Ridley Scott
Directing • Born 1937-11-30
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
64 credits
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
Movie • 2007
Self
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film
Movie • 2007
Self
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Movie • 2022
Self
The Making of the Last Duel
Movie • 2021
Self
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Movie • 2007
Self
The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth
Movie • 2007
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Movie • 2006
Self
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Movie • 2003
Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Movie • 2005
Self
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Movie • 2007
Self
The Real Robin Hood
Movie • 2010
Self
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
Movie • 2012
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Movie • 2005
Self
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
Movie • 2002
Himself
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Movie • 2000
Self
Murder by Numbers
Movie • 2004
Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Movie • 2001
Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Movie • 2017
Self
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
Movie • 2003
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Movie • 2015
Self
The Alien Legacy
Movie • 1999
Self
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
Movie • 1986
Self
The Alien Saga
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Black Rain: Making The Film
Movie • 2006
Self
Giger's Alien
Movie • 1979
Self
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Movie • 1996
Self
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
Movie • 2014
Self
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous
Movie • 2017
himself
Trespassing Bergman
Movie • 2013
Self
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Movie • 2018
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Movie • 2005
Self
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Movie • 2019
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
Movie • 2016
Self
Trumbull Land
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
One of the Missing
Movie • 1968
Unionist officer (uncredited)
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
Movie • 2000
Self
Hollywood Halloween
Movie • 1997
Self
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
Movie • 2002
Self
The Path to Redemption
Movie • 2006
Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Self
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
Movie • 2021
Self
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
Movie • 2021
Self - Director (1982)
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Movie • 2002
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
Movie • 2023
Self
The Making of Gladiator II
Movie • 2024
Self
Thelma & Louise: Born to Live
Movie • 2025
Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie • 2005
Self
Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott
Movie • 2017
Self
Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood
Movie • 2010
Self
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
Movie • 2008
Self
Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies'
Movie • 2009
Self
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
Movie • 2004
Self
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Movie • 2004
Self
American Gangster Special
Movie
Self
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977
Prophets of Science Fiction
TV • 2011
Himself - Presenter
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
TV • 2018
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
TV • 2023
Self - Guest
Directors on Directors
TV • 2021
Self