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John Williams

AKA: John Towner Williams
Birthday: 1932-02-08
Birthplace: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Home Page: https://www.johnwilliams.org/


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.

Filmography

Music by John Williams
Character: Self - Composer

The Making of 'Jaws'
Character: Self

Ennio
Character: Self




In the Teeth of Jaws
Character: Self
John Williams at the BBC
Character: self

Jaws: The Inside Story
Character: Self

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Character: Self (archive footage)
If These Walls Could Sing
Character: Self


John Williams in Tokyo
Character: Self

Plotting 'Family Plot'
Character: Self


The Making of '1941'
Character: Self

Spielberg
Character: Self

Music
Character: Self

The 'E.T.' Journals
Character: Self
Return to Jurassic Park
Character: Self

John Williams: The Seventh Symphony
Character: Self (archive footage)

The Skywalker Legacy
Character: Self

John Williams - Live in Vienna
Character: Self - Conductor

The Revamping of Dracula
Character: Self

Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
Character: Self / Performer


Star Wars
Job: Original Music Composer
War of the Worlds
Job: Original Music Composer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Job: Original Music Composer

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Job: Original Music Composer
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Job: Original Music Composer
Minority Report
Job: Original Music Composer

Jurassic Park
Job: Original Music Composer
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Job: Original Music Composer

Seven Years in Tibet
Job: Original Music Composer
Schindler's List
Job: Original Music Composer
The Poseidon Adventure
Job: Original Music Composer

Jaws
Job: Original Music Composer
Jaws 2
Job: Original Music Composer
The Terminal
Job: Original Music Composer

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Job: Original Music Composer
Munich
Job: Original Music Composer
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Job: Original Music Composer

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Job: Original Music Composer
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Job: Original Music Composer
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Job: Original Music Composer

Home Alone
Job: Original Music Composer
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Job: Original Music Composer
The Long Goodbye
Job: Original Music Composer

Born on the Fourth of July
Job: Original Music Composer
Sleepers
Job: Original Music Composer
JFK
Job: Original Music Composer

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Job: Original Music Composer
The Empire Strikes Back
Job: Original Music Composer
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Job: Original Music Composer

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Job: Original Music Composer
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Job: Original Music Composer
Saving Private Ryan
Job: Original Music Composer

Angela's Ashes
Job: Original Music Composer
Memoirs of a Geisha
Job: Original Music Composer
Hook
Job: Original Music Composer

Empire of the Sun
Job: Original Music Composer
The Patriot
Job: Original Music Composer
How to Steal a Million
Job: Original Music Composer

Valley of the Dolls
Job: Original Music Composer
Nixon
Job: Original Music Composer
The Eiger Sanction
Job: Original Music Composer

Far and Away
Job: Original Music Composer
A Guide for the Married Man
Job: Original Music Composer
Family Plot
Job: Original Music Composer

The Sugarland Express
Job: Original Music Composer
Presumed Innocent
Job: Original Music Composer
Always
Job: Original Music Composer

The Witches of Eastwick
Job: Original Music Composer
Midway
Job: Original Music Composer
Amistad
Job: Original Music Composer

Sabrina
Job: Original Music Composer
The Fury
Job: Original Music Composer
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
Job: Original Music Composer

The Missouri Breaks
Job: Original Music Composer
The Rare Breed
Job: Original Music Composer
The Secret Ways
Job: Original Music Composer

The Reivers
Job: Original Music Composer
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Job: Original Music Composer
The Adventures of Tintin
Job: Original Music Composer

Lincoln
Job: Original Music Composer
War Horse
Job: Original Music Composer
Lost In Space Forever
Job: Original Music Composer

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Job: Original Music Composer
Eastwood Symphonic
Job: Music

LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2
Job: Original Music Composer
1941
Job: Original Music Composer
Black Sunday
Job: Original Music Composer

Conrack
Job: Original Music Composer
Pete 'n' Tillie
Job: Original Music Composer
Tom Sawyer
Job: Original Music Composer

The Screaming Woman
Job: Main Title Theme Composer
Jane Eyre
Job: Original Music Composer
Story of a Woman
Job: Original Music Composer

Gidget Goes to Rome
Job: Original Music Composer
Penelope
Job: Original Music Composer
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Job: Original Music Composer

The Killers
Job: Original Music Composer
The Plainsman
Job: Original Music Composer
Ghostbreakers
Job: Original Music Composer

I Passed for White
Job: Original Music Composer
Daddy-O
Job: Original Music Composer
The Kathryn Reed Story
Job: Original Music Composer

Jurassic World Dominion
Job: Main Title Theme Composer
The Book Thief
Job: Original Music Composer

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
Job: Original Music Composer
Return of the Jedi
Job: Original Music Composer
Piano Cinéma
Job: Original Music Composer

Earthquake
Job: Original Music Composer
Images
Job: Conductor
Images
Job: Orchestrator

Battle at Big Rock
Job: Main Title Theme Composer
Fitzwilly
Job: Original Music Composer
A Timeless Call
Job: Music

John Williams Live - Music from the Movies
Job: Original Music Composer
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Job: Original Music Composer
The Accidental Tourist
Job: Original Music Composer

Superman
Job: Original Music Composer
Monsignor
Job: Original Music Composer
Images
Job: Original Music Composer

Stanley & Iris
Job: Original Music Composer
The Apartment
Job: Orchestrator
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Job: Main Title Theme Composer

Stark Fear
Job: Music
The Fabelmans
Job: Original Music Composer

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Job: Conductor
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Job: Music Supervisor
The Towering Inferno
Job: Original Music Composer

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Job: Original Music Composer
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Job: Original Music Composer

The Cowboys
Job: Original Music Composer
The River
Job: Original Music Composer
Hoshino
Job: Original Music Composer

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Job: Original Music Composer
Heidi
Job: Original Music Composer
Sabrina
Job: Songs

The BFG
Job: Original Music Composer
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Job: Original Music Composer

Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Job: Original Music Composer
Dracula
Job: Original Music Composer
Stepmom
Job: Original Music Composer

Rosewood
Job: Original Music Composer
Fiddler on the Roof
Job: Orchestrator
Fiddler on the Roof
Job: Conductor

Heartbeeps
Job: Original Music Composer
Flashing Spikes
Job: Original Music Composer
Cinderella Liberty
Job: Original Music Composer

Dear Basketball
Job: Music
Penelope
Job: Songs

None But the Brave
Job: Original Music Composer
Catch Me If You Can
Job: Original Music Composer
Nightmare in Chicago
Job: Original Music Composer

Superman II
Job: Music
SpaceCamp
Job: Original Music Composer
The Post
Job: Original Music Composer

The Witches of Eastwick
Job: Conductor

Saving Private Ryan
Job: Conductor
War of the Worlds
Job: Conductor

Amazing Stories
Job: Original Music Composer
The Paper Chase
Job: Original Music Composer
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Job: Original Music Composer

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Job: Original Music Composer
The Sugarland Express
Job: Conductor
Bachelor Flat
Job: Original Music Composer

Sergeant Ryker
Job: Original Music Composer
Fiddler on the Roof
Job: Music Arranger

The Unfinished Journey
Job: Original Music Composer

Superman II
Job: Theme Song Performance

Hook
Job: Songs

Yes, Giorgio
Job: Songs
LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty
Job: Main Title Theme Composer

Because They're Young
Job: Original Music Composer
Diamond Head
Job: Original Music Composer

Superman
Job: Music