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.

Filmography

• 2027Treasure Island — Director, Producer
• Blade Runner 2099 — Executive Producer
• 2026The Dog Stars — Director, Producer
• The Terror: Devil in Silver — Executive Producer
• Alien: Earth — Executive Producer
• Dope Thief — Executive Producer, Director
• 2025Echo Valley — Producer
• 2025Flight 182 — Executive Producer
• Prime Target — Executive Producer
• 2025The Chronology of Water — Executive Producer
• 2025Trap House — Executive Producer
• 2024A Sacrifice — Producer
• 2024Alien: Romulus — Producer
• 2024Gladiator II — Director, Producer
• 2023A Haunting in Venice — Producer
• 2023Boston Strangler — Producer
• Great Expectations — Executive Producer
• Kaleidoscope — Executive Producer
• 2023Napoleon — Director, Producer
• Still Missing Morgan — Executive Producer
• 2022Choose or Die — Executive Producer
• 2022Death on the Nile — Producer
• 2021House of Gucci — Director, Producer
• 2021Kipchoge: The Last Milestone — Executive Producer
• 2021Life in a Day 2020 — Executive Producer
• 2021Naked Singularity — Executive Producer
• 2021The Last Duel — Director, Producer
• 2020Jungleland — Executive Producer
• Raised by Wolves — Executive Producer, Director
• 2020Switzerlanders — Executive Producer
• 2020The Donut King — Executive Producer
• 2019Earthquake Bird — Producer
• 2019FX's A Christmas Carol — Executive Producer
• 2019Our Friend — Executive Producer
• 2019The Aftermath — Executive Producer
• The Hot Zone — Executive Producer
• 2019The Last Vermeer — Executive Producer
• The Passage — Executive Producer
• 2018American Woman — Producer
• 2018Blade Runner 2049: Behind the Scenes
• Strange Angel — Executive Producer
• 2018The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
• The Terror — Executive Producer
• 2018Thlípsi — Thanks
• 2018Zoe — Executive Producer
• 20172036: Nexus Dawn — Producer
• 2017Alien: Covenant — Director, Producer
• 2017Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos — Producer
• 2017All the Money in the World — Producer, Director
• 2017Blade Runner 2049 — Executive Producer
• 2017Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Executive Producer
• 2017Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House — Producer
• 2017Murder on the Orient Express — Producer
• 2017Newness — Executive Producer
• 2017Phoenix Forgotten — Producer
• Taboo — Executive Producer
• The Good Fight — Executive Producer
• 2016India In a Day — Executive Producer
• Jean-Claude Van Johnson — Executive Producer
• 2016Mindhorn — Executive Producer
• 2016Morgan — Producer
• 2015Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs — Executive Producer
• 2015Child 44 — Producer
• 2015Concussion — Producer
• 2015Equals — Executive Producer
• 2015Killing Jesus — Executive Producer
• The Man in the High Castle — Executive Producer
• 2015The Martian — Director, Producer
• 2015Zero — Executive Producer
• 2014Before I Go to Sleep — Executive Producer
• 2014Exodus: Gods and Kings — Director, Producer
• 2014Get Santa — Executive Producer
• 2014Halo: Nightfall — Executive Producer
• 2014Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani — Executive Producer
• Klondike — Executive Producer
• Crimes of the Century — Executive Producer
• 2013Killing Kennedy — Executive Producer
• 2013Killing Lincoln — Executive Producer
• 2013Out of the Furnace — Producer
• 2013Springsteen & I — Executive Producer
• 2013Stoker — Producer
• 2013The Counselor — Director, Producer
• 2013The East — Producer
• 2013Welcome to the Punch — Executive Producer
• 2012Britain in a Day — Executive Producer
• Coma — Executive Producer
• 2012Ghost Recon: Alpha — Producer
• 2012Japan in a Day — Executive Producer
• 2012Loom — Executive Producer
• 2012Prometheus — Producer, Director
• 2012The Grey — Producer
• World Without End — Producer
• 2011Life in a Day — Executive Producer
• 2010Cyrus — Executive Producer
• 2010Robin Hood — Director, Producer
• 2010The A-Team — Executive Producer
• The Pillars of the Earth — Executive Producer
• 2010The Real Robin Hood — Self, Producer
• 2010Welcome to the Rileys — Executive Producer
• 2009Cracks — Executive Producer
• 2009Into the Storm — Executive Producer
• 2009Tell-Tale — Producer
• The Good Wife — Executive Producer
• 2008Body of Lies — Producer, Director
• The Andromeda Strain — Executive Producer
• 2007American Gangster — Director, Producer
• 2007Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) — Director
• 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Producer
• The Company — Executive Producer
• 2006A Good Year — Producer, Director
• 2006All the Invisible Children — Director
• 2006Orpheus — Executive Producer
• 2006Tristan & Isolde — Executive Producer
• 2005In Her Shoes — Producer
• 2005Kingdom of Heaven — Director, Producer
• 2005Le court des grands — Director
• Numb3rs — Executive Producer
• 2003Cinema16: British Short Films — Director
• 2003Matchstick Men — Director, Producer
• AFP: American Fighter Pilot — Producer
• 2002Beat the Devil — Executive Producer
• 2002Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds — Self, Thanks
• 2002Hostage — Executive Producer
• 2002The Gathering Storm — Executive Producer
• 2002Ticker — Executive Producer
• 2001Black Hawk Down — Director, Producer
• 2001Hannibal — Producer, Director
• 2000Gladiator — Director, Executive Producer
• 2000The Last Debate — Executive Producer
• 2000Where the Money Is — Producer
• 1999RKO 281 — Executive Producer
• 1998Clay Pigeons — Producer
• 1997G.I. Jane — Director, Producer
• 1997The Swords — Executive Producer
• 1996White Squall — Director, Executive Producer
• 1994Monkey Trouble — Executive Producer
• 1994The Browning Version — Producer
• 1993The King of Ads, Part 2 — Director
• 19921492: Conquest of Paradise — Producer, Director
• 1992Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
• 1991The King of Ads — Director
• 1991Thelma & Louise — Director, Producer
• 1989Black Rain — Director
• 1987Someone to Watch Over Me — Director, Executive Producer
• 1985Legend — Director
• 1982Blade Runner — Director
• 1979Alien — Director
• 1977The Duellists — Director, Camera Operator
• The Hollywood Greats
• 1968One of the Missing — Unionist officer (uncredited)
• Half Hour Story — Director
• 1967Robert — Director
• Adam Adamant Lives! — Director
• The Informer — Director
• 1965Boy and Bicycle — Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
• Out of the Unknown — Production Design
• 1965Some Lapse of Time — Production Design
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Director
• Z-Cars — Director
• Comedy Playhouse — Production Design
• Sunday-Night Play — Production Design
• Battle of Britain — Director
• Children of the Jungle — Producer
• Embraced by the Light — Producer
• First Ascent — Producer
• Gladiator III — Producer, Writer
• God of the Rodeo — Producer
• Here Be Monsters — Producer
• Inground — Producer
• Katie Greaves — Executive Producer
• Mind MGMT — Producer
• Narco Sub — Producer
• Nightwatching — Producer
• Nue — Producer
• Outside — Producer
• The Riders — Producer
• The Vesuvius Challenge — Executive Producer
• They Like the Dark — Producer
• Untitled Alien: Romulus Sequel — Producer
• Untitled Ernest Shackleton Film — Producer
• Vicious — Producer
• War Party — Producer
• Whoever Fights Monsters — Producer
• You Should Be Dancing — Director

