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.  

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 Spartacus: Blood and Sand 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.

• “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)^[9]
• “Scars” by Papa Roach (2005)
• “Dashboard” by Modest Mouse (2007)^[10]
• “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities (2013)^[11]
• “Roar” by Katy Perry (2013)^[12]
• "Phoenix" by Olivia Holt (2016)^[13]
• "Wow" by Beck (2016)