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).
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Acting (48 movies)
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
The Making of the Last Duel
2021
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
The Real Robin Hood
2010
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
2002
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
Murder by Numbers
2004
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
2003
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
The Alien Legacy
1999
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986
The Alien Saga
2002
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006
Giger's Alien
1979
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996
Trespassing Bergman
2013
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
2005
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016
Trumbull Land
2018
One of the Missing
1968
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
2000
Hollywood Halloween
1997
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
2002
The Path to Redemption
2006
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
2021
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
2021
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
2002
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
2023
The Making of Gladiator II
2024
Thelma & Louise: Born to Live
2025
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott
2017
Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood
2010
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
2008
Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies'
2009
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
2004
Directing (43 movies)
Blade Runner
1982
Gladiator
2000
Alien
1979
1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
Thelma & Louise
1991
Black Hawk Down
2001
Black Rain
1989
G.I. Jane
1997
White Squall
1996
American Gangster
2007
Robin Hood
2010
Someone to Watch Over Me
1987
Matchstick Men
2003
Legend
1985
Body of Lies
2008
A Good Year
2006
Hannibal
2001
Boy and Bicycle
1965
The Duellists
1977
Prometheus
2012
The Counselor
2013
Alien: Covenant
2017
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
The Martian
2015
Le court des grands
2005
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003
Thunder Perfect Mind
2005
Behold
2023
All the Money in the World
2017
All the Invisible Children
2005
Robert
1967
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
The King of Ads
1991
The King of Ads, Part 2
1993
Gladiator II
2024
The Journey
2019
The Last Duel
2021
House of Gucci
2021
Napoleon
2023
The Dog Stars
2026
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
2017
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Boy and Bicycle | 1965 | Writer |
| Boy and Bicycle | 1965 | Producer |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Producer |
| 1492: Conquest of Paradise | 1992 | Producer |
| Monkey Trouble | 1994 | Executive Producer |
| The Browning Version | 1994 | Producer |
| White Squall | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| The Swords | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| G.I. Jane | 1997 | Producer |
| Clay Pigeons | 1998 | Producer |
| RKO 281 | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Where the Money Is | 2000 | Producer |
| Gladiator | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| The Last Debate | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Hannibal | 2001 | Producer |
| Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Producer |
| The Gathering Storm | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Hostage | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Ticker | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Beat the Devil | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Matchstick Men | 2003 | Producer |
| Kingdom of Heaven | 2005 | Producer |
| In Her Shoes | 2005 | Producer |
| Orpheus | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Tristan & Isolde | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| A Good Year | 2006 | Producer |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Producer |
| American Gangster | 2007 | Producer |
| Body of Lies | 2008 | Producer |
| Tell-Tale | 2009 | Producer |
| Into the Storm | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| Cracks | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| The Real Robin Hood | 2010 | Producer |
| Robin Hood | 2010 | Producer |
| The A-Team | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Cyrus | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Welcome to the Rileys | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Life in a Day | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| The Grey | 2012 | Producer |
| The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023 | 2012 | Producer |
| The Peter Weyland Files: Happy Birthday, David | 2012 | Producer |
| Ghost Recon: Alpha | 2012 | Producer |
| Prometheus | 2012 | Producer |
| Britain in a Day | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Loom | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| The Peter Weyland Files: 'Prometheus' Transmission | 2012 | Producer |
| Japan in a Day | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| The Polar Bears | 2012 | Producer |
| Killing Lincoln | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| Stoker | 2013 | Producer |
| Welcome to the Punch | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| The East | 2013 | Producer |
| Springsteen & I | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| The Counselor | 2013 | Producer |
| Killing Kennedy | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| Out of the Furnace | 2013 | Producer |
| Halo: Nightfall | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Before I Go to Sleep | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Exodus: Gods and Kings | 2014 | Producer |
| Get Santa | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Child 44 | 2015 | Producer |
| Equals | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Zero | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| The Martian | 2015 | Producer |
| Concussion | 2015 | Producer |
| Morgan | 2016 | Producer |
| India In a Day | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Mindhorn | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper | 2017 | Producer |
| Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Phoenix Forgotten | 2017 | Producer |
| Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing | 2017 | Writer |
| Alien: Covenant | 2017 | Producer |
| Alien: Covenant In Utero | 2017 | Producer |
| Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos | 2017 | Producer |
| 2036: Nexus Dawn | 2017 | Producer |
| Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | 2017 | Producer |
| Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Newness | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Murder on the Orient Express | 2017 | Producer |
| All the Money in the World | 2017 | Producer |
| American Woman | 2018 | Producer |
| Zoe | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| The Aftermath | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Our Friend | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| The Last Vermeer | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Earthquake Bird | 2019 | Producer |
| FX's A Christmas Carol | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Switzerlanders | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| The Donut King | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Jungleland | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Life in a Day 2020 | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Kipchoge: The Last Milestone | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Naked Singularity | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| The Last Duel | 2021 | Producer |
| House of Gucci | 2021 | Producer |
| Death on the Nile | 2022 | Producer |
| Choose or Die | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Boston Strangler | 2023 | Producer |
| A Haunting in Venice | 2023 | Producer |
| Napoleon | 2023 | Producer |
| A Sacrifice | 2024 | Producer |
| Alien: Romulus | 2024 | Producer |
| Gladiator II | 2024 | Producer |
| Echo Valley | 2025 | Producer |
| The Chronology of Water | 2025 | Producer |
| Trap House | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| The Dog Stars | 2026 | Producer |