Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962.
At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film.
He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.
At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!
In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.
In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film.
He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.
At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!
In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.
In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
Known for
Echo Valley
Alien: Romulus
Gladiator II
A Sacrifice
Napoleon
A Haunting in Venice
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Great Expectations
Boston Strangler
Still Missing Morgan
Behold
Kaleidoscope
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Choose or Die
Death on the Nile
The Making of the Last Duel
House of Gucci
The Last Duel
Naked Singularity
Kipchoge: The Last Milestone
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
Life in a Day 2020
Jungleland
Raised by Wolves
The Donut King
Switzerlanders
FX's A Christmas Carol
Earthquake Bird
The Last Vermeer
Our Friend
The Hot Zone
Sword-and-Sandal
The Aftermath
The Journey
Memory: The Origins of Alien
The Passage
Thlípsi
Trumbull Land
Zoe
Strange Angel
American Woman
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
The Terror
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
All the Money in the World
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Newness
Blade Runner 2049
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2036: Nexus Dawn
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous
Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
Phoenix Forgotten
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper
The Good Fight
Taboo
Mindhorn
India In a Day
Morgan
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
Concussion
The Martian
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Equals
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Child 44
The Man in the High Castle
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani
Halo: Nightfall
Klondike
Christmas in a Day
Killing Kennedy
Out of the Furnace
The Counselor
Trespassing Bergman
Springsteen & I
Crimes of the Century
The East
Welcome to the Punch
Stoker
Killing Lincoln
The Polar Bears
Japan in a Day
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023
World Without End
Coma
Loom
Bergmans video
Britain in a Day
Prometheus
Ghost Recon: Alpha
The Grey
Prophets of Science Fiction
Life in a Day
Welcome to the Rileys
The Pillars of the Earth
Cyrus
The A-Team
Robin Hood
The Real Robin Hood
Cracks
The Good Wife
Into the Storm
Body of Lies
The Andromeda Strain
Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
American Gangster
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Company
Postcards From Provence
Black Rain: Making The Film
A Good Year
Tristan & Isolde
The Path to Redemption
Le court des grands
In Her Shoes
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
All the Invisible Children
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Kingdom of Heaven
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Thunder Perfect Mind
Numb3rs
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Matchstick Men
Cinema16: British Short Films
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
Beat the Devil
Ticker
Hostage
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
Black Hawk Down
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Hannibal
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
The Last Debate
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Gladiator
Where the Money Is
RKO 281
The Alien Legacy
The Directors
Clay Pigeons
G.I. Jane
Hollywood Halloween
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
White Squall
Kulturzeit
The Browning Version
Monkey Trouble
The King of Ads, Part 2
1492: Conquest of Paradise
The King of Ads
Thelma & Louise
Black Rain
Someone to Watch Over Me
A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
Legend
Apple Mac: 1984
Blade Runner
Alien
Giger's Alien
The Duellists
The Hollywood Greats
One of the Missing
Robert
Adam Adamant Lives!
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Boy and Bicycle
Z-Cars