A notoriously shy prankster with a penchant for skateboarding and tall tales, Spike Jonze might not have been the most obvious candidate for "most promising director" or "best first feature" status. With the release of Being John Malkovich in the fall of 1999, however, those were exactly the kinds of superlatives being lauded upon the impetuous wunderkind.
Purportedly an heir to the ...more
- 2002
- Golden Globe
- Best Director
- Adaptation
- nom
- 1999
- Broadcast Film Critics Association
- Breakthrough Performer
- Being John Malkovich
- win
- 1999
- New York Film Critics Circle
- Best First Film
- Being John Malkovich
- win
- 1999
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best First Feature Over $500,000
- Being John Malkovich
- win
- 1999
- Broadcast Film Critics Association
- Breakthrough Performer
- Three Kings
- win
- 1999
- Three Kings
- Conrad Vig
- 1993
- My Crazy Life
- Teenage Drug Customer
- 2009
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Director
- 2009
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Screenwriter
- 2008
- Music Video: Another Body
- Director
- 2008
- Synecdoche, New York
- Producer
- 2007
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- Executive Producer














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