Steven Goldmann
Steven Harvey Goldmann was a Canadian music video and film director. He directed over 200 music videos. Goldmann also directed the movies Broken Bridges and Trailer Park of Terror, and additionally directed several television programs. Goldmann died from cancer on April 30, 2015.
Career
1990-1999
Goldmann came to international prominence and was recognized as a director to watch in 1998-1999, winning the triple crown of the Country music video industry. His innovative direction of Faith Hill’s This Kiss took top prize with the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, and TNN Music City News Best Video of the Year. In addition, he was awarded Video of the Year by Country Music Television and Nashville Music Awards for This Kiss. Goldmann also received the 1998 MusicRow Awards Best Video of the Year and a Telly Award, the 1998 MVPA Award for Country Video Of The Year, and got to work with one of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen. It was by all measurements a year to remember and a year that brought Goldmann to national prominence. It capped off a run of recognition in the music video world that started with consecutive CMT Director of the Year Awards in 1996 and 1997, and ended with Rolling Stone Magazine sighting Goldmann’s Shania Twain video for You Win My Love, one of six he directed for her, as the 5th most important/influential video of the 90’s.2000-2013
Using a script by J. Jacob Potashnik, Goldmann directed 50 Odd Dollars, a film noir inspired by singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith’s recording of the same name. Other films that he directed include the 2003 release of the fantasy musical , an IMAX film for Gaylord Entertainment. Goldmann both wrote and directed the large format film which featured musical icons such as Lyle Lovett, The Dixie Chicks, Dwight Yoakam, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, and well over thirty other stars.In 2004, Goldmann directed several episodes of Missing about a psychic FBI agent starring Vivica Fox for Lifetime and Lions Gate Entertainment where he brought a new look to an integral part the show - the psychic’s visions.
Goldmann also directed the feature film Broken Bridges, starring Toby Keith, Kelly Preston, Tess Harper, and Burt Reynolds for Paramount/CMT FILMS. Later, in late 2007, Goldmann completed the horror film Trailer Park of Terror with Producer Jonathan Bogner.
Notable awards
- 1993 COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION Director of the Year
- 1996 Collin Raye's I Think About You - ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC Video of the Year
- 1996 COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION Director of the Year
- 1996 Shania Twain's I'm Outta Here! - Canadian Country Music Awards' CMT Video of the Year, 1996 SILVER CLIO AWARD
- 1997 Kathy Mattea's 455 Rocket - COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION Video of the Year,1997 NASHVILLE MUSIC AWARD Video of the Year
- 1997 COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION Director of the Year
- 1998-1999 Faith Hill's This Kiss video - TNN Music City News Best Video Of The Year, Nashville Music Awards, and CMT's Video Of The Year
- 1998 Kathy Mattea's I'm On Your Side video - MusicRow Awards Best Video Of The Year, Telly Award
- 1998 Mary Chapin Carpenter's Better To Dream Of You video - MVPA Award
- 2000 50 Odd Dollars - ALABAMA/UNA FILM FESTIVAL - Gold Lion for Best in Show & Best Short, HOUSTON FILM FESTIVAL Best Short Subject
- 2003 Alan Jackson's Drive video - ACM's Video of the Year award
- 2007 Emerson Drive's Moments - Canadian Country Music Awards' CMT Video of the Year
Videography
Films directed
- Trailer Park of Terror – Summit Entertainment
- Broken Bridges – CMT/Paramount
- – Gaylord Entertainment
Television programs directed
- Missing – 4 episodes – Lifetime/Lions Gate
- Bruce Springsteen - A Secret History – BBC 2 Documentary
- BreakOUT! – Pilot – Concert/Reality show – MTV-2
- 2001 Canadian Country Music Awards - CBC
- Stampede – Variety - CBC
Music videos directed
| Year | Video | Artist |
| 1990 | "Don't You Know" | The Joneses |
| 1991 | "I'll Start with You" | Paulette Carlson |
| 1991 | "Billy Can't Read" | Paul Overstreet |
| 1992 | "The Rock" | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 1992 | "Take It Like a Man" | Michelle Wright |
