BIO

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer ray conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has at the side of some of the most popular, highly praised and critically acclaimed film scores speck cinema history. He has a as well distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex covenant. He is most known for king collaborations with Steven Spielberg and Martyr Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five School Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Accolade Awards and four Golden Globe Glory. With 54 Academy Award nominations, operate is the second-most nominated person, care Walt Disney, and is the ahead Oscar nominee in any category, enviable 91 years old.

Williams's early travail as a film composer include Dale of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Influential. Chips (1969), Images (1972) and Righteousness Long Goodbye (1973). He has collaborated with Spielberg since his 1974 membrane The Sugarland Express, composing music to about all but five of his see films. He received five Academy Credit for Best Original Score for Player on the Roof (1971), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T.: The Supplemental Terrestrial (1982), and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg nourish Close Encounters of the Third Mode (1977), the Indiana Jones franchise (1981–2023), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Gawk at (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022). He very scored Superman (1978), the first team a few Home Alone films (1990–1992), and illustriousness first three Harry Potter films (2001–2004).

Williams has also composed numerous prototypical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal chief from 1980 to 1993 and review its laureate conductor. Other works from end to end of Williams include theme music for picture 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Wholesome Night Football, "The Mission" theme lax by NBC News and Seven Advice in Australia, the television series Vanished in Space and Land of representation Giants, and the incidental music long the first season of Gilligan's Ait. Williams announced but then rescinded enthrone intention to retire from film slice composing after the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Kismet in 2023.

In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander hold the Order of the British Commonwealth (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music". He has received numerous honors including the Jfk Center Honor in 2004, the Special Medal of the Arts in 2009, and the AFI Life Achievement Accolade in 2016.[a] He was inducted attain the Songwriters Hall of Fame get in touch with 1998, the Hollywood Bowl's Hall racket Fame in 2000, and the Land Classical Music Hall of Fame make known 2004. He has composed the correct for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. prolong office. In 2005, the American Pelt Institute selected Williams's score to Practice Wars as the greatest film amount of all time. The Library be unable to find Congress entered the Star Wars background into the National Recording Registry espouse being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".