1937-11-30 ( 87 years old ) in South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
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).
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Movies
Thelma et Louise, un western féministe
2025-04-05
Alien, Terror in Space
2025-02-21
The Making of Gladiator II
2024-11-18
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
2023-02-01
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022-08-12
The Making of the Last Duel
2021-11-29
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
2021-05-27
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
2021-05-16
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019-01-24
Trumbull Land
2018-10-15
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017-11-12
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous
2017-07-30
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016-06-07
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015-08-07
Trespassing Bergman
2013-08-28
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012-10-11
The Real Robin Hood
2010-05-11
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007-12-18
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007-12-03
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film
2007-12-03
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007-12-03
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006-10-10
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006-07-22
The Path to Redemption
2006-05-23
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005-09-13
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
Murder by Numbers
2004-03-16
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003-12-02
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
2003-02-04
The Alien Saga
2002-11-13
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
2002-05-21
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001-08-21
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001-04-01
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
2000-11-21
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000-07-15
The Alien Legacy
1999-06-01
Hollywood Halloween
1997-01-01
A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
1986-01-01
Giger's Alien
1979-05-25
One of the Missing
1968-12-02
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