name	Michael Stipe
background	solo_singer
birth name	John Michael Stipe
birth date	January 04, 1960
Birth place	Decatur, Georgia, United States
genre	Alternative rock, college rock, jangle pop
occupation	Musician, lyricist, producer, visual artist
years active	1980–present
instrument	Vocals, guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, melodica
associated acts	R.E.M.Automatic BabyPlaceboKristin HershNatalie MerchantThe Golden Palominos }}

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, lyricist and visual artist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011.

Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Outside of the music industry, he runs his own film production companies: C-00 and Single Cell Pictures.

Life and career

Early life

Stipe was born in Decatur, Georgia on January 4, 1960. Stipe was a military brat; his father was a serviceman in the United States Army whose career resulted in frequent relocations for his family. Stipe and his family moved to various locales during his childhood, including Germany, Texas, Illinois, Alabama and Georgia. He was raised Methodist. Stipe graduated from high school in Collinsville, Illinois in 1978. His senior photo is pictured in the album art work of ''Eponymous''. Stipe also worked at the local Waffle House. Stipe later enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia as an art major; studying photography and painting.

Formation of R.E.M.

While attending college in Athens, Stipe frequented the Wuxtry record shop where he met store clerk, Peter Buck, in 1980. "He was a striking-looking guy and he also bought weird records, which not everyone in the store did", Buck recalled. The two became friends and eventually decided to form a band. Buck and Stipe started writing music together; at the time Stipe also spent time in a local group named Gangster. The pair were soon joined by Bill Berry and Mike Mills and named themselves R.E.M., a name Stipe selected at random from a dictionary.

All four members of R.E.M. dropped out of school in 1980 to focus on the band. Stipe was the last to do so. The band issued its debut single, "Radio Free Europe", on Hib-Tone. The song was a college radio success and the band signed to I.R.S. Records for the release of the ''Chronic Town'' EP one year later. R.E.M. released its debut album ''Murmur'' in 1983, which was widely acclaimed by critics. Stipe's vocals and lyrics received particular attention from listeners. ''Murmur'' went on to win the ''Rolling Stone'' Critics Poll Album of the Year over Michael Jackson's ''Thriller''. The band's second album, ''Reckoning'', followed in 1984.

In 1985, R.E.M. traveled to England to record its third album ''Fables of the Reconstruction''. The process was difficult and brought the band to the verge of break-up. Even after the album was released, relationships were tense within the band. Stipe said of the period: "I was well on my way to losing my mind". Stipe gained weight and his behaviour became more eccentric; he shaved his hair into a monk's tonsure.

On September 21, 2011, R.E.M. announced their retirement in a news release on its website.

Personal life

With the success of the albums ''Out of Time'' (1991) and ''Automatic for the People'' (1992), R.E.M. became mainstream music stars. Around 1992, rumors that Stipe had contracted HIV began to circulate. According to Stipe, he did not start the rumor and he does not know who did.

In 1994, with questions still swirling about his sexuality, Stipe described himself as "an equal opportunity lech," and said he did not define himself as gay, straight, or bisexual, but that he was attracted to, and had relationships with, both men and women. In 1995, he appeared on the cover of ''Out'' magazine. Stipe described himself as a "queer artist" in ''Time'' in 2001 and revealed that he had been in a relationship with "an amazing man" for three years at that point. Stipe reiterated this in a 2004 interview with ''Butt'' magazine. When asked if he ever declares himself as gay, Stipe stated, "I don’t. I think there’s a line drawn between gay and queer, and for me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the grey areas."

In 1999, author Douglas A. Martin published a novel, ''Outline of My Lover'', in which the narrator has a six-year romantic relationship with the unnamed lead singer of a successful Athens, Georgia-based, rock band; the book was widely speculated, and later confirmed by its author, to have been a roman à clef based on a real relationship between Martin and Stipe. The two had previously collaborated on two books, both in 1998: ''The Haiku Year'' (for which the two had both contributed haikai) and Martin's book of poetry ''Servicing the Salamander'' (for which Stipe took the cover photograph).

Stipe also owns the building that houses The Grit vegetarian restaurant.

