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Aliases: Sir Ridley Scott , Ridley Leighton Scott , リドリー スコット , ریدلی اسکات

Gender: Male

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

Homepage: https://rsafilms.com/

Movie Involvements: 228

TV Involvements: 36


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Good Wife
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The Good Wife

(2009) Executive Producer
Z-Cars
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7

Z-Cars

(1962) Director
Numb3rs
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7

Numb3rs

(2005) Producer
The Good Fight
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8

The Good Fight

(2017) Executive Producer
The Man in the High Castle
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8

The Man in the High Castle

(2015) Executive Producer
Blade Runner 2049
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8

Blade Runner 2049

(2017) Executive Producer
Alien: Covenant
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6

Alien: Covenant

(2017) Producer
Gladiator II
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7

Gladiator II

(2024) Producer

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1968 Unionist officer (uncredited)
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2011 Executive Producer
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2009 Executive Producer
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Writing

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
1977 Camera Operator
1965 Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

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