Known For
Sound
Born
Feb 08, 1932
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
251 titles
John Williams
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Disclosure Day
Original Music Composer
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Music
The Cinema of John Williams (Indiana Jones, E.T., Star Wars and more)
Original Music Composer
Superman
Music
Jurassic World Rebirth
Music
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna
Original Music Composer
Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
Compositor
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
Self
Music by John Williams
Self - Composer
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Music
John Williams: A Legacy In Sound
Self
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Self
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Main Title Theme Composer
John Williams in Tokyo
Self
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Self
Eastwood Symphonic
Music
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Self
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Original Music Composer
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Vivace
Self
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Self
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure
Main Title Theme Composer
The Fabelmans
Original Music Composer
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Music
If These Walls Could Sing
Self
Piano Cinéma
Original Music Composer
Jurassic World Dominion
Main Title Theme Composer
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Main Title Theme Composer
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
self
The Stories of West Side Story
Self
Ennio
Self
Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams & Friends: Beethoven and Williams
selbst
Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes
Self - Conductor
OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
Original Music Composer
The Book of Boba Fett
Music
John Williams Live - Music from the Movies
For the Empire
Music
John Williams: The Berlin Concert
Self
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Music
LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Music
A World Without Beethoven?
Self
John Williams: Live in Vienna
Self - Conductor
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - Composer (archive footage)
The Skywalker Legacy
Self
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Oma Tres
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (archive footage)
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
Self
Battle at Big Rock
Main Title Theme Composer
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Self - Conductor
The Post
Original Music Composer