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Name
Ridley Scott

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1937-11-30 (89 years old)

Place of Birth
South Shields, County Durham, England, UK

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).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2007 Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard as Self
2007 Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film as Self
2022 Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
2021 The Making of the Last Duel as Self
2007 Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling as Self
2007 The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth as Self
2006 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2003 The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2005 Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self
2007 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
2010 The Real Robin Hood as Self
2012 The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self
2005 Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' as Self
2002 Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' as Himself
2023 L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2000 On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' as Self
2004 Murder by Numbers as Self
2001 Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
2017 Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
2003 Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2015 Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
1999 The Alien Legacy as Self
1986 A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema as Self
2002 The Alien Saga as Self (archive footage)
2006 Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
1979 Giger's Alien as Self
1996 The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self
2014 Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
2017 Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous as himself
2013 Trespassing Bergman as Self
2018 The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2005 Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us as Self
2019 Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016 The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
2018 Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
1968 One of the Missing as Unionist officer (uncredited)
2000 Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport as Self
1997 Hollywood Halloween as Self
2002 Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self
2006 The Path to Redemption as Self
2001 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2021 Kreka: Dreamcatcher as Self
2021 The Blade Runner Phenomenon as Self - Director (1982)
2002 The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
2023 Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
2024 The Making of Gladiator II as Self
2025 Thelma & Louise: Born to Live as Self
2005 Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
2010 Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as Self
2008 Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster' as Self
2009 Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies' as Self
2004 The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' as Self
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
Soon American Gangster Special as Self
1992 Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott

1999 The Directors ( 1 episode ) as Self
1977 The Hollywood Greats ( 1 episode )
2011 Prophets of Science Fiction ( 8 episodes ) as Himself - Presenter
2018 James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction ( 5 episodes ) as Self
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1995 Kulturzeit ( 1 episode ) as self
2023 Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2021 Directors on Directors ( 1 episode ) as Self
1971 Film '72 ( 2 episodes ) as Self

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