Grady Hall

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
Occupation	Film Director
Website	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

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]