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the commercials producers’ favourite editors. His notable recent work includes the cut on the Megaforce- directed Burberry Festive ad and the edit on Henry Chofield of Caviar’s The Flow for ride-hailing and food delivery service, Gojek. Two editors take second spot in


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the poll of commercials producers’ top editors. First up, Tenthree’s Ellie Johnson (up from fifth place last time) whose recent work includes Pulse’s 32-directed spot Every Lesson Shapes a Life: Tuesday for Dept of Education and Mcdonalds Car from the same


BEST EDITORS TOP 10


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Joe Guest Final Cut Ellie Johnson Tenthree Paul Hardcastle Trim Tom Lindsay Trim Dan Sherwen Final Cut Adam Spivey The Assembly Rooms Sam Rice-Edwards The Assembly Rooms Eve Ashwell The Assembly Rooms Paul Watts The Quarry Ben Campbell The Quarry


inal Cut editor Joe Guest is now in his third year in the number one spot in our poll of


director. Trim’s Paul Hardcastle shares second best editor in the poll on the back of cuts including Sam Pilling of Pulse Films’ The Tortoise and the Hare for Ikea. Two editors also share the number four podium in this year’s poll. Hardcastle’s stablemate at Trim, Tom Lindsay, takes fourth after completing cuts for Somesuch’s Kim Gehrig on her Life Needs Truth spot for The New York Times and her Snap for Apple Airpods ad. Final Cut’s Dan Sherwen also takes fourth position this time with notable edits for the likes of Philippe Tempelman’s Change for DNB and Deutsche Telekom’s Billie Eilish What We Do Next directed by Somesuch’s Vincent Haycock


highly rated colourists for MPC’s Global Creative Director of Colour Grading, Jean-Clement Soret. Notable recent grades from Soret


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include his work on MJZ director Juan Cabral’s Give It Some for Gousto as well as his work on Riff Raff director François Rousselet’s spots Le Male Le Parfum for Jean Paul Gaultier and his Snoop ad for Just Eat. Other recent work includes the grades on Somesuch director Steve Roger’s Amazon Before Alexa and Academy director Frederic Planchon’s Army Victory. Time Based Arts colourist


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Jean-Clement Soret MPC Simone Grattarola Time Based Arts George K Black Kite Studios Matt Turner Absolute Simon Bourne Framestore James Bamford The Mill Luke Morrison ETC Rich Fearon Black Kite Studios Paul Harrison Freefolk Simona Cristea Coffee & TV, Yoomin Lee freelance, Seamus O’Kane Youngster , Matthieu Toullet MPC


Above left to right: Just Eat Snoop Riff Raff; Plenty XMess Somesuch


nd of course it’s another year at the top of our poll of commercials producers’ most


Simone Grattarola moves into second position in our poll of commercials producers’ favourite graders. Grattarola was the colourist on a host of top ads recently including Kim Gehrig’s Green & Blacks Wildly, Deliciously, Organic; John Lewis’ Give a Little Love by Pulse Films’ Oscar Hudson, McDonalds The Gift from Pulse Films’ 32 and Somesuch director Steve Rogers’ Plenty Xmess and his Could I Be Wrong? for Coca Cola. Black Kite Studios’ George K


gets third position in the colourists poll this time with grades including Channel 4’s Complaints Welcome by 4Creative.


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