Grady Hall is an American director of commercials and music videos, as well as a screenwriter, producer, and director of one-hour television series.
Grady Hall | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Film Director |
| Website | https://www.gradyhall.com/ |
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
editHall 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
edit- “The Science of Selling Yourself Short” by Less Than Jake (2003)
- “Animal” by R.E.M. (2004)
- “Take It Away” by The Used (2004)
- “Getting Away with Murder” by Papa Roach (2004)
- “Girl” by Beck (2005)[9]
- “Scars” by Papa Roach (2005)
- “Dashboard” by Modest Mouse (2007)[10]
- “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities (2013)[11]
- “Roar” by Katy Perry (2013)[12]
- "Phoenix" by Olivia Holt (2016)[13]
- "Wow" by Beck (2016)
Awards
edit| Year | Award | Project | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Grammy Awards | Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” | Nominated for Best Music Video[14] |
| 2013 | People's Choice Awards | Katy Perry "Roar" | Won Favorite Music Video[15] |
| 2013 | MTV VMA | Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” | Won for Best Visual Effects[16] |
References
edit- ^ "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}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.