Want to know the best John Williams movies? How about the worst John Williams movies? Curious about John Williams box office grosses or which John Williams movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which John Williams movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
John Williams (1932-) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, Williams has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for the majority of his feature films.
His IMDb page shows 146 composing credits from 1956 to 2018. This page will rank 105 John Williams movies. Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts and documentaries were not included in the rankings. Since it is his music that has made him famous…we figured we should include a You Tube video that can be listened to while you check out his massive and incredible movie career.
John Williams Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort John Williams movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort John Williams movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort John Williams movies by yearly domestic box office rank or trivia
- Sort John Williams movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each John Williams movie received.
- Sort John Williams movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above John Williams Table
- Fifty-three John Williams movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 50.96% of his movies listed. Star Wars (1977) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average John Williams movie grosses $214.90 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 75 of John Williams’s movies are rated as good movies…or 72.11% of his movies. Schindler’s List (1993) is his highest rated movie while Daddy-O (1958) is his lowest rated movie.
- Fifty-six John Williams movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 53.84% of his movies.
- Twenty-two John Williams movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 21.55% of his movies.
- An good Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 75 John Williams movie scored higher that average….or 72.11% of his movies. Schindler’s List (1993) got the the highest UMR Score while Stanley & Iris (1990) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About John Williams
1. John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York.
2. John Williams has received 50 Oscar® nominations in his career….he has won 5 Oscars®.
3. John Williams has composed the music for all but two of Steven Spielberg‘s feature films: Those movies were 2015’s Bridge of Spies and 1985’s The Color Purple.
4. John Williams composed the music for Alfred Hitchcock’s last film….1975’s Family Plot.
5. John Williams was the conductor of the Boston Pops for 12 years.
6. In 2005, John Williams’ scores for 1977’s Star Wars, 1975’s Jaws and 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial were respectively ranked #1, #6, and #14 on the AFI’s list of the Top 25 Film Scores in the past 100 years.
7. John Williams was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts on February 25, 2010 at the White House in Washington D.C. for his services and contributions to music.
8. John Williams has been married two times. He has three children.
9. John Williams career movie totals: When looking at adjusted domestic box office grosses, his movies have grossed $22.36 BILLION. They have received 213 Oscar® nominations…..winning 44 Oscars®.
10. When looking at Box Office Mojo’s Top 200 Adjusted All-Time Box Office Hits list…John Williams has 18 movies in their Top 100….and 4 of their Top 11 movies…..just incredible.
Check out John Williams‘s career compared to other UMR subjects. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
This page was a request from Steve Lensman. Steve has a wonderful page on my favorite John Willliams movie….1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. Follow this link to get there.
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Hey Dan. Thanks for the Oscar winning stars for these composers. Between Steve’s composer videos and your massive fun lists…thinking I should do more composer pages. I think right now…we have this John Williams page and a Hans Zimmer page….and that is it. James H. Elmer B. and Jerry G. would make some excellent pages…and they would be filled some awesome movies. So Elmer B. has the most of these 4 legends….makes me wonder how many Alfred Newman has. I can imagine you have lots of stories from your BMI days. Thanks for sharing these lists and some of those BMI stories.
Take that Sir Michael, John Williams has worked with 79 Oscar winners (scoring pictures they were in).
