Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie born 10 September 1968 is an English film director producer and screenwriter His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr Ritchie left school at the age of 15 He worked in entrylevel jobs in the film industry before directing television commercials In 1995 he directed a short film The Hard Case followed by the crime comedy Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998 his featurelength directorial debut He gained recognition with his second film Snatch 2000 which was found to be critical and commercially successful Following Snatch Ritchie directed Swept Away 2002 a critically panned boxoffice 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 boxoffice hits Sherlock Holmes and its sequel Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows The former was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score and Best Art Direction His other directed films include The Man from UNCLE 2015 based on the 1960s television series King Arthur Legend of the Sword 2017 and Aladdin 2019 Disneys liveaction adaptation of their 1992 animated film which grossed over 1 billion worldwide becoming one of the highestgrossing films in 2019 and the highestgrossing film of Ritchies career In 2019 he returned to crime comedy with The Gentlemen 2019 which was mainly wellreceived and a commercial success He subsequently reteamed with Jason Statham on the action films Wrath of Man 2021 and Operation Fortune Ruse de Guerre 2023 His second film of 2023 The Covenant received generally positive reviews Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Ritchie licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia