Rupert Wainwright

Rupert Wainwright

Rupert Wainwright (born November 30, 1963) is an English film and television director, writer, and actor.

Wainwright was born in Cotswolds, UK and started his film career in the 1980s as an actor. While in his twenties, he wrote and directed a short film called "Open Window" which gained significant exposure through Columbia Pictures' nonprofit "Discovery Program" alongside 1987 Academy Award winner "Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall". [Erickson, Hal. All Movie Guide synopsis of "Discovery Program". [http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=54645] (Accessed June 15, 2006)]

Commercial work

Wainwright has won several awards for his television commercial work for clients including AT&T, Honda, Sprite, WalMart, Foot Locker, Gatorade, McDonalds, Deutsche Telekom, BP, Disney and many, many others. He has worked with such figures as President Bill Clinton, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jordan, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Jackson, Michael Chang, James Brown, Al Gore and others.

His very first campaign for Reebok won Adweek’s highest award, the Grand Effie, for the most effective Advertising Campaign of 1992. A recent spot, “Dunk Driving”, part of nationally publicized increase in Drunk Driving prevention, was voted #1 most popular spot in the US in August 2007 and was highlighted on The Today Show and The New York Times.

An Olympic Games commercial that Wainwright wrote and directed was the centerpiece of Russia's successful campaign for the 2014 Winter Olympics. It won Wainwright a Mobius Award for Best International Commercial in 2007.

Feature films

Wainwright has directed three feature films for major Hollywood studios: "Stigmata" staring Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, and Jonathan Pryce, for MGM; "The Fog" staring Selma Blair, Tom Welling, and Maggie Grace, for Sony Pictures; and "Blank Check" for Walt Disney. "The Sadness of Sex", an independent film that Wainwright wrote and directed, was released to great critical praise.

Wainwright currently has several films in development.

Television

Wainwright directed the TV pilot "Wolf Lake" for Fox network which was picked up for series. He also directed a pilot for CBS titled "Secret Service", a TV movie about John Dillinger for ABC and Warner Bros, and a reality show pilot for the History Channel.

Music videos

Wainwright has worked with many artists including MC Hammer, N.W.A. and Michael Jackson, directing the videos for "U Can't Touch This" among Hammer's other hits, as well as N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton". This video was subsequently banned by MTV and became a pop culture phenomenon.

His music video work has garnered him five MTV awards, a Grammy, and numerous other awards around the world.

Notes

References

* [http://rwainwright.com/home.html Official Site]
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* [http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/w/Rupert-Wainwright/biography-326743.html Rupert Wainwright biography from Yahoo! Movies (UK & Ireland)]


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