Tony Scott cremated; family creates film scholarship to honour ‘Top Gun’ director
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Director Tony Scott has been cremated, and his widow will keep his remains at their Los Angeles-area home.
The information is included on Scott’s death certificate, which was released Monday.
The document doesn’t include a formal determination of Scott’s cause of death. Coroner’s officials expect it will take several weeks to finalize their investigation, but they are treating his case as a probable suicide.
The “Top Gun” director jumped from a bridge into Los Angeles Harbor on Aug. 19. Family and close friends gathered over the weekend to honour the British-born director at a private memorial.
His family also announced Monday that they have created a memorial scholarship at the American Film Institute to help future filmmakers and honour his creative legacy.
The last film Scott directed was 2010’s “Unstoppable.”
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