards , including: Best Movie, Best Action
Sequence ("L.A. Freeway Scene"), Best Breakthrough Performance (Furlong), Best
Female Performance (Hamilton), Best Male Performance (Schwarzenegger), and
nominations for Best Song From a Movie ("You Could Be Mine"), Best Villain
(Patrick), and Most Desirable Female (Hamilton), [160] as well as a Hugo Award
for Best Dramatic Presentation (Cameron and Wisher). [161] Post-release [ edit
] Aftermath [ edit ] Terminator 2: Judgment Day launched the careers or raised
the profiles of its principal actors. According to industry professionals,
Schwarzenegger became the top international star ahead of actors such as Mel
Gibson and Tom Cruise . [111] It also marked the start of a lasting friendship
between Schwarzenegger and Cameron, who formed a "midlife crisis motorcycle
club" and reunited for the action film True Lies (1994). [4] Cameron and
Hamilton began a romantic relationship in 1991, married in 1997, and later
divorced. [18] [162] In 1992 Cameron was given a five-year, $500 million
contract by 20th Century Fox to produce twelve films. [163] [164] Furlong
became a highly sought after actor and Patrick found dealing with his new-
found recognition difficult as people asked him to impersonate the T-1000. [4]
Despite the film's success, Carolco reported 1991 losses of $265.1 million,
which was caused by the financial problems of its other films and
subsidiaries. Support from investors failed to prevent the studio filing for
bankruptcy in 1995 and its assets, including Terminator 2 , were sold to Canal
Plus for $58 million. [ad] Home media [ edit ] In December 1991, Terminator 2:
Judgment Day was released on VHS and LaserDisc . [170] [171] [172] It was a
popular rental in the U.S. and Canada, with a record 714,000 copies shipped to
retailers, and it became the best-selling rental by mid-January 1992. [ae]
Varèse Sarabande released Fiedel's score, which spent six weeks on the
Billboard 200 record chart, peaking at number 70\. [97] [179] The theme song
"You Could Be Mine" peaked at number 29 on the U.S. Billboard 100 , and
performed well in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Spain, and Canada.
[180] [181] [182] A "Special Edition" LaserDisc was released in 1993,
featuring a 15-minute extended version of the film that restored deleted
scenes, interviews with cast and crew, storyboards, designs, and unrestored
deleted scenes. Cameron stated he did not use the label "Director's Cut"
because he considered the theatrical releases to be definitive and the
extended versions as opportunities to restore "depth and character made
omissible by theatrical running time". [79] [183] The theatrical version was
released on DVD in 1997. [184] In 2000, an "Ultimate Edition" DVD was
released, containing the theatrical and "Special Edition" cuts, and a new
"Extended Cut", containing a scene of the T-1000 inspecting John's bedroom,
and the alternate ending. Terminator 2 special effects coordinator Van Ling
supervised the release. [79] [185] [186] The "Extreme Edition" was released in
2003, featuring the theatrical and "Special Edition" cuts, a remastered 1080p
image, Cameron's first commentary, and a documentary about the film's
influence on special effects. [185] Terminator 2 was released on Blu-ray in
2006, followed in 2009 by a "Skynet Edition" that contains the theatrical and
"Special Edition" cuts, and commentaries with the cast and crew. This release
includes a limited collector's set containing the Blu-ray, the "Ultimate" and
"Extreme" editions on DVDs, a digital download version, all extant special
features, and a 14-inch (360 mm) T-800 skull bust. [187] [188] A 4K Ultra HD
Blu-ray version that includes a standard Blu-ray and digital version, was
released in 2017. This release also offered a collector's option that includes
one of 6,000 life-size replicas of a T-800 skeleton forearm, each signed by
Cameron and individually numbered, the soundtrack, the theatrical, "Special",
"Extended", and 2017 3D remaster cuts, and "Reprogramming the Terminator", a
documentary that includes interviews with Schwarzenegger, Cameron, Furlong,
and others. [189] [190] [191] Other media [ edit ] Main articles: List of
Terminator video games , List of Terminator comic books , and T2-3D: Battle
Across Time Terminator 2: Judgment Day was marketed with numerous tie-in
products, including toys, puppets, trading cards, jigsaw puzzles, clothing, a
perfume named "Hero", and a novelization by Randall Frakes that expands on the
film's ending. [af] In 1991 Marvel Comics adapted the film into a comic book,
which was followed by expansions of the Terminator 2 narrative, including
Malibu Comics 's "Cybernetic Dawn" and "Nuclear Twilight" (1995–1996),
Dynamite Entertainment 's "Infinity" and "Revolution" (2007), and the T2 novel
series by S. M. Stirling in the early 2000s. [195] [196] Several video game
adaptations of Terminator 2 were published, including a pinball machine and an
arcade game in 1991. The arcade game was popular enough to be ported to home
consoles as T2: The Arcade Game . [ag] Multiple studios developed widely
differing adaptations for home consoles, including Terminator 2 for Game Boy
and Terminator 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). [193] A later
adaptation was developed for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment
System , and a different game was published for home computers . [193] [197]
[200] Merchandise for Terminator 2: Judgment Day was estimated to have
generated $400 million in sales. [119] In 1996, T2-3D: Battle Across Time , a
live-action attraction, was opened at Universal Studios Florida , and later at
locations in Hollywood and Japan . The twenty-minute attraction was co-written
and directed by Cameron and cost $60 million to produce, including live-action
stunts and a $24 million, 12-minute, 3D film starring Schwarzenegger,
Hamilton, Patrick, and Furlong as their in-world characters, making it the
most-expensive film per minute produced of its time. In it, Sarah and John
attempt to stop Cyberdyne, which has developed Skynet. They are confronted by
the T-1000 but saved by the T-800, which returns to 2029 with John to defeat
Skynet and its latest creation, the T-1000000. [201] [202] [203] 3D remaster [
edit ] Main article: Terminator 2 3D remaster Cameron oversaw a year-long 3D
remaster and subsequent theatrical re-release of Terminator 2: Judgment Day in
August 2017. Cameron said: "If you've never seen it, this'll be the version
you want to see and remember". [204] [205] [206] Cameron made visual