{"id":1079,"date":"2020-03-24T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/?page_id=1079"},"modified":"2024-06-30T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:53:35","slug":"john-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/john-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Williams<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>John Towner Williams<\/strong> (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 scores in 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.. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Williams\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3965 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/williams.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/williams-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/williams-768x640.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best Song<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-aiovg-video\"><div class=\"aiovg-player-container\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"aiovg-player aiovg-player-iframe\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/player-embed\/id\/1079\/?youtube=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1KMWdIX2NqZGI2MA..\" title=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams 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 scores in cinema history. He has a distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism, and atonal music with complex orchestration.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/john-williams\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}