Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epics, with an atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style. Scott is the eighth-highest-grossing director of all time, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received numerous accolades including two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, eight BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award. He has also been honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018 and the Academy Honorary Award in 2026. Scott 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 commercial director. 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 Romein 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 the Academy Award for Best Director three times, for Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down, while also receiving a nomination for Best Picture for The Martian. In 1995, both Scott and his brother Tony received a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Three of his films—Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise—have been 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 10th 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 for 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). Along with Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, and his brother Tony, Scott was part of the "Adland Five" of British directors operating in the late 1970s and early 1980s who first established themselves in the advertising world before going on to Hollywood success. Christopher Nolan and Christopher Frayling have cited the group's influence. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ridley Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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 (archive footage))
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
(Self)
The Alien Legacy
(Self)
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
(Self)
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: The Story of the Period Epic
(Self - Filmmaker (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
(Self)
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
(Self)
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'
(Self)
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
(Self)
The Making of Gladiator II
(Self)
Thelma & Louise: Born to Live
(Self)
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
(Self)
Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood
(Self)
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
(Self)
Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies'
(Self)
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
(Self)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
(Self)
American Gangster Special
(Self)
Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
(Self)
Blade Runner 2049: Behind the Scenes
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)
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
(Self - Guest)
Directors on Directors
(Self)
Film '72
(Self)
Blade Runner
(Director)
Gladiator
(Director)
Alien
(Director)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(Director)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(Producer)
Kingdom of Heaven
(Director)
Kingdom of Heaven
(Producer)
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
(Director)
Body of Lies
(Producer)
A Good Year
(Director)
A Good Year
(Producer)
Hannibal
(Director)
Hannibal
(Producer)
The Donut King
(Executive Producer)
Outside
(Producer)
Boy and Bicycle
(Director)
RKO 281
(Executive Producer)
The Duellists
(Director)
Halo: Nightfall
(Executive Producer)
Prometheus
(Director)
Prometheus
(Producer)
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 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)
Matchstick Men
(Producer)
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)
Vicious
(Producer)
Cyrus
(Executive Producer)
All the Money in the World
(Director)
All the Money in the World
(Producer)
Welcome to the Rileys
(Executive Producer)
Alien: Romulus
(Producer)
Blade Runner 2049
(Executive Producer)
Echo Valley
(Producer)
Murder on the Orient Express
(Producer)
Loom
(Executive Producer)
2036: Nexus Dawn
(Producer)
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 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)
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)
Embraced by the Light
(Producer)
The Dog Stars
(Director)
The Aftermath
(Executive Producer)
Before I Go to Sleep
(Executive Producer)
Gladiator III
(Writer)
Untitled Alien: Romulus Sequel
(Producer)
The Swords
(Executive Producer)
The Dog Stars
(Producer)
Narco Sub
(Producer)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos
(Producer)
The Riders
(Producer)
God of the Rodeo
(Producer)
Whoever Fights Monsters
(Producer)
You Should Be Dancing
(Director)
Inground
(Producer)
Here Be Monsters
(Producer)
Battle of Britain
(Director)
Flight 182
(Executive Producer)
Nightwatching
(Producer)
Some Lapse of Time
(Production Design)
They Like the Dark
(Producer)
Treasure Island
(Director)
Treasure Island
(Producer)
Nue
(Producer)
The Vesuvius Challenge
(Executive Producer)
Untitled Ernest Shackleton Film
(Producer)
The Chronology of Water
(Executive Producer)
Killing Jesus
(Executive Producer)
Adam Adamant Lives!
(Director)
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)
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)
Great Expectations
(Executive Producer)
Dope Thief
(Executive Producer)
Still Missing Morgan
(Executive Producer)
Prime Target
(Executive Producer)
Dope Thief
(Director)
Alien: Earth
(Executive Producer)
The Informer
(Director)
Out of the Unknown
(Production Design)
Sunday-Night Play
(Production Design)
Comedy Playhouse
(Production Design)
Numb3rs
(Executive Producer)
The Terror: Devil in Silver
(Executive Producer)
Half Hour Story
(Director)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
(Director)
Coma
(Executive Producer)
Katie Greaves
(Executive Producer)