What did you do that 4(for)?

I saw Star Wars for the first time when I was five, the music was more overpowering to five year old me than the movie itself. I saw Jurassic Park, in the theater, when I was 12. I bought the sound track to Jurassic Park (which, mind you, is only John Williams instrumentals) as my second purchase of a CD when I was 14 (after U2's Zooropa).

I would be extremely angry and disappointed in human-kind if he had not been nominated for at least 52 Oscars.

ETA: Now I'm going to go listen to the theme from Jurassic Park. Not afraid to say: It makes me a little emotional.

ETETA: I was a clarinetist in band. Somehow I'm only just now appreciating fully the use John Williams made of the brass section. I got the percussion, but WTF opens the theme to a block buster with French Horns (I'm guessing)? John Williams is the Meghan Thee Stallion of instrumental composition.

One for every US state!

He just needs one more for when Fuxlvania gets statehood.

You made me read his Wikipedia page. TIL that John Williams is a fricking legend. He's only missing a Tony award I think.

EDIT : And his brother is in the band Toto!

Toto, who everybody on the planet has heard at one stage or another.

Toto were big in 80s. "I'll be over you" is my favorite from that time

FYI, he has won 5 Oscars from those nominations.

LII

*son

I saw Toto live a couple years ago. They've still got it

I think in the old times people used to do that for extreme numbers so you could be certain it wasn't a typo.

Edit: typo

Yea, maybe it was a dumb call. When i was in the military transmitting coordinates by data, for certain situations we would type out the numbers in text to eliminate misunderstandings. For example, if logging indirect fire missions when you have a lot of time on your hands(during preplanning).

So I guess my thought was just to really pin it home how insane the number 52 is in this case, I hope you understand what I mean :)

Yes exactly this. Maybe I'm old.

He is a living legend.

200 years from now, John Williams will be regarded on the same level as other legendary composers like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bach, and Mozart.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand. Could you express that number in Roman numerals please?

if I had I dollar every time I ever heard Africa by toto

When Williams played the tune for the Jaws shark theme, Spielberg thought it was a joke.

Yeah, it's only one of the most iconic and memorable themes from all film history.

When you are schooling Steven Freakin Spielberg in the art of creating drama and suspense in movies, that's pretty bonkers.

Damn, less than a 10% success. With that kind of rate, maybe he should quit, it clearly doesn't work that good /s

deserved

As soon as I hear someone say Toto, or read the word, I hear "It's going to take me a lot to get away from youuuuuuuuu. Only someone a hundred men or more could ever do. I dreamt the rains down in Africaaaaaaa"... I don't even know the words to the song. But my brain thinks it does however.

I bet they do. They would be tight from playing FOREVER. Like how The Police is. Saw them live, sounds just like a record. Every beat and rest perfect.

No way. They are still playing? I used to listen to them way back in my early teens when R. Reagan was still POTUS.

Dude couldn’t even act his way out of a paper bag

When [John Williams's] longtime collaborator, the director Steven Spielberg, showed him Schindler's List, the composer felt it would be too challenging to score. He said to Spielberg, 'You need a better composer than I am for this film.' Spielberg responded, 'I know. But they're all dead!'

That's like one out of every ten movies he's worked on, so in a way they're still kinda snubbing him.

Pffft, your mom's makes me a little emotional.

I can accept that. She's old, and she gets sentimental. Sometimes it's hard not to get emotional. Fair play.

LXIX

I upvoted you just to make this joke.

The least you can do is google it.

He already is, at least in my book

Redundancy is appreciable when emphasizing something extreme.

My neighbor had the JP soundtrack and I would borrow it as often as possible. I also remember a close friend getting a fancy gold foil etched edition of the Star Wars movie tracks to commemorate the 20th or 25th? anniversary. So very cool

I saw the Police a few years back and they were epic for sure

Lots and lots of jealousy/shade from certain Hollywood insiders

You mean 5(FIVE)

Our marching band did a tribute to John Williams show. Probably the most fun show we did, and we had some fun shows. Fantasia, John Williams, Hero’s, then Villains.

That's the most interesting thing I have heard about John Williams in 3(THREE) days

Note that some of those nominations were in fact unwinnable, because he was running against himself.