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 filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epics, with an atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style. Scott is the eighth-highest-grossing director of all time, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received numerous accolades including two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, eight BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award. He has also been honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018 and the Academy Honorary Award in 2026. Scott 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 commercial director. 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 Romein 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 the Academy Award for Best Director three times, for Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down, while also receiving a nomination for Best Picture for The Martian. In 1995, both Scott and his brother Tony received a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Three of his films—Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise—have been 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 10th 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 for 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). Along with Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, and his brother Tony, Scott was part of the "Adland Five" of British directors operating in the late 1970s and early 1980s who first established themselves in the advertising world before going on to Hollywood success. Christopher Nolan and Christopher Frayling have cited the group's influence. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ridley Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2027
- Treasure Island ... (Director)
2026
- The Dog Stars ... (Director)
- The Terror: Devil in Silver ... (Executive Producer)
- Blade Runner 2099 ... (Executive Producer)
2025
- Alien: Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- Dope Thief ... (Executive Producer)
- Prime Target ... (Executive Producer)
- Echo Valley ... (Producer)
- Trap House ... (Executive Producer)
- The Chronology of Water ... (Executive Producer)
- Thelma & Louise: Born to Live as Self
- Flight 182 ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Gladiator II ... (Director)
- Alien: Romulus ... (Producer)
- A Sacrifice ... (Producer)
- The Making of Gladiator II as Self
2023
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- A Haunting in Venice ... (Producer)
- Napoleon ... (Director)
- Kaleidoscope ... (Executive Producer)
- Great Expectations ... (Executive Producer)
- Boston Strangler ... (Producer)
- Still Missing Morgan ... (Executive Producer)
- Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
- 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)
- House of Gucci ... (Director)
- Directors on Directors as Self
- Naked Singularity ... (Executive Producer)
- Kipchoge: The Last Milestone ... (Executive Producer)
- The Blade Runner Phenomenon as Self - Director (1982)
- The Making of the Last Duel as Self
- Life in a Day 2020 ... (Executive Producer)
- Kreka: Dreamcatcher as Self
2020
- Raised by Wolves ... (Director)
- Jungleland ... (Executive Producer)
- Switzerlanders ... (Executive Producer)
- The Donut King ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- The Passage ... (Executive Producer)
- The Hot Zone ... (Executive Producer)
- The Aftermath ... (Executive Producer)
- Our Friend ... (Executive Producer)
- FX's A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Vermeer ... (Executive Producer)
- Earthquake Bird ... (Producer)
- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
- The Terror ... (Executive Producer)
- James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction as Self
- Strange Angel ... (Executive Producer)
- Zoe ... (Executive Producer)
- American Woman ... (Producer)
- Thlípsi ... (Thanks)
- Blade Runner 2049: Behind the Scenes
- Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
- The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2017
- Blade Runner 2049 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Good Fight ... (Executive Producer)
- Alien: Covenant ... (Director)
- Taboo ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Producer)
- All the Money in the World ... (Producer)
- Newness ... (Executive Producer)
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House ... (Producer)
- 2036: Nexus Dawn ... (Screenstory)
- Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives ... (Executive Producer)
- Phoenix Forgotten ... (Producer)
- Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos ... (Producer)
- Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
- Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous as himself
2016
- Morgan ... (Producer)
- Jean-Claude Van Johnson ... (Executive Producer)
- The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
- Mindhorn ... (Executive Producer)
- India In a Day ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- The Man in the High Castle ... (Executive Producer)
- The Martian ... (Director)
- Child 44 ... (Producer)
- Concussion ... (Producer)
- Equals ... (Executive Producer)
- Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- Killing Jesus ... (Executive Producer)
- Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs ... (Executive Producer)
- Zero ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Exodus: Gods and Kings ... (Director)
- Before I Go to Sleep ... (Executive Producer)
- Klondike ... (Executive Producer)
- Get Santa ... (Executive Producer)
- Halo: Nightfall ... (Executive Producer)
- Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
- Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- The Counselor ... (Director)
- Out of the Furnace ... (Producer)
- Stoker ... (Producer)
- The East ... (Producer)
- Welcome to the Punch ... (Executive Producer)
- Killing Lincoln ... (Executive Producer)
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Crimes of the Century ... (Executive Producer)
- Killing Kennedy ... (Executive Producer)
- Springsteen & I ... (Executive Producer)
- Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka as Self
2012
- Prometheus ... (Director)
- The Grey ... (Producer)
- World Without End ... (Producer)
- Coma ... (Executive Producer)
- The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self
- Ghost Recon: Alpha ... (Producer)
- Japan in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Britain in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Loom ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- Prophets of Science Fiction as Himself - Presenter
- Life in a Day ... (Executive Producer)
2010
- The Pillars of the Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- The A-Team ... (Executive Producer)
- Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Welcome to the Rileys ... (Executive Producer)
- Cyrus ... (Executive Producer)
- The Real Robin Hood as Self
- Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as Self
2009
- The Good Wife ... (Executive Producer)
- Cracks ... (Executive Producer)
- Into the Storm ... (Executive Producer)
- Tell-Tale ... (Producer)
- Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies' as Self
2008
- Body of Lies ... (Producer)
- The Andromeda Strain ... (Executive Producer)
- Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster' as Self
2007
- American Gangster ... (Producer)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ... (Producer)
- The Company ... (Executive Producer)
- Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
- Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling as Self
- Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard as Self
- The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth as Self
- Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film as Self
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) ... (Director)
2006
- A Good Year ... (Director)
- Tristan & Isolde ... (Executive Producer)
- 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
- The Path to Redemption as Self
- All the Invisible Children ... (Director)
- Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
- Orpheus ... (Executive Producer)
2005
- Numb3rs ... (Executive Producer)
- Kingdom of Heaven ... (Producer)
- In Her Shoes ... (Producer)
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' as Self
- Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self
- Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us as Self
- Le court des grands ... (Director)
- Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
2004
2003
- Matchstick Men ... (Director)
- Cinema16: British Short Films ... (Director)
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
2002
- AFP: American Fighter Pilot ... (Producer)
- The Gathering Storm ... (Executive Producer)
- Beat the Devil ... (Executive Producer)
- The Alien Saga as Self (archive footage)
- Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' as Himself
- Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self
- The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' as Self
- Ticker ... (Executive Producer)
- Hostage ... (Executive Producer)
2001
- Black Hawk Down ... (Producer)
- Hannibal ... (Director)
- Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
2000
- Gladiator ... (Director)
- Where the Money Is ... (Producer)
- On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' as Self
- Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport as Self
- The Last Debate ... (Executive Producer)
1999
- The Directors as Self
- RKO 281 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Alien Legacy as Self
1998
- Clay Pigeons ... (Producer)
1997
- G.I. Jane ... (Producer)
- The Swords ... (Executive Producer)
- Hollywood Halloween as Self
1996
- White Squall ... (Director)
- The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money 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)
- Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
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 Hollywood Greats
- The Duellists ... (Director)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
1968
- One of the Missing as Unionist officer (uncredited)
1967
- Half Hour Story ... (Director)
- Robert ... (Director)
1966
- The Informer ... (Director)
- Adam Adamant Lives! ... (Director)
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre ... (Director)
- Out of the Unknown ... (Production Design)
- Boy and Bicycle ... (Director)
- Some Lapse of Time ... (Production Design)
1962
- Z-Cars ... (Director)
1961
- Comedy Playhouse ... (Production Design)
1960
- Sunday-Night Play ... (Production Design)