Ridley Scott

Directing · 4.7 popularity

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Born: November 30, 1937
From: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
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Biography

Sir Ridley Leighton Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. He directs films in the science fiction, crime, and historical epic genres with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 and appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III in 2024. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art in London, Scott began his career in television as a designer and director before moving into advertising as a director of commercials. He made his film directorial debut with The Duellists (1977) and gained wider recognition with his next film, Alien (1979). Though his films range widely in setting and period, they showcase memorable imagery of urban environments, spanning 2nd-century Rome in Gladiator (2000) and its 2024 sequel, 12th-century Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), medieval England in Robin Hood (2010), ancient Memphis in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), contemporary Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down (2001), futuristic cityscapes of Los Angeles in Blade Runner (1982) and extraterrestrial worlds in Alien, Prometheus (2012), The Martian (2015) and Alien: Covenant (2017). Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards: Directing for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down. Gladiator won the Academy Award for Best Picture and received a nomination in the same category for The Martian. In 1995, Scott and his brother Tony received a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Scott's films Alien, Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise were each selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2004 BBC poll, Scott was ranked 10 on the list of most influential people in British culture. Scott also works in television and has earned 10 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He won twice, for Outstanding Television Film for the HBO film The Gathering Storm (2002) and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for the History Channel's Gettysburg (2011). He was Emmy-nominated for RKO 281 (1999), The Andromeda Strain (2008), and The Pillars of the Earth (2010).

Works

56 films

Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous

20176.0

The Alien Saga

20026.3

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

20077.8

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

20238.0

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

20175.4

Trespassing Bergman

20136.6

Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey

20037.9

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

20127.0

L'Âge d'or de la pub

20236.5

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

20197.0

Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

20106.0

The Making of the Last Duel

20219.0

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

20056.6

Kreka: Dreamcatcher

202110.0

The Real Robin Hood

20105.7

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

20016.3

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

20017.1

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

20167.6

Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport

20007.0

The Beast Within: Making Alien

20038.2

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

2005

The Making of Gladiator II

202410.0

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

20057.5

The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'

20048.0

Thelma & Louise: Born to Live

20258.5

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

20227.8

Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies'

2009

The Path to Redemption

20068.0

One of the Missing

19687.3

Black Rain: Making The Film

20067.3

Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'

2008

Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us

20056.8

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

20007.7

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

20155.8

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

20145.7

Trumbull Land

20187.3

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

20216.9

A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

1986

Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott

1992

Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'

20027.0

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

19965.5

American Gangster Special

2026

Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

2007

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

20027.0

Murder by Numbers

20047.0

The Alien Legacy

19996.9

The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

2018

Hollywood Halloween

19978.0

Giger's Alien

19797.3

Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard

2007

The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth

2007

Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film

2007

The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

20028.0