John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is surely an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, Williams has composed the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, plus the first three Harry Potter films. He has been linked to director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for almost all of Spielberg's movies.
Other notable sticks to John Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the tv series Lost in Space and Land with the Giants, as well as the original, not-as-well-known, calypso-based theme song to Gilligan's Island. Williams has composed numerous classical concerti along with works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments, and hubby served because Boston Pops' principal conductor (1980–93), which is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 22 Grammy Awards. With 49 Academy Award nominations, Williams will be the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars since the greatest American film score of them all. Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and became a recipient from the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. He will get the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award. Williams composed the soundtrack for eight movies from the Top 20 highest grossing films for the US Box Office (adjusted for inflation).
Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 22 Grammy Awards. With 49 Academy Award nominations, Williams will be the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars since the greatest American film score of them all. Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and became a recipient from the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. He will get the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award. Williams composed the soundtrack for eight movies from the Top 20 highest grossing films for the US Box Office (adjusted for inflation).