Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated English film director and producer who directed the 1979 film Alien, the 2012 film Prometheus, the 2017 film Alien: Covenant and the 2017 short film The Crossing. He helped conceive the short film Phobos. He also produced Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and the upcoming Alien tv series. Scott is the father of director Luke Scott, was the elder brother of late director Tony Scott, and is the partner of actress Giannina Facio, whom he has cast in many of his films. Other notable films Scott has directed include the seminal sci-fi classic Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and The Martian (2015).

For his work on Alien, Scott won a Saturn Award for Best Director and alongside Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Dan O'Bannon, Terry Rawlings, Ronald Shusett, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, and Sigourney Weaver, has won the DVD Exclusive Award for Best Audio Commentary (new for DVD) for Alien.^[1] In addition to this, he has been nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Director for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), two Golden Globes and three BAFTA Awards. His directing of Alien, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant makes him the only director to helm more than one feature film in the Alien, Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises (although his son Luke has also directed multiple short films for the series). In 2003, Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his "services to the British film industry".

Awards and Nominations[]

Year	Film	Notes
1979	Alien	Saturn Award for Best Director Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

Filmography[]

Year	Title	Notes
1977	The Duellists	With Pete Postlethwaite and Luke Scott
1979	Alien
1982	Blade Runner	With Edward James Olmos
1985	Legend	With Nick Gillard and Eddie Powell
1987	Someone to Watch Over Me
1989	Black Rain
1991	Thelma & Louise	With Steve Boyum
1992	1492: Conquest of Paradise	With Nick Gillard, Sigourney Weaver and Michael Wincott
1996	White Squall
1997	G.I. Jane	Written by David Twohy
2000	Gladiator	With Giannina Facio, Tommy Flanagan, Mark Anthony Newman, C. C. Smiff and Sven-Ole Thorsen
2001	Hannibal	With Pavel Bezdek and Giannina Facio
2001	Black Hawk Down	With Ewen Bremner, Giannina Facio and Corey Johnson
2003	Matchstick Men	With Giannina Facio and Eddie Yansick
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	With Giannina Facio, Jon Finch and Vladimir "Furdo" Furdik
2006	A Good Year	With Giannina Facio and Rafe Spall
2007	American Gangster	With Cris D'Annunzio, Idris Elba and John Ortiz
2008	Body of Lies	With Robin Atkin Downes, Giannina Facio and Florian Robin
2010	Robin Hood	With Giannina Facio and Vladimir "Furdo" Furdik
2012	Prometheus
2013	The Counselor	With Rubén Blades, Andrea Deck, Giannina Facio, Michael Fassbender, Florian Robin and Shane Steyn
2014	Exodus: Gods and Kings	With Ewen Bremner, Emun Elliott, Giannina Facio, Vladimir "Furdo" Furdik, Florian Robin, C. C. Smiff, Shane Steyn and Sigourney Weaver
2015	The Martian	With Florian Robin and C. C. Smiff
2017	Alien: Covenant