By MILLIE TAKAKI
Last week (5/26), SHOOT reported on the Grand Clio winner and Gold Clio recipients in the television portion of the competition, as well as the two spot inductees into the Clio Hall of Fame. Heres a rundown of several of the Silver Clio TV winners:
NEW YORKaDuring a gala TV Clio Awards ceremony in New York on May 25, there were some familiar spots that scored Silver. Taking a Silver Clio in the national campaign category was Amazon.com for the spots "Tons of Toys," "Spent Two Minutes" and "Just A Few Days to Go" directed by Adam Cameron and Simon Cole, a.k.a. Joe Public, of bicoastal Headquarters, for FCB, San Francisco. The Amazon.com work has been much lauded in recent months. For example, "Spent Two Minutes," a SHOOT "Top Spot" (12/10/99) was one of the entries that helped Joe Public earn a Directors Guild of America nomination for best commercial director of 99 (SHOOT, 2/11).
Another popular, high-profile spot packageaBudweisers "Whassup/True," "Whassup/Pizza Guy" and "Whassup/Call Waiting"aalso garnered a Silver Clio in the national campaign category. The spots were directed by Charles Stone III of C&C Films/Storm Films, New York, for DDB Chicago. As earlier reported, "Whassup/True" took the best of television Grand Clio as well as a Gold Clio in the alcoholic beverages category.
Spike Jonze of bicoastal/international Satellite earned a Silver in the direction category for Nikes "The Morning After" via Wieden +Kennedy (W+K), Portland, Ore. This spot too earned much acclaim since its November 99 debut, including distinction as a SHOOT "Top Spot" (11/26/99).
Another piece of W+K creative also came up Silver. Stamps.com’s "Launch" directed by Joe Pytka of Venice, Calif.-based PYTKA, garnered Silver in the retail services category.
Several foreign spots also gained Silver recognition. Rounding out the national campaign Silver Clio winners was Extreme Soft Milk Chocolate’s "Folk Dance," "Tractor" and "Billiards" directed by Stefan Treschow of Moland Film, Oslo, for Leo Burnett Co., Oslo.
Commercials from the U.K., France, Canada and Germany also copped Silver Clios. The following is a complete list of Gold and Silver Clio winners in the TV categories, and the two Hall of Fame spot inductees:
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More