Grady Hall
American director and screenwriter
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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.
Grady Hall | |
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| Occupation | Film Director |
| Website | www |
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 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]
Select music video credits
- “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)[11]
- “Scars” by Papa Roach (2005)
- “Dashboard” by Modest Mouse (2007)[12]
- “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities (2013)[13]
- “Roar” by Katy Perry (2013)[14]
- "Phoenix" by Olivia Holt (2016)[15]
- "Wow" by Beck (2016)
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |