Name Mathew Cullen Role Music Video Director | Movies London Fields | |
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Awards Grammy Award for Best Music Video Similar People Martin Amis, Jim Sturgess, Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James, Amber Heard | ||
Mathew Cullen "Motion Theory" music videos
Mathew Cullen is an American music video, commercial, and film director. He is co-founder of creative studio Mirada with Guillermo del Toro and co-founder of production company Motion Theory.
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Mathew Cullen grew up in Inglewood, California. He founded Los Angeles-based production company Motion Theory at 23. Since then, he has overseen the production of 500+ projects, and directed and produced over 100 commercials and music videos, including global campaigns for HP, IBM, Google, and Disney. He has worked with artists such as Adele, Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Green Day, Taylor Swift, Pink, Beck and R.E.M.. Cullen won two consecutive Grammy Awards for directing The Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” and Weezer's “Pork and Beans", the most blogged-about YouTube video of 2008. His work on “Pork and Beans" earned him a Guinness World Record for most memes in a video. In 2014, Cullen reunited with Katy Perry to win Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards for "Dark Horse", the most watched music video of the year with over two billion views.
Cullen was listed on Rolling Stone's annual “Hot List” for his work as a music video director, as well as Indiewire's 2013 Influencers List. Wired called him one of six directors who are making music videos cool again. His work has been inducted into the Museum of Modern Art on over a dozen occasions. Motion Theory was profiled in Fast Company as being one of the most innovative companies in the industry.
In 2013, he designed and directed the prologue to Guillermo del Toro's film Pacific Rim. In September 2013, he began directing the feature film London Fields, based on the novel by Martin Amis, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Johnny Depp, Cara Delevingne and Jaimie Alexander. Cullen is attached to direct and produce a supernatural thriller at DreamWorks, and has films in development at Warner Brothers and Paramount.
He teamed up with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, Academy Award winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, and executive producer Javier Jimenez to launch Mirada Studios, “a studio designed for storytellers" in 2010. Mirada is equal parts design studio, visual effects and animation facility, technology incubator, development and production company. Under his creative direction, Mirada has launched a number of multiplatform storytelling experiences, including the IBM THINK Exhibit installation at the Lincoln Center, the Ro.me interactive music video, and MirrorWorld, a living storybook app for author Cornelia Funke's book series.
Mathew currently serves on the Board of Directors for Film Independent.