Ridley Scott
- Highest Rated: Alien (1979)
- Lowest Rated: Domino (2005)
- Birthday: Nov 30, 1937
- Birthplace: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
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Graduated from London's Royal College of Art with first-class honours. For his final project at the Royal College, made a short black and white film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his father and younger brother, Tony. Began career in the 1960s as a set designer, then director, for BBC TV. First feature film, The Duellists, was nominated for the Palme d'Or and unanimously won Best First Work at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. Founded Ridley Scott Associates, a U.K.-based commercial production company, through which he directed some 3,000 TV commercials, including the classic 1984 ad for Apple Computers that aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Owns a production company called Scott Free with his brother, director Tony Scott. His son Jake and daughter Jordan are both filmmakers. Knighted in 2003. Paid tribute to his late brother, Tony, at the 2016 Golden Globes, after his film,The Martian, won Best Motion Picture.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
|
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83% | American Woman | Producer | — | 2019 |
| 79% | All the Money in the World | Director Producer | $20.2M | 2017 |
| 60% | Murder On The Orient Express | Producer | $101.6M | 2017 |
| 87% | Blade Runner 2049 | Producer Executive Producer | $91.9M | 2017 |
| 35% | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Producer | $0.8M | 2017 |
| 88% | Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Executive Producer | — | 2017 |
| 66% | Alien: Covenant | Producer Director | $74.3M | 2017 |
| 41% | Phoenix Forgotten | Producer | $3.6M | 2017 |
| Timeless | Producer | — | 2017 | |
| 37% | Morgan | Producer | $4M | 2016 |
| 35% | Equals | Executive Producer | — | 2016 |
| 59% | Concussion | Producer | $23.3M | 2015 |
| 91% | The Martian | Producer Director | $202.4M | 2015 |
| 27% | Child 44 | Producer | $1.4M | 2015 |
| Halo: Nightfall | Executive Producer Producer | — | 2015 | |
| 43% | Killing Jesus | Producer | — | 2015 |
| Red Riding | Director | — | 2015 | |
| 30% | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Producer Director | — | 2014 |
| 37% | Before I Go to Sleep | Producer | — | 2014 |
| 77% | Get Santa | Executive Producer | $1.8M | 2014 |
| Klondike | Executive Producer | — | 2014 | |
| 53% | Out of the Furnace | Producer | $8.4M | 2013 |
| 34% | The Counselor | Director Producer | $14.7M | 2013 |
| 88% | Springsteen And I | Executive Producer | — | 2013 |
| 75% | The East | Producer | $1.7M | 2013 |
| 47% | Welcome to the Punch | Executive Producer | $7.3K | 2013 |
| 69% | Stoker | Producer | $1.8M | 2013 |
| The Counsellor | Director | — | 2013 | |
| Gucci | Director | — | 2013 | |
| 56% | Killing Kennedy | Executive Producer | — | 2013 |
| Trespassing Bergman | Actor | — | 2013 | |
| Killing Lincoln | Executive Producer | — | 2013 | |
| 73% | Prometheus | Director Producer | $126.5M | 2012 |
| 79% | The Grey | Producer | $51.6M | 2012 |
| The Kind One | Director | — | 2012 | |
| 81% | Life in a Day | Executive Producer Producer | $0.3M | 2011 |
| 43% | Cracks | Executive Producer | $18.1K | 2011 |
| Gettysburg | Director Executive Producer | — | 2011 | |
| 54% | Welcome to the Rileys | Executive Producer | $0.2M | 2010 |
| 80% | Cyrus | Executive Producer | $7.5M | 2010 |
| 49% | The A-Team | Producer Executive Producer | $77.3M | 2010 |
| Tell-Tale (Tell Tale) | Producer | — | 2010 | |
| 43% | Robin Hood | Producer Director | $105.3M | 2010 |
| The Real Robin Hood | Producer | — | 2010 | |
| 55% | Body of Lies | Producer Director | $39.4M | 2008 |
| Into the Storm | Executive Producer | — | 2008 | |
| 80% | American Gangster | Director Producer | $130.2M | 2007 |
| 77% | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Producer | $4M | 2007 |
| The Company | Executive Producer | — | 2007 | |
| 25% | A Good Year | Director Producer | $7.4M | 2006 |
| The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Actor | — | 2006 | |
| 31% | Tristan & Isolde | Producer Executive Producer | $14.6M | 2006 |
| All the Invisible Children | Director | — | 2006 | |
| 18% | Domino | Producer | $10.2M | 2005 |
| 75% | In Her Shoes | Producer | $32.9M | 2005 |
| All the Invisible Children | Screenwriter Director | — | 2005 | |
| 39% | Kingdom of Heaven | Producer Director | $47.3M | 2005 |
| 82% | Matchstick Men | Director Producer | $36.9M | 2003 |
| 94% | Alien: The Director's Cut | Director | — | 2003 |
| 68% | Red Dragon | Producer | $93M | 2002 |
| 83% | The Gathering Storm | Executive Producer | — | 2002 |
| The 'Alien' Saga | Actor | — | 2002 | |
| 76% | Black Hawk Down | Director Producer | $108.6M | 2001 |
| 39% | Hannibal | Director Producer | $163.9M | 2001 |
| 76% | Gladiator | Director | — | 2000 |
| 47% | Where the Money Is | Producer | — | 2000 |
| The Last Debate | Executive Producer | — | 2000 | |
| 93% | RKO 281 | Executive Producer | — | 1999 |
| 62% | Clay Pigeons | Producer | — | 1998 |
| 53% | G.I. Jane | Producer Director | — | 1997 |
| 60% | White Squall | Director Executive Producer | — | 1996 |
| 78% | The Browning Version | Producer | — | 1994 |
| 50% | Monkey Trouble | Executive Producer Producer | — | 1994 |
| 32% | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Producer Director | — | 1992 |
| 84% | Thelma & Louise | Director Producer | — | 1991 |
| Robin Hood | Producer | — | 1991 | |
| 52% | Black Rain | Director | — | 1989 |
| 70% | Someone to Watch over Me | Executive Producer Director | — | 1987 |
| 36% | Legend | Director | — | 1985 |
| 89% | Blade Runner | Director | — | 1982 |
| 92% | Blade Runner (The Final Cut) | Director | $0.3M | 1982 |
| 97% | Alien | Director | — | 1979 |
| Alien Legacy | Director | — | 1979 | |
| 92% | The Duellists | Director | — | 1977 |
| Boy and Bicycle (Boy on a Bicycle) | Producer Director | — | 1965 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62% |
The Passage
2019
|
Executive Producer |
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| 71% |
Strange Angel
2018
|
Executive Producer |
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| 89% |
The Terror
2018
|
Executive Producer |
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| 96% |
The Good Fight
2017
|
Executive Producer |
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Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter
2015
|
Guest |
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| 81% |
The Man in the High Castle
2015
|
Producer Executive Producer |
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| 76% |
Taboo
2017
|
Executive Producer |
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| 69% |
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
2016-2017
|
Producer |
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| 73% |
Mercy Street
2016-2017
|
Executive Producer |
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| 65% |
BrainDead
2016
|
Executive Producer |
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| 96% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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Producer Executive Producer |
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| 80% |
Klondike
2014
|
Producer Executive Producer |
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| 64% |
Labyrinth
2012
|
Producer Executive Producer |
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| 48% |
Coma
2012
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Numb3rs
2005-2010
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| 40% |
The Andromeda Strain
2008
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3001: The Final Odyssey
2015
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| 86% |
Pillars of the Earth
2010
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| 60% |
The Movies
2019
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The New Drama
2016
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Z Cars
1962
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