Watching these Spielberg films reminds me how much I love the music of John Williams. The collaboration between the two has produced some of the most well known music of the 20th century.
Williams worked for years writing music for TV and films. He received an Oscar for best score adaptation for the work he did on 1971's The Fiddler On The Roof. He wrote the music for a number of major films in the early 70's including The Poseidon Adventure, The Cowboys, The Towering Inferno, The Sugarland Express and Earthquake, but it was his work with Spielberg on Jaws that started his most prolific period.
Starting in 1975 and continuing through 1982 he composed the music for 17 different films including these seven that have become world renown.
Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Superman
The Empire Strikes Back - The Imperial March
Raiders of The Lost Ark
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
During his career he has composed music for almost a hundred different films including Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, two of the Harry Potter films, JFK, Nixon, Schindler's List, Home Alone, Memoirs Of A Geisha and every other Spielberg film except The Color Purple and The Twilight Zone Movie.
His work has been recognized by the Motion Picture Academy Of Arts and Sciences many times. He holds the record for a living person having the most Academy Award nominations with 45, and he has won 5 Oscars, plus 4 Golden Globes, 3 Emmy Awards and 21 Grammy Awards.
Williams has just completed the score for Spielberg's next film The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, scheduled for release in December 2011.
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