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Ridley Scott

1937 - Today

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Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. He is best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime, and historical drama genres. His work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ridley Scott has received more than 19,408,278 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Ridley Scott is the 11th most popular film director (down from 10th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Film Director.

Ridley Scott is most famous for directing the films Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, and Black Hawk Down.

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  • 19M

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  • 76.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ridley Scott ranks 11 out of 2,041. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski. After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leni Riefenstahl, and Wim Wenders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Ridley Scott ranks 6. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Anthony Hopkins, Harald V of Norway, Valentina Tereshkova, and Morgan Freeman. After him are Ahmed Yassin, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Bobby Charlton, Jane Fonda, and Queen Sonja of Norway.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 72 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), John Stuart Mill (1806), Alex Ferguson (1941), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), and Edward Heath (1916). After him are John Dee (1527), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), David Bowie (1947), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Alfred the Great (849).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock (1899). After him are Ken Loach (1936), Alan Parker (1944), Tony Scott (1944), Christopher Nolan (1970), Peter Brook (1925), Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), Peter Greenaway (1942), Stephen Frears (1941), and Mike Newell (1942).

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Filmography

The Martian
Director
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Sep 30o 20157.7 / 10
Gladiator
Director
In the year 180, the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals, as well as a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is sentenced to execution. He escapes but is captured by slave traders. Renamed "Spaniard" and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
May 4o 20008.216 / 10
Alien
Director
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
May 25o 19798.158 / 10