Appearances as themselves (59)

• 2025Thelma & Louise: Born to Live — Self
• 2024The Making of Gladiator II — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero — Self
• 2023L'Âge d'or de la pub — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Film: The Living Record of Our Memory — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• 2021Kreka: Dreamcatcher — Self
• 2021The Blade Runner Phenomenon — Self - Director (1982)
• 2021The Making of the Last Duel — Self
• 2019Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
• 2018Trumbull Land — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies — Self
• 2017Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous — himself
• 2016The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' — Self
• 2014Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' — Self
• 2013Trespassing Bergman — Self
• 2013Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka — Self
• 2012The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus — Self
• Prophets of Science Fiction — Himself - Presenter
• 2010Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood — Self
• 2009Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing 'Body of Lies' — Self
• 2008Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster' — Self
• 2007Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner — Self
• 2007Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard — Self
• 2007Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling — Self
• 2007Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film — Self
• 2007The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth — Self
• 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
• 2006Black Rain: Making The Film — Self
• 2006The Path to Redemption — Self
• 2005Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' — Self
• 2005Strength and Honor: Production Pods — Self
• 2005Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us — Self
• 2004Murder by Numbers — Self
• 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
• 2004The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' — Self
• 2003The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self
• 2003Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey — Self
• 2002Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' — Himself
• 2002The Alien Saga — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' — Self
• 2001Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal — Self
• 2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul — Self
• 2000Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport — Self
• 2000On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' — Self
• 1999The Alien Legacy — Self
• The Directors — Self
• 1997Hollywood Halloween — Self
• 1996The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money — Self
• 1986A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema — Self
• 1979Giger's Alien — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• American Gangster Special — Self