---
name: "Guy Ritchie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guy-ritchie"
fi1m_id: "guy-ritchie"
imdb_id: "nm0005363"
tmdb_id: 956
wikidata_id: "Q192990"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "10 September 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 59
average_as: "director"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-05T13:46:47.978539+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Guy Ritchie

## Identity

Guy Ritchie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guy-ritchie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guy-ritchie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005363
- **TMDB ID:** 956
- **Wikidata ID:** Q192990
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ritchie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005363/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/956

Director and writer. Born 10 September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 10 September 1968, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Also known as:** Guy Stuart Ritchie
- **Frequently works with:** [Ivan Atkinson](https://film.one/person/ivan-atkinson.md), [Dan Lin](https://film.one/person/dan-lin.md), [Eiza Gonzalez](https://film.one/person/eiza-gonzalez.md), [Henry Cavill](https://film.one/person/henry-cavill.md), [John Friedberg](https://film.one/person/john-friedberg.md), [Matthew Vaughn](https://film.one/person/matthew-vaughn.md), [Jason Statham](https://film.one/person/jason-statham.md), [Joel Silver](https://film.one/person/joel-silver.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 59, as director, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (1), 2000s 57 (3), 2010s 60 (3), 2020s 55 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 59 to 54 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 5 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 6, Comedy 5, Action 4, Crime 3, Mystery 3, Fantasy 2
- **Screen time:** 17 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,165m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ritchie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005363/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/956

## Coming up

- *Wife & Dog* (2027-02-18), Director
- *Viva la Madness* (2028-01-21), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md) (64), [*Swept Away*](https://film.one/film/swept-away-2002.md) (32)
- **Apple TV:** [*MobLand*](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md) (63), [*Fountain of Youth*](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md) (48)
- **Disney+:** [*Aladdin*](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md) (57)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare*](https://film.one/film/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Guy Ritchie

> Guy Ritchie is worth watching when his criminals and misfits get to talk. We are less persuaded when the violence takes over: the action can be cleanly staged and still give us little reason to care.

Listen to the talk in *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* (1998): Ritchie makes us lean in for the next line. The quick cuts and tangled criminal stories are familiar, but the dialogue is the reason to stay. That debut, followed by *Snatch* (2000), established a set of habits he has kept returning to. The early promise did not mean a steady run of successes: *Swept Away* (2002) and *Revolver* (2005) brought mixed results. We rate him most when he gives the characters time to talk, rather than assuming another burst of violence will keep us interested.

*Sherlock Holmes* (2009) took him into larger Hollywood productions, a stretch that also included *Aladdin* (2019). He returned to his crime-comedy territory with *The Gentlemen* (2020), but we would not make gangsters a requirement. *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), with Henry Cavill, is a useful reminder of what else he can do. It is a spy caper that understands how much fun flirting can be. Ritchie can take his taste for misbehaving company into another genre without making every encounter a fight.

Cavill returns in *The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare* (2024), where Ritchie sends a gang of well-spoken wartime misfits on a secret mission. The action is cleanly staged and the company agreeable, but the film gives them too little chance of failure. We stopped being amused because the killings kept arriving at the same speed, with nobody on either side reacting. Ritchie is credited on the screenplay alongside three other writers, yet much of the dialogue amounts to instructions about the job. At 120 minutes, it wears out a joke that the actors cannot replenish.

*MobLand* (2025) has a related problem: Tom Hardy's entertaining fixer has to compensate for familiar gangster plotting and a slow start. Ritchie is one of its directors, alongside Anthony Byrne, Daniel Syrkin and Lawrence Gough, so its weaknesses cannot all be laid at his door. The sharp suits and black humour suit his established interests, but the thinner supporting characters leave too much resting on the stars whenever the pace drops. Regular viewers of crime television may find that decent company; we would want more particular reasons to care about the people. For Ritchie with better conversation, start with *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* or *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*.

## Biography

Guy Ritchie is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born on 10 September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

Ritchie left school at 15 and worked in entry-level jobs before directing television commercials and music videos. He directed the short film *The Hard Case* (1995) and made his feature debut with *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* (1998). He followed this with *Snatch* (2000) and later directed *Sherlock Holmes* (2009) and its sequel (2011), *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), *King Arthur: Legend of the Sword* (2017), *Aladdin* (2019) and *The Gentlemen* (2020).

In 2024 he directed, co-wrote and produced *The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare*. He also directed episodes of the series *MobLand* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (10)

- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), Fi1m 48, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)
- *MobLand* (2025), Fi1m 63, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md)
- *The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare* (2024), Fi1m 55, Director, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare.md)
- *Aladdin* (2019), Fi1m 57, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md)
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), Fi1m 64, Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes.md)
- *Swept Away* (2002), Fi1m 32, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/swept-away-2002.md)
- *Snatch* (2000), Fi1m 74, as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/snatch.md)
- *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* (1998), Fi1m 78, Writer, Casting, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-barrels.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Viva la Madness* (2028), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Wife & Dog* (2027), Director, Producer, Writer
- *In the Grey* (2026), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Young Sherlock* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), Director, Producer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)
- *The Diamond Heist* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *MobLand* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md)
- *The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare* (2024), Producer, Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare.md)
- *The Gentlemen* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Guy Ritchie's The Covenant* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre* (2023), Writer, Producer, Director
- *Wrath of Man* (2021), Producer, Screenplay, Director
- *The Gentlemen* (2020), Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Aladdin* (2019), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md)
- *King Arthur: Legend of the Sword* (2017), as Inn Owner (uncredited) · Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Snatch* (2017), series, Characters
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), Screenplay, Director, Story, Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes.md)
- *RocknRolla* (2008), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Revolver* (2005), Writer, Director
- *Swept Away* (2002), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 32, [page](https://film.one/film/swept-away-2002.md)
- *Mean Machine* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Star* (2001), Director, Writer
- *The Hire* (2001), series, Writer, Director
- *Snatch* (2000), as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited) · Director, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/snatch.md)
- *Lock, Stock...* (2000), series, Executive Producer
- *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* (1998), Casting, Director, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-barrels.md)
- *TFI Friday* (1996), series, Actor
- *The Hard Case* (1995), Director, Writer
- *Capital*, series, Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Gracie*, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Guy Ritchie at the Los Angles Premiere of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword on May 8, 2017](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-0b14e3c3b219.jpg) Guy Ritchie at the Los Angles Premiere of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword on May 8, 2017 — Kathy Hutchins, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/GuyRitchiebyKathyHutchins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![TIFF 2008 - RocknRolla.](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-11f3258fbda9.jpg) TIFF 2008 - RocknRolla. — Jeff Karpala, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Guy_Ritchie%2C_TIFF_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Guy Ritchie](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-43d774a65955.jpg) Guy Ritchie — Image via TMDB
- ![Guy Ritchie](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-d72351861e6d.jpg) Guy Ritchie — Image via TMDB
- ![Guy Ritchie](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-298c497762f4.jpg) Guy Ritchie — Image via TMDB
- ![Guy Ritchie](https://film.one/media/person/11695/gallery-3241190b2872.jpg) Guy Ritchie — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director 2002: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director (won), for *Swept Away*
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture 2002: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (won), for *Swept Away*
- Edgar Awards 2000: Edgar Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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