This is a list of awards and nominations received by the American composer John Williams.
John Williams has been nominated for 54 Academy Awards, winning 5; 6 Emmy Awards, winning 3; 26 Golden Globe Awards, winning 4; 76 Grammy Awards, winning 26; 16 British Academy Film Awards, winning 7; 23 Saturn Awards, winning 10. In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music".
With 54 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person, 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-eight 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).
Williams has won the Grammy Awards for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media several times for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Book Thief, The Force Awakens and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The competition includes composers of instrumental music of any genre.
Major associations
Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Grammy Awards
Miscellaneous
Saturn Awards
Honorary awards
Academic awards
Special recognition
- 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. 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.
- Since 1988, Williams has been honored with 15 Sammy Film Music Awards, the longest-running awards for film music recordings.
- In 2018 the Broadcast Music, Inc. created The John Williams Award and awarded Williams with the inaugural award.
- In 2020, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra honored Williams with a commission to compose a new procedural for their annual Philharmonikerball, to complement or replace their hitherto used 1924 fanfare composed by Richard Strauss.
- In 2022 British media company Global awarded Williams with one of their 2022 Global Awards, in the Best Classical Artist category.
- In 2023, Williams was made an honorary marine after conducting his fifth concert with the United States President's Own Marine Band at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
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