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Ridley Scott stands in front of a dark, sculpted alien creature backdrop at the Alien: Covenant world premiere in London. Three astronauts in bulky suits explore a rocky, fog-shrouded alien landscape with scattered debris in a scene from the film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott. Directing on set Gladiator
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Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte, wearing a black bicorne hat and gray coat, sits on a white horse before a line of soldiers in a battlefield scene from the film Napoleon. Adam Driver and Matt Damon, in medieval armor, face each other on horseback in a jousting arena, with spectators and stone walls in the background, from The Last Duel. Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley sits in a spaceship cockpit wearing a gray flight suit, in a scene from the 1979 film Alien directed by Ridley Scott. John Hurt lies on a table in distress, surrounded by Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt, and Ian Holm in a tense scene from the film Alien (1979). Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard clings to a metal beam high above a futuristic city in a dramatic action scene from the film Blade Runner.
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Ridley Scott stands in front of a dark, sculpted alien creature backdrop at the Alien: Covenant world premiere in London.
Ridley Scott British film director Ridley Scott at the world premiere of Alien: Covenant, at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London, 2017.

Ridley Scott

British director and producer
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Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937, South Shields, Durham [now Tyne and Wear], England) is a British film director and producer whose movies, most notably Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), and Gladiator (2000), are acclaimed for their rich visual style. Scott’s father was in the military, and the family lived in several different places during World War II. After the war they settled in the Teesside metropolitan area of northeastern England. Scott attended the West...

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