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Steve started making videos in 1977 for artist like The Jam, Human league and Adam and the ants. His music videos helped inspire the formation of MTV. He directed many of the 1980s' most memorable music videos, including "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson "Money for nothing" by Dire straits, and "Take on me" by A-ha. In 1987 his Foray into network television won him an Emmy for “Hans my hedgehog” and the “Storyteller” pilot for NBC. In the same year he made “Fearnot” and the year after made “Sapsorrow”. In 1984, he directed the sci-fi comedy Electric Dreams, which won him best director at the Madrid film festival and a public prize for best film at the Avoriaz fantastique film festival in France. He went on to direct several episodes of the television series The Storyteller before returning to the big screen, directing films such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1990, The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1996, Rat in 2000 and Mike Bassett: England Manager in 2001. He told Cinefantastique that The Adventures of Pinocchio is his favorite book and that the film version, which he both wrote (with assistance) and directed, was his dream project.

Barron has also directed several award winning miniseries, such as Merlin (1998), Arabian Nights (2000) and DreamKeeper (2003) for Hallmark Entertainment. In 1990 Barron made only 8 music videos in early 90's and made his last music video in 1993 for David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down". In 1990 Steve’s second feature stunned the movie industry by becoming the first independent feature to break the 100 million dollar theatrical barrier in the U.S “teenage mutant ninja turtles” grossed over 350 million dollars worldwide.

In 1991 Steve returned to making music videos and won him self a Grammy nomination for Dire Straits “Calling Elvis” and the billboard best director award for Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable” duet with her farther, which reached number 1 across the world, selling over 12 million albums. In 1992 he got another MTV video of the year nomination with Def Leppard’s “Let’s get Rocked” for it’s innovative and unique use of computer animation.

In 1993 he directed the Dan Ackroyd feature “cone heads” For paramount and was executive producer for Sylvester Stallone, Sharon stones picture “The Specialist” and the very successful “while you are sleeping” He was also executive producer on “ReBoot” the first fully animated network series

In 1996 he directed “the adventures of Pinocchio”

In 1998 he directed “Merlin” which was a mega series and cost 30 million dollars to make. This set a record for the most adult viewers aged 18-49. These were the highest ratings since 1984. This also got nominated for many awards, 15 Emmy’s, 4 Golden globes, and a DGA nod for outstanding directing.

In 1999 Steve completed “Arabian nights” for ABC network in America. This show was aired on ABC and BBC 1 similtainously. This brought him 5 more Emmy nominations and US national critics nomination.

In 2000 he produced and directed the movie “Rat” which premiered in Dublin, Ireland. It’s a dark comedy about a man turning into a rat after coming home one night from the pun, not feeling that well. Steve’s next comedy was “Steve bassets England manager” A spoof documentary film starring Ricky Tomlinson as a national soccer coach. The film had a wide theatrical release in the UK in 2001. This was a government funded film and entertainment distributers, taking 6 million dollars and charting at number three in it’s first 4 weeks.

In 2002 he spent 24 million dollars for an Indian mini series epic for Hallmark and ABC. This was called “Dreamkeeper” The production won him a gold at the Chicago international TV festival and an Emmy for best visual effects.

Steve is an executive producer for the feature documentary “peace one day” which premiered at the Edinbourgh film festival in 2004.

In 2005 steve wrote and directed the independent feature fim “choking man”.
In 2006 he was presented with “outstanding achievement in music video” award at the Hammersmith Palais in London.
In 2008 he co-produced “the day after peace” a feature Documentary with Jeremy Gilley as director, this was premiered in Cannes.

Steve is currently developing a large scale fantasy series for the BBC with carnival films. This is a screen play of a cult novel called “Slow down Arthur, stick to thirty” In the spring he begins production on his next feature called “Prakash” which is set in India.

I would say the directors target audience effects a young audience from mid teens to early twenties. Due to the fact that the directors videos involves a lot of effects and computer animated effects so the target audience would like cartoons and computer games. It effects them in a way to say comments like this:

A ha - take on me music video

tc5arelove bloody cool video. I'd love to be her.

phishpaste0 This has got to be the best music video I've ever seen. So advanced for it's time.

mattnkagome this music video proves that even normal people can like fictional cartoon characters.

Dire straits - moey for nothing

rfitzhen Brilliant Video

marek7805 revolutionary video! first ever of this kind

Deaf leppard - let's get rocked

Cryten1974
@TaylerLessard yes this is the official video, I remember when I first saw it, was the second music video I'd seen using computer animation Dire Straits Money for Nothing being the other

According2topher GREAT, intentionally campy hard glam-rock song, with a similar video that was ahead of its time!!

aijunk lolSupposedly he's supposed to be portraying "Bart Simpsons"

GeorgeStrait1986 Cute Video