Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie born 10 September 1968 is an English film director producer writer and businessman Ritchie left school at age 15 and worked entrylevel 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 featurelength directorial debut He soon gained recognition with his second film Snatch 2000 which also found critical and commercial success 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 audience reviews In 2009 and 2011 he directed two boxoffice hits Sherlock Holmes and its sequel Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows respectively The former was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score and Best Art Direction His other directed motion pictures are The Man From UNCLE 2015 which is a remake of a 1960 spy series King Arthur Legend of the Sword 2017 and the liveaction adaptation of Disneys Aladdin 2019 Aladdin earned more than 1 billion worldwide becoming one of the highestgrossing films in 2019 and the 34th highestgrossing film of alltime during its theatrical run In 2020 he returned to crime comedy with The Gentlemen 2019 which was mostly well received and a commercial success In 2021 he directed Jason Statham in the action film Wrath of Man