After filming a small part in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", Scott worked with film and theatre director Karel Reisz in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, production of "Long Day's Journey into Night" taking the role of Edmund, the younger son, in the Eugene O'Neill play about a tortured American family in the early part of the 20th century. He won Actor of the Year at the Sunday Independent Spirit of Life Arts Awards 1998 and received an Irish Times Theatre Award 1998 nomination for Best Supporting Actor.