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COMMERCIALS 30 BEST IN SHOW
Virgin Atlantic See the World Differently by Biscuit Filmworks
Boots Joy for All by Academy
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wo editors share this year’s top spot in the Commercials 30 poll of the sector’s favourite editors. Ellie Johnson at Tenthree comes
in joint first after placing joint eighth in last year’s vote. Johnson is behind the cut on our top placed ad this year, Oscar Hudson’s Flip for B&Q, with other notable work including It’s Not Called Getting Old for the Alzheimers Society directed by Academy’s Billy Boyd Cape and Wethe15 for the International Paralympic Committee helmed by Sam Pilling at Pulse. Final Cut’s Joe Guest retains his
place at the top of the editor poll after cutting work including Boots’ Christmas spot, Joy For All, directed by Academy’s Si&Ad as well as the Shelter Brave Face campaign also directed by Si&Ad.
There are two editors sharing third
place in this year’s poll too. First up is The Quarry’s Paul Watts whose recent cuts include Skate Nation Ghana, directed at Love Song by Bafic, Elliot Power, Justyna Obasi. Also in third place this time is Tom
Lindsay at Trim, the editor behind spots including Ian Pons Jewell’s House of Disney for Disney Plus and Somesuch director Kim Gehrig’s The Greatest for Apple. In fifth are three editors - The
Assembly Rooms’ Eve Ashwell who cut Daniel Kleinman’s Asda Christmas spot, Have Your Elf a Merry Christmas; Work’s Rich Orrick who was the editor on Burberry’s latest Magaforce Riff Raff spot, Night Creatures and Leo King at Stitch who cut BT’s Hope United for Matilda Finn at Stink Films.
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lectric Theatre Collective’s Luke Morrison moves into the number one spot this
year for the first time in our poll of commercial producers’ favourite colourists. Morrison takes the top spot
after supplying the grade on ads including this year’s joint highest rated ad in the Commercials 30, Flip for B&Q, directed by Pulse Films’ Oscar Hudson. Other notable recent grades for Morrison include Sam Brown at Rogue’s Bring the Wave for White Claw; the Argos Christmas spot, Avalanche, directed by Gary Freedman at MJZ, O2’s Snowgran by Blinkink’s Joseph Mann and Virgin Atlantic’s See the World Differently from Biscuit Filmworks’ Ben Strebel. In at second place in this year’s
poll of the commercials producers’ favourite colourists is Time Based Arts’ Simone Grattarola. Grattarola’s recent spots include the John Lewis Christmas ad, The Beginner, produced by Biscuit Filmworks for adam&eveDDB along with Kim Gehrig of Somesuch’s Periodsomnia for Bodyform and Alzheimer’s Society’s It’s Not Called Getting Old helmed by Academy Films’ Billy Boyd Cape. In at third this time is Company
3’s Jean-Clément Soret. Soret has been behind the grade on commercials including Juan Cabral of MJZ’s For All Life’s Moments for John Lewis and Guy Ritchie’s Tank for Cartier featuring Catherine Deneuve and Remi Malek. Long form work for Soret includes Disney’s Andor, Troll and Becoming Elizabeth.
BEST EDITORS TOP 10
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Ellie Johnson Tenthree Joe Guest Final Cut Paul Watts The Quarry Tom Lindsay Trim Eve Ashwell The Assembly Rooms Rich Orrick Work Leo King Stitch Amanda James Final Cut Sam Rice-Edwards The Assembly Rooms Elise Butt Trim Paul Hardcastle Trim
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BEST COLOURISTS TOP 10
Luke Morrison ETC Simone Grattarola Time Based Arts Jean-Clément Soret Company 3 George K Black Kite Studios Simon Bourne Company 3 Jason Wallis ETC Rich Fearon Black Kite Studios Matt Turner Absolute Alex Gregory No.8 Simona Cristea Coffee & TV Matthieu Toullet Company 3 Yoomin Lee Company 3
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