T-1000 Actor at the 1992 MTV and Saturn Awards. The T-1000 was ranked #39 in the Online Film Critics Society's 2002 list of the "Top 100 Villains of All Time", and #19 in "Empire"s 2018 recounting of the best cinematic villains. Teaser trailers for "Terminator 2" deliberately withheld the notion that the T-1000 character was the villain. A tagline for the film was ""This time there are "two". Terminator 2."" Prior to the film's release, Robert Patrick was promoted as portraying "Austin", the name on the T-1000's police uniform's ID tag. Writer/director James Cameron stated that his original intention for the
T-1000 the metal skeleton effects of the T-800. The visual effects used in "Terminator 2" to create the T-1000 won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. Entity FX, Inc. is responsible for the visual effects of the T-1001 on "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles", along with the digital animation of endoskeletons, Hunter-Killers, and the future war sequences on the second season of the show. The company also contributed the digital imagery of James Cameron's "True Lies" and "Titanic". In "Terminator Genisys", the effects of the T-1000 were made by British effects company Double Negative, also responsible for the T-3000 and T-5000