 He completed 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" after Haskell Wexler was fired from the production, and was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.Wilmer C. Butler was born on April 7, 1921 in Cripple Creek, Colorado.Butler spent the first five years of his life living in a log cabin on a homestead in Colorado, where his parents were farmers.