When it comes to film music，I have to introduce you the Hollywood music Godfather John Towner Williams. Williams has won 5 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, 7 British Academy Film Awards and 21 Grammy Awards. With 49 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated person, after Walt Disney. Do you want to know why the Williams has become the Hollywood music godfather？
By 130907124 XuemengZheng
John Towner Williams was born in February 8, 1932. He is the one of most successful film composer. At 1980, he was appointed as the Boston Pops Orchestra nineteenth commander, since 1993 has served as the orchestra conductor emeritus retirement. At the same time also served as the artist that the Boston Symphony Orchestra the Tangle wood Music Festival.
In a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock’s final film), the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, the first three Harry Potter films, Catch Me If You Can, Memoirs of a Geisha, War Horse, and Lincoln. He has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg, composing the music for all but one (The Color Purple) of Spielberg’s major feature-length films.
In Jurassic Park，the classic science fiction movie ,he combined the piano and string together, to create a magnificent scene, warm emotion and vitality primitive. The Schindlers List soundtrack is one of the most classic works and breakthrough in transition. He didn’t use a large Symphony that he has been good at, but with a violin solo as the music tone, echoed this piece of black and white photographic style with a documentary temperament. Indisputably won the best soundtrack award in academy again.
After the movie “Great white shark” get a huge success, Spielberg’s brother Lucas at a cost of 10 million dollars, take the science fiction film” Star Wars “. Lucas asked Spielberg who is the music soundtrack master, Spielberg didn’t hesitate and said:” John Williams!” John think the movie should use the romantic music to let high school boys watch conviviality. So he wrote a “empire” style of music, but also to the London Symphony Orchestra hundred ensemble. Soon afterwards the film sold worldwide and the soundtrack is very popular.
The last time John Williams received two nominations at the same time in 2001, when the “artificial intelligence” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone” soundtrack are both listed. Meanwhile, John Williams also appointed as the academy awards commander. Therefore some people specifically asked that year the academy ceremony director Michael Seligman: if the Williams won, he would speak all the time as long as he wants. Because the band is followed him, he did not command, the band can’t remind winners speech timeout. However Michael Seligman replied: “no, we prepared the tape, if the timeout we will put the tape on the music to reminds him.” Of course, the last tape is not playing, because that year the “ring king” Howard Seaan beat John Williams.
