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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.
Jason is a 2022 American action horror film directed by Breck Eisner and produced and written by Ridley Scott, based on the Friday the 13th character Jason Voorhees. The film serves as both the twelfth installment and a homage to the Friday the 13th film series while retconning Friday the 13th Part II and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. It stars Joe Manganiello as the eponymous character and is supported by Adrienne King and Corey Feldman, reprising their roles as Alice Hardy and Tommy Jarvis. Set in 2015, 30 years after the events of The Final Chapter, Alice (King) meets Tommy (Feldman) for the first time and he tells her the story of how he killed Jason, even taking her to where he killed him, and then the lake where his mother threw his body in. However, when they drive away, Jason suddenly awakens and emerges from the lake, following them. It's up to Alice and Tommy to stop Jason and throw him back in the lake where he drowned in the first place, Camp Crystal Lake. The film had its world premiere on November 17th, 2022, and was released on December 9th. Despite a mixed response, Jason was a box-office success, grossing over $601 million, and is the best-reviewed film in the series. Since its release, the film has been reappraised and is now considered one of Eisner's finest films of his career, with praise for the performances of Manganiello, King and Feldman. A sequel is in development, with Eisner set to direct again and the cast set to return.
