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Date of Birth: Ridley Scott30 November 1937Education: West Hartlepool College of Art; Royal College of Art in London, England (Graduated with a B.A. from the Film Arts school); London International Film School (Graduated from the one year master's program where two of his short films won awards). Family: Brother of director Tony Scott; Father of music video director Jake Scott; Son of Elizabeth Jean Scott; Father of actress Jordan Scott. Whilst working as a set designer at the BBC, Scott was assigned to design the Daleks for the popular BBC TV serial "Doctor Who" (1963). Scott passed the work on to his friend Raymond Cusick, as he was unable to attend the filming at Ealing. ... Owns the visual effects company Mill Film, based in London. They did the majority of the effects work on Gladiator (2000). 2001: Ranked #31 in Entertainment Weekly's Power List. 1986: Enya's recording "Aldebaran" is dedicated to him. 1990s: He was developing a film adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel, "I Am Legend". This project was never finished. Owns Shepperton Studios in the UK with his brother Tony Scott. Estimated in an interview that he operated on roughly 2,700 commercials. 2003: Ranked #25 in Premiere's annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #30 in 2002. Black Hawk Down (2001) is dedicated to his mother, who died in 2001. Directed a Maxwell House coffee commercial that starred Shakira Caine. Michael Caine saw the commercial and was so taken by her beauty, he desperately searched for her. They have been married 30 years. He cast his partner in life, Giannina Facio, in all of his films since Gladiator (2000). Of all the professional actors he has hired / worked with for his films, over 50% come from elite drama schools and the theatre, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon, The Globe Theatre, The Old Vic and the National Theatre in London, which he feels brings as large a presence to the screen as the actors do to the stage. Is the only director, other than George Lucas, who has directed both Harrison Ford and Ewan McGregor in a movie. He and Michael Mann have both directed a Hannibal Lecter film. They have also both worked frequently with an actor who has played Jack Crawford. Mann directed Dennis Farina's first film, Thief (1981), and he also used him on "Miami Vice" (1984). Scott cast Harvey Keitel in The Duellists (1977) and Thelma & Louise (1991). Keitel went on to play Jack Crawford in Red Dragon (2002). April 2005: The most successful British director in Hollywood in terms of box office to date. Has worked with three Aragorns. His first theatrical film, The Duellists (1977), featured Sir Robert Stephens, who played Aragorn in the BBC radio adaptation. His breakthrough film, Alien (1979), featured John Hurt, who voiced the character in the Ralph Bakshi animated film The Lord of the Rings (1978). G.I. Jane (1997) featured Viggo Mortensen, who played the part in Peter Jackson's live-action adaptation. His first feature film, The Duellists (1977) is based on a Joseph Conrad story. In his next film, Alien (1979), the spaceship was known as the Nostromo and its escape ship as the Narcissus. Both are names taken from Conrad stories. 2005: Ranked #5 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!". 2005: Ranked #28 on Premiere's Power 50 List. Had ranked #32 in 2004. While in college at the Royal College of Art, he was a contributor to the college magazine ARK. He also helped establish a film studies department at the school. In 1994, he was slated to direct "Hot Zone" from a screenplay by James V. Hart based on the 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. The film was to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and was based on the true story of the discovery of the deadly Ebola virus. Various factors, including the development of the similarly-plotted Outbreak (1995), led to the project being cancelled. Suffers from claustrophobia, a condition he actively sought to instill in his Alien (1979) cast by making their Nostromo living quarters as cramped as possible. Coming from an army and fine arts background, he is an inveterate stickler for detail who tackles each movie project with the vehemence of a general with a battle plan. His persistent scrutiny of minutiae on the Alien (1979) shoot prompted Sigourney Weaver to complain that he cared more about his props and sets than he did about his cast. Divides his time among his homes in Hampstead (UK), France and Los Angeles. Like his brother Tony Scott, he is an avid smoker of Montecristo Cuban cigars. In late 2005, he was preparing to direct "The Invisible World" from a screenplay by Dana Stevens based on a treatment by Washington Post correspondent David Ignatius. The film was to star Angelina Jolie, and was based on the abduction of a female journalist in Iraq. However, Jolie's pregnancy at the time halted production, putting off the project altogether. This sudden opening in Ridley Scott's schedule allowed him to direct American Gangster (2007) the following year. Ranked #35 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". Directed 5 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix and Ruby Dee. Crowe is the only one to win an Oscar for a performance directed by Scott. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to the Film Industry. The famous Superbowl TV ad "1984" Scott directed for the launch of Apple's Macintosh was filmed on Stage H at Shepperton Studios where Scott had earlier filmed his exterior landscapes for Alien (1979). Apple paid an estimated $1m for the one-off telecast of the ad during Superbowl XVIII where the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38-9. Scott estimated a budget of approximately $350,000 for the commercial. Read more At this site you can watch Ridley Scott movies online for free.
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