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John Williams: Hollywood's maestro goes for more Oscars history
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In this file photo taken on April 13, 2017, conductor John Williams attends the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida. (AFP/Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images North America)
F
rom Star Wars to Jaws to Schindler's List, John Williams has written many of the most instantly recognizable scores in cinema history.
The 91-year-old is already the oldest person to receive an Oscar nomination for a competitive award, which he earned thanks to his spare yet poignant compositions for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans.
With 53 total nods, Williams has more Academy Award nominations than any other living person, and is second only to Walt Disney, who had 59.
And if he gets another statuette on Sunday, which would be his sixth, he will become the oldest person ever to triumph in any competitive category. The record is currently held by screenwriter James Ivory, who was 89 when he won.
It "seems unreal that anybody could be that old and working that long," Williams recently told NBC News, adding: "It's very exciting, even after 53 years."
"I'm very pleased, I think it's a human thing -- the gratification of any kind of appreciation of one's work."
Out of the dozens of nominations over the course of his extraordinary career, the composer won Academy Awards for the original Star Wars, Fiddler on the Roof and three films by Spielberg, with whom he is closely associated -- Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Schindler's List.
