Spike Jonze

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Spike Jonze at the New York Film Festival in October 2013

Spike Jonze (* 22. October 1969 in Rockville, Maryland ; actually Adam Spiegel ) is an American film - and music video - director , film producer , actor , and Golden Globe - and Oscar -prämierter screenwriter .

Live and act

Jonze began his career as a director of music videos, including the Beastie Boys (e.g. Sabotage ) and Fatboy Slim (e.g. Weapon of Choice ). After two short film productions, he directed a feature film for the first time in 1999 : Being John Malkovich . The imaginative film, whose screenplay was written by Charlie Kaufman , who had previously only worked for television series , was a great success and garnered numerous international awards and three Oscar nominations, including those for screenplay and direction. For his second film, Adaptation - The Orchid Thief , Jonze worked again with Kaufman. He wrote himself and his (fictional) twin brother Donald as the main characters in the film, which is about the torments of a scriptwriter plagued by writer's block.

Jonze is also one of the creators of MTV - series Jackass and producer of the film to the series Jackass: The Movie . Currently he is u. a. creative director of the internet TV channel VBS.TV for Vice magazine . He is also a co-owner of the skateboard company Girl Skateboards .

In 1999 he played in the action film Three Kings at the side of George Clooney .

He is a distant relative of the founding family of the Spiegel catalog and mail order company in the USA , but contrary to popular opinion, he was not involved in their legacy. On June 26, 1999, he married his colleague, the director Sofia Coppola . The marriage ended in divorce in 2003.

For his screenplay for the film Her , he received the Oscar for best original screenplay at the 2014 Academy Awards .

Spike Jonze works under various pseudonyms , including a. Richard Koufey .

In 2020 he published a documentary about the Beastie Boys on Apple TV + .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a director

As a screenwriter

As a producer

As a cameraman

  • 1998: Free Tibet (camera)

More work

Skateboard videos

  • 1989: Rubbish Heap (for SMA World Industries)
  • 1991: Video Days (for Blind Skateboards)
  • 1995: Las Nueve Vidas De Paco (Chocolate Skateboards)
  • 1996: Mouse (Girl / Chocolate Skateboards)
  • 2003: Yeah Right! (for girl skateboards)
  • 2004: Hot Chocolate! (for Chocolate Skateboards)
  • 2006: The Krooked Chronicles
  • 2007: Fully Flared (for Lakai Footwear)
  • 2012: Pretty Sweet (Girl / Chocolate Skateboards)

Music videos

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Johannes Wende (Hrsg.): Spike Jonze (= film concepts 37), edition text + kritik, Munich 2015.

Web links

source

  1. ↑ Jakob Biazza: In the shadow of the great phallus. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ 1999 MTV Music Video Awards on Infoplease.com
personal data
SURNAME Jonze, Spike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiegel, Adam (real name); Koufey, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and music video director
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockville , Maryland , United States