Guy Ritchie
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Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English filmmaker known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films.
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Guy Ritchie is a British film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur who began his professional career in 1995. Born in Hatfield, he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and works primarily in that country. His notable works include *Snatch*, *RocknRolla*, *Sherlock Holmes*, and *Aladdin*. He has also authored books such as *Lock, stock & two smoking barrels* and *Aladdin - Novel of the Movie*. Ritchie is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, and his works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He has received Edgar Awards, as well as Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director. Ritchie speaks English and Hebrew and practices judo. He has been married to Jacqui Ainsley and Madonna and has five children. His film genres include drama fiction and black comedy.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Aladdin - Novel of the Movie
- Lock, stock & two smoking barrels
- Snatch!
- Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper Omnibus
- Disney Aladdin
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 35,737x
- Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
· 1984 · cited 21,383x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,210x
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Encyclopedic overview
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English filmmaker known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films.
Ritchie left school at the age of 15, and worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. In 1995, he directed a short film, The Hard Case, followed by the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), his feature-length directorial debut. He gained recognition with his second film, Snatch (2000), which found critical and commercial success. Following Snatch, Ritchie directed Swept Away (2002), a critically panned box-office bomb starring Madonna, to whom Ritchie was married between 2000 and 2008. He went on to direct Revolver (2005) and RocknRolla (2008), which were less successful and received mixed reviews. In 2009 and 2011, he directed the box-office hits Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows starring Robert Downey Jr. as the title character. The former was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score and Best Art Direction.
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