In the collection
17 records
Fiddler On The Roof (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams / Isaac Stern, 1971
Jaws (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams, 1975
Black Widow
Lalo Schifrin, 1976
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams, 1977
Music Inspired By Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk
Meco, 1977
Star Wars
John Williams, The London Symphony Orchestra, 1977
Superman The Movie (Original Sound Track)
John Williams, 1978
Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back
John Williams, The London Symphony Orchestra, 1980
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams, 1981
Star Wars Trilogy (The Original Soundtrack Anthology)
John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra, 1993
The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen
Various, 1996
Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams, 1999
Jaws (Anniversary Collector’s Edition)
John Williams, 2000
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The 20th Anniversary)
John Williams, 2002
Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones
John Williams, 2002
The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection
Various, 2010
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams, 2015
Played with
London Symphony Orchestra
7 records together
George Lucas
2 records together
London Voices
2 records together
Leigh Harline
2 records together
John Tropea
2 records together
George Marge
2 records together
David Taylor
2 records together
Wayne Andre
2 records together
Jon Faddis
2 records together
Charles Libove
2 records together
Harold Kohon
2 records together
Paul Gershman
2 records together
About
American film composer, conductor, and pianist.
Born February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, Long Island, NY, USA
In a career spanning six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures. Williams (often credited as “Johnny Williams”) also composed the theme music for various TV programs in the 1960s. Williams was known as “Little Johnny Love” Williams during the early 1960s, and he served as music arranger and bandleader for a series of popular music albums with the singer Frankie Laine. His most typical style may be considered Neo-romanticism, with a notorious use of leitmotifs and orchestral grandeur (most iconically in the Star Wars saga), but he has made also incursions in Impressionist, Expressionist or Experimental music, and also in progressive Jazz (his father was a jazz drummer and he began his career as a jazz pianist, often working with ).
Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. As of 2023, he has received 53 Academy Award nominations, an accomplishment surpassed only by Walt Disney. His longtime collaboration with producers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas has been very fruitful and contributed to the growing popularity of score music. John Williams was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards.
Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.
Williams is also the father of Joseph Williams and Mark T. Williams. Brother of .