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 currently working on another project with the Beastie Boys for the release of their Santigold collaboration, " Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 music video, directed by Spike Jonze, which was shot in San Fernando Valley, California, features everything in slow motion as Björk sings the verses ; during the riotous chorus, everything returns to regular speed and everyone near her dances along.

Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

He coined the label " the American Eccentrics " to describe a group of " millennial " filmmakers including Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Alexander Payne, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Sofia Coppola whose works " offer an unabashed solipsism, whimsy, and undisguised film savvy ".

In 2000, Keener earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze.

Jonze attended SFAI in San Francisco, California.

When he was in junior high and high school, Spiegel hung out at Bethesda Community Store, where the former owner Mike Henderson gave him his nickname " Spike Jonze " in reference to Spike Jones.

Jonze has acted in some videos and films ; his most prominent role was in Three Kings as the sweet, dimwitted, casually racist Conrad, in which he was directed by friend David O. Russell.

In the past, Jonze shot street skateboarding videos, most notably Blind's highly influential Video Days in 1991, and Lakai Footwear's Fully Flared in 2007.

Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey ( alternately spelled Coufey or Couffe ), the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that performs in public spaces.

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.

Jonze showed the video to Slim, who loved it.

Jonze then assembled a group of dancers to perform to Slim's " Praise You " outside a Westwood, California movie theater and taped the performance.

The video received awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography, which Jonze accepted, still in character.

Jonze made a mockumentary about the experience called Torrance Rises.

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

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

In July 2009, Jonze acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the Shane Jones novel, Light Boxes.

A dystopian vision of suburbia in the near-future, the short was co-written by Jonze, Win Butler and Will Butler.

In 2011, Jonze directed the music video for " Otis " the second single from the album Watch The Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

On June 26, 1999, Jonze married director Sofia Coppola, whom he had first met in 1992.

" 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.