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 Schools School Within A School SWAS program and went on to study photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute He began his professional career with photographerfilmmaker 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 Björks 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 Slims Weapon of Choice which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze He also worked with REM on a regular basis