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.
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1 On the plus site Ridley gave us many fine films but the minus side for those such as my late father [who insisted that being what he called “a good citizen” was more important than being a good actor or charismatic star] was that more than anyone Scott gave us Russell Crowe. I liked Crowe on the screen and am content to judge him by his screen persona but if I annoyed him I wouldn’t like to meet him later in an alley “on a dark night” as the saying goes!.
2 Certainly Gladiator was a great film and unfortunately the later Crowe/Ridley collaborations have not reached those heights [though US Gangster came near with the help of Denzel whom Ridley ‘borrowed’ from Tony] but for me Ridley nevertheless has made a number of other non-Crowe films throughout his career that I found equally enthralling – Alien, Thelma & Louise, Hannibal,,and especially Blade Runner.
3. It has been some time since I’ve seen the latter but if I am remembering correctly Harrison has a wonderful fading voice-over line about his ‘girlfriend’ replicant who is one of the “new models” which went something like “They don’t know what sort of life span they have – but I guess that the same for everybody.”
4 Ford and Rutger Hauer were both excellent in that classic.The Impact of Hauer as a leading figure on the main screen did not have great longevity post the 1982 Blade Runner but I recall that or a while in the 1990s he was known as the “king of the straight to videos.” with Split Second and Past Midnight being two of my son’s favourite Hauer videos. Rutger had been acting since 1969 and was especially chilling in Stallone’s Nighthawks.
Hey Bob
1. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Ridley Scott….or I should say Sir Ridley Scott.
2. I think Crowe is mellowing as he gets older.
3. I think my favorite Scott movie is Kingdom of Heaven….or at least his director’s cut of that movie….to me it is aging much better than Gladiator. If you look at IMDb..Kingdom of Heaven has reached a 7.2 rating there….I remember when it was in the high 5.0s.
4. I love Ford’s voice over in Blade Runner….of the many different versions…..I tend to always pick that one to watch. The visuals are awesome to look at……but I like hearing Ford’s voice over.
5. I always see Paul Newman when I see Rutger Hauer. He could be Newman’s son.
6. Yes Rutger never became a huge star……but his role in Blade Runner will keep him in my memory forever.
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HI BRUCE
1 If you look at my post to Steve just now you will see that Scorsese talked at the 2016 NY Film Festival about the restoration of One Eyed Jacks that it had taken him and Steven Spielberg a year to restore. I suppose it shows that we can be too cynical and guys like Scorsese and Spielberg are interested in other things apart from making money when they will take time out of their busy lives to restore a film with which they have no connection.
2 Martin went into a whole raft of technical details about photography which John would probably understand but which were above my head. However what did particularly interest me was a comment about the “Director ‘s Cut” of the kind you have just mentioned.
3 Martin claimed that the term was a bit misleading because often what happened was that what we originally saw was the STUDIO’s cut and later they released in its entirety the film
that existed before the studio cut it.
4 I suppose it amounts to the same thing in the end but what I think Martin was saying was that the term “Director’s Cut” gave a more grandiose impression of a director deliberately sitting down specifically to come up with a version that pleased him/her personally. I suppose as a director himself Scorsese didn’t want audiences to think that directors were collaborating all of the time in being condescending towards them..