Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

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Jonathan Dayton (born 7 July 1957 in Alameda County, California) and Valerie Faris (born 20 October 1958 in Los Angeles County, California) are an award-winning team of music video directors who have also moved into directing theatrical films.

Their most recent work, "Little Miss Sunshine", won the Best feature — international cinema Audience Award at the 2006 Sydney Film festival and an ovation at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Jonathan, after graduating from Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California, attended the UCLA Film School, studying film and television in the late-1970s; while there, he met Valerie Faris, a dance student, who became his wife and his counterpart. Together they have made an impressive body of work directing and producing music videos, documentaries, commercials and films. Some of their work have come from their own production company, established in 1998, "Bob Industries". They have been known internationally for their superb work in producing music videos. Bands such as Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins, which gave them 6 MTV Video Music Awards for the video Tonight Tonight, are among the long list of bands that they worked with. Under "Bob Industries" production, Jonathan and Valerie, directed commercials for companies such as VW, Sony PlayStation 2, GAP, Target, Ikea, Apple Computer, and ESPN. Even with their extensive work in music video's and film, they even have dabbled in television with the HBO show "Mr. Show with Bob & David".

Contents 1 Filmography 1.1 Directors 1.2 Producers 2 Videography 2.1 Directors 2.2 Executive Producers 2.3 Producers 2.4 Live Action Directors 3 Advertisements 4 Special Projects 5 Awards 6 Quotes 7 Trivia 8 External links

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Directors

• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

[edit] Producers

• The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years (1988)
• Gift (Jane's Addiction) (1993)

[edit] Videography

[edit] Directors "Wolves Lower" R.E.M. (1982) "Blue Kiss (Version 2)", Jane Wiedlin 1986 "Been Caught Stealing", Jane's Addiction (1990) "Outshined", Soundgarden (1991) "Hole Hearted", Extreme (1991) "More Than Words", Extreme (1991) "Weight Of The World", Ringo Starr (1992) "Pets", Porno for Pyros (1993) "Rocket", The Smashing Pumpkins (1994) "Gun", Soundgarden (1994) "I Don't Want To Grow Up", The Ramones (1995) "Tongue", R.E.M. (1995) "Star 69", R.E.M. (1995) "The Good Life", Weezer (1996) "Tonight, Tonight", The Smashing Pumpkins (1996) "1979", The Smashing Pumpkins (1996) "Spider-Man", The Ramones (1996) "All Around The World", Oasis (1997) "The End Is The Beginning Is The End", The Smashing Pumpkins (1997; co-directed with Joel Schumacher) "Perfect", The Smashing Pumpkins (1998) "She Will Have Her Way", Neil Finn (1998) "Go Deep", Janet Jackson (1998) "Barbarella", Scott Weiland (1998) "She's Got Issues", The Offspring (1999) "Freak On A Leash", KoЯn (1999; co-directed with Todd McFarlane and Graham Morris) "Road Trippin'", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000) "Californication", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000) "Otherside", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000) "Sexual Revolution", Macy Gray (2001) "Side", Travis (2001) "Sing", Travis (2001) "When Your Eyes Say It", Britney Spears (2001) "The Zephyr Song", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002) "By The Way", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002) "Tell Me Baby", Red Hot Chili Peppers (2006)

[edit] Executive Producers "33", The Smashing Pumpkins (1996) "The New Pollution", Beck (1997) [edit] Producers "In My Darkest Hour", Megadeth (1988) "Hole Hearted", Extreme (1991) "More Than Words", Extreme (1991) [edit] Live Action Directors "Shadrach", Beastie Boys (1989)

[edit] Advertisements

• Apple Computer
• BGI/iShares
• Chevy
• Diet Mountain Dew
• Energizer
• ESPN
• GAP
• HP Fender
• Ikea
• Mastercard
• Mercedes
• Miller Lite
• Mitsubishi
• Mountain Dew
• Moviefone
• Old Navy
• Outpost.com
• PlayStation
• Powerade
• Priceline.com
• Puma
• Snapple
• Sun Microsystems
• Target
• Toyota Nascar
• Truth Behind the Curtain
• Volkswagen

[edit] Special Projects

• The Check Up - Short Film for VW/Arnold
• "Janet", Documentary - Virgin (Directors)
• REM Tour Film "Green" - C-Hundred Films (Line Producers)
• Jane's Addiction Concert Clip - Warner(Prod/Directors)
• Counting Crows Rocumentary - Geffen (Prod/Directors)
• Interview for "Sting Unplugged" - Polydor (Prod/Directors)
• Joe Satriani Documentary - G3 (Prod/Directors)
• "The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow" - In House (Prod/Directors)
• Janet Jackson's 1814:Rhythm Nation - A&M Records (Prod/Directors)
• Rough Cut (starring R.E.M.) - Documentary

[edit] Awards

Crazy Bomb PlayStation 2 Spot Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Little Miss Sunshine (Oustanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures) BAFTA nomination for Little Miss Sunshine (David Lean Award for Direction) Independent Spirit Award for Little Miss Sunshine (Director) ANDY Award for Sony PlayStation "Gravity Bomb" (Advertising Club of New York) Sony PlayStation "Gravity Bomb" (Clio Award) Sony PlayStation campaign: "Gravity Bomb / Tractor Beam" (2004 Winner Advertising Club of New York) Sony PlayStation campaign: "Gravity Boots, Gravity Bomb, Tractor Beam" (Clio Award) Director of the Year (Billboard Music Award, 2000) Best Direction, "Californication" (MTV Video Music Awards) 9 Nominations for "Freak On A Leash" (MTV Video Music Awards) 4 Nominations for The Smashing Pumpkins "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" (MTV Video Music Awards) 5 Nominations for "Californication" (MTV Video Music Awards) Best Short Form Video, "Freak On A Leash" (Grammy Awards) Nomination for Oasis "All Around the World" (Grammy Awards) Nomination for The Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight Tonight" (Grammy Awards) 6 Awards for The Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight Tonight" (MTV Video Music Awards) Best Alternative Video for The Smashing Pumpkins "1979" (MTV Video Music Awards) 3 Nominations for Porno for Pyros "Pets" (MTV Video Music Awards) Best Alternative Video for Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealing" (MTV Video Music Awards) Best Longform Video for Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation 1814" (Grammy Awards)

[edit] Quotes

• "I think of music videos as commercials for songs." Valerie Faris, The New York Times^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Trivia

• In the movie Little Miss Sunshine inside the convenience store, the price of Frank's slurpee and the porno magazines came to a total of $19.79. Directors Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris had previously directed the "1979" music video by The Smashing Pumpkins.
• Faris' grandfather had been an electrician on The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Rebecca while her father was a sound editor on Tom and Jerry cartoons.
• Together, declined the offer to direct Mob Squad and Bad Boys II.
• Married with three children.
• Dayton grew up in Grass Valley, California [1]

[edit] External links

• Jonathan Dayton at the Internet Movie Database
• Valerie Faris at the Internet Movie Database
• Bob Industries official site

• Interview with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for theatrical release by Daniel Robert Epstein