Spike Jonze Wikipedia. Spike Jonze pronounced Jones born Adam Spiegel on October 2. American skateboarder, filmmaker, director, producer, photographer, screenwriter, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for Freestylin Magazine and Transworld Skateboarding. Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential Video Days 1. Jonze co founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1. Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Jonzes filmmaking style made him an in demand director of music videos for much of the 1. Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Bjrk, and Kanye West. Jonze began his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich 1. Adaptation 2. 00. Charlie Kaufman the former earned Jonze an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was a co creator and executive producer of MTVs Jackass reality franchise. At the 2. Grammy Awards, the music video for Weapon of Choice won Best Short Form Music Video. He has a speaking part along with Dave Eggers in the Beck song The Horrible FanfareLandslideExoskeleton from his 2. The Information. He appears in the Exoskeleton part. Since 2. 00. 7, he has been the creative director at VBS. Vice and funded by MTV. Insect Download Ipod there. Spike Jonze was part of the Detour Moleskine project in New York in 2. The project invites authors to compile and illustrate Moleskine notebooks to provide an intimate insight into the artists creative process. In 2. 00. 8 he co produced a new video for the Chocolate Skateboards Easy Steady, direct by Ty Evans and Federico Vitetta in Milan, featuring the song Felicit by Bugo. Jonze directed Where the Wild Things Are,2. United States on October 1. 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 2. 00. 9, Jonze acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the Shane Jones novel Light Boxes.