Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: Judgment Day (often shortened to Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced, and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong as its principal cast. It is the sequel to the 1984 film "The Terminator", as well as the second installment in the "Terminator" franchise. "Terminator 2" follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator: the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John
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