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars (1977)
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
ANTHONY HOPKINS Amistad (1997)
ANTHONY HOPKINS Nixon (1995)
ART CARNEY A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
AUDREY HEPBURN Always (1989)
AUDREY HEPBURN How to Steal a Million (1966)
BEN JOHNSON The Rare Breed (1966)
BEN JOHNSON The Sugarland Express (1974)
BEN KINGSLEY Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
CATE BLANCHETT Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES The Terminal (2004)
CELESTE HOLM Bachelor Flat (1962)
CELESTE HOLM Tom Sawyer (1973)
CHARLTON HESTON Diamond Head (1963)
CHARLTON HESTON Earthquake (1974)
CHARLTON HESTON Midway (1976)
CHER The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
CHRIS COOPER The Patriot (2000)
CHRISTIAN BALE Empire of the Sun (1987)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Catch Me If You Can (2002)
CLIFF ROBERTSON Midway (1976)
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln (2012)
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Hook (1991)
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Sleepers (1996)
EMMA THOMPSON Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
ERNEST BORGNINE The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
FAYE DUNAWAY The Towering Inferno (1974)
FRANK SINATRA None But the Brave (1965)
GARY OLDMAN Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
GARY OLDMAN JFK (1991)
GEENA DAVIS THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (1988)
GENE HACKMAN Superman (1978)
GENE HACKMAN The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
GEOFFREY RUSH Munich (2005)
GEOFFREY RUSH The Book Thief (2013)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966)
GEORGE KENNEDY Earthquake (1974)
GEORGE KENNEDY The Eiger Sanction (1975)
GERALDINE PAGE Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
GOLDIE HAWN The Sugarland Express (1974)
GWYNETH PALTROW Hook (1991)
HEATH LEDGER THE PATRIOT (2000)
HENRY FONDA Midway (1976)
HOLLY HUNTER ALWAYS (1989)
HUGH GRIFFITH How to Steal a Million (1966)
JACK LEMMON JFK (1991)
JACK NICHOLSON The Missouri Breaks (1976)
JACK NICHOLSON The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
JAMES COBURN Midway (1976)
JAMES STEWART The Rare Breed (1966)
JANE FONDA Stanley & Iris (1989)
JENNIFER JONES The Towering Inferno (1974)
JIM BROADBENT Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
JODIE FOSTER Tom Sawyer (1973)
JOHN WAYNE The Cowboys (1972)
JON VOIGHT Conrack (1974)
JON VOIGHT Rosewood (1997)
JULIA ROBERTS Hook (1991)
JULIA ROBERTS Stepmom (1998)
JULIANNE MOORE The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
JULIE CHRISTIE Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
LAURENCE OLIVIER Dracula (1979)
LEE GRANT Valley of the Dolls (1967)
LEE MARVIN Sergeant Ryker (1968)
LEE MARVIN The Killers (1964)
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Catch Me If You Can (2002)
LUPITA NYONG’O STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
MAGGIE SMITH Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
MAGGIE SMITH Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
MAGGIE SMITH Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
MAGGIE SMITH Hook (1991)
MARK RYLANCE THE BFG (2016)
MARLON BRANDO Superman (1978)
MARLON BRANDO The Missouri Breaks (1976)
MARSHA MASON Cinderella Liberty (1973)
MARY STEENBURGEN Nixon (1995)
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Amistad (1997)
MERYL STREEP Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
MERYL STREEP THE POST (2017)
MORGAN FREEMAN Amistad (1997)
MORGAN FREEMAN War of the Worlds (2005)
NATALIE PORTMAN Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
NATALIE PORTMAN Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
NATALIE PORTMAN Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
NICOLE KIDMAN Far and Away (1992)
PAUL NEWMAN The Towering Inferno (1974)
