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Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) in South Shields is a British film director and producer. Scott studied photography at the Royal College of Art and helped establish the film department there in the mid-1960s. After graduation he secured a traineeship with the BBC leading him to work on the popular television series Z Cars. Along with Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson and his younger brother Tony Scott they estalished an advertising company. Having cut his teeth on UK television commercials in the 1970s — most notably the Hovis New World advert — he graduated to Hollywood, where he produced and directed a number of top boxoffice films. His striking visual style, incorporating a detailed approach to production design and innovative, atmospheric lighting, has been tremendously influential to an entire subsequent generation of filmmakers — many of whom have simply imitated him outright.

Scott is notable for his versatility. He rarely makes two films in the same genre, and many of his films are popularly rated as some of the best examples of their genres.

Genre Film Rank
TV Commercial Apple 1984 commercial 1
Horror / Sci-Fi Alien Top 10 - NFRThe National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized in 1992
Science Fiction Blade RunnerBlade Runner is a dark science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott released in 1982. It presents a bleak dystopic vision of Los Angeles in the not too distant future. Harrison Ford stars as "Blade Runner" Rick Deckard. In the future world of the movie a 1 - NFRThe National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized in 1992
Road Movie Thelma & LouiseThelma and Louise is a road movie from 1991 conceived and written by Callie Khouri, co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Geena Davis as Thelma, Susan Sarandon as Louise, and Harvey Keitel as a sympathetic detective trying to solve crimes Top 10
Fairy Tale LegendLegend is a 1985 fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox (in Europe) and Universal Pictures (in the U. and Canada), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, and Billy Barty. Plot summary The story is set "once, long ago" in not ranked
Sword and Sandal GladiatorGladiator was a popular movie that appeared in 2000, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. The protagonist of the movie is a Roman general turned gladiator named Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe) whose 2
War Black Hawk DownBlack Hawk Down is an official phrase used on combat situations, by the United States military, to inform the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter. The phrase became popular after the release of a book titled Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War''. The book Top 10
NFR – Selected for National Film RegistryThe National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized in 1992


In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, while on location in Morocco during the filming of Kingdom of Heaven, a movie about the Crusades, Scott reported receiving death threats from Islamist extremists. The Moroccan government sent hundreds of soldiers to protect Scott and the production.


Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing. He was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours.



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