Ridley Scott
Born: 1937-11-30 in 1937 (88 yaşında) Doğum Yeri South Shields, County Durham, İngiltere, Birleşik Krallık
Known For: Directing
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).
Filmography
2027
- The Riders ... (Producer)
2026
- The Dog Stars ... (Director)
- The Terror: Devil in Silver ... (Executive Producer)
2025
- Alien: Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- Prime Target ... (Executive Producer)
- Trap House ... (Executive Producer)
- Dope Thief ... (Executive Producer)
- Echo Valley ... (Producer)
- Thelma & Louise: Born to Live as Self
- Flight 182 ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Alien: Romulus ... (Producer)
- Gladiator II ... (Director)
- A Sacrifice ... (Producer)
- The Making of Gladiator II as Self
2023
- Kaleidoscope ... (Executive Producer)
- Napoleon ... (Director)
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- A Haunting in Venice ... (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
- Kreka: Dreamcatcher as Self
- Life in a Day 2020 ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Raised by Wolves ... (Executive Producer)
- Jungleland ... (Executive Producer)
- The Donut King ... (Executive Producer)
- Switzerlanders ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- The Hot Zone ... (Executive Producer)
- The Passage ... (Executive Producer)
- The Aftermath ... (Executive Producer)
- FX's A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- Our Friend ... (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)
- Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
- Thlípsi ... (Thanks)
- The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2017
- The Good Fight ... (Executive Producer)
- Blade Runner 2049 ... (Executive Producer)
- Alien: Covenant ... (Director)
- Taboo ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Producer)
- Newness ... (Executive Producer)
- All the Money in the World ... (Director)
- Phoenix Forgotten ... (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)
- Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos ... (Producer)
- Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
- Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous as himself
2016
- Jean-Claude Van Johnson ... (Executive Producer)
- Morgan ... (Producer)
- Mindhorn ... (Executive Producer)
- India In a Day ... (Executive Producer)
- The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
2015
- The Man in the High Castle ... (Executive Producer)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- The Martian ... (Director)
- Child 44 ... (Producer)
- Equals ... (Executive Producer)
- Concussion ... (Producer)
- Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs ... (Executive Producer)
- Zero ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Exodus: Gods and Kings ... (Director)
- Klondike ... (Executive Producer)
- Before I Go to Sleep ... (Executive Producer)
- Halo: Nightfall ... (Executive Producer)
- Get Santa ... (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)
- Stoker ... (Producer)
- Out of the Furnace ... (Producer)
- The East ... (Producer)
- Killing Lincoln ... (Executive Producer)
- Welcome to the Punch ... (Executive Producer)
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Killing Kennedy ... (Executive Producer)
- Crimes of the Century ... (Executive Producer)
- Springsteen & I ... (Executive Producer)
2012
- Prometheus ... (Director)
- World Without End ... (Producer)
- The Grey ... (Producer)
- Coma ... (Executive Producer)
- The Polar Bears ... (Producer)
- Ghost Recon: Alpha ... (Producer)
- The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self
- 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)
- Cyrus ... (Executive Producer)
- Welcome to the Rileys ... (Executive Producer)
- Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as Self
- The Real 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 ... (Director)
- The Andromeda Strain ... (Executive Producer)
- 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)
- Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film as Self
- Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) ... (Director)
- 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
2006
- A Good Year ... (Director)
- Tristan & Isolde ... (Executive Producer)
- All the Invisible Children ... (Director)
- 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
- Orpheus ... (Executive Producer)
- The Path to Redemption as Self
- Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
2005
- Numb3rs ... (Executive Producer)
- Kingdom of Heaven ... (Director)
- 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
- Le court des grands ... (Director)
- Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
- Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us as Self
2004
2003
- Matchstick Men ... (Director)
- Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
- Cinema16: British Short Films ... (Director)
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2002
- Beat the Devil ... (Executive Producer)
- The Alien Saga as Self (archive footage)
- The Gathering Storm ... (Executive Producer)
- AFP: American Fighter Pilot ... (Producer)
- Hostage ... (Executive Producer)
- Ticker ... (Executive Producer)
- 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'
2001
- Black Hawk Down ... (Director)
- 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)
- The Last Debate ... (Executive Producer)
- Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport as Self
- On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' as Self
1999
- The Directors as Self
- RKO 281 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Alien Legacy as Self
1998
- Clay Pigeons ... (Producer)
1997
- G.I. Jane ... (Director)
- The Swords ... (Executive Producer)
- Hollywood Halloween as Self
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 Hollywood Greats
- The Duellists ... (Director)
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)