Want to know the best Ridley Scott movies? How about the worst Ridley Scott movies? Curious about Ridley Scott’s box office grosses or which Ridley Scott movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ridley Scott movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.
Ridley Scott (1937-) is one of my favorite directors. Somehow it has taken me over three years to finally write a movie page on his movie career. Although he has only directed 22 movies since 1977…many of those movies are some of my personal favorite movies. Scott has been nominated thee times for a Best Director Oscar®.
His IMDb page shows 34 directing credits since 1977. This page will rank 23 Ridley Scott movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Ridley Scott Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by the star of Ridley Scott’s movies.
- Sort Ridley Scott movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Ridley Scott movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Ridley Scott movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Ridley Scott movie received.
- Sort Ridley Scott movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Ridley Scott Table
- Eight Ridley Scott movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 34.78% of his movies listed. Alien (1979) is his biggest domestic box office hit while Gladiator (2000) is his biggest worldwide box office hit.
- An average Ridley Scott movie grosses $104.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 15 of Ridley Scott’s movies are rated as good movies…or 65.21% of his movies. Alien (1979) is his highest rated movie while Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) was his lowest rated movie.
- Ten Ridley Scott movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 43.47% of his movies.
- Four Ridley Scott movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 18.18% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 39.86. 14 Ridley Scott movies scored higher that average….or 60.86% of his movies. Gladiator (2000) got the the highest UMR Score while The Counselor (2013) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ridley Scott Movies
1. Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England in 1937.
2. Ridley Scott’s path to success. He directed BBC television shows in the 1960s….directed popular commercials in the 1970s…..directed his first movie, The Duellists in 1977….and hit it big with only his second movie…1979’s Alien.
3. Ridley Scott directed the Superbowl TV ad “1984” for the launch of Apple’s Macintosh
4. Ridley Scott’s brother was Tony Scott. Tony Scott (Top Gun) was also a very successful director. You can check out his Cogerson Movie Score page here.
5. Ridley Scott has been married twice. He has three children. His children are in the movie business too. Jake and Luke Scott are directors and Jordan Scott is an actress and a director.
6. Ridley Scott has been nominated for three Best Director Oscars®….those movies were….Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001) and Thelma and Louise (1991).
7. Ridley Scott is considered the father of “director’s cut“. Scott has repeatedly edited his movies after their original release. Blade Runner is probably the most famous of his director’s cuts. I strongly believe that his Director’s Cut of Kingdom of Heaven (2005) is one of the best movies in the last 10 years.
8. Ridley Scott has directed Russell Crowe in 5 movies. Those movies are Gladiator (2000), A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008) and Robin Hood (2010).
9. One of the possible upcoming Ridley Scott movies is a sequel to Blade Runner. Speaking of Blade Runner…Scott believes that Harrison Ford’s character in Blade Runner is a replicant…I am on the side that thinks Deckard is human.
10. Ridley Scott was knighted in 2003….his official title is Sir Ridley Scott.
Check out Ridley Scott‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
If you do a comment….please ignore the email address and website section.
“Made it at last Ma!”
BRUCE
Ridley’s page seems to be accepting comments now so ignore my 5.55am post.
BOB
February 24, 2017 at 5:44 am
1 For a long time I didn’t realise that Tony was Ridley’s brother and of course when that fact registered with me I started making comparisons. I actually admired the two brothers equally for their moviemaking liking Ridley’s Gladiator, Alien, and American Gangster on an even keel with Tony’s Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Unstoppable and Top Gun
2 I therefore turned to grosses to break the tie and note from the comprehensive Cogerson stats tables for the two brothers that Ridley has a current worldwide adjusted total gross of about $5.4 billion whilst Tony’s reached approx $4 billion. However if we compare their totals up to just the time of Tony’s tragic death the figures are much closer and against Tony’s $4 billion Ridley had about $ 4.5 billion at that point. A combined $9.5 billion to date from the within the one family averaging out at over $240 million per movie is a fine achievement.
3 Another thing that the two brothers had in common was that each had an apparent liking for working with his own one particular actor and according to the Cogerson links columns Ridley made 5 films with Russell Crowe and his brother the same number with Denzel Washington.*** All in all the Brothers Scott have made a fine contribution to the cinema of the modern era and are well deserving of their Cogerson pages.
***Opening 3rd paragraph on Tony’s page needs brought into line.
This post copied to Tony’s page.
BRUCE
I have tried several times to copy to Ridley’s page my post on Tony’s page but for some reason the Ridley make is not accepting comments at the moment. Accordingly if YOU are able to do the copying I would appreciate that.
Jordan Scott also directed Cracks (2009), which was executive produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, and starring Eva Green. Musical score by Javier Navarette of Pans Labyrinth.
http://www.facebook.com/CracksMovieOfficial
Hey Jamie….I will adjust that possibly interesting fact….and give Jordan her due as a director….thanks for bringing that to my attention.
But where is Frank?
He is now done and in the index.