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This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' or 'golden' era of science fiction theater. With at least 204 sci-fi films produced, it holds the record for the largest number of science fiction produced per decade. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience.
A list of science fiction films released in the 1940s. These 45 films include core elements of science fiction and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. List
These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1960s received five Academy Awards, a Hugo Award and a BAFTA Award.
All of the films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres such as drama, mystery, action, horror, fantasy, and comedy. Among the listed movies are films that have won motion-picture and science fiction awards as well as films that have been listed among the worst movies ever made , or have won one or more Golden ...
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
This is a list of horror films released in the 1950s.At the beginning of the 1950s, horror films were described by Kim Newman as being "out of fashion". [1] Among the most influential horror films of the 1950s was The Thing From Another World, with Newman stating that countless science fiction horror films of the 1950s would follow in its style, while a film made just the year before, The Man ...
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Science-fiction or fantasy films employed a wider range of special effects, as in the original of The Time Machine (1960) and Mysterious Island (1961), or with animated aliens or mythical creatures, as in the Harryhausen animation for Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and One Million Years B.C. (1966).