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Michel Gondry
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Michel Gondry is a French film director, screenwriter, actor, and comics artist born on May 8, 1963, in Versailles. He began his professional work period in 1986 and is a citizen of France. Gondry is educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art and speaks both English and French. He is also a musician who plays the drum kit.
His notable works include *Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind*, *Human nature*, *Kuruma Tohrimasu*, *My New New York Diary With DVD*, and *Youll Like This Film Because Youre In It The Be Kind Rewind Protocol*. Gondry has received an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and has been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Kuruma Tohrimasu
- Human nature
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- My New New York Diary With DVD
- Youll Like This Film Because Youre In It The Be Kind Rewind Protocol
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Versailles, France
Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a French film, commercial, and music video director and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.
Known for
- At Work — Customer in the sock2026
- At Work2026
- In Bed with Michel Gondry — Himself - subject, director2024
- Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself — Self - Filmmaker2023
- The Many Faces of Jim Carrey — Self (Archive Footage)2023
- The Méliès Mystery — Self2021
- Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible — Self - Filmmaker2020
- Blockbuster — Himself2017
- Daft Punk Unchained — Self2015
- Animeland: Racconti tra manga, anime e cosplay — Himself2015
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,878
- Total plays
- 12,170
Tags
Né à Versailles en 1963 où il a grandi dans l'influence constante de la musique (Martin son grand-père a inventé l'un des tous premiers synthétiseurs, le Clavioline, et son père vendait des guitares électriques), tout petit Michel Gondry voulait être peintre ou inventeur. Après ses études primaires et secondaires, il entre dans une école d'arts appliquées (Olivier-de-Serres à Paris), où il peut développer ses talents de graphiste <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michel+Gondry">Read more on La
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,311x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,211x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,135x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,665x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,152x
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Key facts
- Born
- Versailles , France
- Occupations
- Director screenwriter producer record producer
- Years active
- 1986–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Versailles
- Occupation
- music video director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Mass
- 74
- Official website
- www.michelgondry.com
- Image
- Michel Gondry Deauville 2012.jpg
- Height
- 1.70
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Michel Gondry
- date of birth
- 1963-05-08
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- name in native language
- Michel Gondry
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- related category
- Category:Music videos directed by Michel Gondry
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- relative
- Constant Martin
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Michel Gondry ( French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]) is a French filmmaker and producer. He is known for directing the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which he co-wrote with Charlie Kaufman, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His other films include the music documentary Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005), the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep (2006), the comedy Be Kind Rewind (2008), the superhero comedy The Green Hornet (2011), the drama The We and the I (2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy Mood Indigo (2013).
Gondry has directed numerous music videos, including Björk's "Human Behaviour" in 1993 and "Bachelorette" in 1997, both of which earned him nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video. He also directed several videos for The White Stripes. He is also a record producer, most notably producing several tracks for American rapper and illustrator MC Paul Barman on his 2009 album Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michel Gondry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.