Gondry is a director known for the dreamlike sensibility he brings to music videos, commercials, and feature films alike. He's probably best known for 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Gondry grew up in Versailles and started making music videos while drumming in the pop band Oui Oui. After Björk saw Gondry's videos, she commissioned him to work on her song "Human Behaviour" in 1993. The resulting video went on to win major acclaim, and Gondry has been Björk's go-to director ever since. (Some of his other frequent music-video collaborators: Beck, Daft Punk, the White Stripes, and Kylie Minogue.) In 1997, he moved to LA, where he was introduced to reclusive screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. The two partnered to create the 2001 film Human Nature, which bombed at the box office, but their second film, 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, was a critical sensation and won them an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Gondry moved to New York in 2004, and has since directed Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Science of Sleep with Gael Garcia Bernal, and Be Kind Rewind. His 2011 outing Green Hornet seemed suspiciously mainstream for Gondry, but he's since gone back to his roots with films like The We and the I.

Gondry is one of the most sought-after music video/commercial directors, mainly because of his mind-bendingly weird concepts. Some of his career highlights include the 1994 Levi's ad "Drugstore," which won countless awards; his use of the "bullet time" film technique for a 1995 Rolling Stones video, which was later made famous in The Matrix; and the famous "Fell In Love With A Girl" video he directed for the White Stripes in 2002, which depicted the band in Legos. Gondry's trademark is his obsession with dreamlike effects, which has led some critics to claim that his storytelling talents don't measure up to his visual ones. [Image via Getty]