Lance Acord

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Birthday 1964-09-09 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Fresno, California, USA

Lance Acord

Biography

Lance Acord (born September 9, 1964) is an American cinematographer. Acord was born in Fresno County, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School's School Within A School (S.W.A.S.) program and went on to study photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. He began his professional career with photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. Together they made documentaries, commercials and music videos. His breakthrough in the MTV music videos world came when director Stéphane Sednaoui offered him to work on Björk's Big Time Sensuality. Acord continued to work extensively in the commercials and music videos mediums. He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”, which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze. He also worked with R.E.M. on a regular basis.

Known For

Camera

2018
The Wolf: True Alpha

as Director of Photography

2014
God's Pocket

as Director of Photography

2013
Her

as Additional Photography

2013
Wild in the Streets

as Director of Photography

2012
Robot & Frank

as "B" Camera Operator

2009
Where the Wild Things Are

as Director of Photography

2006
Marie Antoinette

as Director of Photography

2003
Lost in Translation

as Director of Photography

2003
The Work of Director Michel Gondry

as Director of Photography

2003
Lost in Translation

as Camera Operator

2002
Adaptation.

as Director of Photography

2002
Jackass: The Movie

as Second Unit Director of Photography

2002
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

as Director of Photography

2001
2001
Chop Suey

as Director of Photography

2001
Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice

as Director of Photography

2000
Eventual Wife

as Director of Photography

2000
Jackass

as Additional Camera

1999
Being John Malkovich

as Director of Photography

1998
Buffalo '66

as Director of Photography

1998
Amarillo By Morning

as Director of Photography

1998
Lick the Star

as Director of Photography

1997
How They Get There

as Director of Photography

1996
1995
Gentle Giants

as Director of Photography

1995
Björk: It's Oh So Quiet

as Director of Photography

1992
Billy Nayer

as Camera Operator

Producer

2024
Late Bloomers

as Executive Producer

2024
Daughters

as Executive Producer

2024
As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial

as Executive Producer

2023
Earth Mama

as Executive Producer

2023
Rule of Two Walls

as Executive Producer

2022
There There

as Executive Producer

2022
Aisha

as Executive Producer

2021
Long Weekend

as Executive Producer

2020
The Last Shift

as Executive Producer

2020
The Truffle Hunters

as Executive Producer

2020
Born to Play

as Executive Producer

2019
Lazy Susan

as Executive Producer

2018
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

as Executive Producer

2018
The Sentence

as Executive Producer

2018
Hearts Beat Loud

as Executive Producer

2017
The Hero

as Executive Producer

2016
Other People

as Executive Producer

2015
Cop Car

as Executive Producer

2014
God's Pocket

as Producer

2012
Robot & Frank

as Producer

2009
The New Tenants

as Executive Producer

Director

2018
2017
The Wolf

as Director