Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962. At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film. He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick. At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives! In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London. In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
(Self)
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film
(Self)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
(Self)
The Making of the Last Duel
(Self)
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
(Self)
The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth
(Self)
50 Films to See Before You Die
(Self)
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(Self)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
(Self)
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
(Self)
The Real Robin Hood
(Self)
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
(Self)
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
(Self)
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
(Himself)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
(Self (archive footage))
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
(Self)
Murder by Numbers
(Self)
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
(Self)
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
(Self)
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
(Self)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
(Self)
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
(Self)
The Alien Legacy
(Self)
A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
(Self)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
(Himself (archive footage))
The Alien Saga
(Self (archive footage))
Black Rain: Making The Film
(Self)
Giger's Alien
(Self)
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
(Self)
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
(Self)
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous
(himself)
Trespassing Bergman
(Self)
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
(Self)
Sword-and-Sandal
(Self (archive footage))
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
(Self)
Trumbull Land
(Self (archive footage))
One of the Missing
(Unionist officer (uncredited))
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
(Self)
Hollywood Halloween
(Himself)
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
(Self)
Memory: The Origins of Alien
(Self (archival footage))
The Path to Redemption
(Self)
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
(Self)
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
(Self)
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
(Self - Director (1982))
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
(Self)
The Making of Gladiator II
(Self)
The Directors
(Self)
The Hollywood Greats
Prophets of Science Fiction
(Himself - Presenter)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
(Self)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Kulturzeit
(self)
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
(Self - Guest)
Variety Studio: Directors on Directors
(Self)
Blade Runner
(Director)
Gladiator
(Director)
Alien
(Director)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(Producer)
Kingdom of Heaven
(Director)
Kingdom of Heaven
(Producer)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(Director)
Thelma & Louise
(Director)
Thelma & Louise
(Producer)
Black Hawk Down
(Director)
Black Hawk Down
(Producer)
Black Rain
(Director)
G.I. Jane
(Director)
G.I. Jane
(Producer)
White Squall
(Director)
White Squall
(Executive Producer)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(Producer)
American Gangster
(Director)
American Gangster
(Producer)
Robin Hood
(Director)
Robin Hood
(Producer)
Someone to Watch Over Me
(Director)
Matchstick Men
(Director)
In Her Shoes
(Producer)
Legend
(Director)
Body of Lies
(Producer)
Body of Lies
(Director)
A Good Year
(Producer)
A Good Year
(Director)
Hannibal
(Producer)
Hannibal
(Director)
The Donut King
(Executive Producer)
Outside
(Producer)
Boy and Bicycle
(Director)
RKO 281
(Executive Producer)
The Duellists
(Director)
Halo: Nightfall
(Executive Producer)
Prometheus
(Producer)
Prometheus
(Director)
The Grey
(Producer)
Choose or Die
(Executive Producer)
The East
(Producer)
Stoker
(Producer)
The Counselor
(Director)
Boy and Bicycle
(Writer)
Boy and Bicycle
(Producer)
Alien: Covenant
(Director)
Britain in a Day
(Executive Producer)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
(Director)
Child 44
(Producer)
Out of the Furnace
(Producer)
The A-Team
(Executive Producer)
Killing Kennedy
(Executive Producer)
The Polar Bears
(Producer)
The Counselor
(Producer)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
(Producer)
Newness
(Executive Producer)
Kipchoge: The Last Milestone
(Executive Producer)
Tristan & Isolde
