American composer — who scored Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, E.T., Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and dozens more — five Academy Awards, 53 Oscar nominations — the most successful film composer in history.
Revives orchestral film scoring as the dominant Hollywood idiom — Williams's return to large-scale Romantic orchestral scoring (after the jazz and rock infiltration of 1960s film) defined the sound of blockbuster cinema and made the symphony orchestra relevant to a new generation.
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