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.

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. 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.

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.

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. and winning for Best Visual Effects, 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.

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) “Scars” by Papa Roach (2005) “Dashboard” by Modest Mouse (2007) “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities (2013) “Roar” by Katy Perry (2013) "Phoenix" by Olivia Holt (2016) "Wow" by Beck (2016)

Awards Year Award Category Work Result 2013 Grammy Awards Best Music Video Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” 2013 People's Choice Awards Favorite Music Video Katy Perry "Roar" 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Best Visual Effects Capital Cities “Safe and Sound”