RED BUTTONS The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Always (1989)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Jaws (1975)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Valley of the Dolls (1967)
ROBERT DE NIRO Sleepers (1996)
ROBERT DE NIRO Stanley & Iris (1989)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Hook (1991)
SALLY FIELD LINCOLN (2012)
SEAN CONNERY Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
SHELLEY WINTERS The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
SISSY SPACEK JFK (1991)
SISSY SPACEK The River (1984)
SUSAN HAYWARD Valley of the Dolls (1967)
SUSAN SARANDON Stepmom (1998)
SUSAN SARANDON The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
TIM ROBBINS War of the Worlds (2005)
TOM HANKS Catch Me If You Can (2002)
TOM HANKS THE POST (2017)
TOM HANKS The Terminal (2004)
TOMMY LEE JONES JFK (1991)
WALTER MATTHAU A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
WALTER MATTHAU Earthquake (1974)
WALTER MATTHAU JFK (1991)
WALTER MATTHAU Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
WILLIAM HOLDEN The Towering Inferno (1974)
WILLIAM HURT Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
WILLIAM HURT The Accidental Tourist (1988)
When I was at BMI, John Williams was our #1 moneymaker for films. Jerry Goldsmith was # 2 and he worked with 65 Oscar winners (MIchael is slipping)
AL PACINO City Hall (1996)
ANNE BANCROFT Malice (1993)
ANTHONY HOPKINS Magic (1978)
ANTHONY HOPKINS The Edge (1997)
ANTHONY QUINN The Don Is Dead (1973)
ANTHONY QUINN The Salamander (1981)
BEN JOHNSON Breakheart Pass (1975)
BEN JOHNSON The Swarm (1978)
BING CROSBY Stagecoach (1966)
BURL IVES The Spiral Road (1962)
BURT LANCASTER Seven Days in May (1964)
BURT LANCASTER The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
BURT LANCASTER The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
BURT LANCASTER Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES The Haunting (1999)
CHARLTON HESTON Planet of the Apes (1968)
CHARLTON HESTON The Last Hard Men (1976)
CLAIRE TREVOR The Stripper (1963)
CLIFF ROBERTSON Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
DOROTHY MALONE Basic Instinct (1992)
DOROTHY MALONE Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Papillon (1973)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Rio Conchos (1964)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Seven Days in May (1964)
ERNEST BORGNINE Small Soldiers (1998)
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
FAYE DUNAWAY Chinatown (1974)
FAYE DUNAWAY Supergirl (1984)
FRANK SINATRA The Detective (1968)
FRANK SINATRA The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
FRANK SINATRA Von Ryan’s Express (1965)
FREDRIC MARCH Seven Days in May (1964)
GARY OLDMAN Air Force One (1997)
GARY OLDMAN Criminal Law (1988)
GEENA DAVIS ANGIE (1994)
GENE HACKMAN Hoosiers (1986)
GENE HACKMAN Under Fire (1983)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Islands in the Stream (1977)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Malice (1993)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Patton (1970)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The Last Run (1971)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
GEORGE KENNEDY Bandolero! (1968)
GEORGE KENNEDY In Harm’s Way (1965)
GEORGE KENNEDY Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
GEORGE KENNEDY Small Soldiers (1998)
GEORGE SANDERS Warning Shot (1967)
GREGORY PECK MacArthur (1977)
GREGORY PECK The Boys from Brazil (1978)
GREGORY PECK The Chairman (1969)
GREGORY PECK The Omen (1976)
GWYNETH PALTROW Malice (1993)
HALLE BERRY Executive Decision (1996)
HENRY FONDA In Harm’s Way (1965)
HENRY FONDA The Swarm (1978)
JACK ALBERTSON JUSTINE (1969)
JACK ALBERTSON THE FLIM-FLAM MAN (1967)
JACK NICHOLSON Chinatown (1974)
JACK NICHOLSON Studs Lonigan (1960)
JAMES COBURN Face of a Fugitive (1959)
JAMES COBURN In Like Flint (1967)
JAMES COBURN Our Man Flint (1966)
