Ridley Scott

Biography

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

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

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Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film

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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

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The Making of the Last Duel

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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

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The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth

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50 Films to See Before You Die

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The Beast Within: Making Alien

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Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

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The Real Robin Hood

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The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

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Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

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

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L'Âge d'or de la pub

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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

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Murder by Numbers

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Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

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Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

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Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey

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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

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

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The Alien Legacy

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A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

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The Alien Saga

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Black Rain: Making The Film

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Giger's Alien

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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

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Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

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Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous

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Trespassing Bergman

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

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

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Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes

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The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

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Trumbull Land

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One of the Missing

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Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport

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Hollywood Halloween

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Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

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Memory: The Origins of Alien

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The Path to Redemption

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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

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Kрека: Ловац на снове

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Das Phänomen Blade Runner

The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

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Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

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The Making of Gladiator II

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"Alien", terreur sur grand écran

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Thelma et Louise, un western féministe

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Strength and Honor: Production Pods