Michel Gondry - Auteur Music Director

• Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter, and producer known for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mine-en-scene.
• He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film he also directed. 
• Other films: The Science of Sleep (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), The Green Hornet (2011), The We and the I (2012), Mood Indigo (2013).
• Well known for music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, and The White Stripes. 
• Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion. 
• His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he was also a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of 8 music videos for Björk.
• Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on multiple occasions include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. 
• Gondry's video for Lucas Secon's "Lucas With the Lid Off" was nominated in the Best Music Video (short form) category at the 37th Grammy Awards.
• Gondry has also made many TV commercials.
• Gondry, along with directors Spike Jonze and David Fincher, is representative of the influx in music video directors in feature films. Gondry made his feature film debut in 2001 with Human Nature, gathering mixed reviews. His second film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, was released in 2004 and received very favourable reviews, becoming one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. 
• Eternal Sunshine utilises many of the image manipulation techniques that Gondry had experimented with in his music videos. Gondry won an Academy Award alongside Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth for the screenplay of Eternal Sunshine. The style of Gondry's music videos often relies on videography and camera tricks which play with the frames of reference. 
• According to the Guinness World Records 2004, Gondry's Levi's 501 Jeans "Drugstore" spot holds the record for "most awards won by a TV commercial". The commercial was never aired in North America because of the suggestive content involving purchasing latex condoms.