(Executive Producer)
Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani
(Executive Producer)
The Martian
(Director)
Where the Money Is
(Producer)
Boston Strangler
(Producer)
Concussion
(Producer)
Le court des grands
(Director)
Life in a Day
(Executive Producer)
Mind MGMT
(Producer)
The Martian
(Producer)
First Ascent
(Producer)
American Woman
(Producer)
Orpheus
(Executive Producer)
Killing Lincoln
(Executive Producer)
A Haunting in Venice
(Producer)
Zero
(Executive Producer)
War Party
(Producer)
Cinema16: British Short Films
(Director)
Bomb
(Director)
Bomb
(Producer)
The Chronology of Water
(Producer)
Matchstick Men
(Producer)
Freewalkers
(Producer)
Freewalkers
(Director)
Thunder Perfect Mind
(Director)
Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs
(Executive Producer)
Gladiator
(Executive Producer)
Cracks
(Executive Producer)
A Sacrifice
(Producer)
Alien: Covenant
(Producer)
Morgan
(Producer)
Equals
(Executive Producer)
India In a Day
(Executive Producer)
Children of the Jungle
(Producer)
Springsteen & I
(Executive Producer)
Monkey Trouble
(Executive Producer)
You Should Be Dancing
(Director)
Vicious
(Producer)
Behold
(Director)
Cyrus
(Executive Producer)
All the Money in the World
(Producer)
All the Money in the World
(Director)
Welcome to the Rileys
(Executive Producer)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper
(Writer)
Alien: Romulus
(Producer)
Blade Runner 2049
(Executive Producer)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
(Director)
Echo Valley
(Producer)
Murder on the Orient Express
(Producer)
Loom
(Executive Producer)
2036: Nexus Dawn
(Screenstory)
2036: Nexus Dawn
(Producer)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter
(Writer)
Phoenix Forgotten
(Producer)
Clay Pigeons
(Producer)
All the Invisible Children
(Director)
Robert
(Director)
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
(Director)
Into the Storm
(Executive Producer)
Mindhorn
(Executive Producer)
Zoe
(Executive Producer)
Japan in a Day
(Executive Producer)
The King of Ads
(Director)
The King of Ads, Part 2
(Director)
Ghost Recon: Alpha
(Producer)
Tell-Tale
(Producer)
The Gathering Storm
(Executive Producer)
Trap House
(Executive Producer)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
(Producer)
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
(Executive Producer)
Get Santa
(Executive Producer)
Gladiator II
(Director)
Boy and Bicycle
(Director of Photography)
The Real Robin Hood
(Producer)
Thlípsi
(Thanks)
The Duellists
(Camera Operator)
The Journey
(Director)
The Last Duel
(Director)
The Last Duel
(Producer)
Gladiator II
(Producer)
Jungleland
(Executive Producer)
Our Friend
(Executive Producer)
Earthquake Bird
(Producer)
Someone to Watch Over Me
(Executive Producer)
House of Gucci
(Director)
House of Gucci
(Producer)
FX's A Christmas Carol
(Executive Producer)
Welcome to the Punch
(Executive Producer)
Naked Singularity
(Executive Producer)
Hostage
(Executive Producer)
Ticker
(Executive Producer)
Beat the Devil
(Executive Producer)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
(Producer)
Switzerlanders
(Executive Producer)
Life in a Day 2020
(Executive Producer)
Death on the Nile
(Producer)
The Last Debate
(Executive Producer)
Napoleon
(Director)
Napoleon
(Producer)
The Last Vermeer
(Executive Producer)
The Browning Version
(Producer)
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
(Thanks)
Gladiator III
(Producer)
Gladiator III
(Writer)
Embraced by the Light
(Producer)
The Dog Stars
(Director)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Crew Messages
(Director)
The Aftermath
(Executive Producer)
Before I Go to Sleep
(Executive Producer)
The Terror
(Executive Producer)
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
(Director)
Adam Adamant Lives!
(Director)
Numb3rs
(Producer)
Z-Cars
(Director)
The Good Wife
(Executive Producer)
The Pillars of the Earth
(Executive Producer)
The Andromeda Strain
(Executive Producer)
AFP: American Fighter Pilot
(Producer)
Coma
(Executive Producer)
The Man in the High Castle
(Executive Producer)
The Good Fight
(Executive Producer)
Strange Angel
(Executive Producer)
The Company
(Executive Producer)
The Passage
(Executive Producer)
Klondike
(Executive Producer)
World Without End
(Producer)
The Terror
(Executive Producer)
Raised by Wolves
(Director)
Raised by Wolves
(Executive Producer)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
(Executive Producer)
The Hot Zone
(Executive Producer)
Taboo
(Executive Producer)
Crimes of the Century
(Executive Producer)
Kaleidoscope
(Executive Producer)
Blade Runner 2099
(Executive Producer)
Alien: Earth
(Producer)
Great Expectations
(Executive Producer)
Dope Thief
(Executive Producer)
Still Missing Morgan
(Executive Producer)
Prime Target
(Executive Producer)
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii
(Executive Producer)
Dope Thief
(Director)