| 1992 | "I Can See Arkansas" | Anne Murray |
| 1992 | "Shake the Sugar Tree" | Pam Tillis |
| 1992 | "Bad Day for Trains" | Patricia Conroy |
| 1992 | "He Would Be Sixteen" | Michelle Wright |
| 1992 | "Cheap Whiskey" | Martina McBride |
| 1993 | "Let That Pony Run" | Pam Tillis |
| 1993 | "When My Ship Comes In" | Clint Black |
| 1993 | "What Made You Say That" | Shania Twain |
| 1993 | "Under the Light of the Texaco" | Lisa Stewart |
| 1993 | "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" | Shawn Camp |
| 1993 | "My Baby Loves Me " | Martina McBride |
| 1993 | "Broken" | Andy Childs |
| 1993 | "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me" | Shania Twain |
| 1993 | "I'm Playing for You" | Ronnie Milsap |
| 1993 | "There's a New Kid in Town" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1994 | "Confessin' My Love" | Shawn Camp |
| 1994 | "Life #9" | Martina McBride |
| 1994 | "Walking Away a Winner" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1994 | "That's My Baby" | Lari White |
| 1994 | "Spilled Perfume" | Pam Tillis |
| 1994 | "You Wouldn't Say That to a Stranger" | Suzy Bogguss |
| 1994 | "Runaway Train" | Dawn Sears |
| 1994 | "Radio Active" | Bryan Austin |
| 1994 | "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1994 | "One Good Man" | Michelle Wright |
| 1994 | "She Dreams" | Mark Chesnutt |
| 1994 | "When You Walk in the Room" | Pam Tillis |
| 1994 | "Coming Back to Haunt Me" | Dale Daniel |
| 1994 | "Now I Know" | Lari White |
| 1994 | "Somebody's Leavin'" | Patricia Conroy |
| 1994 | "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" | Shenandoah with Alison Krauss |
| 1995 | "What Else Can I Do" | Patricia Conroy |
| 1995 | "That's How You Know " | Lari White |
| 1995 | "I Should Have Been True" | The Mavericks |
| 1995 | "What Mattered Most" | Ty Herndon |
| 1995 | "Where I Used to Have a Heart" | Martina McBride |
| 1995 | "The Likes of Me" | Marty Stuart |
| 1995 | "I'm Still Dancin' with You" | Wade Hayes |
| 1995 | "Clown in Your Rodeo" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1995 | "This Is Me Missing You" | James House |
| 1995 | "Darned If I Don't " | Shenandoah |
| 1995 | "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" | Lorrie Morgan |
| 1995 | "Slow Me Down" | Shelby Lynne |
| 1995 | "I Want My Goodbye Back" | Ty Herndon |
| 1995 | "Don't Stop" | Wade Hayes |
| 1995 | "It's Not the End of the World" | Emilio Navaira |
| 1995 | "Safe in the Arms of Love" | Martina McBride |
| 1995 | "When a Woman Loves a Man" | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 1995 | "Anything for Love" | James House |
| 1995 | "Listenin' to the Radio" | Chely Wright |
| 1995 | "Heart Half Empty" | Ty Herndon with Stephanie Bentley |
| 1995 | "Deep Down" | Pam Tillis |
| 1995 | "What I Meant to Say" | Wade Hayes |
| 1995 | " I'm Outta Here!" | Shania Twain |
| 1995 | "Not That Different" | Collin Raye |
| 1995 | "Standing Tall" | Lorrie Morgan |
| 1995 | "White Christmas" | Lari White |
| 1996 | "Some Things Are Meant to Be" | Linda Davis |
| 1996 | "The River and the Highway" | Pam Tillis |
| 1996 | "Who's That Girl" | Stephanie Bentley |
| 1996 | "You Win My Love" | Shania Twain |
| 1996 | "I Think About You" | Collin Raye |
| 1996 | "Thinkin' Strait" | Rich McCready |
| 1996 | "On a Good Night" | Wade Hayes |
| 1996 | "No One Needs to Know" | Shania Twain |
| 1996 | "Living in a Moment" | Ty Herndon |
| 1996 | "Nobody's Girl" | Michelle Wright |
| 1996 | "You Can't Lose Me" | Faith Hill |
| 1996 | "Home Ain't where His Heart Is " | Shania Twain |
| 1996 | "Where Do I Go to Start All Over" | Wade Hayes |
| 1996 | "Let Me into Your Heart" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1996 | "She Wants to Be Wanted Again" | Ty Herndon |
| 1996 | "Remember When" | Ray Vega |
| 1996 | "I Meant to Do That" | Paul Brandt |
| 1996 | "Born in the U.S.A." | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1997 | "455 Rocket" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1997 | "Places I've Never Been" | Mark Wills |
| 1997 | "Keeping Your Kisses" | Kris Tyler |
| 1997 | "The Better to Dream of You" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1997 | "All the Good Ones Are Gone" | Pam Tillis |
| 1997 | "I'm on Your Side" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1997 | "Flowers" | Billy Yates |
| 1997 | "Better Days" | Bekka & Billy |
