Tony Kaye

A director of films music videos advertisements and documentaries Kaye has made several iconic music videos including the video for Runaway Train by Soul Asylum which won a Grammy Award Dani California by Red Hot Chili Peppers What God Wants by Roger Waters and Help Me and Gods Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash Kaye is a six time Grammy nominated music video director He won a Grammy in 2006 for the famous Johnny Cash video Gods Gonna Cut You Down with cameo appearances by Bono Johnny Depp Kanye West Patti Smith Terrence Howard Iggy Pop The Dixie Chicks Brian Wilson Woody Harrelson Keith Richards Chris Martin Sharon Stone Lisa Marie Presley Flea Chris Rock Justin Timberlake Kate Moss Sir Peter Blake Sheryl Crow Dennis Hopper Mick Jones JayZ His feature film debut was American History X 1998 a drama about racism starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong Norton was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film Kaye has completed his second feature film Black Water Transit 2010 starring Laurence Fishburne Karl Urban Evan Ross Brittany Snow and Stephen Dorff Kaye is currently in preproduction on the film Detachment 2011 A surrealist drama about the decline of the education system in American high schools Kaye also has a book of his artwork called Epicomedy being published by Phaidon Press Kaye has made several documentaries including a selffinanced film on the abortion debate in the United States called Lake of Fire which opened in Toronto to astounding reviews in September 2006 Lake of Fire made the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences shortlist for Best Documentary Film It was also nominated for Best Documentary Film at The Independent Spirit Awards Chicago Film Critic Association Awards and the Satellite Awards He also directed the web short This Is Not Sex starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks of Zack and Miri Make a Porno Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Kaye director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia