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Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November, 1937) is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Black Rain (1989), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Prometheus (2012).
Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, as well as Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. He was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours. In 2011, Scott received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is the older brother of film director Tony Scott.
Scott was born in South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. 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.
Directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Reynolds talk about the film Duellists, The (1977). Reynolds interviews Scott while watching the movie, and they examine some of the key visual shots that Scott created and that eventually got him recognized as one of the best visual directors of our time.
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Actors: Duncan Beedie (editor), Ed Palmer (actor), James Burley (writer), James Burley (actor), Ed Palmer (writer), Zoe Carter (composer), Duncan Beedie (director), Simon Buschenfeld (writer),
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Stephen Bridgewater (miscellaneous crew), Jack E. Herman (miscellaneous crew), Maxine Bergen (miscellaneous crew), Nick Lombardo (producer), Lynne Marie Stewart (actress), Richard Halsey (editor), Gailard Sartain (actor), Jeffrey Nordling (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Brian Gattas (actor), Noah Wyle (actor), Anthony Michael Hall (actor), Diane Robin (actress), Bodhi Elfman (actor),
Plot: This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, acid-trip, amnesia, anterograde-amnesia, apple-computer, apple-inc, apple-macintosh-computer, arrogance, bad-trip