John Williams
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 8, 1932 (93 years old)
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scoresin cinema history. He has a distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration. He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person, after Walt Disney, and is the oldest Oscar nominee in any category, at 91 years old. Williams's early work as a film composer includes Valley of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Images and The Cowboys (both 1972), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He has collaborated with Spielberg since The Sugarland Express (1974), composing music for all but five of his feature films. He received five Academy Awards for Best Score for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the Indiana Jones franchise (1981–2023), Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022). He also scored Superman (1978), the first two Home Alone films (1990–1992), and the first three Harry Potter films (2001–2004). Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; NBC Sunday Night Football; "The Mission" theme (used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia); and the television series Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and Amazing Stories. Among other accolades, he has received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2004, the National Medal of the Arts in 2009 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998, the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000 and the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He has composed the score for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office. In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music". In 2005, the American Film Institute placed Williams's score to Star Wars first on its list AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores; his scores for Jaws and E.T. also made the list. The Library of Congress entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
2024
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Music by John Williams
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John Williams in Tokyo
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Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
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John Williams: A Legacy In Sound
Music Arranger
The Death Of Salacious Crumb
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Music by John Williams
Compositor
Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
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Simons - A journey of historical conjunction and remembrance
2023
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Anne-Sophie Mutter - Vivace
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The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
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The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Eastwood Symphonic
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Conductor
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Orchestrator
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Zeppelin Wars and The Last Chapter
2022
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Ennio
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John Williams & Berliner Philharmonic - The Berlin Concert
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Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
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Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes
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The Stories of West Side Story
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams & Friends: Beethoven and Williams
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If These Walls Could Sing
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Jurassic World Dominion
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Piano Cinéma
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Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
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The Fabelmans
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John Williams: The Berlin Concert
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A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later
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Return to Jurassic Park
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AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams
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The Adventures of Tintin
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War Horse
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LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
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Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
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Star Wars: A Musical Journey
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War of the Worlds
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Munich
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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War of the Worlds
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2002
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The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
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Minority Report
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
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Catch Me If You Can
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The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
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The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
2001
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The Beginning: Making Episode I
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Plotting 'Family Plot'
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
