---
name: "Lance Acord"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lance-acord"
fi1m_id: "lance-acord"
imdb_id: "nm0010139"
tmdb_id: 1781
wikidata_id: "Q1801792"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "9 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-22T02:46:00.118291+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lance Acord

## Identity

Lance Acord

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lance-acord
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lance-acord
- **IMDb ID:** nm0010139
- **TMDB ID:** 1781
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1801792
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Acord, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1801792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010139/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1781

Producer. Born 9 September 1964 in Fresno, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 9 September 1964, Fresno, California, USA
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 10: 2 producing, 7 crew, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Spike Jonze](https://film.one/person/spike-jonze.md), [Catherine Keener](https://film.one/person/catherine-keener.md), [Charlie Kaufman](https://film.one/person/charlie-kaufman.md), [Ross Katz](https://film.one/person/ross-katz.md), [Sofia Coppola](https://film.one/person/sofia-coppola.md), [Vincent Landay](https://film.one/person/vincent-landay.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 83 (2), 2000s 81 (4), 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 80 (3)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Acord, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1801792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010139/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1781

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Adaptation.*](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md) (83), [*Buffalo '66*](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md) (77)
- **Hulu:** [*Where the Wild Things Are*](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md) (80)
- **Netflix:** [*Marie Antoinette*](https://film.one/film/marie-antoinette.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lance Acord is an American cinematographer and commercial director. Born on 9 September 1964 in Fresno County, California, he studied photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. He began his professional career assisting photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber on documentaries, commercials and music videos.

Acord's feature film debut was as cinematographer on Vincent Gallo's *Buffalo '66* (1998). He went on to shoot Spike Jonze's *Being John Malkovich* (1999), *Adaptation.* (2002) and *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), and Sofia Coppola's *Lost in Translation* (2003) and *Marie Antoinette* (2006). In music videos and commercials he collaborated frequently with Jonze and others, winning an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" (2001). In 1998 he co-founded the production company Park Pictures, through which he has directed commercials and received numerous Cannes Lions awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (10)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *Daughters* (2024), Fi1m 81, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/daughters.md)
- *Earth Mama* (2023), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/earth-mama.md)

### Crew (7)

- *Her* (2013), Fi1m 84, Additional Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/her.md)
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Fi1m 80, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)
- *Marie Antoinette* (2006), Fi1m 74, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/marie-antoinette.md)
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Cinematography, Camera Operator, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Fi1m 83, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *Being John Malkovich* (1999), Fi1m 89, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/being-john-malkovich.md)
- *Buffalo '66* (1998), Fi1m 77, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Making Marie Antoinette* (2026), Fi1m 78, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/making-marie-antoinette.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bird in Hand* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Soul Patrol* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Daughters* (2024), Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/daughters.md)
- *Late Bloomers* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Flipside* (2024), Executive Producer
- *As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Earth Mama* (2023), Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/earth-mama.md)
- *Rule of Two Walls* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Broadway Rising* (2022), Executive Producer
- *There There* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Aisha* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Independent* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Long Weekend* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Another Hayride* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Truffle Hunters* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Last Shift* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Born to Play* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Heart Still Hums* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Farewell Amor* (2020), Executive Producer
- *E.T.: A Holiday Reunion* (2019), Director
- *Lazy Susan* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Wolf: True Alpha* (2018), Director, Director of Photography
- *Hearts Beat Loud* (2018), Executive Producer
- *An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Sentence* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Hero* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The Wolf* (2017), Director
- *Other People* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Rehearsal* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Cop Car* (2015), Executive Producer
- *God's Pocket* (2014), Director of Photography, Producer
- *Her* (2013), Additional Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/her.md)
- *Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'* (2013), Camera Operator
- *Wild in the Streets* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Robot & Frank* (2012), Producer, "B" Camera Operator
- *The New Tenants* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Director of Photography — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)
- *Marie Antoinette* (2006), Director of Photography — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/marie-antoinette.md)
- *The Very Best of Sheryl Crow: The Videos* (2004), Director
- *The Work of Director Michel Gondry* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Director of Photography, Camera Operator — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Director of Photography — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *Jackass: The Movie* (2002), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician* (2001), Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- *Chop Suey* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Jackass* (2000), series, Additional Camera
- *Eventual Wife* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Being John Malkovich* (1999), Director of Photography — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/being-john-malkovich.md)
- *Lick the Star* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Free Tibet* (1998), Cinematography
- *Buffalo '66* (1998), Director of Photography — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md)
- *Amarillo By Morning* (1998), Director of Photography
- *How They Get There* (1997), Director of Photography
- *The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Gentle Giants* (1995), Director of Photography
- *Billy Nayer* (1992), Camera Operator

## Gallery

- ![Lance Acord](https://film.one/media/person/87782/gallery-5d9133cf8f3c.jpg) Lance Acord — https://www.flickr.com/photos/punktoad/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Lance_Acord%2C_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Form left to right: Lance Acord, Sarah Flack and Winona Ryder present US Dramatic Competition Jurors, Sundance 2015 Awards.](https://film.one/media/person/87782/gallery-f8b73262668f.jpg) Form left to right: Lance Acord, Sarah Flack and Winona Ryder present US Dramatic Competition Jurors, Sundance 2015 Awards. — https://www.flickr.com/photos/punktoad/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lance_Acord%2C_Sarah_Flack%2C_and_Winona_Ryder_at_Sundance_2015_Awards.jpg/1280px-Lance_Acord%2C_Sarah_Flack%2C_and_Winona_Ryder_at_Sundance_2015_Awards.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography 2001: MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography (won), for *Weapon of Choice*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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