BBDO New York announced that Susan Golkin has been promoted to executive creative director on Campbell’s Soup, Dove Chocolate, American Family Insurance and Quaker Oats. In addition, Doug Fallon and Steven Fogel have joined the agency as executive creative directors on AT&T, overseeing the DIRECTV/entertainment portion of its business, and Blake Kidder has joined as a sr. creative director on Visa. The moves go into effect this month.
Golkin has been with BBDO NY for nearly a decade. Her most recent work for Dove Chocolate and American Family Insurance was well-received by the media and her Campbell’s Soup’s “Real, Real Life” campaign won kudos and awards, especially for its Star Wars “Your Father” spot. The real-life dads were subsequently included in People magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive” list.
Fallon and Fogel arrive from Grey New York where they created award-winning work for DIRECTV. That work, including the famous “Lowe vs Lowe” and “Cable Effects” campaigns, drove business, won multiple Gold Lions at Cannes, and played an enormous role in the agency’s creative turnaround.
And Kidder boasts experience at such creative shops as Wieden & Kennedy (Amsterdam and Sao Paulo), TBWAChiatDay LA, David & Goliath and Mullen. She’s won Lions, Clios, Andys, Beldings, Sharks and Pencils for work spanning Nike to Heineken, Gatorade, Activision and Hardee’s.
Fallon, Fogel and Kidder are the latest senior creative leaders to join BBDO. Earlier this year, it was announced that Robin Fitzgerald would join BBDO Atlanta as its chief creative officer. She also begins this month.
A Pair of Artist Perspectives On “A House of Dynamite”
This week’s Road To Oscar installment offers a pair of perspectives--those of cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, BSC and editor Kirk Baxter--on the Kathryn Bigelow-directed A House of Dynamite (Netflix), a film which is also centered on multiple perspectives. The latter POVs--each unfolding in a 20-minute-or-so segment covering the same nuclear crisis--come, respectively, from intelligence officials in the Situation Room, high-level military advisors, and finally the President of the United States himself (portrayed by Idris Elba). A nuclear missile has been launched towards Chicago from an unknown adversary overseas. A race begins to try to prevent the warhead’s impact, to determine who is responsible for the attack, if there are more missiles to come, and how to respond. The pressure on decision-makers--and those supposed to provide them with relevant intelligence--is enormous as Noah Oppenheim’s screenplay at the same time underscores how tenuous the system is that’s designed to protect us. The story and the situation it presents are deadly serious. But in the real world, the public at large pays little or no attention to this existential threat--an indifference that Bigelow and her collaborative colleagues, including Ackroyd and Baxter, set out to help rectify through their narrative artistry. Going into A House of Dynamite, Ackroyd and Baxter were at opposite ends of the experience continuum when it came to collaborating with Bigelow. A House of Dynamite was the first feature film on which Bigelow and editor Baxter came together. They had, however, worked with each other once before--on an Apple commercial in 2021. Ackroyd had earlier teamed with Bigelow on such features as Detroit and before that The Hurt... Read More