Projects

Stipe had planned a collaboration with friend, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, in 1994; partly in an attempt to lure Cobain away from his home and his drug addiction. However, they did not manage to compose or record anything before Cobain's death. Stipe was chosen as the godfather of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. R.E.M. wrote and recorded the song "Let Me In" from the 1994 album ''Monster'' in tribute to Cobain.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled "Photograph" which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled ''Born to Choose'', and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single "Red Rain" at the 1996 VH1 Honors.

Stipe and Tori Amos became friends in the mid 1990s and recorded a duet in 1994 called "It Might Hurt a Bit" for the ''Don Juan DeMarco'' motion picture soundtrack. Both Stipe and Amos decided to keep it in the vaults, though it was later slated to appear on the Empire Records motion picture soundtrack in 1995. The song remains unreleased and unheard.

In 1998, Stipe published a collection called ''Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith.'' In 2006, Stipe released an EP that comprised six different cover versions of Joseph Arthur's "In The Sun" for the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief fund. One version, recorded in a collaboration with Coldplay's Chris Martin, reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart. Also in 2006, Stipe appeared on the song "Broken Promise" on the Placebo release ''Meds''. Continuing his non-R.E.M. work in 2006, Stipe sang the song "L'Hôtel" on the tribute album to Serge Gainsbourg titled ''Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited'' and appeared on the song "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" on the New York Dolls album ''One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This''.

In 2008, Stipe collaborated with Lacoste to release his own "holiday collector edition" brand of polo shirt. The design depicts a concert audience from the view of the performer on stage.

In 2011, Stipe participated in a live online Facebook chat with fans following the premiere of a new R.E.M. video on ''Dazed & Confused'''s website, Dazed Digital. The video for "Walk It Back" was taken from R.E.M.'s 15th album, ''Collapse into Now''.

Musical style

Stipe's role in the songwriting process for R.E.M. was to write lyrics and devise melodies. While each member was given an equal vote in the songwriting process, Peter Buck has conceded that Stipe, as the band's lyricist, could rarely be persuaded to follow an idea he did not favor. Stipe sings in "wailing, keening, arching vocal figures" that R.E.M. biographer David Buckley compared to Celtic folk artists and Muslim muezzin. Stipe often harmonizes with Mills in songs; in the chorus for "Stand," Mills and Stipe alternate singing lyrics, creating a dialogue. Early articles about the band focused on Stipe's singing style (described as "mumbling" by ''The Washington Post''), which often rendered his lyrics indecipherable. Stipe commented in 1984, "It's just the way I sing. If I tried to control it, it would be pretty false."

"That voice. It's an extraordinary voice," said U2's Bono in 2003. "I often tell him I think he's a crooner, and he doesn't like that very much. But it is sort of one part some sort of Bing Crosby '50s laid-back crooner, and one part Dolly Parton," he added, laughing.

Stipe insisted that many of his early lyrics were "nonsense", saying in a 1994 online chat, "You all know there aren't words, ''per se'', to a lot of the early stuff. I can't even remember them." In truth, many early R.E.M. songs had definite lyrics that Stipe wrote with care. Stipe explained in 1984 that when he started writing lyrics they were like "simple pictures", but after a year he grew tired of the approach and "started experimenting with lyrics that didn't make exact linear sense, and it's just gone from there." In the mid-1980s, as Stipe's pronunciation while singing became clearer, the band decided that its lyrics should convey ideas on a more literal level. Mills explained, "After you've made three records and you've written several songs and they've gotten better and better lyrically the next step would be to have somebody question you and say, are you saying anything? And Michael had the confidence at that point to say yes . . ." After what Stipe has referred to as "The Dark Ages of American Politics [The Reagan/Bush Years]", R.E.M. incorporated more politically oriented concerns into his lyrics on ''Document'' and ''Green''. "Our political activism and the content of the songs was just a reaction to where we were, and what we were surrounded by, which was just abject horror," Stipe said later. "In 1987 and '88 there was nothing to do but be active." While Stipe continued to write songs with political subject matter like "Ignoreland" and "Final Straw", later albums have focused on other topics. ''Automatic for the People'' dealt with "mortality and dying. Pretty turgid stuff", according to Stipe, while ''Monster'' critiqued love and mass culture.

