Taylor Black

Since graduating from The Los Angeles Film School’s film program in 2004, colorist Taylor Black has worked on over 100 films and series making him a go-to creative artist in the fast-paced entertainment industry.

Prior to becoming a trusted colorist he jump-started his career with roles such as a scan and quality control (QC) operator, he quickly moved up to digital intermediate editor and assistant colorist roles, contributing to the visual impact of some of Hollywood’s biggest films and box office successes early in his career, including (500) Days of Summer (2009), Fast & Furious (2009), The Road (2009) , Get Him to the Greek (2010), and The Rum Diary (2011).

Taylor is currently putting all that he learned at The L.A. Film School to work as an in-demand Senior Colorist at Apache Digital– a Dolby certified facility with a primary focus on color and finishing for the film, television, and streaming industries.

His artistry can be seen on critically-acclaimed projects such as the forthcoming Queen of Chess (2026) as well as Andy Kaufman Is Me (2025), Earnhardt (2025), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022), McCartney 3-2-1 (2021), and the DJ Steve Aoki documentary I’ll Sleep When I Die (2016), all of which have streamed to millions of living rooms via Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, and other platforms.

Another project that he worked on, true-crime documentary The Menendez Brothers (2024) debuted as the most-watched film on Netflix globally, earning 22.7 million streams in its first week. It is all of these career wins that make Taylor a standout alumnus of The L.A. Film School.

His work has also been featured at numerous film festivals all over the world, including the Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, SXSW, and Tribeca. It was in Toronto that one of Taylor’s most recent documentary projects, the Colin Hanks-directed/Ryan Reynolds-produced John Candy: I Like Me (2025), premiered as a festival favorite.

Rotten Tomatoes states this about the documentary, “Focusing on the good times as it chronicles John Candy’s life and career, I Like Me gathers those who knew and loved the iconic actor for a bittersweet retrospective that feels like a cathartic group hug.”

Taylor has also been nominated for two highly coveted Hollywood Production Association Awards (HPAA) for Outstanding Color Grading in the Documentary category for his work on the multiple Emmy-nominated Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with David Letterman (2023) for Disney+ and HBO Max’s docuseries Shaq: From Shaquille to Shaq (2022).