Matt Miller, president/CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), and Brian Carmody, managing partner/co-founder of Smuggler and chairman of the 2011 AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, have announced the composition of the Show’s Curatorial Committee. The Show debuts June 7 in New York at The Museum of Modern Art.
“This year marks the 20th installment of the AICP Show, which since its inception, has been a time capsule of the year in advertising, as well as a reflection of the culture,” said Miller. “The Curatorial Committee is an integral part in ensuring each Show’s success.”
Under the direction of Carmody and Miller, The Curatorial Committee is comprised of a cross-section of industry leaders, working in all disciplines which contribute to creating marketing in the motion image. The Curatorial Committee is part of a bifurcated judging system, which begins with a series of judging panels from across the country, with experts in various fields judging work across the 23 categories in the Show. The Curatorial Committee is the final arbiter in the disposition of the Show, confirming eligibility and appropriateness to category. The AICP Next Awards are judged by a separate panel.
In addition to Carmody and Miller, the 2011 Curatorial Committee consists of: Marc Altshuler, managing director, Human; Jackie Kellman Bisbee, executive producer, Park Pictures; Rick Boyko, managing director, VCU Brandcenter; Mike Byrne, creative director, Anomaly; Rich Carter, owner/executive producer, GARTNER; Susan Credle, chairman/chief creative officer, Leo Burnett; Gavin Cutler, partner/editor, MacKenzie Cutler; Scott Duchon, partner/executive creative director, agency215; Mick Ebeling, founder/executive creative director, The Ebeling Group; Mark Fitzloff, executive creative director, Wieden + Kennedy; Rob Feakins, president/chief creative officer, Publicis, New York; Cindy Fluitt, partner/director of broadcast production, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; Mark Figliulo, chairman/chief creative officer, TBWAChiatDay; Ted Guard, editor, Rock Paper Scissors; Linda Honan, creative director, BBDO; Marie Hyon, founder/creative director, PSYOP; Kerry Keenen, global director of creative content, Young & Rubicam; Andrew Keller, executive creative director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky; T.K. Knowles, managing partner/executive production, Bob Industries; Tom Kuntz, director, MJZ; Ellen Kuras, director/DP, Park Pictures; Gavin Lester, creative director, 180 LA; G. Andrew Meyer, group creative director, Cramer-Krasselt; Vic Palumbo, director of integrated production, Deutsch; Sarah Patterson, executive producer, TBWA/Chiat/Day; J. Ralph, CEO/founding composer, The Rumor Mill; Ted Royer, executive creative director; Droga5; Ole Sanders, director, Traktor; Lora Schulson, executive director of content production; Young & Rubicam; Alistair Thompson, managing director, The Mill; and Ed Ulbrich, president, Commercials/exec VP, Digital Domain.
“This is a splendid group of industry professionals who bring a vast amount of experience and perspective to the Show across all categories,” said Carmody. “I’m looking forward to discussing the work and hearing their insights.”
New judging procedures, categories
Carmody, in conjunction with the Show’s Board of Governors, spearheaded a complete overhaul of the judging system. This year, all Show categories, with the exception of Advertising Excellence/Single and Advertising Excellence/Campaign, will be judged online. This will allow for a greater cross-section of judges from around the country and outside the U.S.
In collaboration with The AICP Show Board of Governors, Carmody was instrumental in adding a new category to the Show–Direction–which honors the director’s contribution, encompassing all areas of craft, in bringing imagination, innovation and vision to an idea. A new App category was added to the Next Awards. It honors innovative branded applications for computers and mobile devices commissioned by a client.
The Show entry site, powered by Nice Spots, is now accepting entries. The entry deadline for the Show is March 4, 2011 for work airing March 8, 2010–February 27, 2011.
Maggie Smith, Star of Stage, Film and “Downton Abbey,” Dies At 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89. Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital. "She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs. Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension." Richard Eyre, who directed Smith in a television production of "Suddenly Last Summer," said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith." "Jean Brodie," in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in... Read More