Stipe normally does not play instruments, focusing more on his singing, but has played instruments on albums, including harmonica on ''Reckoning'', synthesizer on ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi'', guitar on ''Up'' and melodica on ''Out of Time'', and has occasionally played guitar on some songs in concert.

Film and television work

In early 1987 Stipe co-founded C00 Films with Jim McKay, a mixed-media company that was "designed to channel its founder's creative talents towards the creation and promotion of alternative film works." Stipe and his producing partner, Sandy Stern, have served as executive producers on films including ''Being John Malkovich'', ''Velvet Goldmine'', and ''Man on the Moon''. He was also credited as a producer of the 2004 film ''Saved!''.

In 1998 he worked on Single Cell Pictures, a film production company which released several arthouse / indie movies.

Stipe has made a number of acting appearances on film and on television. Stipe appeared in an episode of ''The Adventures of Pete & Pete'' as an ice cream man named Captain Scrummy. Stipe has appeared as himself with R.E.M. on ''Sesame Street'' playing a reworked version of "Shiny Happy People" called "Furry Happy Monsters", and appeared in an episode of ''The Simpsons'' titled "Homer the Moe", where R.E.M. was tricked into playing a show in Homer Simpson's garage. He also appeared as a guest on the Cartoon Network talk show spoof Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the episode 'Hungry'.

Stipe voiced Schnitzel the Reindeer in the 1999 movie ''Olive, the Other Reindeer''.

Discography

;Solo releases

"In the Sun" (with Chris Martin) (2006)

;Guest appearances

With The Golden Palominos: "Boy (Go)", "Omaha", and "Clustering Train" on ''Visions of Excess'' (1985); "Alive and Living Now" on ''Drunk with Passion'' (1991)

With Our Favorite Band: "Dreamin' Of Eternity" ''Saturday Nights...Sunday Mornings'' (1987)

With 10,000 Maniacs: "A Campfire Song" on ''In My Tribe'' (1987)

With the Indigo Girls : "Kid Fears" on ''Indigo Girls'' (1988); "I'll Give You My Skin" on ''Rarities'' (2005)

''Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films'' - "Opening Melody — Little April Shower" (with Natalie Merchant and Mark Bingham and The Roches)

With Syd Straw: "Future 40's" on ''Surprise'' (1989)

With The Blue Aeroplanes: "What It Is" on ''Swagger'' (1990)

With Billy Bragg: "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" on ''Don't Try This at Home'' (1991)

With Neneh Cherry: "Trout" on ''Homebrew'' (1992)

With Kristin Hersh: "Your Ghost" on ''Hips and Makers'' (1994)

"My Gang" on ''Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness'' (1997)

With Vic Chesnutt: "Injured Bird" on ''The End of Violence'' (1997)

With Patti Smith: "Last Call" on ''Peace and Noise'' (1997); "Glitter in Their Eyes" on ''Gung-Ho'' (2000)

With Rain Phoenix: "Happiness" on the soundtrack for the film ''Happiness'' (1998)

With Grant Lee Buffalo: "Everybody Needs a Little Sanctuary" on ''Jubilee'' (1998)

With Spacehog: "Almond Kisses" on ''The Chinese Album'' (1999)

With Utah Saints: "Sun", "Rhinoceros" and "Wiggedy Wack" on ''Two'' (2000)

With Community Trolls: "Tainted Obligation" (1983) on ''To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet'' (2002)

With Artists Against AIDS Worldwide: "What's Going On" (2001)

With Faultline: "Greenfields" on ''Your Love Means Everything'' (2002)

With 1 Giant Leap: "The Way You Dream" on ''1 Giant Leap'' (2002); ''I Have Seen Trouble'' on ''What About Me?'' (2009)

With Stéphane Pompougnac: "Clumsy" on ''Living on the Edge'' (2003)

"L'Hôtel" (Serge Gainsbourg cover) on ''Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited'' (2006)

With Placebo: "Broken Promise" on ''Meds'' (2006)

With Miguel Bosé: "Lo que hay es lo que ves" on ''Papito'' (2007)

With Maria Taylor: "Cartoons And Forever Plans" on ''LadyLuck'' (2009)

