Guy Ritchie

Biography
One day Guy Ritchie was at home watching TV, and saw the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). The young Guy was so impressed by the story starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford at that time, that he decided that he wanted to be a filmmaker. But Guy soon took his first loss. The film school was too boring, prevented him from dreaming of his own projects. In a word, pressed his creativity. So he left school when he was a 15 years old and risked his own. Early works were direction of music videos in the mid-nineties, when he was approaching 30. With the money he took for this work he financed his first short and later, his first film: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). The film worked quite well at the box office and drew attention from Tom Cruise, who opened the doors of several distributors. So, Guy could shoot Snatch (2000), a real success at tax collection. That same year she married singer Madonna and led to her unfortunate film called Swept Away (2002). Madonna and Guy divorced in 2008, Guy has returned to focus on filmmaking, with views to suit all tastes, such as those caused his RocknRolla. Then he took of Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. in the role of the famous detective.

Director

 * 2009 - Sherlock Holmes

Saturn Award

 * Nominated
 * 2010 - Best Director for Sherlock Holmes