A Founder member of the BSC, Gil Taylor BSC served on the board between 1981 and 1982 and in 2001 received the British Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the exceptional body of work he had photographed during his career.
He photographed over 60 feature films during his career working alongside many notable directors: Ice Cold in Alex (1958) for J. Lee Thomson, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) for Richard Lester, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb! (1964) for Stanley Kubrick, Topaz (1972) for Alfred Hitchcock and the first in the Star Wars series for George Lucas.
Among other accolades, he also received an American Society of Cinematographers International Achievement Award in 2006 and the BSC Best Cinematography Award for The Omen (1976) along with nominations from BAFTA for Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-Sac (1966) and BSC nominations for b(1977) and Flash Gordon (1980).