Lance Acord

Lance Acord is an American cinematographer and film director.

Early life Acord studied photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Career

Cinematographer Acord 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 In 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 Director of photography Short film Year Title Director Notes 1992 Billy Nayer Cory McAbee 1995 Gentle Giants Bruce Weber 1997 How They Get There Spike Jonze1998 Amarillo by Morning Documentary short Lick the Star Sofia Coppola 2000 Eventual Wife Bryan BantryDave Diamond 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 Hanft2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Peter Care Adaptation Spike Jonze 2003 Lost in TranslationSofia 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 Year Artist Title Director Notes 1993 The Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock" Kevin Kerslake Björk "Big Time Sensuality" Stéphane Sednaoui 1994 Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds" MC Solaar "Nouveau Western" G. Love & Special Sauce "Cold Beverage" Mark Romanek Sonic Youth "Superstar" Dave Markey 1995 R.E.M. "Crush with Eyeliner" Spike Jonze Ween "Freedom of '76" Waterlillies "Never Get Enough" Christina Wayne Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" Diane Martel Method Man & Redman "How High" Björk "It's Oh So Quiet" Spike Jonze Elastica "Car Song" 1997 Daft Punk "Da Funk" Pond "Spokes" Mike Mills The Chemical Brothers "Elektrobank" Spike Jonze Björk "Bachelorette" Michel Gondry The Notorious B.I.G. "Sky's the Limit" Spike Jonze 1998 R.E.M. "Lotus" Stéphane Sednaoui Fatboy Slim "Praise You" Spike Jonze With Lance Bangs 1999 The Chemical Brothers "Let Forever Be" Michel Gondry Tricky "For Real" Stéphane Sednaoui 2001 Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice" Spike Jonze Dave Matthews Band "Everyday" Chuck McBride 2003 The White Stripes "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" Sofia Coppola 2004 Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Y Control" Spike Jonze 2005 Björk "Triumph of a Heart"

Producer 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)