JAMES COBURN The Last Hard Men (1976)
JAMES STEWART Bandolero! (1968)
JAMES STEWART Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
JASON ROBARDS Caboblanco (1980)
JASON ROBARDS Hour of the Gun (1967)
JASON ROBARDS The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
JASON ROBARDS Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
JOANNE WOODWARD The Stripper (1963)
JODIE FOSTER One Little Indian (1973)
JOHN GIELGUD First Knight (1995)
JOHN GIELGUD Sebastian (1968)
JOHN WAYNE In Harm’s Way (1965)
JOHN WAYNE Rio Lobo (1970)
JON VOIGHT Hour of the Gun (1967)
JOSE FERRER The Swarm (1978)
JULIA ROBERTS Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
KARL MALDEN Patton (1970)
KARL MALDEN Wild Rovers (1971)
KEVIN KLINE Fierce Creatures (1997)
KEVIN SPACEY L.A. Confidential (1997)
KIM BASINGER L.A. Confidential (1997)
KIM HUNTER Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
KIM HUNTER Planet of the Apes (1968)
LAURENCE OLIVIER Inchon (1981)
LAURENCE OLIVIER The Boys from Brazil (1978)
LEE GRANT Damien: Omen II (1978)
LEE GRANT The Swarm (1978)
LIZA MINNELLI Rent-a-Cop (1987)
LOUISE FLETCHER A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
MARLON BRANDO Morituri (1965)
MARTIN BALSAM Seven Days in May (1964)
MARTIN BALSAM The Salamander (1981)
MARTIN BALSAM Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
MARTIN LANDAU City Hall (1996)
MARY STEENBURGEN Powder (1995)
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Players (1979)
MELVYN DOUGLAS Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
MERYL STREEP The River Wild (1994)
MICHAEL CAINE The Swarm (1978)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Basic Instinct (1992)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Coma (1978)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
MORGAN FREEMAN Along Came a Spider (2001)
MORGAN FREEMAN Chain Reaction (1996)
MORGAN FREEMAN The Sum of All Fears (2002)
NICOLE KIDMAN Malice (1993)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The Swarm (1978)
PATRICIA NEAL In Harm’s Way (1965)
PAUL NEWMAN The Prize (1963)
PETER USTINOV Logan’s Run (1976)
RACHEL WEISZ The Mummy (1999)
RED BUTTONS Stagecoach (1966)
ROBERT DUVALL Breakout (1975)
ROBERT DUVALL The Detective (1968)
ROD STEIGER The Illustrated Man (1969)
RUSSELL CROWE L.A. Confidential (1997)
SALLY FIELD Not Without My Daughter (1991)
SEAN CONNERY First Knight (1995)
SEAN CONNERY Medicine Man (1992)
SEAN CONNERY Outland (1981)
SEAN CONNERY The Great Train Robbery (1979)
SEAN CONNERY The Russia House (1990)
SEAN CONNERY The Wind and the Lion (1975)
SHELLEY WINTERS A Patch of Blue (1965)
SIDNEY POITIER A Patch of Blue (1965)
SIDNEY POITIER Lilies of the Field (1963)
SISSY SPACEK Raggedy Man (1981)
SOPHIA LOREN The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
TIM ROBBINS I.Q. (1994)
TOM HANKS The ‘burbs (1989)
TOMMY LEE JONES Small Soldiers (1998)
TOMMY LEE JONES U.S. Marshals (1998)
VAN HEFLIN Stagecoach (1966)
WALTER MATTHAU Dennis the Menace (1993)
WALTER MATTHAU I.Q. (1994)
WALTER MATTHAU Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Damien: Omen II (1978)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Wild Rovers (1971)
YUL BRYNNER Morituri (1965)
James Horner scored movies featuring 70 Oscar winners.
ALAN ARKIN The Rocketeer (1991)
ALLISON JANNEY THE CHUMSCRUBBER (2005)
ANGELINA JOLIE Beyond Borders (2003)
ANJELICA HUSTON Captain EO (1986)
ANTHONY HOPKINS All the King’s Men (2006)
ANTHONY HOPKINS How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
ANTHONY HOPKINS Legends of the Fall (1994)
ANTHONY HOPKINS The Mask of Zorro (1998)
BEN JOHNSON My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)
BEN KINGSLEY House of Sand and Fog (2003)
BEN KINGSLEY Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
BEN KINGSLEY Sneakers (1992)
BURT LANCASTER Field of Dreams (1989)
CATE BLANCHETT The Missing (2003/I)
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES The Legend of Zorro (2005)
