List of awards and nominations received by John Williams
This is a list of awards and nominations received by the American composer John Williams.
John Williams has been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, winning 5; 6 Emmy Awards, winning 3; 25 Golden Globe Awards, winning 4; 72 Grammy Awards, winning 25; 16 British Academy Film Awards, winning 7; 21 Saturn Awards, winning 8. With 52 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person,[1][2] and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney with 59, as well as the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven consecutive decades. Forty-seven of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score (Fiddler on the Roof).
In 1980 Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.[3]
Since 1988, Williams has been honored with 15 Sammy Film Music Awards, the longest-running awards for film music recordings.[4]
Williams was honored with the annual Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards, recognizing his contribution to film and television music.[5] In 2004 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He won a Classic Brit Award in 2005 for his soundtrack work of the previous year.
Williams has won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Angela's Ashes, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Book Thief, and one for his overture "Galaxy's Edge". The competition includes composers of instrumental music of any genre.
Williams received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Boston College in 1993[6] and from Harvard University in 2017.[7]
In 2003 the International Olympic Committee accorded Williams its highest individual honor, the Olympic Order.[8]
In 2004, in recognition of his compositions, Williams was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.[9] Earlier, in the year 2000, Williams had been inducted, alongside the singer and songwriter Garth Brooks, as one of the two inaugural inductees into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.[10]
In 2009 Williams received the National Medal of Arts at the White House in Washington, D.C., for his achievements in symphonic music for films, and "as a pre-eminent composer and conductor [whose] scores have defined and inspired modern movie-going for decades."[11]
Williams was made an honorary brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at Boston University in the late 1980s.[12]
In 2012 Williams received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
In 2013 Williams was presented with the Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award.[13]
In 2018 the performing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. established The John Williams Award, of which Williams became the first recipient.[14]
In 2020 Williams received the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society [15]as well as the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (jointly with Ennio Morricone).[16] In the same year the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra honored Williams with a commission to compose a new procedural for their annual Philharmonikerball,[17] which is to replace the hitherto used 1924 fanfare by Richard Strauss.
Major associations
Academy Awards
British Academy Film Awards
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
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1976 | Jaws and The Towering Inferno | Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music | Won | [54] |
1979 | Star Wars | Won | [55] | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Nominated | |||
1981 | The Empire Strikes Back | Best Original Film Music | Won | [56] |
1982 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Nominated | [57] | |
1983 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Best Score for a Film | Won | [58] |
1989 | Empire of the Sun | Won | [59] | |
1994 | Schindler's List | Won | [60] | |
1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music | Nominated | [61] |
2003 | Catch Me If You Can | Nominated | [62] | |
2006 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Won | [63] | |
2012 | War Horse | Best Original Music | Nominated | [64] |
2013 | Lincoln | Nominated | [65] | |
2014 | The Book Thief | Nominated | [66] | |
2016 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Nominated | [67] | |
2020 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Best Original Score | Nominated | [68] |
Golden Globe Awards
Grammy Awards
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
1962 | Checkmate | Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Score from Motion Picture or Television | Nominated | [92] |
1976 | Jaws | Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Won | |
1977 | "The Disaster Movie Suite" | Best Instrumental Arrangement | Nominated | |
1978 | "Star Wars – Main Title" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
Star Wars | Best Pop Instrumental Recording | Won | ||
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Won | |||
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
1979 | "Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Won | ||
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |||
1980 | "Superman Main Title Theme" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |||
Superman | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Won | ||
1981 | "Yoda's Theme" | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |
Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | |||
"Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" | Nominated | |||
The Empire Strikes Back | Won | |||
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Won | |||
1982 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Won | ||
1983 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Won | ||
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |||
"Adventure on Earth" | Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | ||
"Flying" (Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) | Won | |||
Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording | Won | |||
1984 | Return of the Jedi | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Nominated | |
1985 | "Olympic Fanfare & Theme" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
1986 | Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf | Best Recording for Children | Nominated | |
1988 | The Witches of Eastwick | Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | Nominated | |
1989 | Empire of the Sun | Nominated | ||
"Olympic Spirit" | Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | ||
1990 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | Nominated | |
1991 | Born on the Fourth of July | Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording | Nominated | |
1992 | John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |
"Somewhere in My Memory" (from Home Alone) | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | ||
1993 | Hook | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Nominated | |
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |||
1994 | Jurassic Park | Nominated | ||
1995 | Schindler's List | Won | ||
1997 | "Moonlight" (from Sabrina) | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
1998 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
Seven Years in Tibet | Nominated | |||
1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Won | ||
Amistad | Nominated | |||
Gershwin Fantasy | Best Classical Crossover Album | Nominated | ||
2000 | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
"Stella by Starlight (from The Uninvited)" | Best Instrumental Arrangement | Nominated | ||
2001 | "Theme from Angela's Ashes" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
2002 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
2003 | "Hedwig's Theme" | Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | ||
2004 | Catch Me If You Can | Nominated | ||
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Nominated | |||
2005 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Nominated | ||
2006 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
"Anakin's Betrayal" | Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | ||
"The Ferry Scene" | Nominated | |||
2007 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Won | |
Munich | Nominated | |||
"A Prayer for Peace" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | ||
"Sayuri's Theme and End Credits" | Nominated | |||
2009 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
"The Adventures of Mutt" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | ||
2013 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | |
2014 | Lincoln | Nominated | ||
2015 | "The Book Thief" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
2017 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Won | |
2018 | "Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from Catch Me If You Can" | Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella | Won | |
2019 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | |
"Mine Mission" | Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | ||
2020 | "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Symphonic Suite" | Won | ||
"Hedwig's Theme" | Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella | Nominated | ||
2021 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Pending |
Primetime Emmy Awards
Other
Saturn Awards
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1978 | Star Wars | Best Music | Won |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Won | ||
1979 | Superman | Won | |
1981 | The Empire Strikes Back | Nominated | |
1982 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Won | |
1983 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Won | |
1984 | Return of the Jedi | Nominated | |
1988 | The Witches of Eastwick | Nominated | |
1994 | Jurassic Park | Nominated | |
2002 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Won | |
2003 | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | Nominated | |
Minority Report | Nominated | ||
2005 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Nominated | |
2006 | War of the Worlds | Nominated | |
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Won | ||
2012 | War Horse | Nominated | |
The Adventures of Tintin | Nominated | ||
2014 | The Book Thief | Nominated | |
2016 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Won | |
2017 | The BFG | Nominated | |
2018 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Nominated |
AFI
In 2005 the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. His scores for Jaws and E.T. also appeared on the list, at No. 6 and No. 14, respectively.[99] He is the only composer to have three scores on the list. Williams received the AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2016, becoming the first composer to receive the award.[100]
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