Spike Jonze ( born Adam Spiegel ; October 22, 1969 ) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

Jonze is good friends with Björk and frequently works with her.

Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American comedy-fantasy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.

Gondry, along with directors Spike Jonze and David Fincher, is representative of the influx of music video directors into feature film.

The 2010 short film I'm Here, written and directed by Spike Jonze, is based on The Giving Tree, and the main character Sheldon is named after Shel Silverstein.

The band is best known for their MTV buzz clip video " California ," directed by Spike Jonze.

Then when Alfred Molina gets a call from his friend Spike Jonze, Coogan tries to make amends, but it is too late, and he regrets missing the chance to make the connection.

Spike Jonze is amongst the camera operators for the concert recording, and he is also featured in interviews on the DVD, as is director, Lance Bangs.

The live-action film version of the book is directed by Spike Jonze.

His work is celebrated in The Work of Director Stephane Sednaoui ( 2005 ) from the Directors Label series, a collection of DVDs devoted to the most creative music video directors, along with Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cunningham and Mark Romanek.

Jeffery James " Jeff " Tremaine ( born September 4, 1966 ) is an American film and television producer / director, and, along with Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze, one of the creators of MTV's Jackass.

Video Days is the first movie / video directed by Spike Jonze and stars Mark Gonzales, Rudy Johnson, Jason Lee, Guy Mariano and Jordan Richter.

He enjoys working with left-field directors, such as Spike Jonze.

The Koufey persona appeared when Jonze, in character, filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slim's " Praise You " as it played on a boom box in a public area.

Most recently, Jonze directed Where the Wild Things Are, which opened in the United States on October 16, 2009.

The film, from a script penned by Jonze himself, follows a man ( Phoenix ) who falls in love with a computer's voice, much like the Siri ( software ) feature on the iPhone.

" The character of John, a career-driven photographer ( Giovanni Ribisi ) in Coppola's Lost In Translation ( 2003 ), was rumored to be based on Jonze, though Coppola has vehemently denied this.

Some of these directors, including, Gondry, Jonze and F. Gary Gray, went on to direct feature films.

A music video for " Home ", a single from the album, was directed by Spike Jonze and enjoyed extended airplay on MTV.

* Eggers can be heard talking with Spike Jonze during " The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton ", the final track on Beck's 2006 album The Information.

He has also been involved with Spike Jonze on a number of occasions, recently being one of the cinematographers for Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two and Jackass 3D.

He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fatboy Slim ’ s “ Weapon of Choice ”, which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze.

Since then, he has been the director of photography on Spike Jonze ’ s features Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.

It was included on a retrospective DVD of the director, Spike Jonze, where a still from the video also graced the cover of the collection.

The 8 minutes long hoax film credited to ( fictitious ) Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Soto – in reality, as was disclosed later, it was directed by Spike Jonze – deals with the fact that on 25 October 2003 32 people supposedly purchased a Volvo S40 at the same local Volvo dealership in Dalarö, a small village to the south-east of Stockholm.

It was their second # 1 album on the Billboard charts, due to their hit " Sabotage ", which was accompanied by a music video ( produced by Spike Jonze ) that parodied 1970s cop shows.

Together with Dave Carnie and Johnny Knoxville, with material submitted by Bam Margera, the Big Brother group created a television series based on Knoxville's Big Brother video skits and Tremaine's longtime friend and music video / film director Spike Jonze submitted the pilot to various networks.

The single's video, directed by Spike Jonze, shows a group of Japanese youths dancing and miming to the track at a party, whilst the band are shown briefly, looking on.

I can ’ t go as far as to say that I recognized the genius of Video Days off the bat, nor can I say that I even placed much importance on Spike Jonze ’ s onscreen credit back then-I had only recognized his name from photo credits in skate mags.

But then Hollywood came calling-and the day after graduation she drove across the country to Los Angeles to work as in intern on Spike Jonze first feature film " Harold and The Purple Crayon ".

He also wrote Human Nature, which was directed by Michel Gondry, and then worked with Jonze again as the screenwriter for Adaptation., which earned him another Oscar nomination and his second BAFTA.

Originally, the band approached another director ( possibly Spike Jonze ) to film the video for " 1979 ".

Spike Jonze was part of the Detour-Moleskine project in New York in 2007.

However, Jonze, in an interview with Times Online, said that Ray Tintori was no longer a director for that project as expected.

TMBG also contributed a track to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records.

He fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark " Lew " Lewman and Andy Jenkins, both co-editors of Freestylin ' Magazine in the mid-to late 1980s, where Jonze worked as a photographer.

Jonze was also a co-founder and editor of Dirt magazine along with Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins, as well as an editor for Grand Royal Magazine and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding.

* Screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are, cowritten with director Spike Jonze ( 2009 )

On June 9, 2011 it was announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea along with actors Brad Pitt and James Franco and director Spike Jonze were donating items to an eBay auction that would raise money for restoring the film negatives for Style Wars.

* 2009: In the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want, author / illustrator Maurice Sendak tells interviewer Spike Jonze that he has been obsessed with the case of the Lindbergh baby since he was 2 years old.

The Special Edition DVD was released later in 2000 and included, in addition to the aforementioned features, an interview with Jonze and two behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Tremaine drafted his friend, director Spike Jonze, to get involved with the show, and together, he, Jonze, and Knoxville served as executive producers.

Wax began a lasting relationship with Spike Jonze, who directed the music video for " Hush ," filmed in Chicago, Illinois where the majority of the band members originated prior to forming.

The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1974 ( with an updated version in 1988 ); a 1980 opera ; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze.