Ridley Scott
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 (72)
The Dog Stars
Trap House
Echo Valley
Alien: Romulus
Gladiator II
Napoleon
A Haunting in Venice
Boston Strangler
Death on the Nile
Choose or Die
The Last Duel
House of Gucci
Naked Singularity
Jungleland
Earthquake Bird
The Aftermath
The Last Vermeer
Our Friend
Zoe
American Woman
Murder on the Orient Express
Alien: Covenant
All the Money in the World
Blade Runner 2049
Newness
Phoenix Forgotten
Morgan
The Martian
Concussion
Child 44
Equals
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Before I Go to Sleep
Halo: Nightfall
The Counselor
Out of the Furnace
Stoker
Welcome to the Punch
The East
Prometheus
The Grey
Robin Hood
Cyrus
The A-Team
Welcome to the Rileys
Cracks
Tell-Tale
Into the Storm
Body of Lies
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
American Gangster
A Good Year
Tristan & Isolde
Kingdom of Heaven
In Her Shoes
Matchstick Men
The Gathering Storm
Hannibal
Black Hawk Down
Gladiator
Where the Money Is
G.I. Jane
White Squall
Monkey Trouble
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Thelma & Louise
Black Rain
Someone to Watch Over Me
Legend
Blade Runner
Alien