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES The Mask of Zorro (1998)
CHARLIZE THERON Mighty Joe Young (1998)
CHRISTIAN BALE Swing Kids (1993)
CHRISTIAN BALE The New World (2005)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER A Beautiful Mind (2001)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER An American Tail (1986)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER The New World (2005)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Brainstorm (1983)
CLIFF ROBERTSON Brainstorm (1983)
CUBA GOODING JR. Radio (2003)
DENZEL WASHINGTON Courage Under Fire (1996)
DENZEL WASHINGTON Glory (1989)
DENZEL WASHINGTON The Pelican Brief (1993)
DENZEL WASHINGTON THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016)
DON AMECHE Cocoon (1985)
DON AMECHE Cocoon: The Return (1988)
ELLEN BURSTYN The Spitfire Grill (1996)
EMMA STONE THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)
ERNEST BORGNINE Deadly Blessing (1981)
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM The Name of the Rose (1986)
FOREST WHITAKER SOUTHPAW (2015)
GENE HACKMAN Class Action (1991)
GENE HACKMAN Uncommon Valor (1983)
GEORGE CLOONEY The Perfect Storm (2000)
HEATH LEDGER THE FOUR FEATHERS (2002)
HELEN HUNT PROJECT X (1987)
HOLLY HUNTER ONCE AROUND (1991)
JACK LEMMON Dad (1989)
JAMES STEWART An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
JASON ROBARDS Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
JENNIFER CONNELLY A Beautiful Mind (2001)
JENNIFER CONNELLY House of Sand and Fog (2003)
JENNIFER CONNELLY The Rocketeer (1991)
JESSICA TANDY *batteries not included (1987)
JESSICA TANDY Cocoon (1985)
JESSICA TANDY Cocoon: The Return (1988)
JIM BROADBENT Iris (2001/I)
JODIE FOSTER Flightplan (2005)
JUDI DENCH Iris (2001/I)
JULIA ROBERTS The Pelican Brief (1993)
JULIANNE MOORE The Forgotten (2004)
JULIE CHRISTIE Troy (2004)
JULIETTE BINOCHE THE 33 (2015)
KATE WINSLET All the King’s Men (2006)
KATE WINSLET Iris (2001/I)
KATE WINSLET Titanic (1997)
KATHY BATES Titanic (1997)
KEVIN KLINE I Love You to Death (1990)
KEVIN SPACEY Dad (1989)
LEE MARVIN Gorky Park (1983)
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Titanic (1997)
LOUISE FLETCHER Brainstorm (1983)
LOUISE FLETCHER The Lady in Red (1979)
MARCIA GAY HARDEN The Spitfire Grill (1996)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Cocoon (1985)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Cocoon: The Return (1988)
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL A Far Off Place (1993)
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Deep Impact (1998)
MICHAEL CAINE The Hand (1981)
MORGAN FREEMAN Deep Impact (1998)
MORGAN FREEMAN Glory (1989)
NICOLAS CAGE Windtalkers (2002)
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Dad (1989)
RACHEL WEISZ Enemy at the Gates (2001)
REESE WITHERSPOON A Far Off Place (1993)
REESE WITHERSPOON Jack the Bear (1993)
REGINA KING MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1998)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Once Around (1991)
ROBERT DUVALL Deep Impact (1998)
ROBERT DUVALL The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
ROBERT DUVALL The Stone Boy (1984)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Bicentennial Man (1999)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Jumanji (1995)
RUSSELL CROWE A Beautiful Mind (2001)
SALLY FIELD The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
SEAN CONNERY The Name of the Rose (1986)
SEAN PENN All the King’s Men (2006)
SIDNEY POITIER Sneakers (1992)
TOM HANKS Apollo 13 (1995)
TOM HANKS Volunteers (1985)
TOMMY LEE JONES House of Cards (1993)
TOMMY LEE JONES The Missing (2003/I)
VANESSA REDGRAVE Deep Impact (1998)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG The Pagemaster (1994)
WILLIAM HURT Gorky Park (1983)
WILLIAM HURT I Love You to Death (1990)
Elmer Bernstein scored movies featuring 81 Oscar winners.
