Napoleon, a film by Ridley Scott, is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise of the iconic Napoleon Bonaparte
Ridley Scott
BrowsingRidley Scott is a renowned Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker honored with Best Director Oscar® nominations for his work on Black Hawk Down (2001), Gladiator (2000) and Thelma & Louise (1991). Scott most recently directed The Last Duel (2021), starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jodie Comer, and House of Gucci (2021), starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver. He produced Death on the Nile (2022), starring Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, and Annette Bening, and Hulu’s Boston Strangler (2023), starring Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, and Chris Cooper. He next will direct a sequel to Gladiator starring Paul Mescal for Paramount.
In 1977, Ridley Scott made his feature-film directorial debut with The Duellists, for which he won the Best First Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He followed with the iconic science-fiction thriller Alien (1979), and the landmark film Blade Runner (1982), which was added to the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 1993.
Additional film credits as director include The Martian (2015), which received seven Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, a DGA Award nomination, and 6 BAFTA nominations, including Best Director; Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), starring Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton; The Counselor (2013), written by Cormac McCarthy and starring Michael Fassbender; the acclaimed hit Prometheus (2012), starring Michael Fassbender; G.I. Jane (1997), starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen; Hannibal (2001), starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore; Body of Lies (2008), starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio; Robin Hood (2010), marking his fifth collaboration with star Russell Crowe; Alien: Covenant (2017), the sequel to Prometheus; and All the Money in the World (2017), starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams.
Scott and his late brother Tony formed the commercial and advertising production company RSA in 1967. In 1995, the Scott brothers formed the film and television production company Scott Free. Upcoming Scott Free projects include Berlin Nobody, a thriller written and directed by Jordan Scott starring Eric Bana and Sadie Sink; a new movie in the Alien franchise, to be directed by Fede Alvarez; A Haunting in Venice, from Kenneth Branagh starring Branagh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, and Michele Yeoh; Outside, a feature adaption from bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson; and The Chronology of Water, to be directed by Kristen Stewart.
On television, Scott executive produced the Emmy, Peabody, and Golden Globe-winning hit “The Good Wife” for CBS, as well as its critically acclaimed CBS All Access spin-off “The Good Fight”; the series adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic “The Man in the High Castle” for Amazon; AMC’s anthology series “The Terror”; and Steven Knight’s gritty adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ classic “Great Expectations” for FX/BBC1.
In 2003, Scott was awarded a knighthood from the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to the arts. He received the 30th American Cinematheque Award at the organization’s annual gala in 2016; the Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Picture Direction at the 2017 Directors Guild of America Awards; and the Academy Fellowship honor at the 2018 BAFTA Awards.
As from the press release from Sony Pictures, Cristiana Caimmi.