Grady Hall Explained

Grady Hall
Occupation:Film 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.

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 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

Year Award Project Result
2013 Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” Nominated for Best Music Video[14]
2013 Katy Perry "Roar" Won Favorite Music Video[15]
2013 Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” Won for Best Visual Effects[16]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grady Hall. IMDb. 2018-08-28.
  2. News: Loco Motion. 2008-02-01. Fast Company. 2018-08-28. en-US.
  3. News: Guillermo del Toro partners on transmedia studio. McClintock. Pamela. 2010-12-09. Variety. 2018-08-28. en-US.
  4. News: 'Spartacus' bucking cable ratings trend. The Hollywood Reporter. 2018-08-28. en.
  5. Web site: Video Music Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20130826062648/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2013/winners.jhtml. dead. August 26, 2013. MTV. 2018-08-28.
  6. News: One Direction, Katy Perry, 'Glee' Nab People's Choice Awards Nominations. https://web.archive.org/web/20141110113446/http://www.mtv.com/news/1716862/people-choice-awards-nominations-katy-perry-one-direction-glee/. dead. November 10, 2014. MTV News. 2018-08-28. en.
  7. Web site: Director Grady Hall Joins Partizan - Source Creative. SourceCreative - Extreme Reach. 2018-08-28.
  8. News: Production Company A-List 2015: Partizan. 2018-08-28. en.
  9. Web site: Beck Takes A Page Out Of Mad Magazine For 'Girl' Video. https://web.archive.org/web/20131101231250/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1502628/beck-takes-page-out-mad-girl-clip.jhtml. dead. November 1, 2013. 3 August 2017.
  10. Web site: Motion Theory: Modest Mouse "Dashboard". 15 March 2007. Motionographer. 3 August 2017.
  11. Web site: Capital Cities "Safe And Sound" (Grady Hall, dir.) . VideoStatic . 2013-04-25 . 2013-12-22.
  12. Web site: Talking Katy Perry "Roar" with co-directors Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi . VideoStatic . 2013-09-23 . 2013-12-22.
  13. News: Olivia Holt’s Music Video For "Phoenix" Is Here, and It’s Just as Fierce as You Imagined. Elizabeth. De. Teen Vogue. 2018-08-28. en.
  14. Web site: -- 4:57 pm . First-Time GRAMMY Nominees: Capital Cities . GRAMMY.com . 2014-01-09 . 2014-03-11.
  15. Web site: Vena . Jocelyn . One Direction, Katy Perry, 'Glee' Nab People's Choice Awards Nominations . https://web.archive.org/web/20131106012332/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1716862/people-choice-awards-nominations-katy-perry-one-direction-glee.jhtml . dead . November 6, 2013 . MTV.com . 2013-11-05 . 2014-03-11.
  16. Web site: 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) Winners . https://web.archive.org/web/20130826062648/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2013/winners.jhtml . dead . August 26, 2013 . MTV.com . 2013-12-15.

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