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.

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.

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

" 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.

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

A music video for the song " Drop " was directed by Spike Jonze.

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 film was nominated for the 72nd Academy Awards in three categories: Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Keener, Best Director for Spike Jonze and Best Original Screenplay for Charlie Kaufman.

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 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.

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.

Lee was featured in the 1991 Blind Skateboards video, Video Days, shot by director Spike Jonze, as he was a member of the company's team at the time.

" I was trying to take the influence of The Giving Tree, but write about relationships ," says Jonze.

Spike Jonze was credited for the albums photography and also directed two more music videos for the band.

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.

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 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.

The movie has ideas enough for half a dozen films, but Jonze and his cast handle them so surely that we never feel hard-pressed ; we're enchanted by one development after the next " and he also felt that " Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.

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 video was directed by Spike Jonze, who also directed the videos for " It's Oh So Quiet " and " It's in Our Hands ".

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

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.

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.

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 is good friends with Björk and frequently works with her.

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.

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.

* 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 )

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 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.

Directors such as Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Stéphane Sednaoui, Mark Romanek and Hype Williams all got their start around this time ; all brought a unique vision and style to the videos they directed.

The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze.

Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow ( Mark Wahlberg ) shoots him in the confusion over how to handle stray soldiers, earning him the admiration of his bumbling comrades, Private First Class Conrad Vig ( Spike Jonze ) and Specialist Walter Wogeman ( Jamie Kennedy ).

He produced DVDs for the Directors Label Series, covering the work of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Stéphane Sednaoui, Jonathan Glazer and Anton Corbijn.

The success of those two films led to the Gulf War thriller Three Kings, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze.

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