Name Daniel Acon Role Movie actor | Parents William J. Acon Education Seton Hall University | |
Movies The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, To Rome with Love Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects - Series Similar People Gary Brozenich, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, John Milius, Bruno Heller | ||
Daniel Acon (born January 24, 1958 Rome) is an American Special Effects Coordinator and Supervisor.
He graduated from Seton Hall University. He has created the special effects for many blockbuster movies and primetime TV shows. Daniel Acon has been nominated for 2 primetime Emmy awards, 2002 and 2007 for Art Directing Sting's television concert "Sting ...All this time", and for the special effects on HBO's Rome television series. Has also gotten a Royal Television Society nomination for the television series Rome.
He has worked with film directors such as Martin Scorsese on "Gangs of New York", Mel Gibson on "The Passion of Christ", J.J. Abrams, on "Mission Impossible 3", Ridley Scott's "Hannibal", and recently with director Spike Lee on "Miracle at Santa Anna."
Filmography
Special Effects
2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (special effects supervisor: Italy)
2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (special effects workshop supervisor: Sicily)
2023
Fast X (special effects supervisor: Italy)
2019
6 Underground (Special Effects Supervisor: Italy)
2016
Zoolander 2 (special effects supervisor)
2013
Afflicted (special effects supervisor)
2012
The Landlords (special effects supervisor)
2012
To Rome with Love (special effects supervisor - as Daniel Dominic Acon)
2010
Eat Pray Love (special effects supervisor: Italy)
2009
Angels & Demons (special effects supervisor: italy)
2008
Miracle at St. Anna (special effects supervisor - as Daniel Dominic Acon)
2008
Jumper (special effects coordinator)
2005
Rome (TV Series) (special effects supervisor - 22 episodes)
- De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man) (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- A Necessary Fiction (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Death Mask (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Philippi (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Heroes of the Republic (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Son of Hades (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Passover (2007) - (special effects supervisor)
- Kalends of February (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- The Spoils (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Triumph (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Utica (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Caesarion (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Pharsalus (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Egeria (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- The Ram Has Touched the Wall (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- Stealing from Saturn (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- An Owl in a Thornbush (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
- The Stolen Eagle (2005) - (special effects supervisor)
2006
Mission: Impossible III (special effects coordinator: Italy)
2006
Ghostboat (TV Movie) (special effects supervisor)
2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (special effects coordinator)
2004
Eros (special effects coordinator - segment "The Dangerous Thread of Things", as Daniel Dominic Acon)
2004
Judas (TV Movie) (special effects supervisor)
2004
The Passion of the Christ (special effects coordinator)
2003
The Order (special effects coordinator)
2003
My House in Umbria (TV Movie) (special effects supervisor: Corridori)
2002
Gangs of New York (special effects coordinator)
2001
Hannibal (special effects coordinator - uncredited)
2000
Malena (special effects coordinator)
2000
U-571 (special effects)
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream (special effects)
1998
Legionnaire (special effects technician)
1997
Double Team (special effects)
1996
Samson and Delilah (TV Mini Series) (special effects coordinator)
1996
Daylight (physical and mechanical effects coordinator)
1993
Cliffhanger (special effects)
Actor
2012
To Rome with Love as
Stagehand (uncredited)
2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as
Former Team Zissou, Antarctica
Art Department
1990
The Godfather Part III (props: Italy)
Art Director
2001
Sting ...All This Time (Video documentary)
References
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