birth_place birth_date spouse yearsactive article_title name occupation
cleveland 15 june 1952 lois burwell -lrb- november 14 , 1998-present -rrb- 1978 -- john toll
 john toll cinematographer
john toll

john toll , a.s.c. is a cleveland-born american cinematographer .
in 1978 he worked on his first film , `` norma rae '' , as camera operator .
he won back-to-back academy awards for best cinematography in 1994 and 1995 , for the movies `` legends of the fall '' and `` braveheart '' .
he is also only 1 of 3 cinematographers to win back to back oscars .
he was also nominated for an academy award for his work on `` the thin red line '' and won an honorable mention at the 49th berlin international film festival .
he was also nominated for a primetime emmy award for the pilot of `` breaking bad '' .
he was the cinematographer in 1987 for a ben-gay baseball-themed national television commercial shot in anaheim stadium in southern california , written and co-directed by peter hoffman , a creative director at the new york advertising agency ally & gargano .
it was the first commercial to use a baseball team 's human mascot -- in this case a giant `` bird '' -- as a star in a commercial .
he has been a regular collaborator for acclaimed filmmakers like francis ford coppola , edward zwick , cameron crowe and the wachowskis .
he is married to lois burwell who also worked on `` braveheart '' as the make-up artist -lrb- for which she won an oscar , too -rrb- .
