Trivia

In his video clips and commercials, he was a pioneer for a number of things. For example the video clip he made for IAM (Je danse le Mia) was the first video clip using the morphing techniques. He also took the technique used by Bruce Bickford in the 1971 animation The last battle on Flat Earth (1971) where several cameras take pictures at the same time around somebody and applied it to live action. This technique was used by Gondry in a commercial for insurance, then in Björk's "Army of Me" video clip and in The Matrix (1999).

The director posted a short video on YouTube in 2006 titled simply "Michel Gondry Solves a Rubik's Cube With His Feet" in which he solved the famous puzzle with his toes.

Played drums on Ye's hit single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (2005)

Released a collection of DVDs with Spike Jonze: Work of Director. It is a collection of DVDs, one on Michel Gondry, one on Spike Jonze, one on Jonathan Glazer and on Chris Cunningham, amongst others. Each features music videos, ads and short videos by those directors. This helped them get public recognition for the work they had done for many bands and pop culture in general.

Spent 2005 as an artist-in-residence at MIT.

His 1994 "Drugstore" spot for Levi's 501 Jeans holds the record for most awards won by a TV commercial.

Spike Jonze suggested him for the studio, to direct Human Nature (2001).

His grandfather Constant Martin invented one of the first synthesizers (the Clavioline), and his father sold electric guitars.

His grandfather, Constant Martin, invented the clavioline, one of the first keyboard synthesizers. His father programmed computers. His mother was a pianist.

At the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, he told that the main location of The Science of Sleep (2006) is a house where he used to live 15 years ago.

By directing Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), he directed her in her favorite performance of her own.

Was inspired to make Be Kind Rewind (2008) after making Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) which took place on one city block.

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).

Is a big fan of Mya.

Artist in Residence at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2006.

Has a son called Paul.

Brother of Olivier Gondry.

Graduated from École Olivier de Serres in Paris.