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Michel Gondry won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, released in 2004. He shared the award with co-writers Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth.
Michel Gondry is from Versailles, France. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin and attended art school in Paris.
Gondry began making films by directing music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also played drums. Those videos attracted the attention of Björk, who asked him to direct her 1993 video for "Human Behaviour," launching a broader career in music videos and commercials.
Bullet time is a visual effect that freezes or slows time across multiple camera angles simultaneously. Gondry pioneered the technique in a 1996 Smirnoff vodka commercial called "Smarienberg" before it was later adapted for The Matrix.
Michel Gondry directed a total of eight music videos for Björk. Two of them - "Human Behaviour" in 1993 and "Bachelorette" in 1997 - earned him Grammy Award nominations for Best Music Video.
According to the 2004 Guinness World Records, Gondry's Levi's 501 Jeans commercial titled "Drugstore" held the record for the most awards ever won by a television commercial.