| 1997 | "You Walked In" | Lonestar |
| 1997 | "Wichita Lineman" | Wade Hayes |
| 1997 | "From Here to Eternity" | Michael Peterson |
| 1997 | "Blink of an Eye" | Ricochet |
| 1997 | "I Have to Surrender" | Ty Herndon |
| 1997 | "One Solitary Tear" | Sherrié Austin |
| 1997 | "What a Woman Knows" | Kris Tyler |
| 1997 | "The Next Step" | Jim Collins |
| 1997 | "Just Another Heartache" | Chely Wright |
| 1997 | "He's Got You" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 1997 | "The Day That She Left Tulsa " | Wade Hayes |
| 1998 | "Back in the Saddle" | Matraca Berg |
| 1998 | "Too Good to Be True" | Michael Peterson |
| 1998 | "Woman to Woman" | The Lynns |
| 1998 | "Now That I Found You" | Terri Clark |
| 1998 | "This Kiss" | Faith Hill |
| 1998 | "A Man Holdin' On " | Ty Herndon |
| 1998 | "105" | Fred Eaglesmith |
| 1998 | "I Can Still Feel You" | Collin Raye |
| 1998 | "Why'd You Start Lookin' So Good" | Monty Holmes |
| 1998 | "How Long Gone" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 1998 | "I'll Go On Loving You" | Alan Jackson |
| 1998 | "Five O'Clock Hero" | Matt King |
| 1998 | "You're Easy on the Eyes" | Terri Clark |
| 1998 | "Wherever You Are" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1998 | "When I Grow Up" | Clint Daniels |
| 1998 | "I Won't Lie" | Shannon Brown |
| 1998 | "Tore Up from the Floor Up" | Wade Hayes |
| 1999 | "With You" | Lila McCann |
| 1999 | "Did I Shave My Back for This?" | Cledus T. Judd |
| 1999 | "It's About Time" | Julie Reeves |
| 1999 | "Maybe Not Tonight" | Sammy Kershaw with Lorrie Morgan |
| 1999 | "Slave to the Habit" | Shane Minor |
| 1999 | "If I Had a Nickel " | Redmon & Vale |
| 1999 | "The Secret of Life" | Faith Hill |
| 1999 | "Little Man" | Alan Jackson |
| 1999 | "Rodeo Boy" | Fred Eaglesmith |
| 1999 | "Crush" | Lila McCann |
| 1999 | "Ordinary Love" | Shane Minor |
| 1999 | "I Wear Your Love" | Lisa Angelle |
| 1999 | "Let There Be Love" | Anne Murray with Dawn Langstroth |
| 1999 | "Steam" | Ty Herndon |
| 1999 | "Pop a Top" | Alan Jackson |
| 1999 | "Christ-mas" | Cledus T. Judd |
| 1999 | "Here Comes My Baby" | The Mavericks |
| 2000 | "A Mother and Father's Prayer" | Collin Raye with Melissa Manchester |
| 2000 | "More" | Trace Adkins |
| 2000 | "Couldn't Last a Moment" | Collin Raye |
| 2000 | "The Trouble with Angels" | Kathy Mattea |
| 2001 | "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" | Martina McBride |
| 2001 | "Helplessly, Hopelessly" | Jessica Andrews |
| 2001 | "It's Alright to Be a Redneck" | Alan Jackson |
| 2001 | "I'm Tryin'" | Trace Adkins |
| 2001 | "Karma" | Jessica Andrews |
| 2002 | "Drive " | Alan Jackson |
| 2002 | "Consider This" | Aaron Pritchett |
| 2002 | "Here I Am I'm Sorry" | Jason Popham |
| 2002 | "The Last Man Committed" | Eric Heatherly |
| 2002 | "Look at Me Now" | Sixwire |
| 2002 | "If I Left You" | Kelly Willis |
| 2002 | "Modern Man" | Michael Peterson |
| 2002 | "These Are Those Days" | Holly Lamar |
| 2002 | "Waitin' on Joe" | Steve Azar |
| 2002 | "That'd Be Alright" | Alan Jackson |
| 2003 | "Whatever It Takes" | Kellie Coffey |
| 2003 | "Only God " | Emerson Drive |
| 2003 | "Red Dirt Road" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2003 | "Honesty " | Rodney Atkins |
| 2003 | "Long Black Train" | Josh Turner |
| 2003 | "Would You Believe" | The Mavericks |
| 2003 | "The First Day You Wake Up Alone" | Beverley Mahood |
| 2004 | "Break Down Here" | Julie Roberts |
| 2004 | "Simple Life" | Carolyn Dawn Johnson |
| 2004 | "Blame It on Mama" | The Jenkins |
| 2004 | "North Dakota Boy" | Doc Walker |
| 2004 | "What It Ain't" | Josh Turner |
| 2004 | "Come Home Soon" | SHeDAISY |
| 2005 | "Wake Up Older" | Julie Roberts |
| 2005 | "Down This Road" | The Wrights |
| 2006 | "A Good Man" | Emerson Drive |
| 2006 | "Broken" | Lindsey Haun |
| 2006 | "Countrified Soul" | Emerson Drive |
| 2006 | "Moments" | Emerson Drive |
| 2006 | "Bagpipes Cryin'" | Rushlow Harris |
| 2007 | "Love Sweet Love" | Johnny Reid |
| 2008 | "Belongs to You" | Emerson Drive |
| 2010 | "Journey On" | Ty Herndon |
| 2011 | "Wait" | Amber Hayes |
| 2011 | "Long Way to Go" | Alan Jackson |
| 2011 | "Hard Time Movin' On" | David Bradley |
| 2012 | "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" | Alan Jackson |
| 2013 | "With You" | Emerson Drive |
| 2013 | "Put It Into Drive" | Doc Walker |
| 2013 | "Lies I Told Myself" | Ty Herndon |