Not sure why this is in the Universal forum. Williams has received a truckload of awards during his lifetime, he is a celebrated and well-regarded composer. What precisely do you want for him before he dies?
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John Williams has been nominated for 52
Academy Awards, winning five; six
Emmy Awards, winning three; 25
Golden Globe Awards, winning four; 71
Grammy Awards, winning 25; and has received seven
British Academy Film Awards. With 52 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person,
[107][108] and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind
Walt Disney's 59. Forty-six 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).
He has received several academic honors. In 1980, Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from
Berklee College of Music.
[109] Williams received an Honorary
Doctor of Music degree from
Boston College in 1993,
[110] from
Harvard University in 2017,
[111] and from
University of Pennsylvania in 2021.
[112] Williams was made an honorary brother of
Kappa Kappa Psi at
Boston University in the late 1980s.
[113]
Since 1988, Williams has been honored with 15 Sammy Film Music Awards, the longest-running awards for film music recordings.
[114]
In 2000, Williams received the Golden Plate Award of the
American Academy of Achievement.
[115]
Williams has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the
Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. 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.
[116] In 2004, he received the
Kennedy Center Honors.
[117] 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 Extra-Terrestrial,
Angela's Ashes,
Munich,
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and
The Book Thief. The competition includes not only composers of film scores, but also composers of instrumental music of any genre, including composers of classical fare such as
symphonies and
chamber music.
In 2003, the
International Olympic Committee accorded Williams its highest individual honor, the
Olympic Order.
[118]
In 2009, Williams received the
National Medal of Arts in 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".
[119]
In 2012, Williams received the
Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
[120]
In 2013, Williams was presented with the
Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award.
[121]
In 2016, Williams was made a
Chevalier De L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres –
Government of France[122]
In 2018, the performing rights organization
Broadcast Music, Inc. established The John Williams Award, of which Williams became the first recipient.
[123] Also the same year, Williams received the Grammy
Trustees Award which is a Special Merit Award presented to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance (and some performers through 1983), to the field of recording.
[124]
In 2020, Williams won the
Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition" for composing
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite,
[125] and he received his 52nd Oscar nomination for "Best Original Score" at the 92nd Academy Awards for
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.[126]
In 2020, Williams received the Gold Medal of the
Royal Philharmonic Society[127] as well as the
Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (jointly with
Ennio Morricone).
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