Toby Oliver

Toby Oliver is an award-winning cinematographer whose career extends from his native Australia to the U.S. and internationally.

A graduate of Melbourne's renowned Swinburne Film School, early in his career Oliver went on to create many notable film images, from the beautifully lit gritty black and white of his debut feature Everynight...Everynight, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival; to the box-office hit teen movie and Australian Film Institute winner Looking for Alibrandi; and the painterly approach of Tom White, which won the 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.

Oliver's work on the Australian WWI suspense war drama Beneath Hill 60 earned him his third Australian Academy nomination, and the television movie Beaconsfield about a pair of miners trapped over a kilometer underground in a tiny cage, won a number of awards, including a Gold Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Award and the ACS Best in Show. Oliver picked up another ACS Gold Award for his dynamic and vivid outback cinematography on the 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 television movie Carlotta. Oliver 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, which starred Guy Pearce.

In the U.S., Oliver has lensed Greg Mclean's Blumhouse Productions thriller The Darkness, which starred Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell and, in New York, he shot the indie fantasy drama Wildling for Maven Pictures and director Fritz Böhm with Liv Tyler, Bel Powley and Brad Dourif. He has continued his documentary cinematography work shooting the indie doc Roller Dreams in and around Los Angeles' Venice Beach. Oliver has also performed additional photography on the features Blood Father with Mel Gibson, Brad Peyton's Incarnate and Akiva Goldsman's Stephanie. Oliver finished up a busy 2016 with back-to-back shoots for Adam Robitel's Insidious: Chapter 4 followed by Christopher Landon's thriller Half to Death.

Oliver has been an accredited member of the ACS since 2004, and a member of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and IATSE Local 600.

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