Awards & Winners

Lance Acord

Date of Birth 09-September-1964
Place of Birth Marin County
(California, San Francisco Bay Area, North Bay, San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Lance Acord, A.S.C., 랜스 아코드
Profession Cinematographer, Film Producer, Actor, Film director
Lance Acord, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer. Acord was born in Marin County, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School's School Within A School 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. 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.

Awards by Lance Acord

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lance Acord.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Commercials

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Commercials
Park Pictures

2004


Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
Honored for : Lost in Translation

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Lost in Translation
Chlotrudis Award for Best Cinematography Lost in Translation
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Lost in Translation

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Lost in Translation
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Commercials
For Adidas: "Wake Up Call", Nike: "Cross Country Spirit" and Mitsubishi: "Part Car, Part Religion".