Your Top 10 John Williams' Compositions

"John has given movies a musical language that can be spoken and understood in every country on this planet. John Williams is the most common language through which people of all ages communicate and remember to each other why they love movies. I am the only person who can say that I've collaborated with John for exactly half of his life. Without question, he has been the single most significant contributor to my success as a filmmaker. This nation's greatest composer and our national treasure is also one of the greatest friends I have ever had in my entire life." ~ Steven Spielberg




Star Wars
Raider's of the Lost Ark
Superman (1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Catch Me If You Can
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Home Alone
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Lost in Space (TV Series)

Three of my favorite Williams pieces that don't get mentioned very often...

The Long Goodbye


The Sugarland Express


1941

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I haven't seen these 3, but I'd like to watch The Sugarland Express very soon.

Going simply by the music and by Williams' talent for getting it right in regard to the tone of the film, rather than the actual films themselves or whether I like them or not:


1. Seven Years In Tibet
2. Jurassic Park
3. Superman
4. Indiana Jones
5. Harry Potter
6. Star Wars
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. The Witches Of Eastwick
9. E.T
10. Jaws

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I'll have to watch Saving Private Ryan again. It's been awhile. I was surprised to see Ted Danson in that movie.

Indiana Jones
Star Wars
Jaws
Superman
Jurassic Park

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even tho this is Meco's version of John Williams' theme, i like listening to his disco version more than John Williams pure scores



that said, John Williams has tons of great movie music. can't go wrong with this one, for total 100% geek immersion! ↓↓↓

since others have already posted it, gonna go ahead and link this one too

blasted this one at the end of a beer pong game one time when my opponent needed to make a clutch shot. he missed! complete intimidation factor. he wasn't prepared to be Superman

The opening 3 notes repeated (harp music excluded) to the TV series starring George Reeves sounds similar to what Williams used in his Superman music. I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this. It's just a bit of trivia.

Schindler's List. Pure masterpiece.

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I don't know about a top 10, but I will mention my favorite John Williams score, and that's the scores of every single Star Wars film.

1.) Jaws

2.) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3.) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

4.) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

5.) The Empire Strikes Back

6.) Nixon

7.) Munich

8.) The Return of the Jedi

9.) The Long Goodbye

10.) Saving Private Ryan

Of the ones I can remember (the compositions, that is):

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Return of the Jedi
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Jurassic Park
6. Superman
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
8. Jaws
9. E.T.
10. Memoirs of a Geisha

At the moment, I can't recall the rest.

Actually, switch Memoirs of a Geisha out for Schindler's List. Forgot about that one, though I don't see how I did.

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