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| Popular As | Toby Oliver |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Age | 65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 12, 1958 () |
| Birthday | May 12 |
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Toby Oliver’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Toby Oliver was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Toby Oliver ACS is an award-winning cinematographer whose career extends from his native Australia to the United States and internationally. Named as one of Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch in 2017, Toby now resides in Los Angeles and has forged a remarkable and varied range of credits on feature films, documentaries and television.
In the United States Toby shot Jordan Peele's racially-charged comedic thriller horror Get Out in Alabama in early 2016 with Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya. Get Out premiered at a midnight screening at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to score a rare 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, ranking #1 at the US Box Office on its opening weekend in February 2017.
Loved by audiences and critics alike, Get Out has become a cultural phenomenon and to date it has earned over $250m worldwide. Previously Toby had lensed the Blumhouse Productions thriller The Darkness for director Greg Mclean, starring Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell; and in New York he shot the indie fantasy drama Wildling for Maven Pictures and director Fritz Bohm with Liv Tyler, Bel Powley and Brad Dourif.
He continued his documentary cinematography work shooting the award-winning indie doc Roller Dreams in and around Los Angeles' Venice Beach. In 2016 Toby shot back to back for creator Leigh Whanell's Insidious The Last Key for director Adam Robitel, followed by writer/director Christopher Landon's time-loop thriller Happy Death Day for Universal, which achieved #1 at US Box Office on release in Oct 2017, going on to earn $115m worldwide.
Insidious the Last Key opened in Jan 2018 to #2 at the US Box Office, with a worldwide total of over $145m by February. Combined, Toby's last three movie releases have to date earned over $500m at the global box office, for a total production budget of only $20m.
A graduate of Melbourne's renowned Swinburne Film School, in his early career Toby created many notable film images, from the 'beautifully lit' gritty black and white of his debut feature Everynight...
Everynight which premiered at Venice, to the box-office hit teen movie and AFI (Australian Film Institute) winner Looking For Alibrandi; and the 'painterly approach' of Tom White, winner of the ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Golden Tripod Award in 2005.
His work has been seen at major festivals around the world, including Venice, Sundance, Sydney, Melbourne, Busan, Montreal, Tokyo, Shanghai and Toronto.Toby's work on the Australian WW1 suspense war drama Beneath Hill 60 earned him his third Australian Academy nomination, and the TV movie Beaconsfield about a pair of miners trapped over a kilometer underground in a tiny cage, won many awards including a Gold ACS Award and the ACS Best in Show.
Toby picked up another ACS Gold Award for his dynamic and vivid outback cinematography on Greg Mclean's action-horror sequel Wolf Creek 2, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, and he gathered another Australian Academy nod for the glamorous showgirls of the TV movie Carlotta.
Toby has also worked extensively in mainland China, shooting the hit Chinese language rom-com Waiting Alone in Beijing and also the Australia/China co-production 33 Postcards starring Guy Pearce. Toby most recently completed the Universal thriller Breaking In for director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) and producer Will Packer (Straight Outta Compton).
In early 2018 he has commenced production on the Netflix movie The Dirt, the biopic on the notorious metal band Motley Crue for director Jeff Tremaine (Jackass and Bad Grandpa).Toby has a BA (Film & TV) from Swinburne University of Technology, and is an accredited member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) since 2004.
He is also a member of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and IATSE Local 600.
