Lance Acord ASC[1] is an American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for his work on the films, Buffalo '66 (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Lost in Translation (2003).
Lance Acord | |
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 Acord at Sundance 2015 (first from left to right) | |
| Occupation(s) | Cinematographer, Film director |
Early life
editAcord studied photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.[2][3]
Career
editCinematographer
editAcord began his career with photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber, which whom he made documentaries, commercials and music videos. His breakthrough came after he shot the music video for Björk's "Big Time Sensuality", directed by Stéphane Sednaoui. Acord continued to work extensively in commercials and music videos through the 1990s. He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the Fatboy Slim music video for "Weapon of Choice", which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze. He also worked with R.E.M. on a regular basis.
Acord made his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking as the cinematographer of Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998). He shot Spike Jonze's films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), and her short film Lick the Star (1998), as well as Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002).
Commercial director
editIn the late 1990s, Acord began to transition to commercial directing and in 1998, together with his business partner Jackie Kelman Bisbee, he founded the commercial production company Park Pictures. He received 35 Cannes Lions for his work with clients such as Nike, Apple, HP, Volkswagen, P&G, Subaru. He was nominated for Best Commercial Director by the DGA in 2003, 2011, 2012, and 2017. In 2011, his Super Bowl spot for Volkswagen, "The Force", was named the best ad of 2011 by AdWeek, Creativity, and YouTube and consistently ranks on lists of the greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time. His Apple film "Misunderstood" won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial. In 2019, he won his second Emmy award for the Nike commercial "Dream Crazy," starring Colin Kaepernick.
In 2019, directed the short film commercial for Xfinity, A Holiday Reunion, based on the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and starring Henry Thomas, who reprises his role as Elliott.
Filmography
editDirector of photography
editShort film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Billy Nayer | Cory McAbee | |
| 1995 | Gentle Giants | Bruce Weber | |
| 1997 | How They Get There | Spike Jonze | |
| 1998 | Amarillo by Morning | Documentary short | |
| Lick the Star | Sofia Coppola | ||
| 2000 | Eventual Wife | Bryan Bantry Dave Diamond |
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| 2012 | Ed Ruscha, Woody and the World's Hottest Pepper | Himself | |
| 2013 | Apple Misunderstood | ||
| 2019 | E.T.: A Holiday Reunion | TV special |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze |
| 2001 | Southlander | Steve Hanft |
| 2002 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | Peter Care |
| Adaptation | Spike Jonze | |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Spike Jonze |
| 2014 | God's Pocket | John Slattery |
Documentary film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Free Tibet | Sarah Pirozek | |
| 2001 | Chop Suey | Bruce Weber | With James D. Cooper and Jim Fealy |
| 2012 | Wild in the Streets | Peter Baxter | With Peter Baxter, Terrence Hayes, Laurent Malaquais and Mark Williams |
| 2018 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Bruce Weber |
Music videos
Producer
edit- Robot & Frank (2012)
- God's Pocket (2014)
Executive producer
- The New Tenants (2009) (Short film)
- Cop Car (2015)
- Other People (2016)
- The Rehearsal (2016)
- The Hero (2017)
- An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- The Sentence (2018)
- Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
- Lazy Susan (2019) (Short film)
- Farewell Amor (2020)
- The Last Shift (2020)
- The Truffle Hunters (2020) (Documentary)
- The Heart Still Hums (2020) (Documentary short)
- Born to Play (2020) (Documentary)
- Another Hayride (2021) (Documentary short)
- Long Weekend (2021)
- There There (2022)
- Aisha (2022)
- Broadway Rising (2022) (Documentary)
- The Independent (2022)
- Earth Mama (2023)
- Late Bloomers (2023)
- Flipside (2023)
References
edit- ^ American Society of Cinematographers. Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Lance Acord". Adforum. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ Diaz, Ann-Christine (November 1, 2002). "The Next Wave: Lance Acord, Park Pictures". AdAge.
External links
edit- Lance Acord's production company ParkPictures
- Lance Acord at SFX company Method Studio
- Lance Acord at IMDb
- Lance Acord at mvdbase
- Lance Acord at Cinematographers.nl