Daniel Acon is an American Special Effects Coordinator and Supervisor.

He graduated from Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...

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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 nominatio 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 the with director Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

 on "Miracle at Santa Anna."

His current special effects filmography is issued on IMDB and consists of the following motion pictures and television movies and series:

• Angels and Demons directed by Ron Howard,
• Miracle at Santa Anna by Spike Lee
• Jumper
  Jumper (film)
  Jumper is a 2008 American science fiction film, loosely based on the 1992 science fiction novel of the same name by Steven Gould. The film is directed by Doug Liman and stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Max Thieriot, AnnaSophia Robb, and Diane Lane...
  
  
• Mission Impossile III
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is an American comedy-drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature length film, released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004...
  
  
• Eros
  Eros
  Eros , in Greek mythology, was the Greek god of love. His Roman counterpart was Cupid . Some myths make him a primordial god, while in other myths, he is the son of Aphrodite....
  
  
• The Passion of the Christ
  The Passion of the Christ
  The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American drama film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus. It depicts the Passion of Jesus largely according to the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...
  
  
• The Order
  The Order
  The Order can refer to:in comics* The Order , the name of two fictional comic-book superhero teams in the Marvel Comics universein computer and video games...
  
  
• Gangs of New York
  Gangs of New York
  Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...
  
  
• Hannibal
  Hannibal (film)
  Hannibal is a 2001 psychological thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs that returns Anthony Hopkins to his iconic role as serial killer Hannibal Lecter...
  
  
• Malèna
  Malèna
  Malèna is a 2000 Italian romantic drama film starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. It was directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni.-Plot:...
  
  
• U-571
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  
• Legionnaire
  Legionnaire (film)
  Legionnaire is a 1998 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell and Jim Carter...
  
  
• Double Team
• Daylight
  Daylight (film)
  Daylight is a 1996 disaster film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris. It was directed by Rob Cohen and released in theaters on December 6, 1996.-Plot:...
  
  
• Cliffhanger
  Cliffhanger (film)
  Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow. Stallone plays a mountain climber, who becomes embroiled in a failed heist set in a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains...
  
  
• The Godfather: Part III
• Rome (TV)
  Rome (TV series)
  Rome is a British-American–Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007, and were later released on DVD. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic...
  
  
• Ghostboat
• Judas
• My House in Umbria and Samson and Delilah (TV movie).