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Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. He directs films in the science fiction, crime, and historical epic genres with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 and appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III in 2024. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art in London, Scott began his career in television as a designer and director before moving into advertising as a director of commercials. He made his film directorial debut with The Duellists (1977) and gained wider recognition with his next film, Alien (1979). Though his films range widely in setting and period, they showcase memorable imagery of urban environments, spanning 2nd-century Rome in Gladiator (2000) and its 2024 sequel, 12th-century Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), medieval England in Robin Hood (2010), ancient Memphis in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), contemporary Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down (2001), futuristic cityscapes of Los Angeles in Blade Runner (1982) and extraterrestrial worlds in Alien, Prometheus (2012), The Martian (2015) and Alien: Covenant (2017). Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards: Directing for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down. Gladiator won the Academy Award for Best Picture and received a nomination in the same category for The Martian. In 1995, Scott and his brother Tony received a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Scott's films Alien, Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise were each selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2004 BBC poll, Scott was ranked 10 on the list of most influential people in British culture. Scott also works in television and has earned 10 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He won twice, for Outstanding Television Film for the HBO film The Gathering Storm (2002) and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for the History Channel's Gettysburg (2011). He was Emmy-nominated for RKO 281 (1999), The Andromeda Strain (2008), and The Pillars of the Earth (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ridley Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ridley Scott
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for Director in Ghazi: The Young Lion of Iraq
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The film opens in the rugged, vast deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, where Ghazi ibn Faisal, born in Mecca, is raised in a world of tradition and upheaval. The son of the charismatic Faisal I, who won and lost the Kingdom of Syria before being crowned Iraq’s first king, Ghazi comes of age with a sense of destiny and burden. Inheriting the throne of Iraq at only 21, he dreams of a modern Arab kingdom, independent and free from British control. But the pressures on Ghazi mount rapidly. He faces fierce opposition from British advisers who try to keep Iraq under colonial influence, ambitious local leaders who question his youth, and his inner circle, which doubts his ability to lead. Amid it all, he became a folk hero to the Iraqi people, using radio broadcasts to rally national pride and openly challenge British influence in Iraq. Yet, Ghazi’s ambitions lead him into dangerous territory. As he navigates his desire to unite the Arab world with the ruthless realities of royal power, he faces betrayal, isolation, and rumors of intrigue. His young life comes to a tragic end in a mysterious car crash in 1939, leaving his dream of an independent Iraq unfulfilled but setting the stage for the nation's fierce struggle for self-determination.
