John Williams is already the oldest person to receive an Oscar nomination for a competitive award, which he earned thanks to his spare yet poignant compositions for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.”
It “seems unreal that anybody could be that old and working that long,” Williams recently told NBC News, adding: “It’s very exciting, even after 53 years.”
But his work is also steeped in mid-century influences including jazz and popular American standards. Though he aspired to be a concert pianist, it became clear to Williams that composition was his true forte. His momentous partnership with Spielberg began in the early 1970s, when the soon to be household-name director approached him to score his debut, “The Sugarland Express.”The menacing two-note ostinato Williams composed for the film has practically become synonymous with fear itself: “John Williams actually is the teeth of Jaws,” Spielberg said last year at a concert for the composer’s 90th birthday.
“Through the medium of movies, John has popularized motion picture scores more than any other composer in history.”Spielberg also introduced Williams to one George Lucas—it would become another iconic collaboration that spawned perhaps the most recognizable film score ever. “Harrison Ford made Indiana Jones into an iconic action hero, but John made us believe in adventure again, through that pulse-pounding march,” said Spielberg.
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