Spike Jonze

• Spike Jonze was born Adam Spiegel on October 22nd 1969
• His work includes music videos, television, film and television commercials
• In 2006 he was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for "Outstanding Achievement in Commercials in 2005." He was nominated for work that included Hello Tomorrow for Adidas, Lamp for IKEA, and Pardon Our Dust for Gap. 
• He was a producer and co-creator of TV show Jackass and Jackass: The Movie
• Spike was also a co-founder and editor of Dirt magazine alongside Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins
•  He was an editor for Grand Royal Magazine and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding
• In the past, Jonze shot street skateboarding videos, including Blind skateboard company's 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
• Spike has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey who is the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that performs in public spaces. The Koufey alter ego started when Spike filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slim's "Rockafeller Skank" as it played 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 cinema and taped the performance
• He also has a speaking part along with Dave Eggers in the Beck song "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton" 
• Since 2007, he has been the creative director at VBS.tv, an online television network supplied by Vice and funded by MTV
• Jonze directed Where the Wild Things Are, which opened in the USA on October 16, 2009. It is  the product of a decade long collaboration with author Maurice Sendak
• In July 2009, Jonze acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the Shane Jones novel, Light Boxes. It is expected that Jonze will act as producer on this project with Ray Tintori
• In July 2010, he directed a stop-motion trailer for an upcoming concert for the Canadian band Arcade Fire