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1) John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores. As of 2006, he has received 45 music-related Academy Award nominations, an accomplishment surpassed only by Walt Disney.

Early scores and compositions are credited as Johnny Williams

Williams is best known for heroic, rousing themes in adventure and fantasy films. This includes some of the highest grossing films of all time, such as the Star Wars movies, the Superman movies, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and the first three Harry Potter movies. His richly thematic and highly popular 1977 score to the first Star Wars film was selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest American movie score of all time. Five of his film scores won Oscars.

His long career has also included many sensitive dramatic scores (such as Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and Munich) and quirky character studies (like Catch Me If You Can, the theme for which makes extensive use of jazz, perhaps in homage to Mancini’s famous music for The Pink Panther). Also noteworthy are his recent collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman on the score for Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as Williams’ other more experimental concert works.

Williams has composed the scores for every Steven Spielberg movie, with the exception of The Color Purple (scored by co-producer Quincy Jones) and Duel (Spielberg’s first feature film).

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Echelon10995 wrote:
2 hours ago

First two HP movies are ok. After Columbus left it all just started to suck so much...

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Byn92 wrote:
3 hours ago

Harry Potter is a bad movie with a good soundtrack... [4] plus book is better :D .

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Echelon10995 wrote:
8 hours ago

Star Wars > all.

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os_teriyaki wrote:
8 hours ago

He, er, he borrowed the philosopher's stone from Nicholas Flamel and so he has the elixer of life, IT'S ALL GOOD! \:D/ *fixed* ^__^

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henriquee_t88 wrote:
12 hours ago

Yesterday? Seventy-eight? Whoa. He is a legend indeed. Whoa, seventy-eight. It means the Harry Potter scores he wrote at his seventies? Also... seventy eight... it reminds me this man is mortal, in the end... I don't want to think about that...

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os_teriyaki wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Happy birthday John Towner Williams! \:D/ Can't believe the guy is 78, ffs. What a legend :) And I'm not sure you have to have seen the films/read the books at a young age to be enchanted by Harry Potter (a lot of people who were parents of kids that age were just as enthralled) but maybe to be *truly* enchanted, yeah, you had to be a certain age when you first experienced it :) GOD I'm grateful I was born into the generation I was ;)

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arcanExistence wrote:
Sunday afternoon

@henriquee_t88: That's why I wrote "VERY young age". ;) Back in the time I didn't really notice the music, I just thought "that's an awesome film". Growing up I discovered my love for music and tried from now on to pay more attention to soundtracks. That's also when I discovered that it was the music to set the whole mood in the film (Harry Potter). It made me feel excited or nervous, happy or sad, anxious or proud.

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Boom-Ed wrote:
Wednesday morning

Unbelievible! I can't find Ron Goodwin in here!

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henriquee_t88 wrote:
last week

@arcanExistence - totally agree with you. Being at young age is almost essential to be enchanted with the series. But, seriously, you're still at a young age :|

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OSaCanUC wrote:
last week

Hey! "American Classical Music" group! Check it out and join if you like! :o)

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Urban_Lixy wrote:
last week

You might also like Sagleri project, check it out right here http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Sagleri

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arcanExistence wrote:
last week

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a good film BECAUSE of the music. I watched it at a very young age and was literally enchanted - that music is pure magic. What a genius.

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CWAS91 wrote:
last month

Amazing.

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panxpiotr wrote:
last month

robi robote

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Heroic-Ewok wrote:
last month

Minority Report is awesome.

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Clackers wrote:
last month

I just want to say that Minority Report is the worst filmscore I have listened to in a long while. Very bland.

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henriquee_t88 wrote:
last month

Harry Potter is a bad movie with a good soundtrack... [4] A great soundtrack. Few movies nowadays have a catchy theme. Patrick Doyle's score can still be enjoyable. The next ones I just can't stand. And then I can't stand watching the fifth and sixth movies, no matter what. Not even Emma Watson can save them.

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arch_enemy_1987 wrote:
last month

Theme From Jurassic Park <3<3<3

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kingmetalacid wrote:
last month

Harry Potter is a bad movie with a good soundtrack... [3] plus emma waston is hot!

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FurorNoricus wrote:
last month

why the hell does last.fm keep on scrobbling the guitarist John C. Williams to this guy? annoying...

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