He was the younger brother of film director Ridley Scott. In November 2010, Tony (and Ridley) Scott received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Global Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. Following the success of Top Gun, Scott found himself on Hollywood’s A list of action directors. While not being critically adopted, the movie nonetheless became among the year’s best grossers. His next movie, Revenge (1990), a thriller of infidelity and revenge set in Mexico, starred Kevin Costner, Madeleine Stowe and Anthony Quinn. Once again directing Tom Cruise, Scott returned to the Simpson Bruckheimer fold to helm the big-budget racing movie Days of Thunder (1990). Scott afterwards said that it was tricky to obtain the play in racing cars in groups, so he “stole from all race movies to date … then attempted to develop to them.” Scott’s following movie was the rage action thriller The Last Boy Scout (1991) starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans and composed by Shane Black. In 1993, Scott directed True Romance costing only $13m, from a script by Quentin Tarantino. Even though it received favorable reviews from Janet Maslin as well as other critics, it took less than $13m and was considered a box office failure. Scott’s following movie, Crimson Tide (1995), was a sub thriller starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. His follow up film, 1996’s The Fan, starred Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin and Benicio del Toro. Scott’s 1998 movie Enemy of the State, a conspiracy thriller, starred Will Smith and Gene Hackman, and was his best-grossing movie of the decade. Spy Game premiered in November 2001. It garnered 63% favorable reviews at Metacritic and made a little over $60m in the United States box office. Man on Fire premiered in April 2004.
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