Happy Birthday Mr. Williams
Yesterday was the birthday of a great man. An amazing man. A man who contributed more to your movie going experience than you will probably ever know. This Man. John Williams, who turned 80 this year is responsible for seemingly almost every iconic film score. Anything theme you can hum just from hearing the title of the movie is most likely composed by Williams from Star Wars, to Indiana Jones, to Harry Potter to Jaws. It helps that Williams has had a long time working relationship with Steven Spielberg, having composed music for all but two of his projects. So even some of the less iconic Spielberg movies, Hook, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, aslo have Original scores by Williams. But it's these "lesser known" works that I want to touch on for a minutes. After all Williams has been nominated for an Oscar 47 times (winning five of them) which is second only to Walt Disney who holds the record at 59. (Ironically, thats the same number of times Williams has been nomina...