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Adam Spiegel, known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes films, commercials, music videos, skateboard videos and television.
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Born 22 October 1969 · Q259913
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For the first, maybe, 20 seconds of it, it had this real buzz – I
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“We were in between takes one day, and he was naked except for a blanket around him, and was explaining to a friend what the plot of the movie was – and it started hitting me how crazy it was that he did this movie.”
“For the first, maybe, 20 seconds of it, it had this real buzz – I”
“We ended up realising that what Sam and I had done together, what we”
“t worked with his long-time cinematographer, Lance Acord. He turned instead to the services of Hoyte van Hoytema, responsible for Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy . The script is Jonze”
“but I think we just find each other interesting. We”
“comes from universal experiences people don”
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Yahoo: Spike Jonze's surreal Gucci movie shows how filmmakers can really use AI
AppleInsider: Spike Jonze pushes AirPods 4 in very long short film starring Pedro Pascal
Deadline.com: Spike Jonze Series Not Moving Forward At Netflix
The Guardian: Her inside: Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and the perils of fictionalising your ex
Yahoo: Joaquin Phoenix Looking to Reunite With Spike Jonze for Netflix Series
Collider: How Spike Jonze Ended Up as the German Director in Babylon
The Cheat Sheet: ‘Being John Malkovich’ Director Spike Jonze Is a Writer and Producer on Every ‘Jackass’ Film and Spinoff
The Guardian: Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season
The Guardian: Beastie Boys Story review – Spike Jonze and the boys are back in town
The Guardian: Beastie Boys Story: inside the offbeat, heartfelt stage show from Spike Jonze
Jonze was in a relationship with artist Allie Teilz, whom he met in 2013 on the set of Her
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And saw the band's two surviving members tell the story of the Beastie Boys and their friendship
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Jonze directed a commercial and accompanying short film for the website building service Squarespace starring Idris Elba, as well a short film titled The New Normal advocating for marijuana legalization in partnership wi
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Jonze directed Frank Ocean's summer festival tour, which included 8 shows which took place in different cities around the US and Europe
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The Guardian: Spike Jonze gets freaky for Kenzo – where film meets beauty
The Guardian: Kanye West sings to baby North in Only One video directed by Spike Jonze
Which was filmed on his iPhone in a foggy field and featured heartfelt interactions between West and daughter
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The Guardian: Spike Jonze satire electrifies New York fashion week for Opening Ceremony
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Her (2014).
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Jonze co-directed the feature-length skateboarding film Pretty Sweet with his Fully Flared co-directors Ty Evans and Cory Weincheque
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Jonze played a small supporting role in the sports drama Moneyball as the husband of Robin Wright's character, who is the ex-wife of Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt)
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The Film Stage: [Sundance Review] Spike Jonze Creates Unique Love Story With ‘I’m Here’
“m Here in 2010, based on the children”
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Based on the children's book The Giving Tree
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The latter being an edited version of Jonze's short film Scenes from the Suburbs (2011), a dystopian vision of suburbia in the near-future and an expansion of the themes of nostalgia, alienation, and childhood found in t
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And 2012, before being replaced by Jack McBrayer in the third season
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And the couple briefly lived together in New York City before separating in 2011
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Awarded Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Director (2009).
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And features a series of interviews with Sendak
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Which Jonze originally intended to direct
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And saw Jonze dress as an old lady whose breasts "accidentally" keep becoming exposed while wandering around Los Angeles
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Jonze dated singer Karen O throughout 2005.
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Featuring the music of his brother Sam "Squeak E
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As part of an advertising campaign for the Volvo S40
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The couple filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences"
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Which featured extensive use of special effects and a cameo by Owen Wilson
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Jonze directed the Levi's commercial "Crazy Legs" and the videos for Beck's "Guess I'm Doing Fine", Björk's "It's in Our Hands" (filmed in night vision), and one of two versions of Weezer's "Island in the Sun"
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Which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, considered a prestigious award in the field of advertising
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Directing the video for "Weapon of Choice", starring Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby
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Which aired on MTV for three seasons until 2002
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Jonze directed a short video about Gore at his home
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Helming the video for the song "Wonderboy" by the comedy duo Tenacious D
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Jonze married director Sofia Coppola, whom he had first met in 1992 on the set of the music video for Sonic Youth's "100%"
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A parody of the hysteria surrounding Y2K
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Jonze made a short film called How They Get There, starring Mark Gonzales as a man who is playfully imitating a woman's actions on the other side of a sidewalk before running into danger
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Amarillo by Morning, about two Texan boys who aspire to be bull riders
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Was attached to direct an adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Jonze directed the videos for the Beastie Boys' songs "Sure Shot" and, more famously, "Sabotage"
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Jonze co-directed the "trippy" music video for The Breeders song "Cannonball" with Gordon
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With riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll
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And is considered to be highly influential in the community
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Born 1969-10-22.
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