About Mark Romanek
Mark Lee Romanek is an American film, music video and commercial director and photographer. He is best known for directing the films One Hour Photo (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2010). Romanek's music videos have come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. They have earned him three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video and 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Romanek was given his first Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1996 for "Scream", a collaboration between the pop superstar siblings Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. Romanek won his second Grammy two years later, again with Janet Jackson, for her video "Got 'til It's Gone". Romanek's 2002 music video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" was nominated for seven VMAs, winning one for cinematography, and also won Romanek his third Grammy. This marked Romanek's first music video in eight years, his last being Coldplay's video for "Speed of Sound" in 2005.
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