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 over four consecutive 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 Guinness, 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. His recent work includes
Orange, Monster.com, Nissan Qashqai and Smirnoff. |
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 taken over the mantle from Maurice
Binder creating the title sequences for the James Bond films.
In
2006 Daniel and fellow director Ringan Ledwidge founded the
production company Rattling Stick. The company is only two
and a half years old but has already been voted the UK’s
number one production company in Campaign magazine as well
as at the BTAA awards for 2008. It also claimed the number
one spot in Televisual magazine’s ‘Production Company
Peer Poll.’
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