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Marcus Nispel is a film director, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1964. When he was 20 he went to America and founded his production company Portfolio Artists Network. He is fairly well known for his music videos, most-notably for Janet Jackson, the Spice Girls, Puff Daddy, Faith No More, Simply Red, Wild Orchid and No Doubt. To date he created over 1000 commercials and video clips for AT&T, Coca-Cola, Kodak, Levi's, Mercedes, Nike, Panasonic, Pepsi, UPS and so on.

Twelve times he was nominated for the MTV Music Video Award and won four times, for example the European Music Award 1993 for George Michael's "Killer/Papa was a Rolling Stone". Nispel was awarded two Billboard awards and he received the MVPA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

He also directed the remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003. Michael Bay produced it with him.

Nispel recently filmed Pathfinder (2006) and is currently directing Alice, an adaptation of American McGee's Alice.

External links

• Marcus Nispel at the Internet Movie Database
• Marcus Nispel at the Music Video Database
• Official website

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