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.

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.

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

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.

Its music video, starring Spike Jonze, won numerous awards.

* MTV Award for Best Direction in a Video: Weapon of Choice ( Spike Jonze ) ( 2001 )

* MTV Award for Best Choreography in a Video: Weapon of Choice ( Michael Rooney, Spike Jonze and Christopher Walken ) ( 2001 )

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

Another pair that have each been nominated are Sofia Coppola ( nominated in 2004 ) and Spike Jonze, though neither won.

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.

** Deannie O ' Neil, Vincent Landay ( video producers ), Spike Jonze ( video director ), Bootsy Collins & Fatboy Slim for " Weapon of Choice "

It has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973, a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze.

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.

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

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 ).

* Spike Jonze as Private First Class Conrad Vig, a jobless, semi-literate soldier from a group home who idolizes Troy.

Although Spike Jonze had never acted in a movie before, Russell wrote the part of Conrad Vig specifically for him, and the two practised Conrad's southern accent over the phone while Jonze directed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich.

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

* Lamp ( advertisement ), a 2002 television advertisement directed by Spike Jonze

* 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.

The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

In Flanders, the two-tier strip is the standard publication style of most daily strips like Spike and Suzy and Nero.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

Spike Spiegel is a former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate.

Spike is a master in firearms and hand-to-hand combat, practicing Jeet Kune Do, and is also a skilled pilot.

Like Spike, he too is haunted by the memory of a woman, Alisa, his longtime girlfriend who left him without reason.

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

Spike Lee's character is called " Shorty ".

* May 10 is Golden Spike Day ( 1869 – Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad – Promontory Summit, Utah )

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee ( born March 20, 1957 ) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

Spike Lee is a fan of the American baseball team the New York Yankees, basketball team the New York Knicks, and the English football team.

In the closing credits montage of Yeah Right !, Spike is shown doing a nollie heelflip in loafers.

Lynsey De Paul is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

* Milligna ( or Your Favourite Spike ) ( 1972 ) The title is based on Milligan's introduction in The Last Goon Show of All as " Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error ".

Spike Jones, Jr., whose father's orchestral recordings had a deep and indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, ' One of the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.

The Legend of Zelda franchise is the inaugural recipient of Spike TV's first ever Video Game Hall of Fame award.

It was here on May 10, 1869, that Stanford drove The Last Spike ( or golden spike ) which is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, that joined the rails of the transcontinental railroad.