Grady Hall

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Grady Hall
OccupationFilm Director
Website https://www.gradyhall.com/

Grady Hall is an American director of commercials and music videos, as well as a screenwriter, producer, and director of one-hour television series.

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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.

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Awards

YearAwardProjectResult
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]

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