Vanity Fair’s coverage of The Force Awakens continues today with their latest Web Extra by writer Bruce Handy – an interview with one of the members of the Star Wars “Holy Trinity”, Mr. John Williams.
Film composer John Williams has been nominated for an astonishing 49 Academy Awards. He’s won five. His second was for Jaws and his third was for the original Star Wars—and bingo! Right there you have arguably the two most recognizable scores in Hollywood history. Williams has since written the music for all the Star Wars sequels and prequels, along with nearly all of Steven Spielberg’s films, the first three Harry Potter pictures, and—a few more titles chosen not quite at random—Superman, The Witches of Eastwick, Home Alone, JFK, and The Book Thief.
I recently spoke to Williams about his in-progress work on his seventh Star Wars score, for the upcoming The Force Awakens—and also about a song he once co-wrote for Frank Sinatra.
