After studying photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Arts Institute, Northern California native Lance Acord began his career with photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. Together they made documentaries, commercials, and music videos. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ...

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. The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... Cinematography is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. ... Christopher Walken in The Dogs of War (1981). ... Spike Jonze with the Silver Bear award for directing the movie Adaptation. ...

Stéphane Sednaoui, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Mark Romanek, and Michel Gondry are a few of the directors Acord works with. He has shot numerous television commercial campaigns for advertisers such as Levi’s, Volkswagen, and Nike. Stéphane Sednaoui (born in Paris, France) is a photographer and director of music videos. ... Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an award-winning American music video director who has also moved into directing theatrical films. ... Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. ...

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 and Adaptation, as well as Peter Care’s The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Marie-Antoinette (film), his most recent project, paired him with Sofia Coppola, who he previously collaborated with as cinematographer on Lost in Translation and her short film Lick the Star. A cinematographer (from cinema photographer) is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). ... Being John Malkovich is a 1999 film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. ... The eye is an adaptation. ... Marie-Antoinette is a 2006 film written and directed by Sofia Coppola about the life of Marie Antoinette, the Austrian archduchess who married into the French royal family in 1770, but was imprisoned and beheaded when the monarchy was overthrown in the French Revolution twenty years later. ... It has been suggested that Lost on Location be merged into this article or section. ... Lick the Star is a black and white American short film. ...

External links

• Lance Acord at the Internet Movie Database