Aliens (soundtrack)
 The score to the James Cameron film Aliens was composed by James Horner. Released in 1986 it was one of his first major Hollywood scores. The score itself includes musical references to Gayane's Adagio from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite which had been used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The score also uses musical motifs sound treatments and excerpts from Jerry Goldsmith's original soundtrack to Alien (1979).