;Production In addition to co-producing most of R.E.M.'s output, Stipe has also produced the following:

With Vic Chesnutt: "Little (album)" (1990), "West of Rome" (1992)

With Magnapop: ''Magnapop'' (1992)

References

Buckley, David. ''R.E.M.: Fiction: An Alternative Biography''. Virgin, 2002. ISBN 1-85227-927-3

Platt, John (editor). ''The R.E.M. Companion: Two Decades of Commentary''. Schirmer, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864935-4

Notes

External links

Allmusic Profile

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name	Spike Jonze
birth name	Adam Spiegel
birth date	October 22, 1969
birth place	Rockville, Maryland, U.S.
occupation	Director, producer, actor
years active	1989–present
spouse	Sofia Coppola (1999–2003; divorced)
partner	}}

Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) 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 him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination) and the 2002 film ''Adaptation'', and as the co-writer/director of the 2009 film ''Where the Wild Things Are''. He is well known also for his music video collaborations with Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's ''Jackass''. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.

He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry.

Early life

Spiegel was born in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland and in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family and founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandy Granzow, is a writer, communications consultant in developing countries, and artist. His brother Sam (aka Squeak E. Clean) is a producer and DJ. Jonze attended SFAI in San Francisco, California.

When he was in junior high and high school, Spiegel hung out at Bethesda community store, where the former owner Mike Henderson gave him his nickname "Spike Jonze" in reference to Spike Jones. He fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark "Lew" Lewman and Andy Jenkins, both co-editors of ''Freestylin' Magazine'' in the mid- to late 1980s, where Jonze worked as a photographer. The three also created the youth culture magazines ''Homeboy'' and ''Dirt'' (the latter of which was described as "''Sassy Magazine'' for boys," being published by the same company and distributed in cellophane bags with the landmark magazine for young women).

Career

In 2006, he was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for "Outstanding Achievement in Commercials in 2005." He was nominated for a body of work that included ''Hello Tomorrow'' for Adidas, ''Lamp'' for IKEA, and ''Pardon Our Dust'' for The Gap. He was a producer and co-creator of MTV television series ''Jackass'' and ''Jackass: The Movie'', also directing some of the segments. Jonze has acted in some videos and films; his most prominent role was in ''Three Kings'' as the sweet, dimwitted, casually racist Conrad, in which he was directed by friend David O. Russell.

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. He also co-directed the Girl Skateboards film ''Yeah Right!'' and the Chocolate Skateboards video ''Hot Chocolate''. In the closing credits montage of ''Yeah Right!'' Spike is shown doing a nollie heelflip in loafers. He is also co-owner of Girl Skateboards.

Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey (alternately spelled Coufey or Couffe), the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that performs in public spaces. The Koufey persona appeared when Jonze, in character, filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" as it played on a boom box in a public area. Spike showed the video to Slim, who loved it. Jonze then assembled a group of dancers to perform to Slim's "Praise You" outside a Westwood, California movie theater and taped the performance. 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. The video received awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography, which Jonze accepted, still in character. Jonze made a mockumentary about the experience called ''Torrance Rises''.

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''. He appears in the "Exoskeleton" part.

Since 2007, he has been the creative director at VBS.tv, an online television network supplied by ''Vice'' and funded by MTV.

Spike Jonze was part of the Detour-Moleskine project in New York in 2007. The project invites authors to compile and illustrate Moleskine notebooks with experienced knowledge, to provide an intimate insight into the artists' creative process.

Most recently, Jonze directed ''Where the Wild Things Are'', which opened in the United States on October 16, 2009. It was arguably his most anticipated film to date, the product of an almost decade long collaboration with author Maurice Sendak. The film received generally favorable reviews, and appeared on many critics' end-of-the-year top ten lists.

In July 2009, Jonze acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the Shane Jones novel, ''Light Boxes''. However, Jonze, in an interview with Times Online, said that Ray Tintori was no longer a director for that project as expected. In an interview with ''Interview Magazine'' in June 2010, Jones said the film option had been dropped.

