Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ridley Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK, 1937-11-30

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	One of the Missing	Unionist officer (uncredited)	71
2	1979	Giger's Alien	Self	70
3	1986	A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema	Self	0
4	1996	The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money	Self	57
5	1997	Hollywood Halloween	Self	60
6	1999	The Alien Legacy	Self	69
7	2000	On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'	Self	72
8	2000	Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport	Self	60
9	2001	Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul	Self	60
10	2001	Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal	Self	67
11	2002	Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'	Himself	0
12	2002	The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'		0
13	2002	The Alien Saga	Self (archive footage)	66
14	2002	Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds	Self	0
15	2003	Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey	Self	79
16	2003	The Beast Within: Making Alien	Self	82
17	2004	Murder by Numbers	Self	0
18	2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self	100
19	2005	Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'	Self	73
20	2005	Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us	Self	65
21	2005	Strength and Honor: Production Pods	Self	0
22	2005	Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema	Self	66
23	2006	The Path to Redemption	Self	80
24	2006	50 Films to See Before You Die	Self	85
25	2006	Black Rain: Making The Film	Self	73
26	2007	Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard	Self	0
27	2007	Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film	Self	0
28	2007	Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling	Self	0
29	2007	The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth	Self	0
30	2007	Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner	Self	79
31	2010	The Real Robin Hood	Self	57
32	2012	The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus	Self	72
33	2013	Trespassing Bergman	Self	66
34	2014	Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'	Self	57
35	2015	Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'	Self	60
36	2015	Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine	Self (archive footage)	66
37	2016	The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'	Self	76
38	2017	Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous	himself	60
39	2017	Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies	Self	54
40	2018	The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema		0
41	2018	Trumbull Land	Self (archive footage)	75
42	2019	Memory: The Origins of Alien	Self (archival footage)	63
43	2019	Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	70
44	2021	Kreka: Dreamcatcher	Self	100
45	2021	The Blade Runner Phenomenon	Self - Director (1982)	69
46	2021	The Making of the Last Duel	Self	90
47	2022	Film: The Living Record of Our Memory	Self	86
48	2023	Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero	Self	80
49	2023	L'Âge d'or de la pub	Self (archive footage)	65
50	2024	The Making of Gladiator II	Self	100
51	2025	Alien, Terror in Space	Self (archive footage)	70
52	2025	Thelma et Louise, un western féministe	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	The Hollywood Greats		35
2	1995	Kulturzeit	self	35
3	1999	The Directors	Self	58
4	2011	Prophets of Science Fiction	Himself - Presenter	76
5	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
6	2018	James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction	Self	68
7	2021	Variety Studio: Directors on Directors	Self	0
8	2023	Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma	Self - Guest	0