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They were just two in a clutch of figures from the arts world honoured by the UK.
Geordie-born Scott, 65 - director of celluloid spectaculars including 'Blade Runner', 'Alien', and the quintuple Academy Award winner 'Gladiator' - was honoured for services to film-making. As a knight, he will be known as Sir Ridley Scott.
Bates, 68, burst onto the London stage in John Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger' in 1956 went on to become one of the country's biggest stars. He won a Tony award this year for his role in 'Fortune's Fool' on Broadway and recently appeared in the films 'Gosford Park' and 'Evelyn'.
Other recipients honoured by Queen Elizabeth II range from stage and screen stars to a beekeeper, a cleaner and a creator of crossword puzzles.
Scott, who will become Sir Ridley, is responsible for cult movies 'Blade Runner' and 'Thelma and Louise', blockbusters like 'Gladiator' and the Hannibal Lecter sequel 'Hannibal' and war film 'Black Hawk Down'.
Bates' career spans five decades. Perhaps most famously he grappled naked with the late Oliver Reed in the 1969 film of D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love'. He recently shone in a star-studded cast in U.S. director Robert Altman 's 'Gosford Park', a satire on the British class system of the 1930s.
Versatile Scottish actor Brian Cox, who was first to portray cannibal serial killer Lecter on film, becomes a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
Actress Brenda Blethyn , twice Oscar-nominated, receives an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) as does Edward Fox. His distinguished theatre and cinema career featured 'Day of the Jackal', where he played a cold assassin, and World War II movie 'A Bridge Too Far'.
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