Ridley Scott
Born: 1937-11-30 in South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Dog Stars ... (Director)
2025
- Trap House ... (Executive Producer)
- Alien: Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- Prime Target ... (Executive Producer)
- Dope Thief ... (Executive Producer)
- The Chronology of Water ... (Executive Producer)
- Flight 182 ... (Executive Producer)
- Echo Valley ... (Producer)
- Thelma & Louise: Born to Live as Self
2024
- Alien: Romulus ... (Producer)
- Gladiator II ... (Director)
- A Sacrifice ... (Producer)
- The Making of Gladiator II as Self
2023
- Napoleon ... (Director)
- Kaleidoscope ... (Executive Producer)
- A Haunting in Venice ... (Producer)
- Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- Great Expectations ... (Executive Producer)
- Boston Strangler ... (Producer)
- Behold ... (Director)
- Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
- Still Missing Morgan ... (Executive Producer)
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Death on the Nile ... (Producer)
- Choose or Die ... (Executive Producer)
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
2021
- The Last Duel ... (Director)
- Kreka: Dreamcatcher as Self
- Naked Singularity ... (Executive Producer)
- House of Gucci ... (Director)
- The Making of the Last Duel as Self
- Variety Studio: Directors on Directors as Self
- Life in a Day 2020 ... (Executive Producer)
- Kipchoge: The Last Milestone ... (Executive Producer)
- The Blade Runner Phenomenon as Self - Director (1982)
2020
- Raised by Wolves ... (Executive Producer)
- Jungleland ... (Executive Producer)
- The Donut King ... (Executive Producer)
- Switzerlanders ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Our Friend ... (Executive Producer)
- The Aftermath ... (Executive Producer)
- Earthquake Bird ... (Producer)
- FX's A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Vermeer ... (Executive Producer)
- The Hot Zone ... (Executive Producer)
- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- The Passage ... (Executive Producer)
- The Journey ... (Director)
2018
- The Terror ... (Executive Producer)
- American Woman ... (Producer)
- Zoe ... (Executive Producer)
- Thlípsi ... (Thanks)
- James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction as Self
- Strange Angel ... (Executive Producer)
- The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
- Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Blade Runner 2049 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Good Fight ... (Executive Producer)
- Taboo ... (Executive Producer)
- Newness ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Producer)
- Alien: Covenant ... (Director)
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House ... (Producer)
- Phoenix Forgotten ... (Producer)
- 2036: Nexus Dawn ... (Screenstory)
- All the Money in the World ... (Director)
- Alien: Covenant In Utero ... (Producer)
- Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing ... (Director)
- Alien: Covenant - She Won't Go Quietly ... (Original Concept)
- Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous as himself
- Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
- Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives ... (Executive Producer)
- Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos ... (Producer)
- Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper ... (Producer)
- Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott as Self
2016
- Mindhorn ... (Executive Producer)
- Jean-Claude Van Johnson ... (Executive Producer)
- Morgan ... (Producer)
- The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
- India In a Day ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- The Martian ... (Director)
- The Man in the High Castle ... (Executive Producer)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Zero ... (Executive Producer)
- Child 44 ... (Producer)
- Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- Concussion ... (Producer)
- Equals ... (Executive Producer)
- Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Exodus: Gods and Kings ... (Director)
- Get Santa ... (Executive Producer)
- Halo: Nightfall ... (Executive Producer)
- Before I Go to Sleep ... (Executive Producer)
- Klondike ... (Executive Producer)
- Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
- Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- The Counselor ... (Director)
- Killing Kennedy ... (Executive Producer)
- Killing Lincoln ... (Executive Producer)
- Stoker ... (Producer)
- Out of the Furnace ... (Producer)
- Welcome to the Punch ... (Executive Producer)
- The East ... (Producer)
- Crimes of the Century ... (Executive Producer)
- Springsteen & I ... (Executive Producer)
2012
- Prometheus ... (Director)
- The Grey ... (Producer)
- World Without End ... (Producer)
- Loom ... (Executive Producer)
- The Polar Bears ... (Producer)
- Ghost Recon: Alpha ... (Producer)
- The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self
- Britain in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Coma ... (Executive Producer)
- Japan in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- The Peter Weyland Files: 'Prometheus' Transmission ... (Producer)
- The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023 ... (Producer)
- The Peter Weyland Files: Happy Birthday, David ... (Producer)
2011
- Life in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Prophets of Science Fiction as Himself - Presenter
2010
- Robin Hood ... (Director)
- The A-Team ... (Executive Producer)
- The Pillars of the Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- Cyrus ... (Executive Producer)
- The Real Robin Hood as Self
- Welcome to the Rileys ... (Executive Producer)
- Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as Self
2009
- The Good Wife ... (Executive Producer)
- Cracks ... (Executive Producer)
- Tell-Tale ... (Producer)
- Into the Storm ... (Executive Producer)
- Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies' as Self
2008
- The Andromeda Strain ... (Executive Producer)
- Body of Lies ... (Director)
- Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster' as Self
2007
- American Gangster ... (Director)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ... (Producer)
- The Company ... (Executive Producer)
- Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
- The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth as Self
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) ... (Director)
- Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard as Self
- Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling as Self
- Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film as Self
2006
- Tristan & Isolde ... (Executive Producer)
- A Good Year ... (Director)
- All the Invisible Children ... (Director)
- Orpheus ... (Executive Producer)
- Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
- The Path to Redemption as Self
- 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2005
- Numb3rs ... (Producer)
- Kingdom of Heaven ... (Director)
- In Her Shoes ... (Producer)
- Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' as Self
- Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us as Self
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self
- Le court des grands ... (Director)
- Thunder Perfect Mind ... (Director)
- Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
2004
- Murder by Numbers as Self
- The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' as Self
2003
- Matchstick Men ... (Director)
- Cinema16: British Short Films ... (Director)
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
2002
- Hostage ... (Executive Producer)
- The Gathering Storm ... (Executive Producer)
- Beat the Devil ... (Executive Producer)
- The Alien Saga as Self (archive footage)
- Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self
- L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore") ... (Director)
- Ticker ... (Executive Producer)
- AFP: American Fighter Pilot ... (Producer)
- The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
- Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' as Himself
2001
- Black Hawk Down ... (Director)
- Hannibal ... (Director)
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
- Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2000
- Gladiator ... (Director)
- RKO 281 ... (Executive Producer)
- On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' as Self
- The Last Debate ... (Executive Producer)
- Where the Money Is ... (Producer)
- Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport as Self
1999
- The Directors as Self
- The Alien Legacy as Self
1998
- Clay Pigeons ... (Producer)
1997
- Hollywood Halloween as Self
- G.I. Jane ... (Director)
- The Swords ... (Executive Producer)
1996
- White Squall ... (Director)
- The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
1994
- Monkey Trouble ... (Executive Producer)
- The Browning Version ... (Producer)
1993
- The King of Ads, Part 2 ... (Director)
1992
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise ... (Director)
1991
- Thelma & Louise ... (Director)
- The King of Ads ... (Director)
1989
- Black Rain ... (Director)
1987
- Someone to Watch Over Me ... (Director)
1986
1985
- Legend ... (Director)
1982
- Blade Runner ... (Director)
1979
- Alien ... (Director)
- Giger's Alien as Self
1977
- The Duellists ... (Director)
- The Hollywood Greats
1968
- One of the Missing as Unionist officer (uncredited)
1967
- Robert ... (Director)
1966
- The Informer ... (Director)
- Adam Adamant Lives! ... (Director)
1965
- Boy and Bicycle ... (Director)
1962
- Z-Cars ... (Director)