in my mind John Williams is #1. it is just insane how epic his career is.

1. Lost In Space
2. Film Adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof
3. The Poseidon Adventure

Then we get to the heavy hitters

4. Jaws- creates the theme song for all sharks for ever
5. Star Wars
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Superman
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. ET
10. Jurassic Park
11, Shindlers List
12. Harry Potter

Just madness. absolutely crazy

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:03 am to SammyTiger

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in my mind John Williams is #1. it is just insane how epic his career is.

Being of a certain age, I'm just used to John Williams scoring the big pictures (Jaws, Star Wars then off to the races, right?). What boggles my mind is that I heard the Peter Gunn theme hundreds of times and only in my 50s did I realize that Williams is playing the piano on that. He was basically Mancini's protégé at that point, although he also worked with Goldsmith and Bernstein.

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Posted by RollTide1987

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Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:30 am to SammyTiger

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in my mind John Williams is #1. it is just insane how epic his career is.

1. Lost In Space
2. Film Adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof
3. The Poseidon Adventure

Then we get to the heavy hitters

4. Jaws- creates the theme song for all sharks for ever
5. Star Wars
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Superman
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. ET
10. Jurassic Park
11, Shindlers List
12. Harry Potter

Just madness. absolutely crazy

That's not even counting other such film scores he did that also went on to be Oscar nominees such as the following:

Hook
JFK
Home Alone
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot

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