Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze

Birthday: 1969-10-22

Place of Birth: Rockville, Maryland, USA

Biography: Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation., and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Jonze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Three Kings
Three Kings

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe wi...

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Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life
Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life

Deeply thoughtful and illuminating, DRAWING A LIFE reveals the details of artist Geoff McFetridge’s ...

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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Ha...

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Mark’s Brain
Mark’s Brain

“Mark’s Brain” features Gonz curiously floating through the deep compartments of his own memory. Fro...

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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missi...

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Jackass: The Beginning
Jackass: The Beginning

Jackass: The Beginning is a DVD extra on Jackass 3.5 that documents how Big Brother Magazine develop...

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Sing 2
Sing 2

Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theate...

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To Die By Your Side
To Die By Your Side

Designer Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomi...

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Jackass Number Two: Too Hot for Theaters
Jackass Number Two: Too Hot for Theaters

Released as part of Jackass Number Two's 15th Anniversary, bonus footage from the Number Two DVD...

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Keep Your Eyes Open
Keep Your Eyes Open

The craziest thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies demonstrate their repertoire of mind-blowing stun...

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Her
Her

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating syste...

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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'

Behind the scenes documentary shot during the making of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003)....

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Collaborators
Collaborators

A portrait of Spike Jonze and his longtime moviemaking partnerships....

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Jackass 4.5
Jackass 4.5

Through outrageous, never-before-seen footage, witness the making of the Jackass crew's last go at w...

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 yea...

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What's Up, Fatlip?
What's Up, Fatlip?

During the filming of Fatlip's debut solo music video for "What's Up, Fatlip?" Spike Jonze compiled ...

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5

Bad Grandpa .5 gives you a whole new perspective on the world of Irving Zisman with bonus scenes and...

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The Work of Director Spike Jonze
The Work of Director Spike Jonze

When you experience The Work of Director Spike Jonze, you enter a world where anything can happen an...

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Beastie Boys Story
Beastie Boys Story

Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of the...

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Amarillo By Morning
Amarillo By Morning

While filming professional bullriders for a commercial at the national rodeo in Houston, Texas, Spik...

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Mi Vida Loca
Mi Vida Loca

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborh...

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The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on...

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The Game
The Game

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hea...

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Jackass 3D
Jackass 3D

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest of their fearless and foolhardy friends...

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Dìdi (弟弟)
Dìdi (弟弟)

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Ta...

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A Tribute to Ryan Dunn
A Tribute to Ryan Dunn

Ryan Dunn's friends and family pay tribute to the 'Jackass' star with a look back at his extraordina...

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Torrance Rises
Torrance Rises

A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video...

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The Vampire Attack
The Vampire Attack

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Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine
Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine

A look at the rise and fall of the subversive skateboarding magazine Big Brother, which rose to prom...

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Jackass 2.5
Jackass 2.5

The crew have now set off to finish what as left over from Jackass 2.0, and in this version they hav...

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Jackass Number Two
Jackass Number Two

Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot...

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Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: The Movie

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big s...

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Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project
Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project

The making of Spike Jonze's "Her."...

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Pig!
Pig!

An innocent nose pick ends in disaster!...

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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira,...

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The Making of 'Jackass Number Two'
The Making of 'Jackass Number Two'

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this film,...

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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

A behind the scenes look at the making of Being John Malkovich, condensed from hours of footage duri...

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Rappin' With The Rickster
Rappin' With The Rickster

Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influe...

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Camitz - en annan tid, en annan plats
Camitz - en annan tid, en annan plats

"Camitz - another time, another place" - About the Swedish filmmaker Jhoan Camitz who directed the S...

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Untitled Al Gore Documentary
Untitled Al Gore Documentary

An intimate look at Al Gore and his family during the former Vice President's 2000 campaign...

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Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.

Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portr...

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Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

A loving look at one of the most cherished and controversial figures in children's literature, Mauri...

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Illegal Civilization 3
Illegal Civilization 3

Features Kevin White, Aramis Hudson, Zach Saraceno, Nico Hiraga, and Olan Prenatt skating, having fu...

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Moneyball
Moneyball

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a ba...

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The Birth of Big Air
The Birth of Big Air

In 1985, at the tender age of 13, Mat Hoffman entered into the BMX circuit as an amateur, and by 16 ...

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Babylon
Babylon

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters ...

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Jackass Forever
Jackass Forever

The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one final round of hilarious, absurd, and d...

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Jackass 3.5
Jackass 3.5

Johnny Knoxville of 'Jackass' releases unused material of stunts, tricks, antics and shenanigans sho...

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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)....

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Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself

A portrait of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, creator, for three decades, of an imperfect, astonishi...

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Marc by Sofia
Marc by Sofia

An intimate, unconventional portrait of Marc Jacobs, crafted by Sofia Coppola to capture the genius ...

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Vice Is Broke
Vice Is Broke

An investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

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