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Star Wars’ John Williams gains AFI Life Achievement Award

John Williams, the man behind the iconic themes for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones among many others, is to be the first composer to receive AFI’s Life Achievement Award. “John Williams has written the soundtrack to our lives,” Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “Note by note, through chord […]

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John Williams to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Classical Brits

Prolific film composer John Williams is to be honoured at the Classic Brit Awards in October. The eighty year old writer has composed scores for movies since 1958, and has received 47 Academy Award nominations (the second highest ever, after Walt Disney). His best-known genre work includes Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the […]