Spielberg will tell in a documentary the secrets of the creator of the music of his main films

The documentary will review the career of Williams, 90 years oldone of the most prominent and influential soundtrack composersresponsible for putting music to important titles such as “Jaws” (1975), “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) and “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982)all by Spielberg, as well as the first three installments of the film saga of “Harry Potter” (2001, 2002 and 2004). For his work in the aforementioned “Jaws, “Star Wars” and “ET: The Alien”, together to “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971) and “Schindler’s List” (1993)got statuettes at the academy awards in hollywood, among dozens of other awards and nominations.

Even though Williams himself had suggested that he would retire professionally after finishing the compositions for “Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate”.fifth installment of the franchise that will be directed by James Mangold, at the beginning of this month announced at a public event in which he appeared with Spielberg that he had left that plan behindto which his longtime collaborator suggested that he start looking for his next project.

In that occasion, the filmmaker summed up their working relationship of more than 50 years as an “ideal marriage”: “I don’t think we ever had a disagreement. I mean, what I am going to do? Sit down and write the music myself?”he joked.

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Williams, who began his career in the industry in the 1960s, scoring episodes of series in the early days of network television like “Gilligan’s Island” and “Lost in Space,” it was also the creator of the themes of the Olympic Games of Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 and Atlanta 1996as well as its winter version of Salt Lake City 2002. In addition, in 1980 the composer was appointed as the conductor of the Boston orchestraand in 2016 received the 44th. Honorary Award from the Film Institute of the United States for Lifetime Achievementbecoming the first musician to obtain it.