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).
Filmography
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Movies 216
self 63
TV Shows 14
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford (2023)
Eastwood Symphonic (2023)
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Vivace (2023)
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film (2023)
If These Walls Could Sing (2023)
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure (2022)
The Fabelmans (2022)
Piano Cinéma (2022)
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen (2022)
The Stories of West Side Story (2022)
Ennio (2022)
Galakonzert mit Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams und Beethoven aus Pittsburgh (2022)
Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes (2022)
John Williams & Berliner Philharmonic - The Berlin Concert (2022)
The Battlefield (2022)
John Williams: The Berlin Concert (2022)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
John Williams Live - Music from the Movies (2021)
John Williams dirigiert John Williams mit den Berliner Philharmonikern (2021)
Searching for Hackers: Duel of the Hacks (2021)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
A World Without Beethoven? (2020)
John Williams: Live in Vienna (2020)
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2020)
The Skywalker Legacy (2020)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits (2019)
Battle at Big Rock (2019)
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood (2018)
The Post (2017)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Spielberg (2017)
Dear Basketball (2017)
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Hoshino (2016)
The BFG (2016)
John Williams at the BBC (2016)
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony (2016)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
A John Williams Celebration (2015)
The Book Thief (2013)
Lincoln: An American Journey (2013)
Lincoln (2012)
The 'E.T.' Journals (2012)
War Horse (2011)
AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams (2011)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later (2011)
LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace (2011)
Return to Jurassic Park (2011)
Music (2010)
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott (2010)
Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 (2009)
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' (2009)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2009)
A Timeless Call (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick (2008)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (2007)
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman (2006)
Behind the Tunes: Twilight in Tunes - The Music of Raymond Scott (2006)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Munich (2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: A Musical Journey (2005)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (2004)
The Revamping of Dracula (2004)
When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)
The Terminal (2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
The Music of 'Indiana Jones' (2003)
Declaration of Independence (2003)
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera (2003)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Josh Groban: In Concert (2002)
The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams (2002)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' (2001)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' (2001)
Plotting 'Family Plot' (2001)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend (2001)
The Patriot (2000)
The Unfinished Journey (1999)
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Stepmom (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Lost In Space Forever (1998)
Amistad (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
Rosewood (1997)
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery (1997)
In the Teeth of Jaws (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' (1996)
The Making of '1941' (1996)
Nixon (1995)
Sabrina (1995)
The Making of 'Jaws' (1995)
Schindler's List (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Far and Away (1992)
JFK (1991)
Hook (1991)
Home Alone (1990)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Always (1989)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball (1989)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Citizen Steve (1987)
Amazing Stories (1986)
SpaceCamp (1986)
Amazing Stories (1985)
The River (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
From 'Star Wars' to 'Jedi' : The Making of a Saga (1983)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Monsignor (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Return of the Ewok (1982)
Heartbeeps (1981)
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Music by John Williams (1980)
1941 (1979)
Dracula (1979)
The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)
Superman (1978)
Jaws 2 (1978)
The Fury (1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Black Sunday (1977)
Previn and the Pittsburgh (1977)
Midway (1976)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Family Plot (1976)
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle! (1975)
Jaws (1975)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Conrack (1974)
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
The Paper Chase (1973)
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
Libido (1973)
The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Images (1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Screaming Woman (1972)
The Cowboys (1972)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Jane Eyre (1970)
Story of a Woman (1970)
The Reivers (1969)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Heidi (1968)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Fitzwilly (1967)
Ghostbreakers (1967)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
The Lady Is My Wife (1967)
Penelope (1966)
Not With My Wife, You Don't (1966)
The Plainsman (1966)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The Rare Breed (1966)
The Admiral (1965)
The Kathryn Reed Story (1965)
Lost in Space (1965)
The Game (1965)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
None But the Brave (1965)
Lost in Space - No Place to Hide (1965)
The Killers (1964)
Nightmare in Chicago (1964)
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley (1963)
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
Diamond Head (1962)
Stark Fear (1962)
Flashing Spikes (1962)
Bachelor Flat (1962)
The Secret Ways (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Because They're Young (1960)
I Passed for White (1960)
Daddy-O (1958)
Playhouse 90 (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Untitled John Williams Documentary
Evening at Pops
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1932-02-08 (92 years old)
Birth NameJohn Towner Williams
Birth PlaceQueens, United States of America
ChildrenJoseph Williams
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJohn Towner Williams, Johnny Williams
AwardsNational Medal of Arts, Saturn Award for Best Music, Kennedy Center Honors, Academy Award for Best Original Score, AFI Life Achievement Award, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, Officer of Arts and Letters, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Golden Globe Award
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