Spike Jonze

Film and Video Director

Male

Born Oct 22, 1969

Age 43

Hometown Rockville, Maryland

Other Names Spiegel, Adam

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich (that gave… Read More

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Fashion's Night Out 2012

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Sep 6, 2012

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Spike Jonze Fashion's Night Out 2012 Opening Ceremony hosted by Spike Jonze with Noraebang Kara...

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Sep 5, 2012

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We Need to Talk About Kevin Premiere

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Nov 10, 2011

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Spike Jonze 36th Annual Toronto International Film Festival - 'Moneyball' - Premiere held at the ...

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Sep 8, 2011

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Michelle Williams
Dated 2008 - 2009
Drew Barrymore
Dated 2007
Sofia Coppola
Married 1999 - 2003
Juliana Hatfield
Dated
Karen O
Dated

Family

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Spike Jonze

Age 43

parents

Arthur Spiegel III

Father
Sandy Granzow

Father

siblings

Sam Spiegel
Brother, Age 33

Places

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Los Angeles
Jul 18, 2012
Spike Jonze Sighting: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California/ Roosevelt Hotel

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John Farr: How Oscar Lost Its Sense Of Humor And 20 Comedies Worthy Of Best Picture
Huffington Post - Feb 20, 2013

It was nice to see Silver Linings Playbook on the list of nominees for Best Picture this year. Mind you -- I'll lay odds it won't win, and fun as it is, against the field it faces it probably shouldn't. Still, it's reassuring that Oscar can pay tribute to a comedy with its most important award. Remember the story of the vaudevillian on his deathbed who remarked: "Dying is easy -- comedy, that's hard." Outstanding comedy is arguably the most challenging type of film to pull off...
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'He Looked Like A Character Out Of Charles Dicken’s A**Hole'
Huffington Post - Nov 28, 2012

Two stars guide the frenzied new documentary “Beware Of Mr. Baker." The first is Ginger Baker, aka Mr. Baker, former drummer for Cream whom the movie persuasively defends as both a madman and the greatest drummer of the 21st century. The other character who’s bound to make an impression is the movie’s 30-year-old director, Jay Bulger, a one-time boxer, model, and Rihanna analyst with enough manic energy in him to coax an ornery rock god, long vanished into the South African desert, ...
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Spike Jonze’s Man Loves Siri Movie Isn’t As Crazy As It Sounds
Film School Rejects - Sep 04, 2012

We’ve been following along with the development of Spike Jonze’s next project for a while now, and with good reason. For one, it’s a new Spike Jonze movie, and that should be enough to get film geek blood pumping on its own. But when you factor in the cast that he’s compiled, which includes names like Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Amy Adams, Samantha Morton, and Olivia Wilde, well, it doesn’t take long before the anticip...
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Preview: Shut Up And Play The Hits
Clash - Sep 03, 2012

Clichés are usually met with indifferent acceptance. As good as the cult classic film 'Almost Famous' is, it’s not that taxing to understand that bands take drugs and fight. A band’s lifespan, we are left to presume, is punctuated with considered break-ups because of ‘musical differences’, addiction, internal hatred, or if they’re brazenly honest, irrelevance. It’s no wonder then that directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace were artistically entranced with the idea that Jame...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1969 Birth Born on October 22, 1969.

TWENTIES

1991 21 Years Old 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. 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. … Read More

1999 29 Years Old 1 More Event

The resulting clip was a huge success, and "Koufey" and his troupe were invited to New York City to perform the song for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. … Read More

THIRTIES

2006 36 Years Old He also has a speaking part along with Dave Eggers in the Beck song "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton" from his 2006 album, The Information. … Read More

2007 37 Years Old Spike Jonze was part of the Detour-Moleskine project in New York in 2007. … Read More

2008 38 Years Old In 2008, Jonze dated Michelle Williams several months after the death of Heath Ledger, but around a year later they split.

2009 39 Years Old 1 More Event

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

FORTIES

2010 40 Years Old In 2010, he made a 28 minute short titled Scenes from the Suburbs, inspired by the Arcade Fire album The Suburbs. … Read More

2011 41 Years Old 1 More Event

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

2012 42 Years Old As of August 2012, Jonze's next project is Her, a science fiction romance film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Samantha Morton, Olivia Wilde, and Rooney Mara. … Read More

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