John Williams
Sound
Born 1932-02-08
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
251 credits
Academy Awards 4
Primetime Emmy Awards 3
Golden Globe Awards 2
BAFTA Awards 1
Grammy Awards 5
Saturn Award for Best Music 3
Kennedy Center Honors 1
Classic Brit Awards 1
Disney Legends 1
Awards
Won 4 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 4 won · 36 nominated
- 2024 Best Original Score Nominated Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- 2023 Best Original Score Nominated The Fabelmans
- 2020 Best Original Score Nominated Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
- 2018 Best Original Score Nominated Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi
- 2016 Best Original Score Nominated Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
- 2014 Best Original Score Nominated The Book Thief
- 2013 Best Original Score Nominated Lincoln
- 2012 Best Original Score Nominated War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin
- 2006 Best Original Score Nominated Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich
- 2005 Best Original Score Nominated Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- 2003 Best Original Score Nominated Catch Me If You Can
- 2002 Best Original Score Nominated A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 2001 Best Original Score Nominated The Patriot
- 2000 Best Original Score Nominated Angela's Ashes
- 1999 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Saving Private Ryan
- 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Amistad
- 1997 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Sleepers
- 1996 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated Sabrina
- 1996 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Nixon
- 1996 Best Original Song Nominated
- 1994 Best Original Score Won
- 1992 Best Original Score Nominated JFK
- 1992 Best Original Song Nominated When You’re Alone
- 1991 Best Original Song Nominated Somewhere in My Memory
- 1991 Best Original Score Nominated Home Alone
- 1990 Best Original Score Nominated Born on the Fourth of July, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- 1989 Best Original Score Nominated The Accidental Tourist
- 1988 Best Original Score Nominated The Witches of Eastwick, Empire of the Sun
- 1985 Best Original Score Nominated The River, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- 1984 Best Original Score Nominated Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
- 1983 Best Original Score Won E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- 1983 Best Original Song Nominated
- 1982 Best Original Score Nominated Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 1981 Best Original Score Nominated Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
- 1979 Best Original Score Nominated Superman
- 1978 Best Original Score Won Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars
- 1976 Best Original Dramatic Score Won Jaws
- 1975 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated The Towering Inferno
- 1974 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Cinderella Liberty
- 1974 Best Original Song Nominated Nice to Be Around
Primetime Emmy Awards 3 won
- — Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) Won
- — Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special Won
- — Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Won
Golden Globe Awards 2 won · 1 nominated
- 2023 Best Original Score Nominated The Fabelmans
- 1983 Best Original Score Won E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- — Golden Globe Awards Won
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 1983 Best Original Music Won E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Grammy Awards 5 won
- 2017 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- 2015 Best Instrumental Composition Won The Book Thief
- 2007 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won Memoirs of a Geisha
- 1983 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- 1978 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won Star Wars
Saturn Award for Best Music 3 won
- 2016 Best Music Won Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- 1983 Best Music Won E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- — Best Music Won
Kennedy Center Honors 1 won
- — Kennedy Center Honors Won
Classic Brit Awards 1 won
- — Classic Brit Awards Won
Disney Legends 1 won
- 2024 Disney Legends Won
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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".
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Other credits
50 credits
Disclosure Day
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Jurassic World Rebirth
Superman
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Schindler's List
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Saving Private Ryan
Lost in Space
Jaws
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
War of the Worlds
The Book of Boba Fett
Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Catch Me If You Can
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Patriot
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Superman
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Fabelmans
Minority Report
The Adventures of Tintin
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Hook
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
The Post
The Terminal
The BFG
Superman II
Sleepers
War Horse
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Acting
16 credits
60 Minutes
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic World Dominion
Jaws
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Amazing Stories
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
War of the Worlds
The Oscars
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Today
The Kennedy Center Honors
Playhouse 90
Superman II
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
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