Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Joseph Wallace is a BAFTA Cyrmu nominated animation director, writer and producer. His award-winning work spans short films, music videos, commercials and sequences for feature films and television. He has written and directed more than a dozen short films since 2007, which have gained international acclaim and screened at festivals around the world as well as receiving Vimeo Staff Picks. Described as "One of the UK's most extraordinary stop-motion directors" by London International Animation Festival, his work has been praised for its cinematic quality and unique aesthetic.

Aside from his background as a theatre director, he attended the prestigious training course Animation Sans Frontières and is active as a writer and lecturer. Wallace curated the film programme of the 2015 Bristol Festival of Puppetry featuring the work of influential animators the Quay Brothers, Academy award nominated Barry Purves and the late children's animator Ivor Wood and was made a BBC Performing Arts Fellow in the same year, named one of 32 'ones to watch'. In 2021 he was selected for BFI Network x BAFTA Crew.

His music video for Sparks screened at over 50 international film festivals and was described as "sublime" by French site Allociné. The video won five awards including 'Best Music Video' at the Hollywood Art and Movie Awards, USA and was named as one of the ten best British animated music videos of all time by Anim18. 2021 saw the release of 'The Sparks Brothers' the feature documentary from Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver) for which Wallace created stop motion animated sequences. The film premiered at Sundance and Wallace's animations were described as 'hilarious' by iNews, 'dark wonders' by Mark Kermode in the Guardian and were nominated for an award at the Cinema Eye Honours in New York 2022.

Wallace's new short 'Salvation Has No Name' is funded by the British Film Institute, France Television and Czech Film Commission, Exec Produced by Maisie Williams and stars Itziar Ituño from Netflix's Money Heist. The film won the Visegrad Animation Forum pitching prize in Czech Republic and premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2022 with Choose Love as the film's official charity partner.

Awards

Joseph Wallace

Annecy International Animated Film Festival

BAFTA Awards, Wales

Edinburgh International Film Festival

British Animation Awards

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia

Burbank International Film Festival

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

Kinsale Shark Awards

Global Independent Film Awards

Hollywood Art and Movie Awards

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