In 2010, he made a 28 minute short titled ''Scenes from the Suburbs'', inspired by the Arcade Fire album ''The Suburbs''. Scenes from his short were used in the music video to the title song from the album, "The Suburbs". A dystopian vision of suburbia in the near-future, the short was co-written by Jonze, Win Butler and Will Butler. Expanding on the themes of nostalgia, alienation and childhood, the short premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and saw its online premiere at MUBI on June 27, 2011.

Jonze is good friends with Björk and frequently works with her. He has directed three videos for her and she contributed with the theme song for Jonze's ''Being John Malkovich'' film.

Jonze is currently working on another project with the Beastie Boys for the release of their Santigold collaboration, "Don't Play No Game that I Can't Win." In a similar fashion to Jonze's recent work with Arcade Fire, he has directed both "short and epic-length videos" to partner with the single.

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

Personal life

On June 26, 1999, Jonze married director Sofia Coppola, whom he had first met in 1992. On December 5, 2003, the couple filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences." The character of John, a career-driven photographer (Giovanni Ribisi) in Coppola's ''Lost In Translation'' (2003), was rumored to be based on Jonze, though Coppola has vehemently denied this.

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

In 2011, it was reported that he is dating Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi.

Recurring collaborators

Spike Jonze has worked with certain actors and key crew members in more than one of his films.

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Filmography

Director

Feature films

{|class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Budget ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | US Gross ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Awards |- | rowspan="1" | 1999 | ''Being John Malkovich'' | $13 million | $22,863,596 | 3 Oscar nominations; 4 GG nominations |- | rowspan="1" | 2002 | ''Adaptation'' | $19 million | $22,498,520 | 1 Oscar win, 3 nominations; 2 GG wins, 3 GG nominations |- | rowspan="1" | 2009 | ''Where the Wild Things Are'' | $100 million | $100,086,793 | 1 GG nomination |}

Short films

{|class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role |- | 1997 | ''How They Get There'' | Writer, director |- | rowspan="1" | 1998 | ''Amarillo by Morning'' | Director |- | 1999 | ''Torrance Rises'' | Co-director, choreographer, actor |- | 2009 | ''We Were Once a Fairytale'' | rowspan=2 | Writer, director |- | 2010 | ''I'm Here'' |- | rowspan="2" | 2011 | ''Scenes From the Suburbs'' | Co-writer, director |- | ''Mourir Auprés De Toi'' | Co-writer, co-director |}

Music videos

{|class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Song ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Artist ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |rowspan="2"|1992 | "High in High School" | Chainsaw Kittens | |- | "100%" | Sonic Youth | |- |rowspan="5"|1993 | "Cannonball" | The Breeders | Co-directed by Kim Gordon Produced by Steve Reiss |- | "Country at War" | X | |- | "Daughters of the Kaos" | Luscious Jackson | |- | "Hang On" | Teenage Fanclub | |- | "Time for Livin'" | Beastie Boys | |- |rowspan="12"|1994 | "All About Eve" | Marxman | |- | "Buddy Holly" | Weezer | |- | "Ditch Digger" | Rocket from the Crypt | |- | "Divine Hammer" | The Breeders | |- | "Feel the Pain" | Dinosaur Jr. | |- | "I Can't Stop Smiling" | Velocity Girl | |- | "If I Only Had a Brain" | MC 900 Ft. Jesus | |- | "Old Timer" | that dog. | |- | "Ricky's Theme" | rowspan="3"|Beastie Boys | |- | "Sabotage" | Also writer |- | "Sure Shot" | |- | "Undone - The Sweater Song" | Weezer | |- |rowspan="7"|1995 | "California" | Wax | |- | "Car Song" | Elastica | |- | "Crush with Eyeliner" | R.E.M. | |- | "Freedom of '76" | Ween | |- | "It's Oh So Quiet" | Björk | |- | "The Diamond Sea" | Sonic Youth | |- | "Who Is Next?" | Wax | |- | 1996 | "Drop" | The Pharcyde | |- | rowspan="7"|1997 | "Da Funk" | Daft Punk | |- | "Electrolite" | R.E.M. | |- | "Elektrobank" | The Chemical Brothers | |- | "It's All About the Benjamins" (Rock Remix) | Puff Daddy | |- | "Liberty Calls" | Mike Watt | |- | "Shady Lane" | Pavement | |- | "Sky's the Limit" | The Notorious B.I.G. | |- | rowspan="3"|1998 | "Home" | Sean Lennon | |- | "Praise You" | Fatboy Slim | A Torrance Public Film Production |- | "Root Down" version 2 | Beastie Boys | |- | rowspan="3"|2000 | "Weapon of Choice" | Fatboy Slim | |- | "What's Up, Fatlip?" | Fatlip | |- | "Wonderboy" | Tenacious D | As Marcus Von Bueler |- | rowspan="3"|2002 | "Island in the Sun" (version 2) | Weezer | |- | "Guess I'm Doing Fine" | Beck | |- | "It's in Our Hands" | Björk | |- | 2003 | "Big Brat" | Phantom Planet | |- |rowspan="2"|2004 | "Get Back" | Ludacris | |- | "Y Control" | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |- | rowspan="1"|2005 | "Triumph of a Heart" | Björk | |- | rowspan="1"|2008 | "Flashing Lights" | Kanye West | Co-directed with West |- | rowspan="2"|2009 | "Heaven" | UNKLE | Co-directed with Ty Evans |- | "25" | AsDSSka | Co-directed with Crysal Moselle |- |rowspan="2"|2010 | "Drunk Girls" | LCD Soundsystem | Co-directed with James Murphy |- | "The Suburbs" | Arcade Fire | |- | rowspan="2"|2011 | "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" | Beastie Boys | |- | "Otis" | Jay-Z & Kanye West | |- |}

