well as three British Academy Film Awards for Best Director, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1995, Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema. In 2018 he received the highest accolade from BAFTA, the BAFTA Fellowship, for lifetime achievement. Scott was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2017 the German newspaper FAZ compared Scott's influence on the science fiction film genre to Sir Alfred Hitchcock's on thrillers and John Ford's on Westerns. In 2011, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Scott has received three Hugo Awards in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation for Alien, Blade Runner and The Martian. In 2012, Scott was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' album cover, to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday. On 3 July 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art in a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London at which he described how he still keeps on his office wall his school report placing him 31st out of 31 in his class, and how his teacher encouraged him to pursue what became his passion at art school. References External links Ridley Scott Associates (RSA) They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1937 births Living people Alumni of the Royal College of Art Apple Inc. advertising BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award BAFTA fellows British expatriates in France British expatriates in the United States British film directors British film producers British film production company founders British television directors British television producers David di Donatello winners Directors Guild of America Award winners English-language film directors Golden Globe Award-winning producers Horror film directors Hugo Award winners Knights Bachelor People from South Shields Postmodernist filmmakers Primetime Emmy Award winners Science fiction film directors Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees Ridley Television commercial directors