Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Birthday: 1937-11-30

Place of birth: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK

Also known as: Sir Ridley Scott, ริดลีย์ สก็อตต์, Ridley Leighton Scott, リドリー スコット, ریدلی اسکات

imdb_id: nm0000631

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.

Played in movies:

The Making of Gladiator II

Score: 10.0

Kreka: Dreamcatcher

Score: 10.0

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Score: 10.0

The Making of the Last Duel

Score: 9.0

50 Films to See Before You Die

Score: 8.5

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Score: 8.3

The Beast Within: Making Alien

Score: 8.2

Thelma et Louise, un western féministe

Score: 8.0

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

Score: 8.0

The Path to Redemption

Score: 8.0

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

Score: 7.9

Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey

Score: 7.9

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

Score: 7.6

Trumbull Land

Score: 7.5

Black Rain: Making The Film

Score: 7.3

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

Score: 7.3

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

Score: 7.2

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

Score: 7.2

One of the Missing

Score: 7.1

Alien, Terror in Space

Score: 7.0

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

Score: 7.0

Giger's Alien

Score: 7.0

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

Score: 6.9

The Alien Legacy

Score: 6.9

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

Score: 6.7

Trespassing Bergman

Score: 6.6

The Alien Saga

Score: 6.6

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Score: 6.6

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

Score: 6.6

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

Score: 6.5

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Score: 6.5

Hollywood Halloween

Score: 6.0

Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport

Score: 6.0

Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous

Score: 6.0

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Score: 6.0

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

Score: 5.8

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

Score: 5.7

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Score: 5.7

The Real Robin Hood

Score: 5.7

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

Score: 5.4

Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies'

Score: 0.0

Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'

Score: 0.0

Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

Score: 0.0

Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott

Score: 0.0

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

Score: 0.0

The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

Score: 0.0

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

Score: 0.0

Murder by Numbers

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth

Score: 0.0

Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

Score: 0.0

Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Prophets of Science Fiction

Score: 7.6

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Score: 6.8

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 6.0

The Directors

Score: 5.8

Kulturzeit

Score: 3.5

The Hollywood Greats

Score: 3.5

Variety Studio: Directors on Directors

Score: 0.0

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Score: 0.0