To ask a rhetorical question: Who doesn't love Sigourney Weaver? Her breakout role as Ripley in 1979's Alien was crucial in conveying the story in an engaging way. Five years later, her improvised banter with Bill Murray would be immortalised in Ghostbusters, showing the first glimpses of her comedic chops. It wasn't until James Cameron's 1986 Aliens that she was nominated for her first Oscar, the winner that year being Marlee Matlin for her portrayal of Sara Norman in Children of a Lesser God. In 1988, Weaver found herself nominated for two Oscars: Best Supporting Actress (Working Girl) and Best Actress for her role as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist. Up until that year, every actor or actress nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year had won one. Sigourney Weaver would be the first not to win either. A decade later, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for playing Janey Carver in The Ice Storm, a pensive Ang Lee film entirely neglected at the Oscars.