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Lance Acord

Lance Acord

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.

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Movies Made By Lance Acord (54)

Daughters (2024)

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail. ...

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Late Bloomers (2024)

Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. Th ...

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Flipside (2024)

Chris Wilcha helped adapt This American Life to television. His new documentary embodies the spirit of that show as he tries to save a New Jersey record store, in this comic yet deeply moving reflection on opportunities lost and gained. ...

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As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial (2024)

Bronx rap artist Kemba explores the growing weaponization of rap lyrics in the United States criminal justice system and abroad — revealing how law enforcement has quietly used artistic creation as evidence in criminal cases for decades. ...

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Earth Mama (2023)

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family. ...

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Rule of Two Walls (2023)

An intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian artists who remain in their country to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression. ...

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Broadway Rising (2022)

There is no New York without Broadway. It's both a landmark and a community, an industry and a people, making magic in a dark theater, eight times a week. During the pandemic, over 96,000 people lost their jobs and an entire ecosystem of small businesses w ...

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There There (2022)

A series of hilarious, romantic, fateful encounters holds a mirror up to life in a distinctly twisted, modern world. ...

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Aisha (2022)

Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a violent gang murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and her mother can be r ...

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The Independent (2022)

It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up ...

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Long Weekend (2021)

Bart's chance encounter with the enigmatic Vienna leads to a whirlwind weekend together. The two fall fast and hard, but both carry secrets that could be their undoing or the chance for a fresh start. ...

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Another Hayride (2021)

As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride. Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly and stigmatized disease, Louise promised that they could overcome AIDS through sel ...

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The Truffle Hunters (2020)

In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world's most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a frag ...

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The Last Shift (2020)

Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn. ...

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Born to Play (2020)

Spends a season with the Boston Renegades, a womens' tackle football team on the path to redemption after going undefeated but losing their championship the previous year. These unpaid athletes put their bodies on the line while maintaining full-time caree ...

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The Heart Still Hums (2020)

A documentary short following five women as they fight for their children through the cycle of homelessness, drug addictions and neglect from their own parents. Unique, yet undoubtedly familiar to many; a story about fear, sacrifice and the unconditional l ...

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Farewell Amor (2020)

Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional dis ...

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Lazy Susan (2019)

Susan's family restaurant is in trouble: a competing restaurant, Soup Station, moves in next door and, powered by its ingenious innovation (self-serve soup!) business is slow. How can their traditional Chinese restaurant compete? From this humble beginning ...

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The Wolf: True Alpha (2018)

HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer. ...

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Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical pass ...

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An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn: For One Magical Night Only. ...

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The Sentence (2018)

Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy' ...

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The Hero (2017)

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardoni ...

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The Wolf (2017)

If you're not taking your printer security seriously, someone else might be. ...

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Other People (2016)

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a s ...

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The Rehearsal (2016)

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield. ...

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Cop Car (2015)

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride. ...

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God's Pocket (2014)

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters. ...

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Her (2013)

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional ...

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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2013)

A concert inspired by the Coen Brothers' film, 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' which is set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, featuring live performances of the film's music, as well as songs from the early 1960s. Performers include the Avett Brother ...

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Wild in the Streets (2013)

An ancient football game is the lifeblood of an English market town and the origin of soccer, rugby and American football. ...

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Robot & Frank (2012)

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father's well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially ...

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The New Tenants (2009)

A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. ...

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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways. ...

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

A retelling of the story of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. ...

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The Very Best of Sheryl Crow: The Videos (2004)

Contains the following music videos: All I Wanna Do Soak Up The Sun My Favorite Mistake The First Cut Is The Deepest Everyday Is A Winding Road Leaving Las Vegas Strong Enough If It Makes You Happy Run, Baby, Run Steve McQueen A Change Would Do ...

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The Work of Director Michel Gondry (2003)

A look at the work of director Michel Gondry, through his music videos, short films, and commercials. ...

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Lost in Translation (2003)

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. ...

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Adaptation. (2002)

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orle ...

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Jackass: The Movie (2002)

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligat ...

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends. ...

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Weapon of Choice (2001)

A businessman, overhearing the song on the maid's radio, takes to dancing in the hotel lobby. ...

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Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician (2001)

Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way. ...

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Chop Suey (2001)

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16-year-old wrestler. ...

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Eventual Wife (2000)

A short from Bryan Bantry and Dave Diamond. ...

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Being John Malkovich (1999)

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body. ...

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Lick the Star (1998)

Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star. ...

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Free Tibet (1998)

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996. ...

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Buffalo '66 (1998)

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry. ...

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Amarillo By Morning (1998)

While filming professional bullriders for a commercial at the national rodeo in Houston, Texas, Spike Jonze befriended two suburban teenagers who aspired to be cowboys. The documentary chronicles an afternoon in their lives. ...

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How They Get There (1997)

A guy and a girl play copycat with each other from opposite sides of the street. ...

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The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society (1996)

In the mid-to-late fifties the word "Rock-A-Billy" found its way into the vocabulary of America's youth. Bill Haley and His Comets were the leaders of this short-lived musical movement. By 1962 Rock-A-Billy was all but gone. But in present day London the f ...

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Gentle Giants (1995)

An autobiographical piece: Weber is the off-screen narrator telling us about various key points in his life - as a teenager putting together a scrapbook of Hollywood stars and falling in love with Liz Taylor; living on a farm with Newfoundland dogs; his re ...

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Billy Nayer (1992)

A man in a bar sings to the object of his desire in this animated musical. ...

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Movies Starring Lance Acord (5)

Once Upon a Time... Lost in Translation (2015)

A documentary about the making of Lost in Translation. ...

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Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project (2014)

The making of Spike Jonze's "Her. ...

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Collaborators (2009)

A portrait of Spike Jonze and his longtime moviemaking partnerships. ...

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The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). ...

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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' (2004)

Behind the scenes documentary shot during the making of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003). ...

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