# Commercial director

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This article is about a commercial manager. For the more general business role, see [chief commercial officer](/source/Chief_commercial_officer).

A **commercial director** is an executive responsible for managing the commercial department within an organization, or a specific commercial project.

## Filmmaking industry

In filmmaking industry, a commercial director is a [film director](/source/Film_director) who specializes in the creation of [commercials](/source/Commercials), often for television, but sometimes also on film and of [music videos](/source/Music_video) (given that music videos are recognized as a form of advertising for the song featured in the video[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]).

### Noted commercial directors

Noted directors of commercials include: [Ridley Scott](/source/Ridley_Scott), [Adrian Lyne](/source/Adrian_Lyne), [Hugh Hudson](/source/Hugh_Hudson), [Jean-Paul Goude](/source/Jean-Paul_Goude), [Jonathan Glazer](/source/Jonathan_Glazer), [Michel Gondry](/source/Michel_Gondry), [Spike Jonze](/source/Spike_Jonze), [Joe Pytka](/source/Joe_Pytka), [Tarsem Singh](/source/Tarsem_Singh), [Dougal Wilson](/source/Dougal_Wilson) and [Tony Kaye](/source/Tony_Kaye_(director)), Norman Hafezi, [Barry Myers](/source/Barry_Myers_(director)).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Music video directors who have gone on to feature film production include [Michael Mann](/source/Michael_Mann_(director)) and [Julien Temple](/source/Julien_Temple).[1]

## See also

- [Category:Television commercial directors](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Television_commercial_directors&action=edit&redlink=1)

## References

- Ivan Cury (2005). [*TV Commercials: How to Make Them*](https://archive.org/details/tvcommercialshow00cury). [Taylor & Francis](/source/Taylor_%26_Francis). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780240805924](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780240805924).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson review – rocking against the dying of the light"](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/19/ecstasy-wilko-johnson-review-mark-kermode). *[TheGuardian.com](/source/TheGuardian.com)*. 19 July 2015.

## External links

- [*tvc-director.com - the tvc director global directory™ resource for commercial film directors*](https://web.archive.org/web/20141129050407/http://tvc-director.com/) (Englisch)

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