Whopper Detour picks up pair of Grand Clios, NY Times’ “Truth Is Worth It” campaign from Droga5 earns Grand film distinction
The Clio Awards revealed its top honorees as well as best of year recipients during a gala ceremony on Wednesday night (9/25) at the Manhattan Center in New York City. McCann New York earned Clio Agency of the Year distinction, with BBDO Worldwide named Network of the Year, and Burger King taking on the mantle of Advertiser of the Year. The best of year honors are presented to those that collected the most statue points across all media in the Clio competition.
Burger King also scored a pair of Grand Clios–for Digital/Mobile and Direct–on the strength of The Whopper Detour out of FCB New York.
The evening’s other Grand Clio Award winners were:
· Branded Entertainment: Blue Heart, Farm League for Patagonia
· Design: Insta Novels, Mother New York for The New York Public Library
· Experiential/Events: Lessons for Good, Publicis Italy for Leroy Merlin
· Fashion & Beauty: Breast Cancer Awareness – Idris Elba by Stella McCartney
· Film: The Truth Is Worth It Campaign, Droga5 New York for The New York Times
· Innovation: Changing The Game, McCann New York for Microsoft
· Integrated Campaign: Viva La Vulva, AMVBBDO for Essity Libresse/Bodyform
· Out Of Home: Air Max Graffiti Stores, AKQA for Nike
· Partnerships & Collaborations: Read More. Listen More., Droga5 New York for The New York Times
· Public Relations: A world without borders, Ogilvy & Mather Mexico for Aeromexico
· Social Media: Philly Philly, Wieden+Kennedy New York for Bud Light
And the 2019 Grand Clio Music Award winners were:
· Use of Music: Share Your Gifts, Kobalt Music Group for Apple
· Music Marketing: The Uncensored Playlist, DDB Group Germany for Reporters Without Borders
Other highlights from the event included a performance by 2019 Clio Music Lifetime Achievement Award winner Joan Jett, and a tribute by Katie Couric to Sheryl Crow, the 2019 Clio Music Impact Award recipient. The audience was treated to appearances by some of television’s most iconic commercial stars, including Brandon Moynihan, who plays Hotels.com’s Captain Obvious, Jonathan Goldsmith, who is best-known as The Most Interesting Man in the World and Isaiah Mustafa, the memorable Old Spice pitch man.
David Droga, founder and creative chairman of Droga5, was presented the 2019 Clio Lifetime Achievement Award by Facebook’s CCO Mark D’Arcy. In accepting the award, Droga admitted that “it’s flattering of the highest order” and shared that he got into the industry “because you get to put your imagination into something and you can project it onto so many different things.” Jim Lesser, president and CEO of BBDO San Francisco, was the presenter of the Clio Brand Icon Award for Barbie. The empowering brand was represented on stage by Lisa McKnight, global head of dolls for Mattel and honored for its 60-year history as one of the most famous and talked about brands ever created.
Click here for a full list of previously announced Gold, Silver and Bronze Clio recipients.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More