AL PACINO Chinese Coffee (2000)
ANJELICA HUSTON The Grifters (1990)
ANNE BANCROFT 7 Women (1966)
ANNE BANCROFT Keeping the Faith (2000)
ANNE BAXTER The Ten Commandments (1956)
ANNE BAXTER Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
ANTHONY QUINN A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
BEN KINGSLEY Slipstream (1989)
BURL IVES Desire Under the Elms (1958)
BURT LANCASTER Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
BURT LANCASTER Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
BURT LANCASTER The Gypsy Moths (1969)
BURT LANCASTER The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
BURT LANCASTER The Scalphunters (1968)
BURT LANCASTER Zulu Dawn (1979)
CHARLTON HESTON The Buccaneer (1958)
CHARLTON HESTON The Ten Commandments (1956)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Search and Destroy (1995)
CLIFF ROBERTSON Class (1983)
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS The Age of Innocence (1993)
DEAN JAGGER It’s a Dog’s Life (1955)
DEAN JAGGER The Eternal Sea (1955)
DENZEL WASHINGTON Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
DIANE KEATON The Good Mother (1988)
DON AMECHE Oscar (1991)
DON AMECHE Trading Places (1983)
DONALD CRISP DRANGO (1957)
DONALD CRISP SADDLE THE WIND (1958)
DONNA REED Saturday’s Hero (1951)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
EDMUND GWENN It’s a Dog’s Life (1955)
ELLEN BURSTYN Roommates (1995)
ELLEN BURSTYN The Cemetery Club (1993)
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Slipstream (1989)
FOREST WHITAKER A Rage in Harlem (1991)
FRANK SINATRA Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
FRANK SINATRA Kings Go Forth (1958)
FRANK SINATRA Some Came Running (1958)
FRANK SINATRA The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
FREDRIC MARCH The Young Doctors (1961)
GENE HACKMAN Doctors’ Wives (1971)
GENE HACKMAN Hawaii (1966)
GENE HACKMAN The Gypsy Moths (1969)
GENE HACKMAN Twilight (1998)
GEORGE KENNEDY Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
GEORGE KENNEDY Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
GEORGE KENNEDY The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
GERALDINE PAGE Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
GERALDINE PAGE Summer and Smoke (1961)
GIG YOUNG The Story on Page One (1959)
GLENDA JACKSON The Incredible Sarah (1976)
GLORIA GRAHAME Sudden Fear (1952)
GREGORY PECK Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
GREGORY PECK To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
HENRY FONDA San Francisco Fire (1962)
HENRY FONDA The Tin Star (1957)
HUGH GRIFFITH The Story on Page One (1959)
JACK LEMMON Puppies for Sale (1998)
JACK PALANCE Sudden Fear (1952)
JAMES COBURN Kings of the Sun (1963)
JAMES COBURN The Great Escape (1963)
JAMES COBURN The Magnificent Seven (1960)
JAMES STEWART The Shootist (1976)
JANE FONDA Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
JASON ROBARDS By Love Possessed (1961)
JASON ROBARDS The Good Mother (1988)
JESSICA TANDY Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
JOAN CRAWFORD Sudden Fear (1952)
JOAN CRAWFORD The Caretakers (1963)
JOANNE WOODWARD From the Terrace (1960)
JOANNE WOODWARD The Age of Innocence (1993)
JOHN GIELGUD Gold (1974)
JOHN MILLS Zulu Dawn (1979)
JOHN WAYNE Big Jake (1971)
JOHN WAYNE Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
JOHN WAYNE Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
JOHN WAYNE McQ (1974)
JOHN WAYNE The Comancheros (1961)
JOHN WAYNE The Shootist (1976)
JOHN WAYNE The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
JOHN WAYNE True Grit (1969)
JON VOIGHT The Rainmaker (1997)
JULIANNE MOORE Far from Heaven (2002)
JULIANNE MOORE Roommates (1995)
JULIE ANDREWS Hawaii (1966)
JULIE ANDREWS Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
KARL MALDEN Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
KARL MALDEN Fear Strikes Out (1957)
KEVIN KLINE Wild Wild West (1999)
LEE GRANT Storm Fear (1955)
LEE MARVIN The Comancheros (1961)
LEE MARVIN Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
MARISA TOMEI Oscar (1991)
MARTIN BALSAM The Carpetbaggers (1964)
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL The Chosen (1981)
MELVYN DOUGLAS Hud (1963)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
NICOLAS CAGE Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS The Cemetery Club (1993)
