[2][3][4] He was the first photographer to win a BAFTA in 1998 for Services to British Film Industry.
[5] Cornel Lucas published two books of his work, Heads and Tales and Shooting Stars.
Permanent collection at National Portrait Gallery (London), National Media Museum and London's Photographers' Gallery He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1943, becoming a Fellow.
[6] Cornel Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Robert Newton, Joan Collins, Yvonne de Carlo, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice).
He was married to actress Belinda Lee in 1954, but divorced in 1959 on the grounds of her adultery allegedly with Prince Filippo Orsini.