American director and screenwriter
Grady Hall is an American director of commercials and music videos , as well as a screenwriter , producer , and director of one-hour television series .
He has directed music videos for Beck , Katy Perry , and Capital Cities , for which he received a Grammy nomination, and won an MTV Video Music Award .
Career
Hall began his career working at Warner Bros. in syndicated television . He later became a development executive for television producer Douglas S. Cramer and was also a staff writer[1] on The Outer Limits for SyFy , which filmed in Vancouver , British Columbia .
Hall was a founding director of the production company Motion Theory , which he helped build from a pure animation and design company into a live-action and visual effects studio.[2] Filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Guillermo Navarro co-founded Mirada as Motion Theory’s feature-film visual effects arm, with Hall taking a creative leadership role in the new company and simultaneously continuing to write and direct projects.[3]
In 2010, Hall returned to TV, serving as a consulting producer and director for the debut season of Sam Raimi 's Spartacus: Blood and Sand starring Lucy Lawless and Andy Whitfield .[4]
In 2013, Hall's video for Capital Cities' “Safe and Sound ” was nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards , winning for Best Visual Effects.[5] That same year, he also co-directed Katy Perry’s “Roar ,” the most-watched video of the year and People’s Choice Award winner.[6]
Hall left Motion Theory and Mirada in 2014 to join Partizan Entertainment,[7] home to directors such as Michel Gondry , Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, and Michael Gracey . There, he worked on campaigns for Amazon , Pepsi , and Microsoft – directing the global launch video for the HoloLens augmented-reality viewer.[8]
By 2016, Hall transitioned into the role of independent director, taking on a wider variety of creative projects through different production companies, agencies, and direct clients such as Intel , Honda , and Netflix .
Select music video credits
Awards
References
^ "Grady Hall" . IMDb . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "Loco Motion" . Fast Company . 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ McClintock, Pamela (2010-12-09). "Guillermo del Toro partners on transmedia studio" . Variety . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ " 'Spartacus' bucking cable ratings trend" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "Video Music Awards" . MTV . Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "One Direction, Katy Perry, 'Glee' Nab People's Choice Awards Nominations" . MTV News . Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "Director Grady Hall Joins Partizan - Source Creative" . SourceCreative - Extreme Reach . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "Production Company A-List 2015: Partizan" . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ "Beck Takes A Page Out Of Mad Magazine For 'Girl' Video" . Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2017 .
^ "Motion Theory: Modest Mouse "Dashboard" " . Motionographer . 15 March 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2017 .
^ "Capital Cities "Safe And Sound" (Grady Hall, dir.)" . VideoStatic. 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-12-22 .
^ "Talking Katy Perry "Roar" with co-directors Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi" . VideoStatic. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-12-22 .
^ Elizabeth, De. "Olivia Holt's Music Video For "Phoenix" Is Here, and It's Just as Fierce as You Imagined" . Teen Vogue . Retrieved 2018-08-28 .
^ -- 4:57 pm (2014-01-09). "First-Time GRAMMY Nominees: Capital Cities" . GRAMMY.com. Retrieved 2014-03-11 . {{cite web }}
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^ Vena, Jocelyn (2013-11-05). "One Direction, Katy Perry, 'Glee' Nab People's Choice Awards Nominations" . MTV.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved 2014-03-11 .
^ "2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) Winners" . MTV.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-15 .