Biography

John Toll is an American cinematographer. His filmography spans a wide variety of genres, including epic period drama, comedy, science fiction, and contemporary drama. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in both 1994 and 1995 for Legends of the Fall and Braveheart respectively.

He has collaborated with several noteworthy directors, including Francis Ford Coppola, Edward Zwick, Terrence Malick, Mel Gibson, John Madden, The Wachowskis, and Ang Lee. Outside of film, he has shot several commercials, the pilot episode of Golden Globe-winning drama series Breaking Bad, and has served as chief cinematographer on the Netflix original series Sense8.

Toll was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on The Thin Red Line (1998).
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges

One of four cinematographers to win consecutive Oscars for Best Cinematography (for Legends of the Fall (1994) and Braveheart (1995)). The others are Emmanuel Lubezki, Leon Shamroy and Winton C. Hoch.

Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Cinematographers Branch) [2000-2003]

Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1995.

Him and his wife Lois Burwell both won Oscars for the film Braveheart (1995). Toll won for cinematography and Burwell won Best Makeup and Hairstyling along with Peter Frampton and Paul Pattison.

[on the 'optimum' T-Stop he likes to work at] I don't normally like to work deeper than an 8, and I never work wider than 2.8 in anamorphic. I feel much more comfortable working at around 4. Shooting wider than 2.8 in anamorphic is pointless, I think, because at that stop there's just not enough information in focus.