John Williams

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). Description above from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

My Stats

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General Info

Date of Birth: 08/02/1932 (94 years old)

Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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Biography:

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). Description above from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Movies:

Actor

0/8 (8 unseen)

	Name	Grade
	Music by John Williams (2024) As Self - Composer	(Not seen)
	The Stories of West Side Story the Steven Spielberg Film (2022) (AKA "The Stories of West Side Story") As Self	(Not seen)
	Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2020) As Self - Composer (archive footage) (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (AKA "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker") As Oma Tres	(Not seen)
	Spielberg (2017) As Self	(Not seen)
	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) (2 episodes)	(Not seen)
	Empire of Dreams (2004) (AKA "Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy") As Self	(Not seen)
	The Oscars (1953) As Self (3 episodes)	(Not seen)

Composer

0/103 (103 unseen)

	Name	Grade
	One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 (2026)	(Not seen)
	Disclosure Day (2026)	(Not seen)
	Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) (AKA "Jurassic World Rebirth")	(Not seen)
	Superman (2025)	(Not seen)
	LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (2024) (4 episodes)	(Not seen)
	Music by John Williams (2024)	(Not seen)
	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) (AKA "Untitled Indiana Jones Project")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022) (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	The Fabelmans (2022)	(Not seen)
	The Book of Boba Fett (2021) (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021) (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020) (AKA "LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (AKA "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker")	(Not seen)
	Dear Basketball (2017)	(Not seen)
	The Post (2017)	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) (AKA "Star Wars: The Last Jedi")	(Not seen)
	The BFG (2016) (AKA "Roald Dahl's The BFG")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (AKA "Star Wars: The Force Awakens")	(Not seen)
	The Book Thief (2013)	(Not seen)
	Lincoln (2012)	(Not seen)
	Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace (2011)	(Not seen)
	War Horse (2011)	(Not seen)
	The Adventures of Tintin (2011) (AKA "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn")	(Not seen)
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (AKA "Fourth Installment of the Indiana Jones Adventures")	(Not seen)
	Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)	(Not seen)
	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)	(Not seen)
	Munich (2005) (AKA "Steven Spielberg's Munich")	(Not seen)
	War of the Worlds (2005) (AKA "Out of the Night")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) (AKA "Revenge of the Sith")	(Not seen)
	Empire of Dreams (2004) (AKA "Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy")	(Not seen)
	The Terminal (2004) (AKA "Terminal")	(Not seen)
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	(Not seen)
	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (AKA "Attack of the Clones")	(Not seen)
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (AKA "Incident on 57th Street")	(Not seen)
	Minority Report (2002) (AKA "Total Recall 2")	(Not seen)
	A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (AKA "A.I.")	(Not seen)
	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (AKA "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone")	(Not seen)
	The Patriot (2000)	(Not seen)
	Angela's Ashes (1999)	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (AKA "Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace")	(Not seen)
	Stepmom (1998) (AKA "Good Night Moon")	(Not seen)
	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	(Not seen)
	Seven Years in Tibet (1997)	(Not seen)
	Rosewood (1997)	(Not seen)
	Amistad (1997)	(Not seen)
	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (AKA "Jurassic Park 2")	(Not seen)
	Sleepers (1996)	(Not seen)
	Sabrina (1995)	(Not seen)
	Nixon (1995)	(Not seen)
	Schindler's List (1993)	(Not seen)
	Jurassic Park (1993) (AKA "JP")	(Not seen)
	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) (AKA "Alone Again")	(Not seen)
	Far and Away (1992)	(Not seen)
	JFK (1991)	(Not seen)
	Hook (1991)	(Not seen)
	Stanley & Iris (1990)	(Not seen)
	Home Alone (1990)	(Not seen)
	Presumed Innocent (1990)	(Not seen)
	Always (1989)	(Not seen)
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989)	(Not seen)
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	(Not seen)
	Empire of the Sun (1987)	(Not seen)
	The Witches of Eastwick (1987)	(Not seen)
	SpaceCamp (1986)	(Not seen)
	The River (1984)	(Not seen)
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (AKA "Raiders 2")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (AKA "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi")	(Not seen)
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (AKA "A Boy's Life")	(Not seen)
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (AKA "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark")	(Not seen)
	Superman II (1980) (AKA "Superman 2")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (AKA "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back")	(Not seen)
	Dracula (1979)	(Not seen)
	1941 (1979) (AKA "The Night the Japs Attacked")	(Not seen)
	Jaws 2 (1978)	(Not seen)
	The Fury (1978)	(Not seen)
	Superman (1978)	(Not seen)
	Black Sunday (1977)	(Not seen)
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (AKA "CE3K")	(Not seen)
	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (AKA "Star Wars")	(Not seen)
	The Missouri Breaks (1976)	(Not seen)
	Midway (1976) (AKA "Battle of Midway")	(Not seen)
	Family Plot (1976)	(Not seen)
	The Eiger Sanction (1975)	(Not seen)
	Jaws (1975)	(Not seen)
	Earthquake (1974)	(Not seen)
	The Sugarland Express (1974) (AKA "Carte Blanche")	(Not seen)
	The Towering Inferno (1974)	(Not seen)
	Tom Sawyer (1973) (AKA "A Musical Adaptation of Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer'")	(Not seen)
	The Paper Chase (1973)	(Not seen)
	The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)	(Not seen)
	The Long Goodbye (1973)	(Not seen)
	The Cowboys (1972)	(Not seen)
	The Poseidon Adventure (1972)	(Not seen)
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971)	(Not seen)
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)	(Not seen)
	Valley of the Dolls (1967)	(Not seen)
	A Guide for the Married Man (1967)	(Not seen)
	How to Steal a Million (1966) (AKA "William Wyler's How to Steal a Million")	(Not seen)
	The Rare Breed (1966)	(Not seen)
	The Killers (1964) (AKA "Ernest Hemingway's The Killers")	(Not seen)
	Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)	(Not seen)
	The Secret Ways (1961)	(Not seen)