John Williamsis only getting better with age.
The renowned composer scored his52nd Academy Award nomination for Best Original Scorefor his work inStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeron Monday.
Williams, 87, broke his own record with the nomination. The only other person Williams trails behind is Walt Disney, who received 59 Academy Award nominations including 22 total award wins, according toForbes.
Williams has won a total of five Oscars forSchindler’s List,E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, JawsandFiddler on the Roof.
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That wouldn’t be the last time the composer would be nominated more than once in a year.
Williams scored three Academy Award nominations in 1973 for scoringCinderella LibertyandTom Sawyerand also received a Best Song nomination forCinderella Liberty‘s “Nice To Be Around.”
Most of Williams’ work is widely known and regarded having scored the music for all nineStar Warsfilms, fourIndiana Jonesfilms and the first threeHarry Potterfilms.
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In 2005 the American Film Institute chose Williams’ score to the 1977Star Warsfilm as the greatest American film score of all time, while the Library of Congress entered the soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016.
Steven Spielberg,who has worked with Williams on all but five of his films, paid tribute to the movie-music titan, evoking even more of Williams’ indelible compositions, including theSupermanthemes.
“Without John Williams, bikes don’t really fly, nor do brooms in Quidditch matches, and nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the Earth. We do not wonder, we do not weep, we do not believe,” Spielberg said at the time.
“John, you breathe belief into every film we have made,” Spielberg continued. “You take our movies, many of them about our most impossible dreams, and through your musical genius, you make them real and everlasting for billions and billions of people.”
source: people.com
