John Williams

John Williams

John Williams

08.02.1932 (92 years) (Flushing, Queens, New York, United States)

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American film 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 Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack 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. 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 has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but five of his feature films. 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 was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He has composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).

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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

IMDB: 5.6 (165825 votes)
The Fabelmans (2022)

IMDB: 7.7 (25560 votes)
Halloween Kills (2021)

IMDB: 5.5 (87333 votes)
Summertime (2020)

IMDB: 6.4 (494 votes)
Age Out (2018)

IMDB: 6 (1006 votes)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

IMDB: 7.0 (532,835 votes)
The BFG (2016)

IMDB: 6.4 (76418 votes)
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

IMDB: 6.1 (22712 votes)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

IMDB: 7.9 (834270 votes)
Manglehorn (2014)

IMDB: 5.6 (6863 votes)
Joe (2013)

IMDB: 6.9 (44066 votes)
Lincoln (2012)

IMDB: 7.3 (237113 votes)
War Horse (2011)

IMDB: 7.2 (142089 votes)
Munich (2005)

IMDB: 7.5 (229432 votes)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

IMDB: 7.3 (152960 votes)
The Terminal (2004)

IMDB: 7.4 (386136 votes)
Minority report (2002)

IMDB: 7.7 (463869 votes)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)

IMDB: 8.1 (737,762 votes)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

IMDB: 7.2 (281566 votes)
The Patriot (2000)

IMDB: 7.2 (283,525 votes)
Star Wars: Episode I (1999)

IMDB: 6.5 (678801 votes)
Lost In Space Forever (1998)

IMDB: 7.4 (153 votes)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

IMDB: 8.6 (1176446 votes)
Rosewood (1997)

IMDB: 7.2 (7117 votes)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

IMDB: 7.1 (115789 votes)
Amistad (1997)

IMDB: 7.3 (68434 votes)
Sleepers (1996)

IMDB: 7.6 (180303 votes)
Sabrina (1995)

IMDB: 6.3 (34983 votes)
Nixon (1995)

IMDB: 7.1 (27888 votes)
Jurassic Park (1993)

IMDB: 8.1 (817733 votes)
Schindler's List (1993)

IMDB: 8.9 (1133457 votes)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

IMDB: 6.8 (355,337 votes)
Far and Away (1992)

IMDB: 6.6 (56525 votes)
JFK (1991)

IMDB: 8.0 (135061 votes)
Hook (1991)

IMDB: 6.8 (223142 votes)
Stanley & Iris (1990)

IMDB: 6.4 (6736 votes)
Home Alone (1990)

IMDB: 7.7 (576,232 votes)
Presumed Innocent (1990)

IMDB: 6.9 (35938 votes)
Always (1989)

IMDB: 6.4 (26,848 votes)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

IMDB: 7.2 (93213 votes)
Amazing Stories (1986)

IMDB: 7.1 (789 votes)
Return of the Jedi (1983)

IMDB: 8.3 (905258 votes)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

IMDB: 8.4 (843684 votes)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

IMDB: 8.7 (1088073 votes)
Star Wars (1977)

IMDB: 8.6 (1176061 votes)
Black Sunday (1977)

IMDB: 6.8 (6266 votes)
Family Plot (1976)

IMDB: 6.8 (19354 votes)
Jaws (1975)

IMDB: 8.1 (624,212 votes)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)

IMDB: 6.4 (16632 votes)
Conrack (1974)

IMDB: 7.3 (2081 votes)
The Long Goodbye (1973)

IMDB: 7.6 (23763 votes)
The Paper Chase (1973)

IMDB: 7.2 (8172 votes)
The Cowboys (1972)

IMDB: 7.4 (12514 votes)
How to Steal a Million (1966)

IMDB: 7.6 (23,189 votes)