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Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott
Born in County Durham, UK, Sir Ridley is one of the two uber-successful Scott director-brothers. Widely considered to be one of the world's greatest-ever directors, Ridley began his directing career with some notable TV ads including the famous Apple Mac 1984 ad. Since then he has been nominated for numerous awards, including three Oscar nominations for best Director (Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator).



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Ridley Scott - news / articles


  • Scott & DiCaprio tackle A Brave New World - 10 August 2009
    -Ridley Scott is heading back to the future - he is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio to transform cult novel Brave New World for the big screen.- -The Alien auteur has reportedly signed to helm the new movie, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's acclaimed 1931 book, whic


  • Crowe: 'Feud with Scott brings out best in us' - 23 June 2009
    -Hollywood actor Russell Crowe has opened up about rumours of a feud with director Ridley Scott - insisting they have always had a fiery relationship.- -The star has worked with Scott on a string of movies, including 2000's Gladiator and 2008's Body of Lies, and the p


  • Scott awarded U.K. film honour - 23 March 2009
    -Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott has been honoured with a prestigious Fellowship from the British Film Institute.- -The filmmaker, 71, is the 62nd recipient of the award, following in the footsteps of Sir David Lean and Clint Eastwood.- - Greg Dyke, chairman of t

Ridley Scott - what members say


  • Alien
  • Alien review by from Chiswick
    Rated - 5 stars Be Afraid, Be very afraid 15 September 2003
    ...e succeeded in delivering the kind of horror, sense of menace and suspense that Ridley Scott meticulously orchestrated in this trapped, claustriophobic, and increasingly in...  
  • Thelma And Louise
  • Thelma And Louise review by from UK
    Rated - 3 stars What colour are my eyes? 17 November 2004
    ...It seems odd to me that, given my fondness for Ridley Scott films, I'd never seen Thelma & Louise. Unfortunately, I already knew the ending, thanks to it - like the 'girl' ...  
  • Black Hawk Down
  • Black Hawk Down review by elliottburton from London
    Rated - 5 stars Top Draw 25 May 2004
    ...y action provides for 2 hours of great entertainment. Superbly shot by director Ridley Scott ...  

Ridley Scott - filmography


  • Robin Hood (2009)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Cate Blanchett
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A love triangle forms between the legendary do-gooder Robin Hood, his Maid Marian and the archer's arch nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 15 members
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  • Brave New World (2009)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    John the Savage is a natural man who confronts a world of test-tube babies who are kept pacified with drugs and sex.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 12 members
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  • The Forever War (2009)
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on Joe Haldman's 1974 novel "The Forever War". Private William Mandella has been sent to war against an alien force, But the real challenge is when he returns to earth, as centuries have passed in the months he's been away.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 8 members
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  • Matchstick Men on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Sam Rockwell,  Alison Lohman
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) is a conman and trickster who has had to overcome enormous problems with obsessive-compulsive disorder in order to stay on top of his game. His partner in crime, Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), helps him run a daily business conning housewives out of their money with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 22,948 members
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  • Hannibal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Julianne Moore,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 17,456 members
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  • Hannibal - BLU-RAY Version (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Julianne Moore,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 178 members
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  • Gladiator on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 66,504 members
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  • Gladiator - BLU-RAY Version (2000)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 425 members
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  • Hunger, The - Series 2 (4 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: David Bowie,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Ridley Scott,  Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Season 2 of the critically acclaimed cult series inspired by Tony Scott's 1983 stylish horror movie. 22 tales of the dark side which capture, in their themes of power and lust, all of the original's style, class and eroticism.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 210 members
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  • G.I. Jane on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Viggo Mortensen,  Anne Bancroft
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Demi Moore stars as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, the first female candidate for the U.S. Navy SEAL unit, a clandestine strike force drawn from the creme de la creme of the combined services--an opportunity provided her by the political maneuvering of Senator Lillian de Haven (Anne Bancroft). To make ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,613 members
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  • White Squall on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Caroline Goodall,  John Savage
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eclectic director Ridley Scott here tries his hand at a coming-of-age tale, which stars Jeff Bridges as ship captain Christopher Sheldon. Based on a true story, the film is set in 1960 as a group of teenaged prep students signs on to Sheldon's floating summer school, conducted on a two-masted ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,767 member
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  • Thelma And Louise on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Geena Davis,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the road with her for a weekend of freedom. One of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20,290 members
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  • Black Rain on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Andy Garcia,  Kate Capshaw
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Ridley Scott's international crime thriller stars Michael Douglas as Mike Conklin, a New York detective under investigation for corruption. When yakuza hit man Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) kills two American mobsters in New York, he's extradited to Osaka to face trial, with Conklin and Charlie ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,133 members
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  • Black Rain - HD DVD Version (1989)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Andy Garcia,  Kate Capshaw
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Ridley Scott's international crime thriller stars Michael Douglas as Mike Conklin, a New York detective under investigation for corruption. When yakuza hit man Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) kills two American mobsters in New York, he's extradited to Osaka to face trial, with Conklin and Charlie ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 260 members
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  • Legend on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Tim Curry,  Mia Sara
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Ridley Scott's lush fantasy film stars the young Tom Cruise as Jack, a peasant who lives in an enchanted forest with his beloved Lili (Mia Sara). One day, while quietly gamboling in a glade, the pair is distracted by the appearance of trolls, minions of the evil Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry)..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,971 members
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  • Blade Runner on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Rutger Hauer,  Edward James Olmos
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 43,006 members
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  • Alien on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  John Hurt,  Tom Skerritt
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 48,860 members
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  • The Duellists on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Keith Carradine,  Harvey Keitel,  Edward Fox
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists, trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage." Thus wrote Joseph Conrad in the opening paragraphs of the story that provides the basis for Ridley ..read more »
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Ridley Scott - watch online


  • Boy and Bicycle to Watch Now (1965)
    Starring: Tony Scott
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 27 minutes
    The adventures of a truant schoolboy cycling around the English town of Hartlepool in the north-eastern county of Cleveland.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 3 members
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Ridley Scott facts

5 most recent films

Robin Hood - 3.0 stars
Brave New World - 3.0 stars
The Forever War - 2.5 stars
Body Of Lies - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Body of Lies - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gladiator - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Blade Runner - The Final Cut - 4.5 stars
Blade Runner - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Alien Quadrilogy - 4.0 stars
Alien - Director's Cut - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Forever War - 2.5 stars
Brave New World - 3.0 stars
Robin Hood - 3.0 stars
Hunger, The - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Hunger, The - Series 2 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Russell Crowe - 14 times - show films
Derek Jacobi - 7 times - show films
David Schofield - 7 times - show films
Oliver Reed - 7 times - show films
Joaquin Phoenix - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tony Scott - 2 times - show films
James Cameron - 2 times - show films
David Fincher - 2 times - show films
P - 1 times - show films
Philip Dudley - 1 times - show films