For many years, Spike Jonze has been known as an award-winning music video, short film, commercial and feature film director. Spike’s acclaimed original work in commercials has won him much praise. His most recent commercial, IKEA “Lamp“, won the Grand Prix at Cannes and was voted one of the Best Spots of the Year by Adweek. Levi’s “Crazy Legs” received the Bronze Lion at Cannes, won the London International Advertising award for best visual direction and was also voted one of the Best Spots of the Year by Adweek. His commercial for Nike “The Morning After” won Gold at the One Show.

Just as with his commercial achievements, Spike continues to be a pioneer in the world of music videos. Spike’s direction of the Beastie Boys “Sabotage” music video, in the form of opening credits for a fictional 1970’s cop show, received critical praise and numerous awards. Ever since, Spike’s music videos have regularly been nominated for MTV Video Music Awards. Spike’s video for Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” was named the best video of all time by MTV. Also on that list are his other videos, including “Sabotage“, Weezer’s “Buddy Holly“, Daft Punk’s “Da Funk“, Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” and Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“.

Spike is also widely known as the director of “Being John Malkovich” (which garnered 3 Academy Award® nominations, including Best Director) and “Adaptation” (4 Academy Award® nominations; winner for Best Supporting Actor). Spike also produced Michel Gondry’s feature film, “Human Nature”, based on an original script by Charlie Kaufman, and the “Jackass” TV Series and feature film.

Spike began his career as a photographer and co-directing Blind Video Days (skate video) with Mark Gonzales. Spike continues to work actively in all of these mediums.