Spielberg and Williams met and began working together in 1972 on Sugarland Express (1974), the first of 29 feature films they have teamed up on. (Spielberg has made only five films that were not scored by Williams.) Many of his collaborations, including Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), ET (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), schindler’s list (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005) and lincoln (2012)—are immediately reminiscent of both the visuals and the music in a way that only applies to a few, if any, other director/composer teams.
This year, the duo reunited to The Fabelmans, which Spielberg has described as the “most personal” film of his career. The film has already been nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Score at the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards, with major Oscar nominations almost certainly to follow.
If the film is nominated for best picture, Spielberg will expand his record number of nominations for a producer from 10 to 11 (although he has won in that category only once, for schindler’s list). And if he’s nominated for best original score, Williams will expand his record number of total nominations for a living person from 52 to 53 (he’s won five times); he already holds the all-time record for most decades with at least one nomination (the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s).
Williams, who turns 91 in February, has said that his final score will be the one he is currently composing for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, on which Spielberg, 75, is an executive producer. It will hit theaters in June 2023.
Source: Ambito
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