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Spike Jonze (pronounced "Jones" ; born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He started his feature film directing career with ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999) and ''Adaptation'' (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman, and then started movies with screenplays of his own with ''Where the Wild Things Are'' (2009) and ''Her'' (2013). Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Björk and Kanye West. He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's ''Jackass''. He is currently the creative director of Vice Media, Inc.. He is part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director for ''Being John Malkovich'', and Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song ("The Moon Song") for ''Her''. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''Her''. ==Early life and education== Jonze was born on October 22, 1969 in Rockville, Maryland, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur H. Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family, and founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandra L. Granzow, is a writer, communications consultant in developing countries, and artist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary for Spiegel )〕 His brother, Sam "Squeak E. Clean" Spiegel, is a producer and DJ. He also has a sister, Julia. His father was from a German Jewish family, while his mother has German, Scottish, and English (Christian) ancestry.〔(Spike Jonze - Biography - IMDb )〕 Jonze attended the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. When he was a junior in high school (Walt Whitman High School), Jonze spent time at a 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).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spike Jonze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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