Spike JonzeFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1969
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Adam Spiegel
Biography:: A notoriously shy prankster with a penchant for skateboarding and tall tales, Spike Jonze might not have been the most obvious candidate for "most promising director" or "best first feature" status. With the release of Being John Malkovich in the fall of 1999, however, those were exactly the kinds...Read More

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Where the Wild Things Are

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Michael Berry Jr., Chris Cooper, Lauren Ambrose

Synopsis: Visionary director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen with the help of hipster icon Dave Eggers, who teamed with Jonze to pen the adapted screenplay. A mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live puppeteering, Where the Wild Things Are follows Read More

10/16/09
Maurice at the World's Fair

Crew: Director

Actors: Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, Bob Stephenson

2009
Synecdoche, New York

Crew: Producer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Synecdoche, New York marked the directorial debut of iconoclastic, cerebral screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Caden Cotard, an eccentric playwright who lives with artist Adele Lack (Catherine Keener) and their daughter Olive in Schenectady, upstate New York. Prone to Read More

10/24/08
The Fall

Crew: Presented by

Actors: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Robin Smith, Julian Bleach

Synopsis: Visually minded filmmaker Tarsem Singh returns to the director's chair for the first time since The Cell (2000) with this psychologically complex tale of a hospitalized paraplegic with a curious knack for storytelling. Unable to free himself from his sterile confines, the immobile patient's Read More

5/9/08
Music Video: Another Body

Crew: Director

2008
Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Firas al Lateef, Faisal Talal, Marwan Reyad

Synopsis: VICE Magazine co-founder Suroosh Alvi and VICE Films head Eddy Moretti embark on a gonzo journey to meet Iraq's only heavy metal band in a freewheeling documentary focusing on youth culture in war-torn Iraq. In the summer of 2005, shortly after Saddam Hussein's brutal rule came to an end, Iraqi Read More

2007
Jackass: Number Two

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn

Synopsis: For fans who thought the stakes couldn't be raised any higher and the bar couldn't be lowered any further, the original cast and crew of the stunt comedy sensation that swept the globe return for another round of jaw-dropping feats that are guaranteed to have viewers wincing through their Read More

9/22/06
Yeah Right!

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Synopsis: The Girl Skateboard Company puts its team in action and gets the results on tape in high style with this extreme sports video, directed in part by skate kid-turned-Hollywood auteur Spike Jonze. Dedicated to fallen comrade Keenan Milton (aka Kenmore), Yeah Right! includes exciting skating action Read More

2003
Wildboyz [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Chris Pontius, Steve-O

Synopsis: From the creators of Jackass came another gross-out hodgepodge of wild, crazy, and idiotic stunts titled Wildboyz. The hosts of this unreal reality series were former Jackass regulars Chris Pontius and Steve-O (aka Stephen Otis). These two likable jerks traveled all over the world to spread the Read More

2003
The Work of Director Spike Jonze

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Palm Video's Director's Label series compiles the short-form work of some of the most innovative names in music videos, advertisements, and short films -- some of whom have gone on to even greater success in features. One of the first in the series, The Work of Director Spike Jonze collects many Read More

2003
Keep Your Eyes Open

Synopsis: Tamra Davis directs the extreme sports documentary Keep Your Eyes Open. Contains dangerous stunts and personal interviews with top athletes. Some of the subjects include skiier Seth Morrison, Motocross racer Travis Pastrana, BMX rider Mat Hoffman, snowboarder Tina Basich, and surfer Sunny Garcia. Read More

2003
Jackass: The Movie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England

Synopsis: Johnny Knoxville and his crew of fun-loving masochists bring their routines to the big screen in this feature adaptation of the popular but controversial MTV series Jackass. A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and Read More

10/25/02
Human Nature

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Video director Michel Gondry and scriptwriter Charles Kaufman -- who shot to fame after penning Being John Malkovich -- collaborate on this bizarre fable about human behavior in and out of society. The film opens by quickly introducing the three leads -- Lila (Patricia Arquette) who is locked away Read More

4/12/02
Adaptation

Crew: Director

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the Read More

1/10/02
Beastie Boys: Video Anthology

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The influential rap act the Beastie Boys has over a dozen of its videos collected on this release. Included are the promotional clips for such fan favorites as "Sabotage," "Intergalactic," "Hey Ladies," "Body Movin'," and "So What'cha Want." The DVD release of this collection offers remixes of the Read More

2000
Being John Malkovich

Crew: Director

Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while Read More

10/29/99
Three Kings

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: Three stars team up for this unusual look at America's role in the war against Iraq. In 1991, as the Gulf War winds to a close, three American servicemen find themselves happy to have achieved victory but wondering about the ultimate importance of what they've done (especially since Saddam Hussein Read More

10/1/99
Free Tibet

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Sarah Pirozek filmed this documentary combining interviews with concert footage of the 1996 San Francisco Tibetan Freedom Concert, which attracted 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park. The film's executive producer, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, is a Buddhist who initiated the concept of the annual Read More

9/18/98
My Crazy Life

Actors: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Neighborhood pride runs deep in Echo Park, so when two lifelong friends join the local gang as a matter of course, they're handed down gang names from the previous generation of homegirls. Unfortunately, Sad Girl (Angel Aviles) and Mousie (Seidy Lopez) don't remain friends for long. When Mousie Read More

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