Lance Acord is a Actor, Producer, "B" Camera Operator and Cinematography American born on 9 september 1964 at Fresno County (USA)
Lance Acord
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Lance Acord, A.S.C. (born September 9, 1964) is an American cinematographer.
Acord was born in Marin 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.
Acord continued to work extensively in the latter 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.
Stéphane Sednaoui, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Mark Romanek, and Michel Gondry are a few of the directors Acord works with. He has shot and/or directed numerous television commercial campaigns for advertisers such as Levi's, Volkswagen, and Nike.
Acord made his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking as the cinematographer on Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66. Since then, he has been the director of photography on Spike Jonze’s features Being John Malkovich, Adaptation. (in which he also made a cameo, as himself during production of Being John Malkovich) and Where the Wild Things Are, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, and her short film Lick the Star, as well as Peter Care’s The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. He has two children with his wife. Biography
Il fait ses études supérieures au San Francisco Art Institute dans la section cinéma. Il commence sa carrière au côté de Bruce Weber et est le directeur de la photographie de plusieurs clips musicaux et publicités. Il travaille ainsi sur les clips de 7 Seconds (1994), de Youssou N'Dour et Neneh Cherry, Crush with Eyeliner (1995), de R.E.M., It's Oh So Quiet (1995) et Bachelorette (1997), de Björk, et Let Forever Be (1999), des Chemical Brothers. En 2001, il remporte le MTV Video Music Award de la meilleure photographie pour le clip de Weapon of Choice de Fatboy Slim réalisé par Spike Jonze.
Son premier long métrage en tant que directeur de la photographie est Buffalo '66 de Vincent Gallo. Il a ensuite travaillé principalement avec ses amis Spike Jonze (Dans la peau de John Malkovich, Adaptation, Max et les Maximonstres) et Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie-Antoinette). Il est membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers.
En 2011, il réalise la publicité The Force pour Vokswagen mettant en scène un enfant qui joue à Dark Vador, le fameux personnage de Star Wars. Cette publicité fait le tour du monde et est projetée avant le Super Bowl. D'une durée d'une minute, elle révolutionne le monde de la publicité par son format long et l'engouement qu'elle suscite notamment sur les réseaux sociaux. Elle obtient la même année un Lion d'or à Cannes Lions Festival.
Best films
(2003)
(Camera Operator)
(2002)
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
(2006)
(Director of Photography)
(2014)
(Additional Photography)
(2002)
(Director of Photography)
(1999)
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