Spike Jonze

American director Spike Jonze works primarily in the fields of film, television, commercials and music videos. His name is recognisable to me from his huge success as director of the brilliant film "Being John Malkovich" (1999) for which he received an Academy Award but also as the director of a movie much more recently, "Where The Wild Things Are" in 2009 which brought to life the classic children's illustrated book by Maurice Sendak.

A still from the brilliant "Where The Wild Things Are" (2009) directed
by Spike Jonze

Outside of film, Jonze has also directed music videos for Kanye West, The Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Notorious B.I.G. and R.E.M. amongst many, many others. All highly successful musicians/bands and highly successful songs directed by Spike.

There is also a link here with a subject of a previous blog post - Michel Gondry, as the two, along with Chris Cunningam, co-founded Directors Label, an organisation who honour music video directors.

I really appreciate the diversity in subject matter of Spike Jonze's work and am a huge fan of some of his work (predominantly music videos and films) and am intrigued to see what else I can witness of his in the near future.

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