PATRICIA ARQUETTE BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999)
PATRICIA NEAL Hud (1963)
PAUL NEWMAN From the Terrace (1960)
PAUL NEWMAN Hud (1963)
PAUL NEWMAN Twilight (1998)
RAY MILLAND Gold (1974)
REESE WITHERSPOON Twilight (1998)
RICHARD DREYFUSS Lost in Yonkers (1993)
RITA MORENO Summer and Smoke (1961)
ROBERT DE NIRO Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
ROBERT DUVALL Rambling Rose (1991)
ROBERT DUVALL The Great Santini (1979)
ROBERT DUVALL To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
ROBERT DUVALL True Grit (1969)
ROD STEIGER The Chosen (1981)
SEAN CONNERY Five Days One Summer (1982)
SHELLEY WINTERS The Scalphunters (1968)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Some Came Running (1958)
SOPHIA LOREN Desire Under the Elms (1958)
SUSAN SARANDON Twilight (1998)
TERESA WRIGHT The Good Mother (1988)
TERESA WRIGHT The Rainmaker (1997)
THOMAS MITCHELL BY LOVE POSSESSED (1961)
VIOLA DAVIS FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Boots Malone (1952)
YUL BRYNNER Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
YUL BRYNNER Kings of the Sun (1963)
YUL BRYNNER The Buccaneer (1958)
YUL BRYNNER The Magnificent Seven (1960)
YUL BRYNNER The Ten Commandments (1956)
Hey Dan…..that is a very impressive list for Sir John Williams. I think…..though I am biased….Michael Caine’s total is more impressive. I would bet Caine has actually met and knows most (but not all) of his Oscar winning co-stars. I imagine many of these Oscar winners listed above, might have not even had the chance to even met this legendary composer. Good list….thanks for sharing it.
1 HI WORK HORSE Nice birthday tribute to John Williams showing once again the versatility of your site in covering branches of the film industry other than the acting one.
2 In terms of consistent quality and prolific output John was a REAL contributor to the musical aspect of movies. Certainly although John was simply nominated for the scores of Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure I thought he more deserved an Oscar outright than did the Committee of 2 for the songs from those movies albeit in a separate category.
3 However justice overall of course was well done because those 2 Oscars and 2 nomination were ALL that the Committee of 2 ever won whereas Williams personally had a staggering 33 Oscar Nominations and 5 wins. As Mr Demi Moore taunted the villain with at the end of Striking Distance when Mr Moore at last beat the villain at his own game “Who’s the best now!?”
4 My personal favourite Williams sound tracks were from (1) Star Wars where his music captured the entire flavour of the outer space and its wars themes of that movie (2) the 1978 Superman where John’s score perfectly reflected the great powers and dynamism of the film’s central character.
5 You might well imagine the impact on me when sitting in a cinema in Dublin in 1978 and watching the trailer for Superman, among the names that kept shooting out of the screen accompanied by John’s dramatic music were Mumbles and Charlie Bill Stuart. It was as if John’s stirring music was confirming that those two screen heroes of mine were in fact “superheroes!” Anyway your comprehensive profile of John is “voted up” Work Horse.
His AFI tribute has happened and been recorded and now we just have to ait until it airs on television.
Should be some good music for sure. Thanks for the update.
Steven Spielberg to present John Williams with the AFI lifetime achievement award –
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-present-john-williams-892951
Well deserved. Ironically the most recent Spielberg film, Bridge of Spies, was not scored by Williams, the only other feature film of his that was scored by someone else was The Color Purple in 1985.
Hey Steve….thanks for sharing the link….I imagine it is time for an Honorary Oscar soon. Williams and Spielberg are lined up to do the next three movies…Indy 5, BFG and Ready Player One. So Williams missed 1985’s The Color Purple and 2015’s Bridge of Spies….I hope the next Spielberg movie he misses will be 2045’s Indy 12…lol.
This is the first time an AFI award has been given to a composer.
Maybe this is a sign of future awards to composers as well.
Hey Flora….that would be a good thing. Glad to see AFI giving Williams a tribute.