SIMON McQUOID NAMED THIRD MOST AWARDED DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD IN GUNN REPORT

The accolades for Perth expat director Simon McQuoid (pictured left) continue with his ranking at No.3 in The Gunn Report’s annual World’s Top Director listing.

McQuoid, ex Adlink and Shorter FCB in the early 90’s, is now based in the USA and directs through Go Film. He was one of the directors involved in the hugely successful Microsoft XBox 360 Halo 3 campaign which ranked 7th and 11th in the Gunn Report’s most awarded TV commercials of 2008, 12th in the most awarded Interactive winners and 2nd in the most awarded ‘All Gunns Blazing’ category for Integrated ideas. The campaign was one of the world’s most awarded in 2008.

The Gunn Report tabulates award show wins. It combines the winners’ lists from all of the major advertising award contests in the world – national, regional and global (in 2007 it was the world’s top 36 shows for TV and top 22 shows for Print) thus to establish the annual worldwide league tables for the advertising industry.

One of Donald Gunn’s most interesting tables is the Most Awarded Commercials in the world. See them all here: Heading the list this year is Cadbury Dairy Milk ‘Gorilla’. Second is Epuron Wind Energy ‘Power of Wind’. Equal third is Skoda Fabia ‘Cake’ and Sony Bravia ‘Play-Doh’. And equal fifth is Petronas ‘Tan Hong Ming’ and Tide Stain Remover ‘Interview’.