Grady Hall | |
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Occupation | Film Director |
Website | www |
Grady Hall is an American director of commercials and music videos, as well as a screenwriter, producer, and director of one 2010 episode of the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand .
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.
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 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. [1] 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. [2]
In 2010, Hall returned to TV, serving as a consulting producer for six episodes, and director of one episode, for the debut season of Sam Raimi's Spartacus: Blood and Sand starring Lucy Lawless and Andy Whitfield. [3]
In 2013, Hall's music video for Capital Cities' “Safe and Sound” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video, with co-creators Buddy Enright, Daniel Weisman and Danny Lockwood. [4] The video was also nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards; Teri Whittaker for Art Direction; [5] and winning for Best Visual Effects, [6] awarded to co-editors Hall, Jonathan Wu and Derek Johnson. [7] That same year, he also co-directed the music video for Katy Perry’s “Roar”, winner of the popular vote People’s Choice Award for Favorite Music Video. [8]
Hall left Motion Theory and Mirada in 2014 to join Partizan Entertainment, [9] 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. [10]
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2013 | Grammy Awards | Best Music Video | Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” | Nominated w/Buddy Enright, Daniel Weisman and Danny Lockwood | [4] |
2013 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Music Video | Katy Perry "Roar" | Won | [8] |
2013 | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Visual Effects | Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” | Won w/ Jonathan Wu and Derek Johnson | [7] [6] |
Art Direction by Teri Whittaker
Visual Effects by Grady Hall, Jonathan Wu and Derek Johnson