DIRECTOR · BORN 1963
Michel Gondry
- Born
- 8 May 1963
17 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
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- #001
In 2006, the director posted a short video on YouTube titled "Michel Gondry Solves a Rubik's Cube With His Feet," in which he solved the famous puzzle with his toes.
- #002
He played drums on Ye's hit single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (2005).
- #003
He spent 2005 at MIT as a visiting artist.
- #004
Together with Spike Jonze, he released a DVD collection titled Work of Director. It consists of DVDs devoted to Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Jonathan Glazer and Chris Cunningham, each containing those directors' music videos, commercials and short videos. It helped bring their work for many bands, and for pop culture in general, to public recognition.
- #005
Spike Jonze recommended him to the studio to direct Human Nature (2001).
- #006
His grandfather Constant Martin invented the Clavioline, one of the first synthesizers, and his father sold electric guitars.
- #007
His 1994 commercial "Drugstore" for Levi's 501 Jeans holds the record for the most awards won by a TV commercial.
- #008
His grandfather Constant Martin invented the Clavioline, one of the first keyboard synthesizers. His father was a computer programmer. His mother was a pianist.
- #009
At the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, he said that the main setting of The Science of Sleep (2006) was a house he had lived in 15 years earlier.
- #010
By directing Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), he directed what she has said is her favorite of her own performances.
- #011
He was inspired to make Be Kind Rewind (2008) after making Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005), which takes place on a single city block.
- #012
He directed an Oscar-nominated performance: Kate Winslet's in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
- #013
He has a son named Paul.
- #014
He is a big fan of Mya.
- #015
He was a Visiting Artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2006.
- #016
He graduated from the École Olivier de Serres in Paris.
- #017
He is the brother of Olivier Gondry.
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