The Original Terminator Saga
- Awards: 4 Academy Awards & 3 Saturn Awards
The original Terminator movies were a major success when they hit theaters. In fact, The Terminator as a character has become iconic overall. That is clearly thanks to the impressive work of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He stars in the title role as a cyborg assassin sent from the future date of 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor. All because her unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile AI in the post-apocalyptic future. While the original barely misses our cut-off year, the rest do not in the franchise.