Video

''Ciao L.A.'' (director) (1994)

''An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube'' (director) (1999)

''What's Up, Fatlip?'' (director) (2003)

''The Work of Director Spike Jonze'' (director) (2003)

''The Mystery of Dalarö'' (director) (2004)

''Corporate Ghost'' (actor, director) (2004)

''Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow'' (cinematographer) (2004)

Skateboard videos

''Rubbish Heap'' for SMA World Industries (1989)

''Two World Industries Men'' for SMA World Industries (1989)

''Video Days'' for Blind (1991)

''Goldfish'' (1993)

''Mouse'' (1996)

''The Chocolate Tour'' (1999)

''Yeah Right!'' (2003)

''Hot Chocolate!'' (2004)

''The Krooked Chronicles'' (2006)

''Fully Flared'' for Lakai (2007)

''Final Flare'' for Mark (2008)

Other filmography

{|class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role |- | 1993 | ''Mi Vida Loca'' | rowspan="3"|Actor |- | 1996 | ''Pig!'' |- | rowspan="2" | 1997 | ''The Game'' |- | ''Free Tibet'' | Cinematographer |- | 1999 | ''Three Kings'' | Actor |- | rowspan="2" | 2001 | ''Human Nature'' | Producer |- | ''Keep Your Eyes Open'' | Actor |- | 2002 |'' Jackass: The Movie'' | rowspan="3" | Producer, actor |- | rowspan="2"| 2006 | ''Jackass: Number Two'' |- | ''''The Fall'''' |- | rowspan="2"| 2008 | ''Synecdoche, New York'' | rowspan="2" | Producer |- | ''Heavy Metal in Baghdad'' |- | rowspan="1" | 2009 | ''The 1 Second Film'' | rowspan="3" | Producer, actor |- | rowspan="2" | 2010 |''Jackass 3D'' |- |''Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life'' |- | 2011 |''Moneyball'' | Actor |}

Television

{|class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Position |- | 2000 | ''Jackass'' | Creator, executive producer |- | 2004 | ''Sonic Youth Video Dose'' | Actor |- | 2010–2012 | ''The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret'' | Actor - Doug Whitney |- |}

References

Further reading

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External links

Spike Jonze Producer Profile on The 1 Second Film website

Allmovie entry for Spike Jonze

Commercials at MJZ

Spike Jonze at MUBI

Spike Jonze unmasked

DirectorsLabel.com, co-founded with Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry

KCRW's The Treatment: Spike Jonze

"Spike Jonze Unmasked" article from New York Magazine

Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena: ''Video Thrills The Radio Star. Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen''. Bielefeld 2007, p. 175ff., p. 182ff., p. 232ff., p. 277ff.

''The New York Times Magazine'' profile

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