Directors

Bryan Buckley

About Bryan Buckley

Talking Like Walken BMW

Agency – GS&P
Award Winner Award Winner
D&D
Emmy

NFL Run With It

Agency – 72 and Sunny
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

Apple The Rock and Siri Dominate the Day

Agency – Media Arts Lab
Award Winner Award Winner
ADC Best Of
AICP Award
Andys Best Of
British Arrow
Cannes Lions
D&AD Black Pencil
Grand Clio
One Show Best Of

The Lost Class

Agency – Leo Burnett

Capital One Holiday Night Fever

Agency – GSD&M

Jameson Jose

Agency – Ogilvy
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions

Grey Poupon The Chase

Agency – crispin porter + bogusky emmy nominated
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

Stella Paper Boat

Agency – Mother / London
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions
One Show

VH1 Anti Rockstar

Agency – Young & Rubicam / New York

BMW Zeus & Hera

Agency – Goodby Silverstein
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Grand Prix
D&AD Black Pencil
Grand Clio
One Show

MasterCard True Name

Agency – McCann
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
One Show

Hyundai Smaht Pahk

Agency – Innocean
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
British Arrow
Cannes Grand Prix
D&D
Grand Clio
One Show

March for our Lives Generation Lockdown

Agency – McCann
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award

Direct Line Bumblebee

Agency – Saatchi & Saatchi / London
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
One Show

New Era Philadelphia

Agency – Brooklyn Brothers / New York
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
One Show

New Era One Hitter

Agency – Brooklyn Brothers / New York
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Grand Prix
Clio Award
D&D
One Show

Microsoft We All Win

Agency – M:United/McCann
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

Monster.com When I Grow Up

Agency – Mullen / Boston
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions
One Show

Etrade Monkey

Agency – Goodby Silverstein
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions
D&D
One Show

Etrade Wazoo

Agency – Goodby Silverstein
Award Winner Award Winner
Emmy

American Express Airport Lounge

Agency – Ogilvy & Mather
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions
One Show

Burger King More Mayo

Agency – Crispin Porter & Bogusky
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

Starburst Fiesta

Agency – TBWA Chiat Day / New York
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

Ikea Bored to Death

Agency – Crispin Porter & Bogusky / Miami
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
D&D
Emmy

American Express Animals

Agency – Ogilvy & Mather / New York
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions
One Show

ESPN The Kid

Agency – Wieden+Kennedy
Award Winner Award Winner
AICP Award
Cannes Lions
One Show

ESPN NHL Drinking From the Cup

Agency – Frankfurt Gips Balkind
Award Winner Award Winner
Oscar Nominee

Saria Short Film

Award Winner Award Winner
Oscar Nominee

Asad Short Film

Award Winner Award Winner
D&D

NRA Children’s Museum

Agency – Ogilvy & Mather
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions
Clio Award
D&D
One Show

MiniCooper Counterfeit

Agency – Crispin Porter & Bogusky / Miami
Award Winner Award Winner
Cannes Lions

JCPenney Doghouse

Agency – Saatchi & Saatchi / New York

Bryan Buckley

Two-time Oscar Nominated Writer/Director Bryan Buckley has been dubbed the “King of the Super Bowl” by the New York Times, having directed 71 commercials for the big game since 2000. Many pieces of Buckley’s work have been inducted into the Museum Of Modern Art’s permanent collection and he is an esteemed recipient of the DGA award, multiple Emmy awards, and over 60 Cannes Lions – including two Grand Prix wins in 2019 and he is rated the most award winning commercial director in the world 2022 from the prestigious One Show and D&AD. A 2010 Adweek Readers Poll named Buckley the Commercial Director of the decade and he was also chosen as one of the 50 best Creative Minds in the last 25 years by Creativity Magazine. Bryan has won three black Pencils from D&AD in the last two years for his work on Mastercard and Change the Ref (there’s only been 69 black pencils awarded in the entirety of the show since 1963*)

After graduating at the top of his class from Syracuse University, Buckley plunged into the Ad business. By the age of 24 he started the company Buckley/DeCerchio with Tom DeCerchio. The brash young agency found their way to the front page of The New York Times Business section, being named one of “Advertising’s Antic Upstarts.”  Their irreverent  brand of humor for clients built the company into a $24 million dollar agency within two years and garnered every major advertising award from Cannes Lions to Clios. 

Buckley’s directing career started in 1994, when he directed the Emmy Award-winning “This is SportsCenter” Campaign. In 1997, Buckley co-founded Hungry Man Productions along with “This is SportsCenter” creator, Hank Perlman. By 2004, the company won the Cannes Festival’s Palme D’or as the top commercial production company in the world and has finished in the top ten for more than ten consecutive years, the first production company to do so. Hungry Man has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rio and Sao Paulo, and boasts an impressive roster of directors including Taika Waititi, Wayne McClammy, and Nanette Burstein. 

In 2013, Buckley wrote and directed the short film ASAD. The film was shot in Africa with an all Somali refugee cast, and screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide, taking top honors at the TriBeCa Film Festival and Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival, among others. The film was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of the film: “They deserve two Oscars: One for creative endeavor, and the other for contributing to the collective understanding of our dependence on one another.” Bryan returned to Africa for his second feature film, Pirates of Somalia, starring Oscar-winner Al Pacino, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith, and Barkhad Abdi.