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, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades. Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams has composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies, including the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. He has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but four of his feature films––Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge of Spies and Ready Player One. 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, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is its laureate conductor. He was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
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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
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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Galakonzert mit Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams und Beethoven aus Pittsburgh
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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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2005
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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
