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Jan 23, 2024 · Best Original Score – Won. John Williams won his second Oscar for 'Jaws'. Picture: Alamy 1978: Star Wars. Best Original Score – Won. John Williams hold his Oscar for 'Star Wars', at the 50th Annual Academy Awards in 1978. Picture: Getty 1978: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Best Original Score – Nominated. 1979: Superman
Mar 11, 2023 · The 91-year-old is already the oldest person to receive an Oscar nomination for a competitive award, which he earned thanks to his spare yet poignant compositions for Steven Spielberg's "The ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Awards. Williams received many honors and awards for his work. He was nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards and won 5: for his adaptation of the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for Jaws (1975), for Star Wars (1977; later called Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope), for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and for Schindler’s List (1993).
Jan 23, 2024 · Best Original Score – Won. John Williams won his second Oscar for 'Jaws'. Picture: Alamy 1978: Star Wars. Best Original Score – Won. John Williams hold his Oscar for 'Star Wars', at the 50th Annual Academy Awards in 1978. Picture: Getty 1978: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Best Original Score – Nominated. 1979: Superman
The film composer has won five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs and 25 Grammys. With 52 Oscar nominations, he is second only to Walt Disney as most nominated person ever. His first-ever Oscan win was for musical direction for Fiddler on the Roof. 17 images. See the full gallery: John Williams: Compositions, movies, age and awards revealed.
Jan 24, 2023 · This makes for his 48th nomination for a score and 53rd overall Oscar nomination. Williams, 90, is the most-nominated person alive and broke his own record with the nomination, which he last broke ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Williams' first Academy Awards nomination was in1968 for Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment for Valley of the Dolls. Williams has been nominated in recent years for movies like The Fablemans, Lincoln, and the Star Wars sequel trilogy. John Williams has won five Oscars in total, first winning in 1972 for Fiddler on the Roof.
