Ridley Scott

Highest Rated: 97% Alien (1979)

Lowest Rated: 19% Domino (2005)

Birthday: Nov 30, 1937

Birthplace: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK

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

		CREDIT
78%	All the Money in the World	Director Producer	$20.2M	2017
59%	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
No Score Yet	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
25%	Child 44	Producer	$1.4M	2015
No Score Yet	Halo: Nightfall	Executive Producer Producer	—	2015
No Score Yet	Red Riding	Director	—	2015
43%	Killing Jesus	Producer	—	2015
30%	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Director Producer	—	2014
36%	Before I Go to Sleep	Producer	—	2014
77%	Get Santa	Executive Producer	$1.8M	2014
No Score Yet	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
48%	Welcome to the Punch	Executive Producer	$7.3K	2013
69%	Stoker	Producer	$1.8M	2013
No Score Yet	The Counsellor	Director	—	2013
No Score Yet	Gucci	Director	—	2013
56%	Killing Kennedy	Executive Producer	—	2013
No Score Yet	Trespassing Bergman	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Killing Lincoln	Executive Producer	—	2013
73%	Prometheus	Producer Director	$126.5M	2012
79%	The Grey	Producer	$51.6M	2012
No Score Yet	The Kind One	Director	—	2012
81%	Life in a Day	Executive Producer Producer	$0.3M	2011
43%	Cracks	Executive Producer	$18.1K	2011
No Score Yet	Gettysburg	Director Executive Producer	—	2011
54%	Welcome to the Rileys	Executive Producer	$0.2M	2010
80%	Cyrus	Executive Producer	$7.5M	2010
48%	The A-Team	Producer Executive Producer	$77.3M	2010
No Score Yet	Tell-Tale (Tell Tale)	Producer	—	2010
43%	Robin Hood	Director Producer	$105.3M	2010
No Score Yet	The Real Robin Hood	Producer	—	2010
55%	Body of Lies	Producer Director	$39.4M	2008
40%	The Andromeda Strain	Producer	—	2008
No Score Yet	Into the Storm	Executive Producer	—	2008
80%	American Gangster	Director Producer	$130.2M	2007
76%	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Producer	$4M	2007
No Score Yet	The Company	Executive Producer	—	2007
25%	A Good Year	Director Producer	$7.4M	2006
No Score Yet	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing	Actor	—	2006
31%	Tristan & Isolde	Producer Executive Producer	$14.6M	2006
No Score Yet	All the Invisible Children	Director	—	2006
19%	Domino	Producer	$10.2M	2005
75%	In Her Shoes	Producer	$32.9M	2005
No Score Yet	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
No Score Yet	The 'Alien' Saga	Actor	—	2002
76%	Black Hawk Down	Producer Director	$108.6M	2001
38%	Hannibal	Producer Director	$163.9M	2001
76%	Gladiator	Director	—	2000
47%	Where the Money Is	Producer	—	2000
No Score Yet	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
33%	1492: Conquest of Paradise	Producer Director	—	1992
84%	Thelma & Louise	Producer Director	—	1991
No Score Yet	Robin Hood	Producer	—	1991
52%	Black Rain	Director	—	1989
73%	Someone to Watch over Me	Executive Producer Director	—	1987
42%	Legend	Director	—	1985
90%	Blade Runner	Director	—	1982
91%	Blade Runner (The Final Cut)	Director	$0.3M	1982
97%	Alien	Director	—	1979
No Score Yet	Alien Legacy	Director	—	1979
92%	The Duellists	Director	—	1977
No Score Yet	Boy and Bicycle (Boy on a Bicycle)	Producer Director	—	1965

TV

		CREDIT
60%	The Passage 2019	Executive Producer	2019
95%	The Good Fight 2017	Executive Producer	2019 2018 2017
71%	Strange Angel 2018	Executive Producer	2018
95%	The Terror 2018	Executive Producer	2018
81%	The Man in the High Castle 2015-2018	Producer Executive Producer	2018 2016 2015
77%	Taboo 2017	Executive Producer	2017
68%	Jean-Claude Van Johnson 2016-2017	Producer	2017 2016
73%	Mercy Street 2016-2017	Executive Producer	2017 2016
65%	BrainDead 2016	Executive Producer	2016
96%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Producer Executive Producer	2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
80%	Klondike 2014	Producer Executive Producer	2014
64%	Labyrinth 2012	Producer Executive Producer	2014
48%	Coma 2012	Producer Executive Producer	2012
No Score Yet	Numb3rs 2005-2010	Producer Executive Producer	2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
No Score Yet	3001: The Final Odyssey 2015	Producer Executive Producer
86%	Pillars of the Earth 2010	Producer Executive Producer
No Score Yet	The New Drama 2016	Producer