Dell Blue, the internal creative agency for Dell, has added Jason Uson as sr. lead creative editor. Uson has worked on commercials, online content, films, and documentaries for such clients as Zales, Southwest Airlines, Nike, Budweiser, Walgreens, and Harpo Films. More recently, at Dell Blue, he cut a campaign for Alienware, directed by Tony Kaye. Uson now reunites with Dell Blue head of production Brent Holt with the two enjoying a decade-long history as collaborators, editors, bosses, employees, and good friends. Uson has garnered numerous Addy, Effie, CLIO, and AICE awards and nominations. He is also a member of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild and owner of Foundation Editorial, a full-service postproduction boutique in Austin that has worked on projects for Nike, Air Force, Southwest Airlines, Walgreens, Nissan, LPGA, West Elm, Asics, Dell Children’s Hospital, Ace Hardware, and many others. Prior to that, Uson was an editor at Beast Editorial for six years, cutting campaigns for Zales, Leo Burnett, OnStar, and AARP. Uson launched his career at Rock Paper Scissors, where he spent four years learning the craft from editors, including Bee Ottinger and Angus Wall. Uson then freelanced at top Los Angeles companies, including Lost Planet, Spot Welders, and Nomad, and worked with some of the industry’s most talented editors in broadcast and film, including Hank Corwin, Pamela Martin, and Tom Muldoon….
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