Daniel Kleinman is a commercials director. He has won the top awards for his advertising work at Cannes, D&AD, the New York One Show, BTAA, Clio, Creative Circle, Midsummer Awards and many others. He has been recognised as the number one most awarded director in the world in the Gunn Report. He has received the Presidents award from the Creative Circle and the Chairman’s award from the BTAA and has been rated number one in Campaign’s list of hottest directors for the last 4 years.

After gaining a BA First Class Honours in Graphic Design from Hornsey Art School in 1977 he went on to work for a while as an illustrator “making small highly detailed drawings for small highly disappointing amounts of money”, he also collaborated on storyboards with directors working in the emerging music video industry leading to his own first music video in 1983.

Daniel pioneered the use of special effects in post-production over the course of directing more than 100 videos in the 80’s winning numerous awards for work with artists such as ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Prince and Madonna.

From the ‘90’s he has concentrated on advertising however he has not only created ads needing complex special effects for clients such as X-Box, Chrysler, Johnnie Walker and Audi but Daniel’s ability to direct comedy and dialogue also led to work for Boddingtons, Durex, John Smiths, Super Noodles and John West.

Daniel has also directed TV drama and comedies notably Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s "Smashie and Nicey-The End Of An Era”, which was BAFTA nominated and won the rose at Montreux. He has also created the title sequences for the last 5 James Bond films.

Daniel's most recent work includes Nissan, Smirnoff, Monster.com, Lux & PG Tips all of which are credit to the huge, creative enthusiasm with which he continues to approach every script.

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