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John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scoresin cinema history. He has a distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration. He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person, after Walt Disney, and is the oldest Oscar nominee in any category, at 91 years old. Williams's early work as a film composer includes Valley of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Images and The Cowboys (both 1972), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He has collaborated with Spielberg since The Sugarland Express (1974), composing music for all but five of his feature films. He received five Academy Awards for Best Score for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the Indiana Jones franchise (1981–2023), Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022). He also scored Superman (1978), the first two Home Alone films (1990–1992), and the first three Harry Potter films (2001–2004). Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; NBC Sunday Night Football; "The Mission" theme (used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia); and the television series Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and Amazing Stories. Among other accolades, he has received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2004, the National Medal of the Arts in 2009 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998, the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000 and the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He has composed the score for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office. In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music". In 2005, the American Film Institute placed Williams's score to Star Wars first on its list AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores; his scores for Jaws and E.T. also made the list. The Library of Congress entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Five months after the bloody battle with Scorpion, Peter Parker has finally found balance. He’s started his junior year at Midtown High, still fighting street thugs by night, but living a quieter life by day — with Gwen Stacy by his side, the one person who knows his secret and loves him anyway. But peace in New York never lasts. When Oscorp’s CEO, Norman Osborn, begins experimenting with a volatile performance serum meant to push human evolution forward, the formula instead tears him apart — body and mind. Transformed into the deranged Green Goblin, Osborn becomes obsessed with Spider-Man, seeing in him the embodiment of everything he can’t control. What begins as corporate ambition turns into all-out war as Goblin rains chaos across the city, targeting Peter’s world with ruthless precision. Spider-Man: Rise of the Goblin is an R-rated emotional and physical nightmare that forces Peter to face the monster behind the mask — and within himself. As Norman’s dual identity collapses into madness, the battle between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin becomes deeply personal, threatening to destroy everyone Peter loves. Torn between saving the city and protecting Gwen, he’s pushed beyond his limits, both as a hero and as a human being. In a savage final showdown atop the skyline, Spider-Man must face the horrifying truth: to stop the Goblin, he may have to break his own moral code — and sacrifice everything that still makes him Peter Parker.
