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Adam Spiegel, known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor and photographer. His work includes films, commercials, music videos, skateboard videos and television.
Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker and music video director. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh. Bangs has also been heavily involved in the filming and production of MTV's Jackass television series and its subsequent movies.
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction is an award given to the artist, the artist's manager, and the director of the music video. From 1984 to 2006, the full name of the award was Best Direction in a Video, and in 2007, it was briefly renamed Best Director. The category acquired its current name with the 2008 awards.
Lance Acord is an American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for his work on the films, Buffalo '66 (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Lost in Translation (2003).
Wax was an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. Wax emerged during the pop punk resurgence of the early 1990s, and includes Joe Sib, Tom "Soda" Gardocki, Dave Georgeff, and Loomis Fall. The band is best known for their MTV buzz clip video "California", directed by Spike Jonze.
Karen Lee Orzolek is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
"Wonderboy" is the debut single by American rock-comedy duo Tenacious D. It was released in September 2001 on the same day as their self-titled debut album. The song peaked at number 36 in the UK and number 44 in Australia; the video, directed by Spike Jonze, was also well received. The song is also the entrance theme for UFC fighter Stephen Thompson whose nickname is "Wonderboy".
"Sabotage" is a song by American rap rock group Beastie Boys, released in January 1994 as the first single from their fourth studio album, Ill Communication (1994). The song features traditional rock instrumentation, turntable scratches, heavily distorted bass guitar riffs and lead vocals by Ad-Rock. A moderate commercial success, the song was notable for its video, directed by Spike Jonze; it was also nominated in five categories at the 1994 MTV Music Video Awards.
"Praise You" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim. It was released as the third single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998), on 4 January 1999. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and in Iceland, number four in Canada, number six in Ireland, and number 36 in the United States. As of 1999, it had sold over 150,000 units in the US.
Anthony D. Maxwell is an American musician. From 1991 to 1997, he was the drummer for the band that dog., for which he also played for a 2019 reunion album, Old LP. After the breakup of the band, he worked as composer on the films Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl. He is also a frequent collaborator with director Spike Jonze; He was one of the dancers in Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video directed by Jonze himself, he played the Dog character, named Charles, in Jonze's video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Fresh", he choreographed the Dance of Despair in Jonze's Being John Malkovich, and he was Nicolas Cage's body double in Jonze's Adaptation.
"Weapon of Choice" is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim from his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. It features vocals by American funk musician Bootsy Collins. It was released as a double A-side single with "Star 69" on 23 April 2001, as well as a standalone single release, and a 2010 re-release with remixes. The single peaked at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
Keith "K. K." Barrett is an American production designer known for his work on feature films by Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola, among others.
Freedom of '76 is an EP by Ween released in 1994 by Flying Nun Records. The title song was originally featured on Ween's album Chocolate and Cheese. A music video for the track was directed by Spike Jonze. It depicts Ween attempting to steal the Liberty Bell only to be caught, arrested, and sentenced by the authorities. A real event occurred at Independence Hall, where the video crew filmed the night before. A prop hand grenade was left from the shoot only to be discovered by a young tourist the next day. The music video was filmed circa March 1995.
Corporate Ghost is a Sonic Youth DVD released by DGC in 2004. It is a collection of their music videos from 1990 to 2002.
Amarillo by Morning is a documentary short by Spike Jonze.
"Drop" is a single by alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde, released in 1995 as the second single for the group's second album, Labcabincalifornia. The single contains a reversed sample of Dorothy Ashby's recording of "Django", originally by the Modern Jazz Quartet, as well as a vocal sample of the Beastie Boys song "The New Style", using the titular "mmm..... drop" line delivered during a drop to create its hook.
We Were Once a Fairytale is a 2009 drama short film directed by Spike Jonze and starring American rapper Kanye West. It is the second collaboration between Jonze and West, who jointly co-directed the music video for West's single "Flashing Lights" in 2008.
"Drunk Girls" is a song by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released as the second single from their third studio album, This Is Happening (2010), on May 3, 2010. Band frontman James Murphy has described the song as "dumb" but added "I like dumb, short stuff." Structurally, the song contains call-and-response elements similar to The Velvet Underground song "White Light/White Heat". The 7" single features a cover of the song by San Francisco psychedelic rock band Wooden Shjips.
A music video director is the head, overseer or facilitator of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration with the musical act.
Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Spike Jonze. It marks Jonze's solo screenwriting debut. The film follows Theodore Twombly, a man who develops a relationship with Samantha, an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt. The film was dedicated to James Gandolfini, Harris Savides, Maurice Sendak and Adam Yauch, who all died before the film's release.
